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Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by therealdrag0 »

Ostatnigrosh wrote: post #40
LogicFailsMe wrote: post #11

The only thing worse than 100% inhabiting your own cave is trying to fit into someone else's. I had a conversation this weekend with someone in an emerging startup that I initially wanted to join but increasingly didn't as I realized I had gone from starring cast to somewhere between entourage and sub 1% equity NPC. And at that point, startups are horrible bets when you have any sort of sure thing IMO. But it was ins…

A small correction though. Because of AI I'd argue that execution is cheap while the best ideas are valuable.

Code != execution or engineering or product.

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by blooalien »

throwup238 wrote: post #104
mnky9800n wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take two.

For caving you’re supposed to take three and keep them in separate areas of the bag so you can’t lose all three at the same time.

I used to take a buncha glow sticks and a "shakey" flashlight too (just in case).

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by tartoran »

sizzle wrote: post #85
jondlm wrote: post #37

A couple weeks ago I went by myself for a hike through an old lava tunnel cave. I needed a flashlight because it was pitch black. I found a small nook in the wall about a mile in that I could wedge myself in to. I sat down, turned off my light, and let myself feel the enveloping darkness for a long time. I cried. The only sounds were of small droplets of cold water hitting the floor and my body. I let myself settle i…

What happens if your flashlight craps out?

That's when the fumble time starts

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by watwut »

thelaxiankey wrote: post #109
watwut wrote: post #97

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Learning a language not spoken around you is very solitary experience. Also, jogging and swimming, drawing, playing musical instrument.

Learning a language in this way is some sad boi stuff

Why? Or I mean, how do you imagine language learning to be? There is a lot of reading, listening, watching, memorizing and writing involved. And grammar study. All of those are done alone.

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by brazukadev »

andai wrote: post #102
RobRivera wrote: post #84

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I'm a grindset man. I never advertise my grind details.

A couple years back I came up with a morning routine, designed to compensate for the fact that I am extremely lazy and have a barely functioning prefrontal cortex. Not long afterwards, roughly the same recipe was being heralded as some hardcore millionaire stoicism business, which amused me to no end.

could you share the routine? or the hardcore millionaire stoic routine.

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by andai »

brazukadev wrote: post #115
andai wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple years back I came up with a morning routine, designed to compensate for the fact that I am extremely lazy and have a barely functioning prefrontal cortex. Not long afterwards, roughly the same recipe was being heralded as some hardcore millionaire stoicism business, which amused me to no end.

could you share the routine? or the hardcore millionaire stoic routine.

https://nekolucifer.substack.com/p/just-make-it-really-hard-...

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by brazukadev »

andai wrote: post #116
brazukadev wrote: post #115

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could you share the routine? or the hardcore millionaire stoic routine.

https://nekolucifer.substack.com/p/just-make-it-really-hard-...

thanks for sharing! So much in common with my workflow. Great reading.

For me this one is the most important, which I always suspected but only now being able to follow through:

- Rule 1: Work every day. No skipping days. But I only need to work 1 hour.

Show up everyday.

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by LogicFailsMe »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #71
SoftTalker wrote: post #50

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No, ideas are still cheap. Now implementation is cheap. So, software will be worth less than ever.

It's a bit more complicated than that isn't it? Every time you remove a bottleneck things advance until a new one appears, right? Previously ideas were cheap, good ideas were hard to come by, accurately distinguishing between good and bad without an implementations was an incredibly rare skill that many people wrongly believed themselves to have (the same as how everyone naturally thinks that their preferred language…

My take is that if you can clone what you need from a piece of existing software with a coding agent, it wasn't a particularly high moat in the first place. Whatever moat was there IMO was likely the bundling of it with everything else in the product you neither want nor need. Consider the godawful deal that was cablevision/DirectTV/Dish before streaming channels existed. Don't fight the future, run with it.

I truly do not understand the mindset that defends the status quo and its ridiculously wealthy overlords. They're going to screw you anyway, it's the American way after all, but embracing AI toolchains and mastering them is a near sure thing path out of the poverty trap.

As a controversial example, somewhere out there is the Robert Rodriguez of AI filmmaking. And it's going to be amazing when they emerge. And oh the bellyaching that will ensue from the bottom of the film industry foodchain, but it will not change the outcome that people who master the tools now will be the next generation of overlords tomorrow, equally in need of overthrow by revolution when that day comes.

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by virgil_disgr4ce »

senordevnyc wrote: post #18
virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #8

I'm reminded of Ze Frank's "Brain Crack:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8 The idea is that unexecuted ideas can actually become addictive. You keep telling yourself, "boy, that thing is going to be amazing whenever I get around to making it!" And the more you tell yourself this, the more you become petrified that it won't be great, making you even less likely to actually work on it.

Whoa, Ze Frank! Forgot all about him.

Right? In a way I'm mildly surprised he hasn't had some kind of resurgence, because his style was (is?) actually so prescient of the kind of content that blows up on tiktok or whatever. Not that I'm equating the two—for all I know ZF's style made it possible for everything that came after.
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