curiousthought

Toxoplasma gondii affects animal behavior, I don't think it's a stretch to think it (or something similar) could affect humans in some way we haven't measured yet.

Someone on the inside being obsessed with the product. As a user.

There's a night and day difference between products that get used by the people who make it and those who ship it off to the user and wait for the response.

This is primarily aimed at B2C but there's plenty of cases where it applies in B2B as well (if you can somehow use your own product).

Dogfooding is one attempt to mimic this, and it can work. But what I really mean is someone inside the company actually cares enough, is interested enough, to use the product for themselves. Without being told to.

16K porn becomes the new standard definition

I wish I was joking but take the current usage of the internet, and scale up each part. 1TB/s might enable new things, but it's more likely to enable more of old things.

I think people would be alarmed if they knew the amount of detail that credit card readers can collect (Level 3 data).

Sorry when I said something like Windows Recall, I didn't mean Windows Recall but software with similar capabilities. I think in my mind I was imagining some sort of ongoing screen capture along with a meta prompt or prompts, and some sort of output.

The value the LLM adds is interpreting/processing data without having to tailor input streams. Imagine if formats change, fields get renamed, and so on. The maintenance would be a headache if this was done on a per-service level. I think the reduction in fidelity seems like a reasonable tradeoff, but that's for the user to decide of course along with local/cloud processing and proprietary/open source software.

Even things like invoices from the same service change format over time.

This is actually a great use case for something like Windows Recall. Ingestion of data after the fact requires the data to be discoverable.

If there was a way to add a meta-prompt to Windows Recall like "Create a log entry every time I watch something with its title and URL" it could serve as a history whether things were watched on YouTube, Vimeo, or any other site, without requiring plugging into each service individually. Repeat ad nauseum for each thing to be logged, or perhaps someone can come up with a more clever query than I that catches everything sufficiently.

The level of granularity on many services might be surprisingly large, preventing introspection of the data at a useful level.

I have to agree with lazide here. One poignant example is a man who accepts the fatherly role of a child can become legally liable for that child's wellbeing, support payments etc., whether or not the child is actually his biologically.

Therefore it is not _the action_ of having a child that exposes the man to legal liability, it is verbally accepting and or acting as if the child is his (cases and situations vary greatly).

This is part of why saying "Sorry" is so heavily avoided in certain subcultures, because it accepts culpability.

My understanding is this is why it's a "Jury of your peers".

Someone from outside the community is an alien and would convict differently than someone who is more integrated with the scenario. Not only is the understanding of the situation different, but the incentives are different.

The scale of society has changed, but imagine what this was like when communities were smaller.

Not all urbia's are equally urbie.

Imagine New York vs Dallas for example. I think it is fair to say that some cities are more spread out and low density, making them feel like a suburban sprawl.

I think you have to accept that loneliness is part of the package, unless you take specific efforts to counter it.

Being a founder is inherently isolating because you probably work extreme hours, and are not a peer relationship with anyone else in the company apart from perhaps others in the C-suite due to the inherent power differential.

You say you can't quit, but I think you should rephrase that. You essentially acknowledge this yourself: you can quit, but doing so would have consequences. Turn that into an equation, and verbalize it / write it down. I'm not sure why, but it feels different than just thinking about it. On one side you have $X million dollars, and on the other side you have the costs associated with it: burnout, unhappiness, but also providing employment to others (not all negatives, fill out the equation as per your perspective)

Then break that down a little further: you might be able to address burnout (give yourself some odds, and a cost in time/energy for that attempt), quantify exactly how unhappy you are and how that's trending, and then acknowledge that regardless of how your company performs, your employees will (very likely) find other jobs. Most will do it anyway even if your company survives.

Your sides of the equation might look a little different, but the basic approach is to just divide it into an equation and start pulling apart the components. If you're unhappy but it's getting better, perhaps that's not so bad. If you're unhappy and are on the verge of suicide, it's worth thinking strongly about if it's time to move on.

From my understanding the general advice on burnout is that you should expect it to take months to recover from, but individual cases vary greatly.

On the subject of loneliness, I'd try focusing on non-professional relationships. There's too much power-play in professional relationships, even when there's no current exchange of value.

Perhaps most importantly, in your personal relationships, don't say what you do or be a bit vague. Be extremely modest. "I'm a founder of a company" becomes "I work at a startup" or "I'm in XYZ industry". Try to find people who enjoy being around you for your personality, not what you are.

Personally I went the other way and found hobbies I can do individually. There's a reason so many people in software turn to woodworking afterwards. There's a sense of progression, zero bureaucracy, and it feels like artisanship.