also wondering how transferable this is to markets where renewable generation is more geographically concentrated, china has massive wind/solar capacity but the curtailment problem is real because generation is so far from load centers. feels like the storage/dispatch problem is similar, just at a different scale.

sharing a few thoughts:

- substack is probably the easiest starting point, no algorithm to fight, readers subscribe directly, and short fiction actually does well there if you're consistent. you own the list. - literary agents are mostly for novels, short story collections are a hard sell unless you already have publishing credits. better to build an audience first and use that as leverage. - if you are aiming for larger audience on social, go to tiktok/instagram if you're willing to read them out loud, even lo-fi works. people underestimate how well short fiction does as audio. x/twitter if your stories are punchy enough to tease in a thread.

If the attacker is moving with "surprising velocity," every hour of delay on an email blast is another hour the attacker has to use those potentially stolen secrets against downstream infrastructure. Using Twitter/X as a primary disclosure channel for a "sophisticated" breach is amateur hour. If legal is the bottleneck for a mass email during an active compromise, then your incident response plan is fundamentally broken.

Instead of trying to find a "niche" like accounting for plumbers from thin air, go to where the "plumbers" (or whoever your target is) are actually venting. Reddit is a goldmine for this because people are surprisingly honest when they are frustrated.

I’ve found that spending two weeks just reading subreddits related to a specific industry—and looking for the most upvoted "pain" posts—is worth more than six months of SEO and "calibrating" a product no one asked for. The goal is to find a problem that is currently being solved badly. If you build the "not-bad" version of that solution, you don't need a massive marketing budget; you just need to show up where the complaining is happening.

I recently moved to the Bay and have noticed a lot of AI anxiety in everyday conversation.

I'm in my early 20s, work in tech but not as an engineer, and a few friends have asked why I don't seem that anxious about it. I didn't have a good answer until yesterday.

Oddly, the answer came from an HN thread about moon dust smelling like gunpowder. The thread drifted into oxygen, reactivity, Mars, and long timescales. That ended up clarifying something for me.

I think a lot of AI anxiety comes from viewing yourself mainly through the lens of one job market at one moment in time. I don't naturally think that way.

Earth took a very long time to produce an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Life took a very long time to adapt to it. Humans are already the product of repeated adaptation to large changes, so I don't find it natural to jump straight from "AI changes work" to "human meaning is over."

For me, AI has mostly been good for learning. It makes many areas of knowledge much easier to approach than they used to be.

So my current view is that AI will change a lot, but I still trust human adaptability quite a bit.

Curious whether others here feel similarly, or whether this is just the optimism of having less sunk cost.

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Asimov's Multivac at least had the dignity to wait.