Life after discovering your Obsidian vault can run 9 automations overnight while you sleep.
This is what happens when you actually build the N8N layer underneath it.
A completely rebuilt research system.
An American TV crew filmed a 24 year old Chinese engineer in his San Francisco apartment for a feature on remote workers who never leave home. He had not been to an office in eight months. AI handled his calls, his messages and every reply his bosses got, while he collected a salary from five companies at once.
On camera he said the line everyone screenshotted: going to five morning calls would be exhausting, so I push them all into AI and stay in VR.
His story was simple. Meta hired him from a research lab. The job was remote. He preferred meetings in VR. So he wore the headset all day. So nobody saw him.
The crew thought that was the story. It was not.
Pause at 0:25. The camera holds on the wall behind his desk for four seconds. Look at the shelf above it. Everyone saw one laptop. Almost nobody saw the other four. The four were not backups. The four were jobs.
Each laptop runs an AI trained on the way he writes. Each one joins the morning calls in his voice. They talk to each other so the same work never gets done twice. He sits in the VR headset and watches the five jobs unfold around him.
For months all five teams have been thanking him for being so responsive. None of them has ever been in the same call as another.
He still wears the same headset every morning. He still sits in the same chair. He still passes every review. He still has not told his mom about the other four jobs.
The crew came to film a remote worker who lived on a mattress on the floor. They left with a man who had not done a single day of work himself in eight months, while five American companies kept thanking him.
His AI replied to all five morning calls again today. He watched. They thought: he is really trying.
Pilot of Knicks plane: "Tower for departure
(Knicks rowdy in background)
San Antonio Tower: "Tell those guys congratulations enjoy the moment"
Pilot: "Oh they're enjoying back there…
(More yelling)
Tower "Yeah I can hear em
Pilot "The plane's rockin, they're having a party
(Knicks loud)
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NY Tower: "Please let the guys know New York, LaGuardia tower, Kennedy tower, maybe even Newark tower, Westchester tower…congrats
Pilot "For sure. They finally settled down. Before that, pretty excited bunch
ATC: "I believe it…Go New York"
(🔉AviationCircle)
Amazon invested $8 billion in Anthropic.
Anthropic’s biggest investor.
Amazon researchers jailbroke Fable 5.
Then Andy Jassy personally called the White House Thursday night.
By Friday at 5:20pm Anthropic got a letter.
Models shut down by Friday evening.
At least five other companies also called senior administration officials Thursday and Friday morning. 
The security expert Anthropic shared the report with said the jailbreak was researchers asking questions defenders would normally ask AI.
Called the government response “way out of line with what’s actually in the research report.” 
Amazon sells competing AI models.
Amazon invested in Anthropic.
Amazon jailbroke Anthropic’s model.
Amazon called the White House.
Anthropic got shut down.
Amazon’s models were not affected.
The administration said other models don’t pose a national security threat.
Amazon sells those models.
This is the cleanest conflict of interest in Silicon Valley history.
And it happened in 48 hours.
Reminds me of a reddit story where a witch is out and about shopping when she senses a presence so powerful she hides in fear, and when she musters the courage to investigate, she is dumbfounded to find the source of this presence is a young priest, who smiles and nods at her.
A great deal of disappointment comes from expecting conscience where only appetite exists. You meet someone, project depth onto them, assign nobility to their words, and then act shocked when self-interest makes the final decision. The wiser move is colder: assume nothing, observe everything, and let patterns teach you.
Daoism saw through this absurdity in human interactions long ago. Laozi said: 'The name that can be named is not the eternal name.' The 'you' in their heads is merely a 'name' (label/persona) defined by their subjectivity, not your 'reality' (true essence). The '99% projection' mentioned in the post is what Zhuangzi calls the 'Cheng Xin' (prejudice and fixed cognitive frameworks) of worldly people. Using their narrow bias to tailor you, they naturally only see what they want to see. If you get angry at their misunderstanding, you fall into the low-dimensional trap of 'debating names vs. reality,' letting their 'delusions' lead you by the nose. A Daoist master is 'formless like the great image.' They do not cling to any fixed persona, nor do they care about external praise or blame. 'If the whole world praises them, they are not encouraged; if the whole world condemns them, they are not discouraged.' When you transcend the 'names' others label you with and rest in your 'reality,' the noise of the world is just autumn wind passing the ear.
When I worked at a video store, I would often bring random 80s films home at the end of my shift and lie awake in front of the VCR bathed in blue light watching stuff I knew nothing about.
I think what I like most about 1980s cinema is that this was a period, I suspect, when movie-going by teens was at its zenith. Whether horror films with practical effects or the coming of age films the 80s are known for, you could find so many little gems. There was a cultural confidence and serious consideration of young people and what might appeal to them.
There was one particular film, "Wild Life", written by Cameron Crowe, who is best known for "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and the uber-classic "Say Anything", that I found charming. The Chris Penn character coins his own slogan during the film, "it's casual", that I tried to use for some time after, though the film was a decade or more older by then.
The highest performers don’t waste energy on things they can’t control.
They focus on two things: their effort and their attitude.
When adversity hits, don’t look for a shortcut back. Just keep chipping away. One play. One response. One step at a time.
It's hilarious that there's a whole fanbase that wants this boy to be some tortured art and literature intellectual but he's really just a NYC wigga dude bro who loves bad bitches and coke.
Jalen Brunson taking the pay cut to come to New York, getting his friends on the team and actually winning the Championship. One of the most gangster stories in NBA history