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independent bookstore owner. log(x) engineer.

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i have decided i'm never going to work in an office again unless it's cool as fuck. like it needs bean bag chairs, ping pong tables, musical instruments, an insanely expensive sound system, board games, etc.

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i'm pulling all nighters and working weekends so i can finish work early just so i can play PoE2 and 007 guilt free.

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@kedar2sexy yea the automation is called having good recruiters/headhunters who know you by name. once you become a hiring manager, you can start developing working relationships with recruiters and agencies. they'll even buy you food if they place a candidate at your startup.

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@dara_venture I wish I could tell first-time founders this to their faces.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

You must read. Read nonfiction. Read fiction. Read history. Read philosophy. Read psychology. Read banned literature. Read poetry. Read about new technology. Read biography. Read memoir. Read on economics. Read on finance. Reread what you have already read. Read. Reflect. Repeat.

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@rob_mcrobberson i have friends and family who were surgical residents and they were pulling 100, sometimes 140 continuously for a year or so with no vacation.

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The optional layer i didn’t discuss in my original answer was conversational AI. main reason being average consumer does not like interacting with a chatbot during retail experiences, and chat just being a terrible UI in general.
What would close the gap is a lightweight model that’s able to understand complex natural language queries that can’t be answered by vector search

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@Hadley Real ones know the best NY Tech Week events are in Staten Island.

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@mynameisyahia love to see a BU Terrier win, congrats!

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the problem space is semantic search for ecommerce. the store's failure modes were natural language queries and a relatively high zero results rate. vector search solves intent matching. hybrid search (keyword + vector) is the way to do it.

turnkey solutions for e.g. Shopify stores are Algolia or Athos. I've whipped up similar things for small projects using pgvector or Meilisearch.

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@wannafigh 1 hour each session. dont scratch itches. your body is bored and needs stimulation.

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@0xngmi work trials or system architecture takehome project followed by onsite where you implement your design against live infra, allowing AI coding bc it would be very hard to finish without AI unless you were a speed demon.

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you’re doing it right if you notice your thoughts drifting, especially about past events or future. just keep going back to breathing. eventually you will notice thoughts so fast as they arise, that they appear to disappear immediately.

if you are feeling numb, you can adjust to find a more comfortable position. you can also just sit in a chair. but straighten your back instead of leaning on the chair to keep awake. pain is ok to adjust. if you are feeling itchy or twitchy, don’t follow the urge.

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u need to have a very strong foundation in samatha meditation first, focusing on an object like breath in anapanasati. what ppl struggle with the most is called “subtle dullness” when you feel like you are focused, but you aren’t paying attention to ur sensations and thoughts.
i start each session counting my breaths. i can usually get in the flow by the 10th breath.

during the session, you try to stay focused on your breath as long as possible. if you notice sensations or your mind wander, you notice them then go back to breathing. if you are new or have a lot of things to stress about, this can happen hundreds of times.

a good technique I learned is to put your hand on each knee and observe which index finger you are feeling at any point in time. you can only perceive one at a time.

vipassana only happens when the object of meditation is the awareness itself, and the feeling of there being an observer.

some books i recommend: MCTB by Dan Ingram, Contemplative Fitness by Ken Folk.

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in thailand when i was 10 years old. kids usually become a monk for a few months when a close relative dies. i did it because i was curious about buddhism and i didn't have anything to do that summer.

usually anapanasati seated but sometimes walking meditation to get in the flow, then each session vipassana towards the end unless i couldn't focus. 2 hrs in the morning, 1 hr after lunch, 4 hours in the evening.

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yeah, we beg for alms in the morning. some routes were good cuz the food at some houses slapped. but as a novice monk, i got to eat last.

noon is the last meal of the day bc if u ate past noon, it made you sleepy and lazy. there are loopholes around it that let you drink hot chocolate and eat some things as medicine.

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Running an open table D&D game and my players don’t know I’ve already rendered like 19 surrounding wilderness hexes, stocked 4 dungeons and simulated faction turns across the entire realm.

Strict time records must be kept.

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@atmoio Blindsight by Peter Watts is a good book if you’re in this headspace

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@erikalee i am literally doing this rn after selling most of my equity in a secondary. we were losing 6k/mo in the first year because we wanted good health insurance for our staff. 2 years later my tax bill is so high I get jumpscared every quarter by my accountant.