They've made it useless for quick manual sharing with llm.

Due to some perverse incentives in the industry as well as some protectionism and legal chilling none of the players actually solved their customers fundemental problem. They got stuck as these weird tweener lifestyle companies.

I quit, moved to a cheap studio apartment in Brasil for 3 months (we still had a bully in the space put together a bs packet and used their connections to get some FBI agents to show up on our doorstep only to drop everything after our little interview), coded out a marketplace play and launched it.

Ycombinator flew us out but declined and a group in a smaller market gave us the only money we ever had to raise. Due to the fact that we built a legitimately fun marketplace play that solved a lot of frustrations in the space Scott Hanselman tweeted us out to his followers and that was all we needed to get the exposure and google juice ball rolling.

Due to the industries continuing perverse incentives, I could start the same company again tomorrow except it would take a big ad words dump of cash and I don't want to pull out of my own pocket yet again (I did just prior to covid but it's an industry that was totally shut down during covid and I no longer have the appetite.)

So by overnight I mean, we started generating huge buzz in the industry and 10x traffic of established players overnight and middlemen don't have motes so we never really had to raise, it was just the time to code out the platform and get it populated with data at the MVP level.

The same idea with bad timing (rentry after a fantastic exit that I juiced with a condition to not renter the space for 3 years and a subsequent launch just prior to covid), never, because I'm not going to spend my own money on getting it off the ground again post covid.

I've got 3 things working now that are 10 years in the making if they ever succeed.

I tinker. Ideas aren't actually worthless like so many people say but the devil is in the time/space/implementation details.

I think the slowdown with ycombinator successea is exactly because they went hard in choosing teams over ideas when the ideas and their framing are in fact reflective of the teams.

One started out as an acquisition of a group on sales force, we wrote migrated to our brand new crm the first month and integrated our PBX and several other functions within the first 3 months.

It's not hard, most CRMs don't need "webscale", you can whip up a highly targeted and integrated CRM in rails in the blink of any eye.

That's why I'm pretty sure in 2001/02 I had the earliest real customer, real time, audio reviews published online in the world.

Like any decision during a startup buy/build is a situation specific decision you have to make at every point and 3rd party CRMs are fine to launch with... but, I mean, come on.

Nothing useful.

So I became a developer and data engineer, and I became really good at it even though, like the protagonist in Gattica (with whom I share other similarities), I had to work twice as hard and spend all my off hours obsessed with it because my nature worked against me.

While others with this natural prediliction could spend all their time in type 1 thinking I had to live in type 2.

But it was a success, and I found myself becoming an executive at long last on the strength of my technical abilities, and it turns out executives don't actually need to do much of anything and really, outside of maybe some complex CFO roles, executive roles are by far the easiest roles at existing profitable companies. I suspect csuite positions are actually the roles most secretly replaced by Ai already.

Not all of us were believed we had to be a specific thing handed to us, some of us were born natural absurdists and figured it out as we went along.

Otherwise we are just doing the same things and expecting different results.

Right now in many police abuse scenarios there is no system in place that is recognizable as a working ethical system, bringing policing into some ethical system, even if just financially self motivated is definitely an improvement over nothing.

All physical things have to be arranged in a linear fashion, this is pauli exclusion principle writ large.

A type of mereological nihilism is true, so hierarchy is real but in a weak emergence sense.

When I am standing on a street corner in a city, I can walk into a building and then navigate into a room inside that building and pick up a piece of paper inside.

Or I can walk down the street and as I pass landmarks, I will pass things in order, this is also a perceived hierarchy, because my starting position and movement are bound by time, I will always have a fixed order of experiences from any x,y coordinate.

So everything bounded by time and space acts as an emergent hierarchy via movement for a specific loci.

The paper can be moved however, and that same piece of paper sitting in the drawer at an attorneys office means something very different than when its sitting in the approved licenses cabinet in an offical government building.

Semantic meaning is first class but its an entirely different dimension than other types of meaning and due to pointers it isn't bound by pauli exclusion.

When people start thinking about the semantics of objects in computer programs they often become confused, because the semantic representation of the object follows semantic ontology laws not physical object ontology.

People can fuck this up in either direction and think physical laws apply to semantic meaning or physical meaning applies to semantics.

