I have two questions about that, with the supposition that Cook is being coerced to do that, somehow:
- Isn't Cook supposed to step down from the role in the next few years? If so, wouldn't that facilitate an accelerated exit to not have to put up with this shit? He might as well have chosen someone who's willing to do that, and slowly fade away.
- Why haven't we seen the same level of craziness coming from Satya and Gates? Are Microsoft's offerings and interests so diversified that the government has less power over it?
> Why haven't we seen the same level of craziness coming from Satya and Gates? Are Microsoft's offerings and interests so diversified that the government has less power over it?
The government maybe has more direct power over Apple: it's a manufacturing company that has located almost all its factories in China. The government could completely destroy Apple with tariffs. Microsoft and Google? Not so much.
Also, to the GP:
>> Lately I've been just sickened by Apple, and particularly Tim Cook. The guy is revealing himself to be completely amoral.
Arguably he revealed that a long time ago, when he went all-in on Chinese manufacturing. It's just that now it's more obvious to some, as he's getting involved with stuff that's more obviously polarized.
I was incapable of the compassion you're talking about until I had a bad shroom trip and felt some horrible, hard-to-describe anxiety the next morning. It was some of the worst hours of my life until my serotonin system rebalanced itself.
I'm not saying it's the same thing as depression or regular anxiety, but it gave me tremendous perspective on how bad these conditions can be and you just don't have the ability to "shake it off" when things are unbalanced.
Maybe that's how my wife feels when she's off the meds. Shit. Now imagine having a douchebag by your side second-guessing your pain. Never again.
The good thing is it isn’t necessary to know how someone else feels to have compassion.:)
It’s enough to accept you don’t understand the other person‘s thought process and stop trying to tell them what they are thinking. You don’t need to fix things, you just need to listen and not make them justify or explain themselves to you.
Doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing.
This comes from my own personal experience. I can’t relate to people on an emotional level. Every relationship is processed with deliberate, logical action. If I love a friend, I need to figure out what would change their internal state so they can experience that love.
From the outside, this looks like I can relate on an emotional level.
Precisely. That's what I took from the experience as well. If that's so hard and I had no idea about it until now, maybe there are other things that I don't know, and some that I will never learn, and I should tread lightly.
It's interesting how people I know wouldn't work for my small startup if I, as the boss, aligned myself with such people, but are happy to work for big tech companies that do that. It's amazing what 100 levels of abstraction and money can make you do.
> It's amazing what 100 levels of abstraction and money can make you do.
I'd say it's more like the Don Draper line "that's what the money is for", but yes ultimately it's a transaction, and rarely are people doing anything at an individual level professionally that would be worth stopping because of a vague sense of guilt by distant association.
If the connection is closer and the actions you take issue with are clearly impacted by your association with them, then there may be no amount of money that's worth it.
yet their million dollar TC ain't enough to have a bunker for their little family when the time comes. or when shit is mad max on the streets, that tech bus aint gonna protect you.
I'm using GPT Pro and a VS extension that makes it easy to copy code from multiple files at once. I'm architecting the new version of our SaaS and using it to generate everything for me on the backend. It’s a huge help with modeling and coding, though it takes a lot of steering and correction. I think I’ll end up with a better result than if I did it alone, since it knows many patterns and details I’m not aware of (even simple things like RRULE). I’m designing this new project with a simpler, more vertical architecture in the hopes that Codex will be able to create new tables and services easily once the initial structure is ready and well documented.
yeah flat, simple code is good to start, but I find I'm still developing instincts around right balance between "when to let duplicate code sprawl" vs. "when to be the DRY police".
The fake death thought is very common. My brother drowned at the beach when he was only 17. We all stood there helpless, unable to find him. His body took some time to return to the shore, and a friend of a friend of the family was the one who identified him.
I was very young, only 7, but my cousin, who was 15 at the time, spent years searching for him, convinced the body had been misidentified. Later, when I grew older, I also went through the phase of thinking, "He was too smart and strong for that. Maybe he ran away somehow."
I've just turned 40, have been married for almost 20 years, and now have a 9-month-old baby. I've spent most of what would otherwise be my free time working, ever since I was 15 and bought into the American idea of entrepreneurship and became obsessed with technology.
Before having the baby, I'd leave the premises maybe twice a week, forced by necessity, mostly for health reasons, and I couldn't care less most of the time about seeing a blue sky or hearing the birds sing.
I've probably never worked the insane hours some entrepreneurs put in, but I've definitely worked far more than most people I know. My wife is the same. We have a great relationship, and I love my daughter, who I'm lucky to spend time with every day since I set my own hours. But if there's one thing I'm always chasing hours to do more, is working, creating. It doesn't even feel like work, as long as it's something I'm building that's mine. Sure, there are grueling tasks I can't avoid, the real eat glass stuff. But even then, I wouldn't trade it.
I've never gotten truly rich, not in the way I once imagined I would. But it's not something that weighs on me, not even the idea that maybe I never will. The real reward has always been doing the things I love to do. Recently my wife has asked me more than once if I could make more money than I do now by working less in a company. Maybe so, and I'd probably work much less with a lighter load if I were in a company job, but the idea of going back to that doesn't excite me. I like the grueling work, I like building something of my own, and I like having my own routine, even if I end up working more this way.
I agree with you, though I’m not sure I fully understand your point about game studios. That seems like an area where software could evolve in ways that make perfect sense. For example, dynamic worlds, unique missions, unscripted characters, and so forth.
My comment is about companies self-serving with malleable & bespoke software. Niantec is unlikely to spend time making a bespoke GenAI version of Jira, just because it's cheaper to do so now than it was before. Every minute they spend making the bespoke project management software is a minute they're not making the next PokemonGo, so they'll pay a third party like Confluence handsomely to produce a predictable project management UI for them.
Games studios have been making dynamic worlds for decades now, and GenAI algorithms are just an evolution of that practice. So I agree that they'll use these tools for their own output, but that output isn't going to disrupt the SaaS business models of companies like Sage/Confluence/Microsoft etc.
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