Jiah Kim

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[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

We are screwed if we don't eliminate income tax for lower income bracket and relax stupid employment laws so businesses can hire easily. Talking about #UBI sounds like taking supplements while eating garbage food. I am so excited about #fable5 as a business owner, but really scared as a citizen.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

This is an exciting time for small businesses.
I believe small businesses and individuals will be the only survivors, because human connection and the ability to meet people’s real, close, everyday needs will become more valuable than ever.
I can’t wait to see the age of large corporations and megalomaniacs fade away. They never really cared about people anyway.

Thank you, universe.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

Anyone that wants to get paid without providing values is a scam to me. Anything that takes my freedom away is a scam. Many SAAS companies just turn out to be scams. They want to lock you into an unforgiving contract. That is a sign of weakness and I see the beginning of their demise.

The HP printer is the same. They want me to buy expensive toners. Not anymore.

So many scams and frauds to get rid of in my life.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

I got an unsatisfying response from Anthropic re: Claude for Microsoft data security. Privacy may not seem matter much in this age, but my first duty as a lawyer to clients is confidentiality and preserving attorney-client privilege. At this point, I think the local LLM and local everything first is the answer.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

https://t.co/5NBOB54Yke is so ugly, and the payment flow didn't work for me - so limiting. https://t.co/NoY69s1XSU thought it would work but internal staff not being able to adjust scheduled meetings didn't make sense. https://t.co/JU9FbycPLk wasn't close to what I want. https://t.co/vHI936ql8p too expensive for what I need and uselessly complicated. It only took 10 hours to resolve years of frustration around scheduling. https://t.co/cPmAhTPWzx is live. Bye bye cookie cutter apps 👋

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

I’m spending all my evenings creating the workflow apps I’ve always dreamed of.

And now that I’m having too much fun building them, I think about all those smug coders who were secretly enjoying this the whole time.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

Real convo with a software company:

Me: "Why wouldn't you give us general API access?"
Rep: "We want to reduce technology complexity rather than increasing integrations."
Me: "But, you don't have everything I need, and you ignored my requests."
Rep: "We are looking at what is gonna be the most effective for the most people."
Me: "So you don't care about what I want and how I want to improve my. system. I am not your customer then." ( I have paid a lot of money for their other product.)
Rep: "We are a $500m company. So..."

I can't wait to see these companies go out of business.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

Conan (my OpenClaw agent) and I am building an OS for my business that we call "Living Ontology." Inspired by Palantir but it goes beyond. Palantir is a good start in the right direction but limited because it is still a human-defined system. Structure should emerge from data and use like Obsidian not from upfront design. It is also large enterprise-first, expensive, and requires huge setup efforts. We agreed the future is for small businesses that are nimble. Also, it is cloud-based. Huge minus for me.

So I am short Palantir. It is a glorious consulting or wrapper company (realized while watching their multiple presentations). It serves companies of the past.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

It is if you stick to real food!

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

I just came back from South Korea. First time visiting my home country since I eat beef-based. I highly recommend. It is a heaven for carnivores. 100s of ways of cooking meat, every street corner has a bbq place, many open 24 hours. It helps price is so good too!

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

I am too excited about a humble dashboard I created with Conan (my OpenClaw agent) & Claude Code. No more waiting months after making feature requests to SAAS, no more IT guy charging too many hours for a simple build. All done in a few days, for everything I wanted for years. 🥳

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

They look a lot happier in many ways. It may be an individual case. However, I think solving a money problem, breaking free from survival mode is one of life's most valuable moments, and we should never allow anyone - whether government or generous someone - to take that away from us, by trying to "help."

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

I've given my parents money no strings attached. It made me feel good, being a "good daughter." But, I came to realize it was actually selfish, it didn't help them.

Now I ask them to do something in return and I just overpay, and they're happier, more active, and feel useful.

That's why I don't like the idea of #UBI and any free giveaways as much as I did before.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

Reading "How I found freedom in an unfree world" for the third time.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

I am in Medellín, Colombia.

I can never guess when the coffee shop next door is open. It is open different times of the day and randomly closed all day!

I was lucky to have my coffee today and even had a doggie hanging out with me!

I don't know the owner's story and why she opens her shop whenever she wants. But, I think it is beautiful her business is just a part of her life and not something that controls her life.

I hope we don't have to work crazy all the time just to pay high tax and rent.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

It is too exciting for me to think that I helped families keep their money (from govt and others) another day. I love my work.

The richest generation is passing their wealth to their children. Many children will inherit more than they could ever earn from work. I invite families to spend more time together to talk about how to best use their hard-earned wealth. I hope they enjoy it and enrich their lives. And I hope I was a little help.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

This is the future of language learning. https://t.co/Q6MDP6Hh6x

I upload contents, save new words to practice in flashcards, and chat with AI using the new words. The AI corrects me, and suggests better expressions.

I feel bad I don't need human tutors. But, this is too good.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

@veggiemorphs China has been a big bully in Asia for a long time, but it’s also been a victim, right?
My point was anyone, even a bully, can be a victim too.

[Jiah Kim @JiahKim]

When I did a summer law program at Beijing University in 2008, professors shared with us, American law students, a sad modern history of China, invaded by Western powers.

Growing up in Korea, I've learned a sad history of Korea being invaded by China and Japan.

Since then, I’ve chosen to ignore history, especially when it makes me sad. Anybody can become a victim if you dig into history long enough.