But cultivating those takes so much time and is geographically limited. The quality is also less, as the pool of people is so much smaller. But I admit, in-person is more rewarding (for me personally, in the longer term).
I'm debating living in a van to have continued geographic flexibility in choosing social interactions of quality.
But there has to be a better way, right?
As for now, I cling dearly to the friends I have. But it's... worrying
Targeted advertising just has not worked on me or many people -
If I'm interested enough to buy something, my digital trail is of that moment and in the process of buying and already sifted through the noise.
Ads a week later for some random thing are pointless.
Other daily metrics like from Instagram, etc are not very monetizable as, like great, you know I sometimes doom scroll through Korean pole dancer accounts, etc. What exactly does that help with?
It’s not really random when it was clear on account of the caliber of people working there that it was going to be a generational company whether the AI boom took longer or not. The writing was on the wall by the time Opus 3 came out, after it was just a matter of who was worthy for a ticket on the arc.
I felt the same way when I was actively being recruited by Runway ML years ago. It feels like if I had half the knowledge I do now, I would've been the second QA hire (and I had heard that the person they hired instead of me had left with some controversy). My biggest flub was asking an EM about their CI/CD and she took this to mean 'explain CI/CD to me as a basic concept' - something I didn't realize until after the interview.
They got a 300 million Series E about a year after that flub ;_;
Yeah, this might well not be any individual human being changing their mind, but rather new human beings less inclined to be anti-nuclear-power now forming a critical mass within the UK Green Party.
Businesses aren't hiring as many new grads, and many "thought leader" business types are actively snorting at not needing many or educated employees.
So what do we think the "American views" would do in that situation?
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