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"Careers (and lives) are non-linear. Occasionally their trajectories don’t make sense. They may even outright disappoint, in the moment. The silver lining is, they give us unique skills and experience that someone in the world wants if only we can find them."
Careers are non-linear
therealadam.com/2024/02/13/careers-are-non-linear/
Wow OpenAI is having a hard couple of days. I had their status page open since yesterday, yes, I'm building a thing that uses their API. Yesterday I just worked on other parts of the thing using cached results I'd already built into the workflow. Returned to their status page tab today and hit refresh fully expecting everything to be ok again and it appears to be worse.
"...the Waymo came to a halt in the middle of the lane, turned on its hazards, and then… nothing...What happened next was reassuring. Tom called customer service..."
Reassuring...?
"...the situation we’ve found ourselves in trying to handle the technology of cars – and the enormous sociocultural influence that this very particular tool has – has a lot to teach us about how AI is going to impact us."
kesterbrewin.com/2024/02/13/ai-vs-car-culture-fasten-your-seatbelts/
And now, some amazing, under-appreciated music:
salimfnourallah.bandcamp.com/album/the-worlds-weakest-man-all-the-tracks
On one hand, I really like this thing I wrote in 2018. On the other hand, it feels like nothing has changed.
"Sometimes in the moment it can feel like one is living anything but an authentic life. But in hindsight, the past can feel like a truly authentic time."
"It’s hard to remember these days that a life not lived in public is still an authentic, memorable life. Probably more so than its Instagrammed counterpart."
It's to the point where you could write the most life-changing thing in the world and if you publish it on Substack I just won't bother. And not because I think you're a fascist sympathizer, just because the reading UX is so bad it's not even worth trying to chuck into Omnivore.