When you start skating older you have to pad up, I combined that with a slackboard and just standing on one leg with my eyes closed.

I went from feeling like an old man to now when I am basically impossible to knock over, my nervous system can catch me before I even realize it, at 15mph, when one foot strikes a rock, walking is now no problem, and sometimes I even sit on the floor without any old man groaning when I stand up.

Also, tall box step ups (like 2ft), which is very tall, no back risk like weighted bar workouts.

You have to pad up and go easy, it's a multi year process to get enough low impact reps up to build joint health, when you're older injuries are a real setback.

Rollerblading is like bouldering for your legs and feet at speed, very fun, with an infinite progression curve that you can train at your own pace.

The sabbath was always meant for man and that makes a lot of people very angry because whatever ideological or religious lip service someone gives their behavior demonstrate they hate man, or more subtly, love mankind like dollars in their pocket, stripping humans of their humanity.

This mendacious attitude is also a major driver of enshitification.

The internet and executive social distancing has made a huge swath of people lose touch with how unique individuals are, so they treat humanity with the bigotry and coldness that the law of large numbers has lead them to, which is ultimately very mean.

I'm not looking for advice on how to associate with people, hopefully you can understand the distinction.

People smuggle in so many assumptions when they use words like consciousness or thinking or soul or personhood, I've never met a lay person who could talk clearly about ai safety issues unless we switched to language like process.

Consciousness is an absolutely terrible term that's going to get us all killed by Ai. I know a huge swath of people who think its nbd to torture Ai because it doesnt have a soul, well I see a LOT of non-theists smuggling soul rhetoric and thinking in via consciousness and that's a problem.

I tried their liver and onions (an aquired taste it turns out I don't really have) and a slice of some meregiune pie and idk, it really transported me, the food is always very real tasting, it's hard to isolate what it is that makes so much food taste manufactured now.

It's like Donns Depot, places that connect us to some wholesome parts in our shared history.

My cognition in my 40s is now better than it was at 26, at 37 before I started this routine I thought my engineering career was over, the post lunch crash, the mental tiredness, just terrible.

The fact that we build our brain work spaces so distant from physical movement is bad for our mental health, our soles, our souls, and doing untold economic damage to our country (the u.s. in my case.), I tried lunch walks for years and it's just too fucking boring, cycling is great, after work I rollerblade and it's so mentally engaging and distinct it obliterates the after work fog.

I come from a highly religious Christian background and moved in the other direction without any ill will, most of my religious male friends who have families have confided in me that they think monogamy and general family values are worn out cultural artifacts and clearly regret buying in even though they love their kids and are entrenched in their communities.

Many already have a first divorce under their belt.

Meanwhile my atheist friends had their first kid right around 40 and are somewhere between 1-3 kids and after a fair amount of relationship churn when they were younger are now in very stable relationships, some very orthodox and a few semi-orthodox.

If the trajectory hold for this generation the same as I saw for my religious parents generation I think the trajectory looks not great for mental health on the religious side.

You gotta lay down a fermentation base.

I guess we should attempt nothing and just embrace 60% of people being convinced there is no facts or evidence for a universe older than 6k years (not to attack religion), lets just embrace the impossibility of knowing.

It's all just weaponized mendacious stupidity where people ignore history and people completely forget about relying on doing bank transactions or the fact that we have working chain of custody processes/systems.

Hated the dialup, hated having to steal other users AOL passwords because my large family couldn't afford internet.

Hated, later, having to keylog the local libraries ISDN line because the provider offered a free national dial in number for "traveling".

The whole world of information available to become less ignorant and I can only use it for an hour a day.

As a below poverty line child with heart defects who was prohibited from sports and a whole slew of other things, what we have now is fucked up because we've allowed every interaction to become a dopamine casino and we've skinners boxed ourselves straight to hell.

This kind of nostalgia bait is actively harmful, there are clear patterns businesses based in america use and all that shit should be banned.

Forcing everyone to use a real Id is an evil, making skinners box patterns illegal is much easier.

I loved Juno email, I loved that rich people paid for the ads I easily ignored because I had a velcro TMNT wallet from a community free store but not a single dollar inside of it.