All roads lead back to 9 PM bed time, 5 AM wake up, 4 hours of deep, focused work creative work first thing, work out mid day to break it up, admin & calls in the afternoon, hang with friends and loved ones in the evening, repeat forever.
> walk around your city catching pokémon
> game asks you to scan a fountain. sure why not
> 30 billion scans later
> niantic owns a more detailed map than any government
> sells game for $3.5B
> spins off a spatial AI company
> your pokéwalk is now classified infrastructure
> delivery robots now navigate using your walks
> you were never the player. you were the product.
The last car we bought was a @Tesla Model Y. Painless purchase process. No salespeople, no showroom, no upsells, no games, no haggling, no pressure. Just a personal choice on my own time, and a simple few-minute process handled entirely via a clear and straightforward app.
The next car we're buying is from another brand. And holy hell, it feels like I'm going back in time. Salespeople, back-and-forth charades, pricing games, "when can you come in?" before the deal is finalized tactics, etc. And I'm still doing it all via email so I don't have to deal with the showroom antics. I've modernized the process as much as I can from my side, and yet it's the same old same old.
They don't even feel like the same thing. In one case I'm buying a car with all the baggage that comes with buying a car. In the other case I'm buying a Tesla with none of the baggage of buying a car.
This experience could make me lament this other brand, but what it really does is make me appreciate and respect the lengths to which Tesla has fully reconfigured the car buying experience. It's become effortless, like buying any other product. As it should be. A car is just another product.
Bravo.
The last two months, every waking hour I'm either:
1) fucking around with AI, or
2) feeling like I'm wasting my time because I'm not fucking around with AI.
Am I the only one?