for those that don't know, before Messi won a world cup, he quit the Argentina national team after losing 3 finals in a row from 2014-2016 (world cup + 2 copa america finals).
so many Argentinians doubted him. some even called him a lie and a fraud.
he played so well for Barcelona and won many ballons d'or (player of the year award) but in big moments for Argentina, he disappeared.
it took a lot of emotional processing and convincing from players and friends to convince Messi to join Argentina again.
and so he managed to find something within himself to keep going.
and since then, they have won the copa america (world cup for south america) in 2021, world cup in 2022, copa america in 2024, and are now in the final of the 2026 world cup, where he is tied for the most amount of goals in the tournament (but he's ahead of Mbappe on assists).
can you imagine what it must feel like to go from losing 3 finals in a row and giving up to finding something within you to keep going and then achieve more success than you could have ever dreamed? and to now be in a final again at 39 years old!
the beautiful message to me is to never give up on the things that matter the most to you and to not let others define your potential for you. you're far more capable than whatever you are able to dream up.
One international trip for my parents can only make me feel normal again, for stopping to think about it for the rest of my life,for taking advantage of their innocence and trust in me which I did only not to put any pressure on them.
Are advanced pattern matchers like present day LLMs enough to reduce headcounts significantly across workflows and bring revenues to justify the valuations at this point in ai industry or is it not possible until we reach AGI which is still uncertain path?
A Century ago, travelling might be best experience,not knowing anything about the place,starting with fear of return yet with some excitement,experiencing something that u not expected.I don't understand how travelling is so exciting in this era except for refreshing from routine
I have complicated very simple things to this complex scenario which has very low probability to occur on its own if not with my worst ever moves to direct everything to this astronomically very rare permutation ๐คฃ
I lied to my close people.There is no single version of me that remains exactly same from parents 2 one close friend 2 another.If they all sit&talk together,each one will give atleast one shocking fact that others don't know but think they know it.I feel very bad for writing this