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It's also just kind of cool and fun to hack together a personal website

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I gave up trying to read this after closing the 3rd popup

I think it's an apt analogy. The Internet (and the web) was definitely good tech that is still used. Artificial Intelligence (or maybe more broadly, data science or _statistics_) is good tech that will still be used.

But chatbots in all the things? That will definitely collapse. I am interested to see what cream rises to the top out of all this and if we'll see an actual bubble burst like we did then.

How are the deer in Nara?

LOL, completed PhD at 20

I've been thinking about this recently with internet comments on here, reddit, etc. There are very few topics on which I'd consider myself an expert, but whenever one comes up, the "top" comment (often something contrarian/snarky) is always significantly incorrect.

Nothing you mentioned here disagrees with the title or the article

I left Microsoft a year ago because the group I worked for checked pretty much every one of the items on this list. It was wildly unproductive.

Some people here are confused. Kindness towards people doesn't preclude you from being assertive. It doesn't preclude you from being a shrewd negotiator. It doesn't preclude you from provide feedback to an employee who needs to improve performance. It doesn't preclude you from laying off an employee.

Yes. A person's performance on the job does not change how I treat them as a human.