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That's great! I think anything that's not passively consuming a screen will be known as "good for your brain", the same way that regular food has become known as "health food".

Eschewing eating ultraprocessed, factory-made food is now seen as a deliberate health choice, even though it used to be the default. I think the same is happening with the brain.

Reading a book is now seen as some erudite choice. Having a hobby like knitting, birdwatching, etc. will be some kind of "good for your brain" activity. Things that used to be the only option are now "healthy choices".

I believe that we'll see a lot of "x is good for your brain" news (with X just being any activity that doesn't involve a screen), now that attention spans are so short and everyone feels like their brain isn't the same anymore.

The same way we got gyms when people realized physical inactivity is super unhealthy.

Did Jev take off briefly and stopped getting talked about a few days later? Yes.

But that doesn't make it a failure. In the era where we have:

a) an AI hype cycle where the benchmark of "successful product" is ChatGPT, Claude Code, etc. b) a social media environment that only rewards the most-engaged content

It's easy to declare something "fell off" because it didn't immediately revolutionize how everyone does their daily work.

But by that measure, nearly everything is a failure, even if it creates great businesses. That's especially true for infrastructure that runs in the background.

Yeah exactly. Reimburse $20 for whatever AI paid plan if applicants don’t have one. Many will anyway, and one can’t expect Claude Max and Free users to compete for the same job.

Yeah I agree. The exact mechanics are fungible, but the point is that it’s definitely possible to give applicants AI access without giving them a seat on the enterprise plan.

I think there are a few interesting things here:

-If the AI part is so important, why doesn't the company use OpenCode/Kilo etc. and fund it via OpenRouter? That way you could even level the playing field by giving everyone the same access to the same models.

-I believe some of this is temporary. Just about everyone is now constantly using AI, so I believe we'll soon care more about someone actually being able to explain how they'd go about something and why rather than just "can you produce code that does this"

-The idea of "applications are a numbers game" and spewing hundreds of resumes everywhere is dying. I know extremely highly qualified people whose resumes never get looked at and recruiters who never look at applications. Everyone is making application materials with AI and HR teams review them with AI. I believe we'll enter an era that's much more manual and high touch.

I feel that beyond the proper social events (e.g. dinner parties, hangouts etc.), another important part that has declined is the little social stuff.

Having a chat with the butcher, barista, etc. or just bumping into people you know and talking for a few minutes is pretty uplifting when it happens regularly.

I feel like the containerization of life erodes this.