5 months ago
We’ve spent the last month getting ready for the winter – turning things off, putting away summer stuff, taking out winter gear, buying a snowblower – all the stuff that comes wtih the changing of the seasons from anything else to Winter. At the time of writing, it is snowing outside. There is no more work to do; we’ve done all we could do, and now it’s time to get through and live it.
5 months ago
Cheeseburgers, Tacos, Sandwiches packed with everything you can think of, heck even a fresh Orange. You take a bite and they melt away in your hands, leaving a mess on the plate, your hands, and possibly your shirt. And yet we order more, more and more and more. It tastes great, it’s worth the mess, the juice is worth the squeeze. All of it can be messy, but the end is perfection. Not everything gets you there perfectly.
5 months ago
If you don’t want to be challenged on your work, you have two choices; Don’t work (improbable). Do work where you won’t be challenged (i.e., something where we don’t care about the quantity or value of what you are doing). But you should want to be challenged in your work, you should want to be pushed, you should want to answer for your work. Because that is the only way you will get better.
5 months ago
Then, shouldn’t AI be the one that gets the money for it? Shouldn’t AI be the one that gets the credit and the pat on the back? Should we put an asterisk beside our work that says “AI did this?” Or perhaps a percent indicator of how much we used AI to do it? What’s the threshold from when it goes from your idea to an AI? At what point do we say, fully and completely, AI generated all of this and clap for them? At what point do we want to?
5 months ago
You start off with a pile of work, and all you start doing is shovelling through them, you don’t stop, you just keep going and keep plowing through. You dig and you dig and you don’t stop digging. Then you’re partway there, the light is faint, but it is there. So you keep digging. And towards the end, you’re almost there, and then you decide to pull back, stretch, relax. And the worst thing you can do is stop, because when you stop, you won’t start again. So push, push through to the end, don’t relent, even if people tell
