phoneafriend

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by phoneafriend 21d ago
Yeah this is good stuff. Shocked to click around the site and find Intuit [working to follow] it. Today they get a nod. Tomorrow it's back to wondering why they needed 10 GUI revisions and a 65% price hike in the past year alone. [palm
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by phoneafriend 22d ago
Who am I talking to? Am I empathizing with them? Meeting them where they are? This is the iterative process of saying what people want. Live. With stress tested feedback. The ultimate taskbot (you) and your harness (human body). Customer? D
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by phoneafriend 2mo ago
Is communication at risk? Perhaps more demanding of one's attention, more insistent in its attempt at inclusion and contribution? Large Language Models are the most powerful communication tools to have ever existed - probably behind th
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by phoneafriend 2mo ago
Our internal voices are often very different. A core feature of not only functioning teams but also democracies is that room exists for a strong diversity of these to be expressed (& heard) freely & frequently. Absent this, we can b
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by phoneafriend 2mo ago
"A QALY is a health metric. Most of Scott's giving targets economic mobility, education, and equity, whose value is largely non-health — income, opportunity, rights, wellbeing. The model therefore understates her total social impa
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by phoneafriend 3mo ago
Paul focused on the most beneficial pathway - finding product market fit and growing into it - what many of us here aspire to provide. What comes after? Both things can be true: - the incredible benefit brought about by YC companies as they
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by phoneafriend 3mo ago
Stick to the science folks. Let the MDs do what they do. Stats and population level studies are hard work. You need to vote somebody in who will support this, or live with the consequences.
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by phoneafriend 11mo ago
1. Happiness is an emotion governed by feedback loops in the body and brain. This is useful to keep us alive, and motivated by staying that way by planning, procreating, eating dense calories, etc... and has evolved to be tightly regulated.
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by phoneafriend 11mo ago
Love these discussions to find out what's new. For me replit.com is still the GOAT. - Time to start your container (or past project) is ~1 sec to 1 min. - Fully supported NixOS container with isolated, cloned agent layer. Most tools a