Here's a small comment thread from a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41213632

There's a night and day difference between products that get used by the people who make it and those who ship it off to the user and wait for the response.

This is primarily aimed at B2C but there's plenty of cases where it applies in B2B as well (if you can somehow use your own product).

Dogfooding is one attempt to mimic this, and it can work. But what I really mean is someone inside the company actually cares enough, is interested enough, to use the product for themselves. Without being told to.

I wish I was joking but take the current usage of the internet, and scale up each part. 1TB/s might enable new things, but it's more likely to enable more of old things.

It's not necessarily tailored to a tech company but it does cover some of the topics you've mentioned.

8/11/2024 | Amazon.com | $50

But Level 3 data includes each individual line item:

8/11/2024 | Amazon.com | $50 | 1 Very Embarrassing item | some additional fields

This appears in all sorts of interesting ways, and is not restricted to B2B/B2G transactions as they state so prominently. Anyone can sign up if they have a certain number of transactions per year and save quite a bit on credit card processing fees for providing the data.

I can't find the article but there was a tire company that provided a branded credit card, and they had risk profiles for their customers. The riskiest went to some specific bar, and the least risky were buying snow removal tools. (Please forgive my memory if I have the details incorrect).

edit: Found it https://archive.md/gyde0

"Martin’s measurements were so precise that he could tell you the “riskiest” drinking establishment in Canada — Sharx Pool Bar in Montreal, where 47 percent of the patrons who used their Canadian Tire card missed four payments over 12 months. He could also tell you the “safest” products — premium birdseed and a device called a “snow roof rake” that homeowners use to remove high-up snowdrifts so they don’t fall on pedestrians."

Additionally if you try to buy large amounts of visa gift cards it can be problematic. This is one way they catch manufactured spend.

At the end of the day, some merchants are providing every single detail of your transactions down to the line item and all that information is being tagged to you.

The value the LLM adds is interpreting/processing data without having to tailor input streams. Imagine if formats change, fields get renamed, and so on. The maintenance would be a headache if this was done on a per-service level. I think the reduction in fidelity seems like a reasonable tradeoff, but that's for the user to decide of course along with local/cloud processing and proprietary/open source software.

Even things like invoices from the same service change format over time.

If there was a way to add a meta-prompt to Windows Recall like "Create a log entry every time I watch something with its title and URL" it could serve as a history whether things were watched on YouTube, Vimeo, or any other site, without requiring plugging into each service individually. Repeat ad nauseum for each thing to be logged, or perhaps someone can come up with a more clever query than I that catches everything sufficiently.

The level of granularity on many services might be surprisingly large, preventing introspection of the data at a useful level.

Therefore it is not _the action_ of having a child that exposes the man to legal liability, it is verbally accepting and or acting as if the child is his (cases and situations vary greatly).

This is part of why saying "Sorry" is so heavily avoided in certain subcultures, because it accepts culpability.

Someone from outside the community is an alien and would convict differently than someone who is more integrated with the scenario. Not only is the understanding of the situation different, but the incentives are different.

The scale of society has changed, but imagine what this was like when communities were smaller.

People with substance abuse disorders are not binarily excluded or included from adherence to taking a daily regimen. However, it is not an unreasonable expectation that someone shooting heroin every week in a flop house is less likely to take a daily medicine than the average population.

The belief that drug addicts can't be expected to take a daily pill is not grounded in stereotype and bias, it's a realistic and down to earth perspective that for some of them, their addiction is crippling their ability to function.

Imagine New York vs Dallas for example. I think it is fair to say that some cities are more spread out and low density, making them feel like a suburban sprawl.

Being a founder is inherently isolating because you probably work extreme hours, and are not a peer relationship with anyone else in the company apart from perhaps others in the C-suite due to the inherent power differential.

You say you can't quit, but I think you should rephrase that. You essentially acknowledge this yourself: you can quit, but doing so would have consequences. Turn that into an equation, and verbalize it / write it down. I'm not sure why, but it feels different than just thinking about it. On one side you have $X million dollars, and on the other side you have the costs associated with it: burnout, unhappiness, but also providing employment to others (not all negatives, fill out the equation as per your perspective)

Then break that down a little further: you might be able to address burnout (give yourself some odds, and a cost in time/energy for that attempt), quantify exactly how unhappy you are and how that's trending, and then acknowledge that regardless of how your company performs, your employees will (very likely) find other jobs. Most will do it anyway even if your company survives.

Your sides of the equation might look a little different, but the basic approach is to just divide it into an equation and start pulling apart the components. If you're unhappy but it's getting better, perhaps that's not so bad. If you're unhappy and are on the verge of suicide, it's worth thinking strongly about if it's time to move on.

From my understanding the general advice on burnout is that you should expect it to take months to recover from, but individual cases vary greatly.

On the subject of loneliness, I'd try focusing on non-professional relationships. There's too much power-play in professional relationships, even when there's no current exchange of value.

Perhaps most importantly, in your personal relationships, don't say what you do or be a bit vague. Be extremely modest. "I'm a founder of a company" becomes "I work at a startup" or "I'm in XYZ industry". Try to find people who enjoy being around you for your personality, not what you are.

Personally I went the other way and found hobbies I can do individually. There's a reason so many people in software turn to woodworking afterwards. There's a sense of progression, zero bureaucracy, and it feels like artisanship.