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If you want to make the most of your reading time, some sparse journaling is very helpful. I started journaling with logseq two years ago. I started by pasting in an HN link, marking it with the #interesting tag, then writing down a few surface level thoughts/questions. It's nice to know that I can revisit the memories or parse my notes with AI when I'm writing or designing.

> I do not think it is meaningfully different from the simpler example, just with a lot of extra steps.

Those extra steps are meaningfully different. In your description, a casual observer could compare the two JPEGs and recognize the inferior copy. However, AI has become so advanced that such detection is becoming impossible. It is clearly voodoo.

This is what I'm looking forward to the most, there's a lot of potential for virtual reality with these models.

This is excellent I loved this so much. I cant stop laughing.

I have not laughed this hard in ages. I am in love with this author.

Agreed on Clean Code. I remember nothing practical from that book. Its principal value is that it looks nice on my shelf.

Watching Bob Martin's talks, he just likes ranting about computers and doesn't give actionable advice. However, he was one of the first "tech" authors I was exposed to, so I guess the the book itself is good for marketing. Maybe it's accessible enough for beginners. But now the book is certainly worthless as a reference or refresher to me.

There's also something to be said for women that read a lot of romance novels or fanfics and have warped "love maps". Probably not a big % of the population, but it changes the psychological waters of relationships with them.

Women preferring taller men will not go away because its desirability is rooted in biology. Taller men make women feel physically safe. Unless culture reconstructs how women view safety in sexual selection, this will continue to be the case.

I agree that his descriptions are less "principles" and more like "heuristics". The overall message of the book, as the referenced reviewer points out, is "do what's sensible." As someone so young, what is sensible to me is not obvious, so I find value in this.

What, in your opinion, defines what is sensible in business and leads to your frustration with Dalio's message? Can you give personal anecdotes?

Could you expand on your other criticisms of the book? How does it conflict with your experience? I'm still learning.

Isn't the tragedy of the commons how developing technology consumes our attention spans?

Human attention span is a finite resource (we can only do so much in one life), and tech startups can consume a lot of that for relatively little payoff. Building a successful startup is like solving the bitcoin hash on your first few cycles. The barrier for entry is low, but you can hit it big (and consume a lot of cheap, finite* power too).

The payoff is worth the risk since our communication technology is nascent and underexplored. We have an abundance of time right now because of what tech has done for us, but the cultural and environmental costs of growing tech are not well understood.

Use of attention span is difficult to measure right now, but that could change in the coming decades. That said, parent comment seems to use "tragedy of the commons" as a stand in for "human nature."

How have you developed a sense for organizational friction? What observations of culture can I use to make an educated guess about how easy it is to do my work?

I agree with your point that a large org does not guarantee what the author claims. The author claims that the organizational friction can be measured by productivity, but you recognize culture as the better diagnostic criterion. The big O metaphor does not extend well to the argument, as you point out.

I'm looking for hard hitting interview questions so I don't waste my time on "soul sucking" positions.

Ray Dalio talks about this in his book "Principles."

The specific advice he offers is "hire slowly, fire quickly."

I have an unfortunate story of my father's hoarding.

About a decade ago, my childhood home got raided by the DEA because my brother allegedly ordered precursors on the darkweb. My father consented to a full search. DEA agents opened up his garage as our neighbor pulled out his lawn chairs to watch the affair. The garage was the crown jewel of my father's hoard, filled with ancient technology and useless crap. One of the DEA agents, frustrated from hours of searching, screams out "Why does he have so much fucking shit?!"

They found nothing and completely trashed the place, likely a little upset. Thankfully I didn't live there at the time. I did find it comedic that the cops were there way longer than they wanted to be just going through my father's shit.

Wholeheartedly agree.

One underlining here is it's easy to fake experience in an individual domain ("yeah, I know python. I read like 2 books.") but you can't fake experience in multiple, pointed domains ("yeah, I used python to manage a fleet of clown cars for the Hertz-Barnum merger").