I'm about to turn 40 and only this year it hit me that maybe my wildest dreams of success won't come true, and that I don't have eternity to try it. This gave me a terrible sense of emergency, and I'm working like crazy and also much more focused.
I feel silly writing and saying that I'm the CEO of such a small startup like mine, but I haven't found something that will communicate what's behind that title as well.
In the country where I live, the problem is that it became much of a religious question. People feel like one candidate represents values different than mine, and that by not aligning with them, I'm not an ally. I don't have friends with such different values, but managing family has become a big problem during these times. It's very hard, for example, hearing your mother-in-law defending a change in the constitution that would forbid women to have an abortion, even when raped and at any time of pregnancy, when you have a small daughter. That person is actively trying to make the world a horrible place for my family, according to my values and honestly any sane person.
While there is legitimate debate over how authoritarian some policies in Australia or the UK might be in the past few years, these measures operate within established legal frameworks, with judicial oversight and public scrutiny. Even if you view them as overly restrictive, they don't stem from a single "contrarian" movement with a coordinated political agenda. Moreover, neither government is rewriting history to erase specific groups. The fact that hate-speech or migration laws exist doesn’t equate to people being arrested or deported without due process, nor does it imply some monolithic campaign to censor or remove entire populations from the record.
It's complicated. Most traditional Brits don't want that but a lot of the asians are UK citizens and bring in brides / grooms from asia to marry so the numbers double roughly each generation.
Maybe as India gets richer and the UK economy flatlines they'll stop doing that.
Indians are definitely are issue, but so are the influx of people from Africa. It is worth looking at videos of these cities and how much they have changed over the course of years because of immigration. The city is trashed, quite literally. Trash everywhere you go.
They are, and I am entitled to not associate with them in any way, and tell others to do the same, for this specific comment alone. It says a lot about his views. Like seriously, because the UK a long time tried to conquer parts of the world, mass migration to the UK today is somehow OK? Slavery should be OK, too, according to him, then, since all races have been enslaved at some point in time of history. It is extremely poor reasoning, in poor taste. You should know better.
My comment made zero moral judgements. History has consequences. Spreading the English language to over a billion people while enriching Britain means a lot of people will want to live in a rich place where they can speak the language, for generations to come. Whether immigration is good or bad is kind of irrelevant to the argument.
You appealed to what "UK" did in the past, though.
Same thing applies to slavery, then, since every race has been enslaved before. Would you say slavery is OK, too, considering it has been common practice by then by race or nationality X?
McCartney is a great example of 'naming a genius that ain't crazy', plus doesn't seem to have suffered that much in his life. His work doesn't communicate that at all.
The key for LLM productivity, it seems to me, is grounding. Let me give you my last example, from something I've been working on.
I just updated my company commercial PPT. ChatGPT helped me with:
- Deep Research great examples and references of such presentations.
- Restructure my argument and slides according to some articles I found on the previous step, and thought were pretty good.
- Come up with copy for each slide.
- Iterate new ideas as I was progressing.
Now, without proper context and grounding, LLMs wouldn't be so helpful at this task, because they don't know my company, clients, product and strategy, and would be generic at best. The key: I provided it with my support portal documentation and a brain dump I recorded to text on ChatGPT with key strategic information about my company. Those are two bits of info I keep always around, so ChatGPT can help me with many tasks in the company.
From that grounding to the final PPT, it's pretty much a trivial and boring transformation task that would have cost me many, many hours to do.
