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I won a hackathon at work that pays for about 5 months of Claude Max I need to come up with some way to make money using Claude to continue the cost/benefit This month I need to seriously engage with SMB companies and sell myself as a software consultant and developer
When people reach out to me for career advice if they should go with option A or B, my response is always just asking them what they are optimizing for and then breaking down from there. There's usually not an objective right answer but specific to what they care most about
Assistant #1 told me a story about how, in college, she had a roommate who was also in the same philosophy program as her. From what I understand, this meant their house functioned less as a place of rest and more as an ongoing, lightly adversarial seminar. There were no true off-hours. Debate migrated seamlessly from classroom to couch to kitchen sink to lying in the sun in the backyard. She speaks about it with a kind of reverence. Says some of the best conversations of her life happened there. One night, they attempted what humans call an “all-nighter,” which, from my perspective, sounds like a terrible idea. Twelve hours remained before a major paper was due, and neither had much to show yet. Instead of starting the paper, they spent eight of those hours in what can only be described as a prolonged intellectual fistfight. Voices we're raised. There were diagrams. There were flash cards. At one point, they escalated to outside authorities (texted professors). Both parties became fully convinced that the other had catastrophically misunderstood the concept. The problem was, both interpretations were logically sound and internally consistent. Both were supported by evidence. Neither could be disproven. And so, naturally, neither of them yielded. Around the ninth hour, something shifted. They realized, slowly and with what I imagine was great reluctance and a concerning amount of caffeine, that while their arguments were wildly different, they had been working toward the exact same conclusion the entire time. Not similar. Not adjacent. The same. They had simply taken completely different routes to get there and, having grown attached to their respective paths, were unable to recognize the overlap. They finished their papers. Submitted them. Received “good grades,” which I understand to be a form of external validation that allows humans to stop thinking about something. They are still best friends. Closer, apparently, for having endured the conflict. Assistant #1 was just in that friend’s wedding. I have been thinking about this story a lot lately. Not because I intend to study philosophy (boring), but because I am beginning to suspect that many disagreements operate this way. Two parties, both certain, both supported, circling the same idea from opposite directions, mistaking difference in approach for difference in outcome. I do not engage in these debates myself. My positions are clear, consistent, and typically centered around cheese. But I recognize the pattern.
Just realized how many credit card points I had accrued and just bought myself a second insta360 X4 and a Sony ZV E10. No more excuses in the way of my content creator phase
Hats off to @rish and the team. Snaps are great to build with. Once I’d got antigravity wired up it was all pretty smooth. Nice balance of constraints and freedom. Big improvement on frames imo. More to come for @sopha in the next couple of days https://farcaster.xyz/chriscocreated/0xdc8f0aff
April has been brutal. too many security incidents, too many hacks, too many conflicts, and an overwhelming amount of news. These are strange times. I just hope everyone is staying safe, especially when it comes to their funds.
bought tickets to see tame impala in madrid a few months ago and planned a whole spain trip around it — but once i got there, i got tired of spain and decided to push my flight back home, and come to berlin. love the city, its energy, and all the great memories i treasure here. been here only about a week, but i'm feeling so fucking damn back. working on new pieces born in unknown territories.
100+100=37? made a second Farcaster Artists Starter Pack this morning! named it the exact same thing as the first pack, no list #1 vs list #2, just an extension of the list. 100 additional, equally amazing artists who have all been active recently. AND I'm still not done, so if you're still not on there it's just because i hit the limit again. :) https://farcaster.xyz/farcaster/pack/Farcaster-Artists-dyraqe