"Writers dig deeply to put their words to paper, but only the act of reading—quivering movements of the eyes across the page—can bring those fixed marks to life." Jhumpa Lahiri on Thomas Hardy.
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I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet
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Most people are not exhausted by life itself. They are exhausted by being converted into inputs for systems that never stop asking for more. Work, feed, debt, outrage, data, compliance... different interfaces, same extraction pattern.
Call it a millennial crisis if you want.
But in my 30's, I realized l don't actually want the life I worked so hard for. I don't care about titles. I don't care about climbing anyone else's ladder. I care about time. I care about slow mornings. I care about peace. I care about bare feet at the beach with nowhere to be. I still want to make money.. just not at the cost of my life.
Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers… Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
Jane Street is crazy because their retention strategy is to write everything in OCaml
If you leave, you’ll know a lot about OCaml’s garbage collector, emacs, and all the obscure in-house libraries they use
But you won’t know any actual company secrets