1. Because people who post on LinkedIn ARE insufferable
2. Their content is AI generated which is also insufferable.
Basically the internet has gone full circle.
It started out pretty shit, got useful for a short time, and is now back to being pretty shit.
I don’t use it for much more than emails and banking and occasionally doom scrolling which is becoming less because I find AI generated content so off putting.
I don’t even use generic Google for study purposes any more because so much on there is just AI generated bullshit.
Sorry it was a joke but actually the foot fetish thing is super real and I often think perhaps I should start an OnlyFans just for my feet. Except my toes are kind of short and stubby and I’m not sure if there’s a market for that.
- The Courage to be Disliked.
- Moral Tribes
- Crazy like us
- Careless People
- Madness Made Me
- The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion.
And a few that were on my 2025 list that I didn’t make it through, and are on my list for 2026 include:
- Team of Rivals
- Behave
- Why Greatness cannot be planned.
Hopefully I’ll get through those three books before the end of Feb when I go back to Uni, and won’t have time to read for leisure for about 7 months.
I found my job on a job search website. I originally applied for it in 2013 and got rejected. I got the balls to give it another crack in 2017 and I got it. It’s a technician/clinical role in healthcare - an industry I decided when I was quite young that I just had to be in (unsure why these days I was so fixated on it, I think back then I was very altruistic).
Interviewing was different. They asked a lot of weird questions like “if you were a sandwich, what flavour would you be?” And “you need to find out the weight of a boeing 737 but you don’t have scales, how are you going to figure it out?” (I said “I’d just google it”). I was perplexed by these questions and thought I’d bombed out.
The other thing they had me do was a 10 minute presentation on why I wanted the job, and what I hoped to gain. Still to this day, I think I did nail the presentation. I kept it clean.
A few years after I got my
Job, one of the guys on the panel of my interview was talking to me giving me a pep talk for an exam I needed to sit, and I asked him why they asked me those weird questions and he said “we just wanted to see how you’d handle stress and ambiguity” he also told me I did one of the best interviews he’d ever seen. That was pretty good feedback years after the matter but I’m never quite sure if he was just being nice.
In terms of surviving, healthcare especially the area I work in is not for the faint hearted, some days it really is utter carnage and overwhelming. Staff can be arseholes to each other, and management don’t care if you were hoping to go home on time - you’re probably going to stay late.
I cope with my job in several ways, some of them consciously others less so. I exercise every day, it helps with my health but also my mood, and gives me time out. I study things that are separate to what I do for work - like planning for a back up career. But at work, I also dissociate, not consciously but I do, I turn off my emotions at work, and I don’t care too much about anything or anyone. It’s not to be unkind, it’s like self preservation or something.
I also just treat my work as the money generating goal that it is. My identity, my aspirations, and my self-worth are not tied to my work, work is a thing I do to get money to live.
I am no longer as altruistic as I was when I originally went into healthcare.
Depends on how busy I am in life. Sometimes I can read for like 5 or 6 hours across the span of a day. Other times 5 minutes, or nothing at all for weeks.
Currently on a reading buzz and feeling wholesome from it.
I have noticed!!
I don’t mind the emoji’s too much. But I do find it really disconcerting. But the AI prompting me actually really causes me an inner rage. The kind of rage I’ve sometimes felt towards robot answer machines when calling banks etc when you really just want to talk to a human. I get the same robot rage!!
I know nothing about programming and have been using AI to build a prototype, a MVP, based on some hand drawn wireframes for a business idea I have been thinking about since 2022, where I suddenly thought up my “solution”.
It’s been an interesting experience because I’ve tried to learn coding before got bored way more quickly. This time, the AI suggested I use Swift. I genuinely didn’t know if that was a good or bad suggestion so I went with it.
And it’s taking me AGES is not an efficient way to develop anything! Not even a prototype, but at this stage I don’t have the money to pay anyone to do it for me, so I’ll persevere because I actually genuinely believe in my idea, but I actually am finding it fun and rewarding.
Every time I run my code and find it works I get a buzz out of that. And every time AI generates something shit that doesn’t work, I’m forced to actually look at the code and figure out what the problem is, and how to fix it.
Slowly but surely, it’s like… even though I’m doing something in a language I don’t understand, I’m starting to learn what bits of it mean because they either lead to an outcome, or they recur in a similar pattern that my brain goes “oh ok, that’s what that bit of code does”.
It’s probably a terrible way to learn, but I’m still learning. I’m still building an MVP. Even if the whole business idea is a massive failure, I’ve learned a little bit about Swift, I’ve also learned the value of human programmers and I can tell you one thing - if my business is a success and I can get it off the ground, I’ll be investing big time in human programmers and I won’t mind at all if they use AI to assist them if it makes them more efficient on whatever.
I don’t really care if it’s vibe-coding, or AI assisted programming, it’s another way of acquiring a skill, and as far as I can tell, at a minimum it lowers the barrier to entry to coding in an unconventional way.
Oh thank you! I had noticed that I had a section of my code that it highlighted with a warning that it didn’t work for iPhone 16.
I’m just trying to get a minimum viable product/prototype together at this stage, so hopefully I can actually pay a programmer (or a few programmers) to make it compatible with as many devices as possible, as well as secure etc. I know as a rookie I absolutely do not have the capacity to build the exact product I’ve got in my mind, but I at least need something tangible to add to my pitch.
I appreciate the insight though!
Thanks for your info! I actually do find it helpful.
> Vive coding is a myth
I am discovering that! Thanks for the link. I am determined to build my app/product. I think with my MBA in digital transformation, and mulling over the "problem" since 2022, i've thought of my solution. Now I just need to put together the resources to sell my idea and product in such a way that I can get some money to indeed execute it well...
As they say though, most start ups/businesses fail. I don't mind failing, you still learn something new. My biggest limitation here is literally programming. I believe I can over come that with motivation and persistence.
Thanks again for your input. I am indeed learning swift :)
Turned my afternoon unhealthy snack time to an apple and a walk to the car after work by parking 1km away from the work place and putting an apple in my bag so everyday I have instantly got an apple, and am also forced to walk.
Morning me (that wakes up full of good intentions and motivation) sets up strategies for lazy afternoon me so lazy afternoon me can still be lazy but achieves the minor goals morning me see out to achieve.
Only people who have a strong desire to control others but a weak resolve on how to effectively do that exercise their control with fear and violence directed towards children.
Trying to teach a child that hitting people isn’t OK by hitting them is actually one of the most absurd things I’ve ever heard.
What are you teaching them? You can’t hit people, but I can… because why? Your bigger, or older?
If your only tool is fear, you got nothing once that kid stops fearing you. Good luck with that.
Basically the internet has gone full circle. It started out pretty shit, got useful for a short time, and is now back to being pretty shit. I don’t use it for much more than emails and banking and occasionally doom scrolling which is becoming less because I find AI generated content so off putting.
I don’t even use generic Google for study purposes any more because so much on there is just AI generated bullshit.