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I sold my business to a PE firm as the “platform,” meaning they’d acquire other companies in the future and “bolt-on” to ours. We ended up selling to the most founder-friendly, cul…

Except they raised $65 billion dollars, not $1. Ai is overstated in my opinion but to hand wave the reality of them having created something that investors were happy to value at $…

Will goblins be the “bugs” of ai? In 10 years will goblins be the term the general public uses for any nagging issues with ai?

When I joined the army as an infantryman back in the early 2000s there were kids who couldn’t start basic training because they weren’t capable of doing 6 pushups. 6. I believe at …

One of my friends was an elite athlete a couple of decades back(eg. won a national champion in a solo track and field event as well as a gold medal in the world championships) He’s…

I spent my childhood in a rural town but learning Spanish from various teachers from 4th grade through high school. I always did well but focused too much on the process of Spanish…

I wish this article shared more about how this tomb was discovered. Was it buried under mountain of dirt? Under a jungle canopy no one explored? Has it been there all along at an e…

I’d be open to a version of social media that is not banned and the version looks like this: - a straight linear feed with three tabs, 1) people close to me(default), 2) brands and…

I really love this concept for an app. Downloading and getting going was a breeze. That said, I’m finding some latency issues when I respond. I’ll say something in Spanish, hit the…

This summer I went camping and at the campground next to me was a middle manager at Amazon. I’ve been out of the workforce for about a year, so I asked him how much of an impact AI…

Damn. There are some things here that resonated with me and some that don’t. I had a time of my life where I just felt like I didn’t vibe with my ex’s friends. We’d go to parties a…

It’s easy to find reasons to talk yourself out of action. Maybe you’ll get burned out, maybe you won’t. But if you never try you’ll never know. And you’ll definitely miss out on so…

People are willing value art with their attention more so than their wallet So while it seems we have more arists/creators than ever, the work seems more hollow and less inspired t…

Only the type of food we eat in an “advanced” society

My grandparents were children of the depression and encouraged me to invest in the vanguard 500 for as long as I could remember. Once I joined the military and had a steady paychec…

Lately I've gotten into creating music and use tools like Logic to generate .wav files. Every time I open a new .wav file it defaults to Apple Music. If I go to a given file and ri…

I spent the past year reading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I’m on the last push of the final(seventh) book It was my first dip into any King books and I’m equal parsers i…

Would the explosives in these pagers have been caught by something like TSA? I could imagine that at please *some* of the owners had to have flown with them. Were they caught? If n…

I (late 30’s male) grew up with migraine and ultimately discovered that they were triggered by caffeine mixed with dehydration and/or chocolate. Having discovered this I’ve been ab…

“AI coming for white collar jobs” is a sexy claim, but it’s got some truth to it. Using your examples of call centers, back office and fraud detection as examples: - what happens w…

I found the piece difficult to read as well. That said, the author wasn't writing it with you or me in mind. To me, the author was writing in a way that made sense to them, with no…

Agreed, having mostly lived only in America, it's tough for me to comment on other cultures, though I assume they're similar in that respect.

Unfortunately, too many people in America are just indifferent to sacrificing their attention to ads. I see it in my parents/siblings when I visit. An ad that would have me immedia…

My dad bought an ‘89 Toyota Pickup in ‘93 and, between he and I, we put 270k miles on the thing Extended cab, 5 speed manual. It was my first vehicle when I turned 16 and I loved i…