A New Year's letter to a young person(siliconcontinent.com)
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A New Year's letter to a young person
https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/a-new-years-letter-to-a-young-person
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OMG, Chicago is not a "second tier city," it's an international hub and #3 by both population and GDP and O’Hare is the #1 most connected airport in the United States.
Yeah, one has to be from New York to claim Seattle, Austin, Chicago are second tier cities and thus confirming popular stereotypes about New Yorkers.
Yeah because Seattle is a third tier city. Chicago isn't a second tier city because it is surrounded by 10 other completely irrelevant cites. Austin is solidly a second tier city though.
> have families, real estate, weird funky interests and hobbies
Many people would rather have these^ but stay stuck in cities/downtowns despite knowing it is only delaying the inevitable for them.
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> A small number of cities, starting with San Francisco, Paris, London, and New York, are where almost everyone working and thinking about artificial intelligence is based. Go to these cities, or the closest approximation of them available to you, not just to work on these problems but to understand what possibilities may come your way.
The problem with this - it leads to group think - you end up being forced to conform.
There's a reason Warren Buffet left NY and went to Omaha.
likewise the best things usually come from the margins - the apple pc didn't come from people working at the best MicroPC companies but hipsters tinkering.
The problem with this - it leads to group think - you end up being forced to conform.
There's a reason Warren Buffet left NY and went to Omaha.
likewise the best things usually come from the margins - the apple pc didn't come from people working at the best MicroPC companies but hipsters tinkering.
I agree with this... having lived in all of the major cities in the US and worked in "tech" /research- I find places like Pittsburgh, or Portland(Maine), to be much much more inspiring and to contain more interesting people. The major hubs having become monocultural sycophantic symbols of extreme capitalism and greed, advancing only the science of advertising. 12 years in NYC now and jeez, people here are just boring AF. Its the same conversations on repeat, platitudes, rhetoric... express an original thought or unorthodox idea and you are looked at like you are unwell.
> The major hubs having become monocultural sycophantic symbols of extreme capitalism and greed, advancing only the science of advertising.
As someone who was born, raised and still living here, I concur.
> 12 years in NYC now and jeez, people here are just boring AF.
I don't feel this is true unless you only visit popular, gentrified areas or never leave Manhattan which is the impression most transplants give me. These people have unintentionally driven out native NYC culture in favor of the fake septic realities peddled on Instagram. There are still interesting people and places all over NYC in neighborhoods you probably never set foot in. Go explore.
As someone who was born, raised and still living here, I concur.
> 12 years in NYC now and jeez, people here are just boring AF.
I don't feel this is true unless you only visit popular, gentrified areas or never leave Manhattan which is the impression most transplants give me. These people have unintentionally driven out native NYC culture in favor of the fake septic realities peddled on Instagram. There are still interesting people and places all over NYC in neighborhoods you probably never set foot in. Go explore.
I live in a warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn. I venture some fairly unknown/infamous underground hacker clubs and hangouts. Its people. They have lost their edge in favor of greed.
While the Twitter recommendation is strange, the assertion that we will suddenly have leisure time is demonstrably false. For decades each new technological advance was supposed to make it so we could work half as long because we could get twice as much done. That never happens. The cost of a person was never in how much they could produce but in how much they would demand to do so. If you can do twice as much, then your work product becomes half as valuable. Many of the throw away things we buy everyday are cheap only because their production is so heavily automated. If we still had to cook food in a conventional kitchen instead of warming up precooked food, or use a hammer and hand plane to build furniture, we would be paying far more than we do today. If anything, the people working those jobs are paid comparatively less now than before automation because it used to take skill to work those jobs but now anyone can do it. This is why the main advice of the article - do something that can't be automated and learn how to build the automation - is good advice.
>In the past, my answers were often based on a piece of advice I myself got from Bengt Holmstrom: “when in doubt, choose the job where you will learn more.”
Weird advice, How does anyone know what job you'd learn more at? Anyways, when I was a young person the only requirement I had for my first job was would they be willing to hire me.
Weird advice, How does anyone know what job you'd learn more at? Anyways, when I was a young person the only requirement I had for my first job was would they be willing to hire me.
all good, but why `5. install twitter`?
> it's a huge time sink but everything happens there in the open.
... ok? i don't get why the tradeoff is worth it?
... ok? i don't get why the tradeoff is worth it?
It's X, not twitter. That system is directly controlled by a single man for his own benefit; we should use the name that reminds us of that.
He openly promotes himself and those that pay him. If you think Musk doesn't have an admin dashboard where he can demote accounts he dislikes and promote his friends, I have some... unkind words for you.
It's about control. Control over your information intake is partial control over you.
We can do so much better than ceding that power to the highest bidder.
He openly promotes himself and those that pay him. If you think Musk doesn't have an admin dashboard where he can demote accounts he dislikes and promote his friends, I have some... unkind words for you.
It's about control. Control over your information intake is partial control over you.
We can do so much better than ceding that power to the highest bidder.
I thought you were joking.. "Install Twitter"..... Seriously??? I went to Twitter and if thats what it takes, I wish I get hit by a train as soon as possible.
How do you remember your username?
Most likely he is using one of those randomizers that will generate a new account every day or hour or whatever. A lot of people in Europe has started using those when going to American sites
I’m American and do it too. There is no point to generating karma and credibility with an account when the winner is the most salacious or person who paid to get to the top. There is also no incentive to be apart of the herd of cattle of getting sucked up into the data and profiling and surveillance vaccuum.
The irony of your username
I laughed.
Any recommended services?
I have a small sample but all my New York and SF friends are still single, living in apartments, and grinding at great innovative companies.
My friends in Seattle, Austin, Chicago, seem to have much chiller more fulfilling lives where they have families, real estate, weird funky interests and hobbies.