sirspacey

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by sirspacey 3mo ago
There’s a blind spot in this argument that seems to be beyond the reach of intelligent people to recognize. Humanity has almost never been prepared for anything and almost never successfully prepared when it has chosen to. almost all progre
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by sirspacey 3mo ago
RIP Roku. Built our whole streaming life around it, guess that’s on a clock now.
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by sirspacey 6mo ago
i thought so too. but now we are onboarding project managers in non-tech fields to Claude Code and they are crushing it. on a terminal. vs code. the first thirty min is the hard part, after that the feedback loop kicks in. they ask for what
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by sirspacey 6mo ago
all day every day and never going back was thinking about starting a community for ops people going claude code because you 100% can and should do it
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by sirspacey 6mo ago
because that pretty much is the state of any kind of speach it could apply to. either we operate from it as a first principle/“sacred text” or its scope shrinks as modern life loses any literal comparison to life in the late 1700s
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by sirspacey 7mo ago
this is a really great example of how badly the people who designed your tool screwed up try doing your own version of this for a non-work related company & give it this feedback in Claude it will improve
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by sirspacey 8mo ago
you’ve landed on the core of politics the shape of how things actually work is what’s left when constant churn (and now budget blocking) is a fact of life
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by sirspacey 10mo ago
I’ve learned this is the way to get the value from any social network, great suggestion.
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by sirspacey 11mo ago
What I offer may be helpful, but you likely have strong reasons to ignore it: I have been a part of a dozen “next Silicon Valley” projects across the US, with friends who have done it internationally. I’d suggest studying how it happened in
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by sirspacey 1y ago
thank you for this, very interesting
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by sirspacey 1y ago
Religion + State = Violence
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by sirspacey 1y ago
I would watch that YT video and share it with everyone I knew. That it cool.
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by sirspacey 1y ago
There wouldn’t be any safety for that anyway. A tariff as a negotiating tactic wouldn’t be worth much if it was known to be temporary.
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by sirspacey 1y ago
I’ll be one to raise my hand and say this has been dramatically not the case for anyone I’ve introduced AI to or myself. Significantly more informed and reasoned.
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by sirspacey 1y ago
If you haven’t worked in the federal government, this is an unserious take. Experience and context matters. Especially this one.
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by sirspacey 2y ago
What changed is the audience Founders are in private group chats now Man I miss it being real here instead of Reddit Jr Grateful for those of you who still hang out
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by sirspacey 2y ago
That’s how it is today, but that was also the case at the birth of e-commerce. Amazon was a large eCom store but many others were successful and switching for price was common. Not so much anymore. Defaults are powerful over time.
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by sirspacey 2y ago
Because that is not their motivation and no amount of spin casting changes it. There’s a simple counter-factual for people with this level of ability: “Making money” can be easily pursued at BlackRock or any number of PE firms. Creating his
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by sirspacey 2y ago
Then we should also jail the shareholders who profited and the activist shareholders who pushed for it CEOs, especially of large companies, are glorified management
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by sirspacey 2y ago
Film is such a nascent art form. The 90s as “peak blockbuster action” is a valid stance on taste but hard to defend as superior to all that came after. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight is leagues aways from the 90s Batman, as an auteur frien
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by sirspacey 2y ago
Could be summarized, from a tech POV as: The concept that the customer is the expert on requirements and it is the job of the tech vendor to implement them as failed, wholesale, and the failure is growing non-linearly in a relatively short
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by sirspacey 2y ago
What a snapshot of history One of the things I’ve learned over the years is almost every company becomes the symbol of it’s anti-mission Root cause almost always seems to be trying to design PM performance around metrics Metrics are a poor
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by sirspacey 2y ago
There’s a fair case to be made that it delivered on that, the thesis that increasing connectedness diminished violence over time
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by sirspacey 2y ago
Is your null hypothesis that human run decision making systems don’t have these flaws?
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by sirspacey 2y ago
A stunningly powerful lesson that one never really win a lawsuit. The best you can do is survive.
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by sirspacey 2y ago
You seem to believe that getting credit for the idea would net you something. I’m curious what that would be? Why do you believe your org would do it? Some orgs reward ingenuity. Many do not.
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by sirspacey 2y ago
It’s working out for many of the gifted kids I meet because it pushes their parents to put them in charter/private/montessori There really isn’t a “gifted” program in a public school setting. Mostly it’s just more volume of work,
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by sirspacey 2y ago
You are asserting quite a lot here. Have you spoken with SWAT team members? The few I know would find this attitude of “killing is fine because we won’t be sued” abhorrent
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by sirspacey 2y ago
An airman I know shared that it cost $10M + to train a pilot by the time they can run missions, which matches the sources Perplexity found on the question. (1) The number of years the military gets to keep a trained pilot is limited, so tha
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by sirspacey 2y ago
No. A legion of edtech companies have been born and died who solve the underlying pedagogical issues but die. Some of the reasons they die are: - students don’t control the budget for their spending, so their voice/progress has almost

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