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I'm concerned someone will hack Anthropic and release messages tied to people's identity, since you need a non-voip phone number to sign up

Some people trust AI with a lot - financial, health, relationships - and it would all be out there

I also expect open AI to be hacked at some point, but at least with them you can use a throwaway email

And with Gemini, google has had some incidents over the years but given their size and length of existence it's been surprisingly small / secure.

But anthropic is a typical grow-fast startup, with security likely as a secondary concern. Waiting for the shoe to drop.

Yep that's generally the ideal, though these are a little more strict than the official guidelines from AAP and WHO

At the same time I'd never judge a parent who is using a screen. It's hard and you don't know what else they're juggling. They probably feel guilty about it as well.

Plus I have the "plank in my own eye", sometimes we let our preschooler watch videos by himself while eating or in the car. He has plenty of interactive non screen time, just...trade offs.

We also looked at kindergarten near us and apparently they use screens for a small part of the day for personalized learning modules (ahead or behind). Seems...early?

It's good to think about. But you'll first be exhausted with disrupted sleep, diaper changes, tantrums, etc.

Step 1 is surviving the transition.

Step 2, Find yourself someone trustworthy who can watch baby for a time, even a few hours. Create regular space to unwind, and eventually think about important stuff with your partner. What DO we value in raising our kids?

Step 3: start living it. Which starts with both of you. Kids absorb actions much more than words. Having kids has forced both of us to personally grow both out of sheer necessity and desire to impart certain values

Step 4: adjust ongoing

With two young kids, I'm somewhere in between steps 2 & 4. Remember to be kind to yourself too

People respond to incentives: Why do a hard thing when I can do an easy thing?

During the hype cycle, making "x for y" is easiest to get funded and exit.

Once the hype crashes and we're in the trough of disillusionment, then people are bearish. So founders either move to the next hype cycle or figure out a more durable business from the ashes

Exactly. HOAs can be a pain in the butt but they aren't taking peoples homes away Willy nilly

The only way you get in that situation is by not paying your dues. Some HOAs may be more or less aggressive in handling it. But when you can't pay your dues, the other homeowners have to pay for your share

Dues are just a mandatory part of being in HOA that reflect the costs of the community

just lost my mom in law with a multi year battle with cancer. she was very proactive with her health as this article describes.

it's also important to remember that modern medicine, as wonderful as it is, is still limited. your particular type may have x lines of treatment, the cancer eventually mutates, your body can't handle the latter / harsher treatments, and...that's it.

Definitely get the second opinion, examine all the options, find the open minded doctor, potentially try an experimental treatment. That's all good. But there's a certain piece you or anyone can't control, and it's worth sitting with that too. That no matter what you might do, you might still end up at the end much sooner than you want to. My MIL's 5 year prognosis was awful, and she passed between 3 & 4 years.

But there's a CHANCE you might not and you might beat it, or at least live longer than expected. And even if you don't, you will pass knowing you did everything you reasonably could given the state of medicine today. Both of those are worth fighting for.

And make sure you have somebody around that will pay attention to changes in symptoms. My MIL almost died earlier this year because everyone thought her declining symptoms were the cancer. Turns out it was just too much calcium, once they treated she got a few extra months. She likely would've lived longer had they all caught it earlier.

Interesting. At our org we always do both. Root cause, what are we changing. I assumed that was standard practice.

If you just explain what happened and why, that's fine but...how are you going to make sure it doesn't happen again?

The problem I found more vexing as a manager was: how can you prevent this KIND of problem from occurring?

I'd have someone on my team make a technical error and xyz wouldn't work. Wed talk thru it, and they wouldn't make that exact mistake again. But there's literally 10k things that can go wrong in our system, so then a related mistake would happen later.

What they needed was improved pattern recognition vs if this / then that which comes from post mortems.

I wonder if AI is making us dumber

I can have AI pull some analysis - sql query, crunch some numbers and bam, some precise sounding number.

But then I question it, and then it says "you are right, I didn't check that"

How did I know what to question? By doing the friction work of querying myself, calculating myself, and then getting questions from leadership.

I worry about the younger generation. They spit out Claude results fast, people question it and they say "ok I'll take that back to Claude".

I suppose they'll eventually learn to do their own sense checking because they still have the friction of presenting to others.

And maybe my model is a thing of the past. Everyone is now going to be a manager (of agents) fresh out of school. They aren't doing the work anymore but they will need to set clear goals, validate work and hold agents accountable.

I for one am excited to try this.

I'm a "normie". I like using Claude code at work but want it to be available for my personal tasks and on my mobile phone

Thanks!

Ha no, I'm just saying when pee dries. The article talked mostly about splash on the surrounding area vs self, though I was more concerned with the latter

Exactly. I wouldn't expect most teachers to take an interest. One it's outside of their area of knowledge and two it's beyond their job description.

But as I said, there are teachers who would. The right kind of teacher for this.

I remember being annoyed by splash back in sixth grade. I mocked up an alternative design (essentially, a urinal that tilted away from you), and emailed some friends. They never responded, and I never followed up.

Looking back I feel sad - that's the kind of curiosity to nurture in a kid. But peers are rarely the best group, it would've been better to tell my parents or the right kind of teacher. My friends also could've said something: " I don't know what to do about this but you should tell ms blah blah blah", in a serious way not mocking way.

I'm glad someone else has finally looked at this sticky situation

I've been a digital marketer for 10+ years.

What this article is trying to say is selling benefits vs features

Which description below interests you more?

A: "The GeeWhiz personal helicopter: the most efficient, best helicopter ever. Its dual cast aluminum blades spin at an incredible 600 revolutions per minute. It's as silent as a mouse's fart. It weighs only 750 pounds thanks to its innovative carbon alloy frame."

B: "Cut your commute time in half with the GeeWhiz personal helicopter"

B probably got your attention more, unless you have a personal interest in helicopters. Most people don't, they just want to know what it can do for them. Your eyes may have glazed over A because it was a bunch of words you don't care about.

A lot of people lean into feature marketing because either THEY are excited about it or they want to dazzle you - feature bombing is a real thing. For example you are NOT going to go drive up some huge rocks like the trucks in the commercials do - it just gives you a warm fuzzy. But it belongs AFTER you convince the person of the why it matters. In this case, they're reaching people who want a truck, they're deciding which truck.

how did you make this transition?

i still, deep down, identify as being "smart". i don't like being wrong, and it's my go-to ego lick at work, "well bad thing x may have happened, but at least I'm still valued for being smart". it was my label in high school that i've never quite shed.

obviously now i have so many more facets - father, husband, leader, writer/reader. Smartness is just raw horsepower, it's what you do with it that matters. And there's lots of kinds of "smarts". As an example, my wife wasn't the traditional "book smart" but she's emotionally & street smart - knows how to get things done, how to think on her feet, etc.

but still despite that increased richness from life experience, I'm still "smart" and hold on to it

Yes! Ive started getting a feel for AI writing on blogs. It feels slightly verbose and involves "reveals"

"It's not the naked man on your lawn waving a chainsaw that's scaring you. It's the burrito you ate for lunch: it went down easy, but now it's coming for you"