slavoingilizov

Thank you for writing this! I've been thinking about this a lot after becoming a dad (3yo + a 2nd baby in about one week or so).

Ambition may or may not be the right word to use, as others have commented. One thing I have reflected on is not if I should be making a compromise with one or the other, but why in our modern society the easiest path is to only pick one. The more I read about how to bring up healthy strong children, the more I think we've just gone backwards as a species.

There is a lot of research about the bad effects of screens and constant dopamine on long-term mental health and resilience (read The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Heidt). In reality, until just maybe 50 years ago, it was socially accepted for parents to be raising children with a support network around them. That had both good and bad sides - fewer rights for moms/women, dads less involved in parenting. But instead of fixing that, we threw out the whole idea that you need a village to support you as a parent and replaced it with career maxxing as the only prominent virtue to speak about.

I have believed in individual freedom and liberalism forever, but these days I think there is such a thing as too much individualism and we've taken that to an extreme. This makes it really hard to want or be able to raise children, and our society's long-term health suffers as a result, despite all of our scientific progress. Individual parents shouldn't be forced to have the internal debate that the author is having and pick between them - we should fix our social systems and institutions to not need that choice. But that's an even harder problem.

So many seem to have made a similar move. But the one thing holding me back: starting with a new email address.

My email address is not just for email. It's so firmly embedded in my digital life, it's hard to think how to remove it. It's my identity. I use "login with Google" in most places where it's available. It's my backup recovery for my MFA authenticator. It's my github alias.

So what is the strategy everyone follows to start with a custom domain? Do people use redirection? Is that effective? What happens when an email is redirected from Gmail to my new host, and I want to keep replying without the recipients thinking I've changed email? If you do that, is it even worth switching, given you have to keep your Gmail account?

That is the more interesting part of these stories to me than which host people move to.

This is a problem specific to the US. The price of your health insurance is very far from the actual cost of it to providers.

Can you walk me through this argument for a customer service agent? The jobs where the nuance and variety isn’t there and don’t involve physical interaction are completely different to flipping burgers

Did you read the entire article? That's exactly the point it's making, but you decided to pick on the word "timetable"

I've seen this done multiple times too. It works until the human forgets about it, or knowledge is lost through collective organisational forgetfulness or churn. And the outages still happen because the lookup fails at some point.

GBP and EUR volumes are pretty similar (just north of 500K atm). I find this interesting. How can one country equal sales of the whole Eurozone? Is that more showing of commerce activity or the popularity of Black Friday in those countries?

My parents had one. My dad’s first car and I think the first one I drove too. I have a photo in front of it as a baby. It lasted until I was 16 to drive it, so draw your own conclusions. In the 80s Bulgaria, you had to wait 5-10 years to buy anything else and my dad just got a Trabant instead. We’ve been everywhere across the country with it. Plenty of jokes of course. A few other neighbors had one, and people would prank them by lifting and moving it overnight when parked to a different parking spot, it only needed a few strong men.

Understanding everything before you get into it is overrated. Belief is a necessary requirement to move the world forward. And that in itself requires some naivety. Otherwise those people who can actually see it through wouldn't even start - most of them didn't "understand" it before they started.

People have already pointed out that there's no direct correlation between "safe" and "open-source" in the other comments. I agree.

But one other reason I think this is flawed is that it assumes innovation in those models has finished. We're not at the stage where these are good enough to revolutionise everything. There's a lot more research, hard work and creativity that needs to be unleashed for all benefits to be realised. Traditionally, for-profit startups have been the best vehicle for that to happen. OpenAI has only scratched the surface and can do a lot more. Forcing them into open-sourcing and only caring about safety would quickly stop this progress. They are not a megacorp extracting rent who we need to fight - they are literally a startup changing the world in front of our eyes.

Honest question - monitoring air quality accurately is great, but monitoring doesn't solve problems. Once you know it's bad, what do you do? I've been wondering what's the point of monitoring something if you can't do anything about it? Do people move house when it's consistently bad? Are the majority of issues caused by in-house pollutants so you open windows for ventilation more? Maybe I'm biased but in my neck of the woods, the bad air quality comes from _outside_. So unless I up sticks, not much else to do.

If you look at this moment 10 years from now, you'd be surprised how early it is for you.

Eric Yuan founded Zoom at the age of 41.

David Baszucki was 41 years old when he created Roblox with cofounder Erik Cassel, who was 36 at the time.

Stan Lee created his first hit comic, "The Fantastic Four," just shy of his 39th birthday, in 1961.

Samuel L. Jackson has been a Hollywood staple for years now, but he'd had only bit parts before landing an award-winning role at age 43 in Spike Lee's film "Jungle Fever" in 1991.

I don't know how many of these examples you need, but all I can say is you can ignore the past. Do what you need to do, have some faith and just look forward.

Thanks for sharing this! It's quite the motivational kick for me and more people need to see it.

I still use a 2012 air. It has been demoted in the food chain (so no longer main laptop), but it’s mind blowing how well it still works for basic browsing. Maybe time I replace with a 14” MBP. If that one lasts another 11 years I’m happy.