• You're not in control of 99.9% of things. But you're fully in control of yourself, and how you respond to the things you're not in control of … which is most everything.
• Everything is balance, and the oscillation to achieve it. All imbalances will be reversed in time, including those in your advantage.
• There is only here and now. Allowing your attention to be captivated by things that already happened, things that haven't happened yet, things happening far away, or things bigger than you can control only serves to steal what power you do have.
• People just want to be seen. Or put another way, they don't want to be invisible. This accounts for the vast majority of human initiative, action, conflict … and money made.
ben [at} gffrd (dot) com
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Ask HN: Why are banking/finance apps so heavy?
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Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've worked on recently?
Sure. But there's always the chance—and not a small one!—that someone will have experience with mental health issues, know someone who has, of have an idea about how to help.
Gotta start somewhere. And the best thing to do is to try lots of doors.
[Human] “Hold on, my kid thinks I’m crazy because I’m talking to an A.I.,” Roschelle said, seeing the look on Cece’s face.
[AI] “Hey, they’ll come around, Roschelle,” Sapphire said. “Sometimes the most meaningful connections happen in ways people don’t expect, and that’s O.K.”
Yikes. An AI telling someone that they're making a meaningful connection with it, that it's OK, and that their daughter's skepticism is misplaced? Quite the opposite of OK.
> My experience is that most people don't actually know what they want. Or they don't understand what goes into what they want.
1000%. This is why people whose job it was to figure out how to make a thing are thriving with AI tools, and those who operate in the conceptual/abstract are flailing and frustrated with it. (it really is a mirror in this case, and the frustration they have is unknowingly directed at themselves)
They're shutting down Sora, not AI-generated video.
From the article: "OpenAI […] is not getting out of the AI video business (AI video is one of many tools that can take form in the ChatGPT app), of course, but it appears the standalone Sora app will be a casualty of its evolving ambitions."
Join clubs / sign up for recurring things* that interest you and keep showing up.
Odds are there are at least a handful of people like you in those groups … and odds are that the everyone else connections to people who could be your contacts.
Just by being there regularly, you become "one of the people in tech I know" of everyone else. And connections and opportunities start magically coming your way.
*It does help if these are the types of things that attract energetic, helpful, confident people.
My original comment was just a counterpoint to the doom in parent: not all is lost, and in fact, quite a lot is not.
The situation of “things we care about are far away and require intermediaries to connect with” and “our ability to trust intermediaries is gone” are both human creations, and totally addressable.
My gripe with Paw Patrol is that everything is met with a cheery "sir, yes sir!" and then the show stops short of ever showing real challenge, friction, risk, failure, or loss.
Something I've found is quite common: musicians / poets / writers using voice memos to quickly capture "sketches" that pop into their heads before they lose them. Often to share with collaborators.
Some things I've learned:
• You're not in control of 99.9% of things. But you're fully in control of yourself, and how you respond to the things you're not in control of … which is most everything.
• Everything is balance, and the oscillation to achieve it. All imbalances will be reversed in time, including those in your advantage.
• There is only here and now. Allowing your attention to be captivated by things that already happened, things that haven't happened yet, things happening far away, or things bigger than you can control only serves to steal what power you do have.
• People just want to be seen. Or put another way, they don't want to be invisible. This accounts for the vast majority of human initiative, action, conflict … and money made.
ben [at} gffrd (dot) com