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Another value dilution. Makes sense. As more kids lose interest in schools, lowering the standards will attract, temporarily, more of them. And that’s all the leadership cares about. Preserves their jobs. They don’t worry about long term consequences. Will be long retired.

Re-reading Heinlen and this smacked me in face. I started mentoring some young buys a year or so ago. 3 fairly successful young adults. One is at MIT, one at Harvard and one just finished at UCSD. What all 3 have in common is how lost they are. Noone to look up to. The current examples are mostly toxic, extreme and disappointing. So we talk often. About life. Ambition. Goals. Reason about the world. They are prone to outrage very easily. They have a bias to action. But nowhere to channel it. I started focusing them on side quests. Learn to cook. Learn to knit. Learn to chop wood. That sort of stuff. In a year, with a lot of pushback, they seem much happier, much more at peace with themselves. I keep thinking about this often. What do young men need and how do we (or even I) can help them with. I grew up on a “farm”, in a country where if you didn’t do it yourself it simply wasn’t done. I learned everything from butchering an animal, planting and weeding, cooking, electrical work, knitting, painting, everything. Because there wasn’t any other way. Never thought about it. Never had an issue I couldn’t solve. Never thought about “geee, I have to call someone to solve it”. When I moved to US and finally have the financial wherewithal to hire people to do the work, I done it as a convenience not necessity. These abilities gave me confidence which then lead to calmer, more secure and peaceful self. And I think that’s the ultimate answer for men. Be capable to be happy.

Travel is humbling

Wow!

Translation: I want this power. I want it bad. Let's rise up and take it away from everyone, as there actually is not single person with lots of power, and give it to just me. Please and thank you.

This is what someone without any understanding of human behavior and economic incentives looks like. He could be working on the problems anyway. I am sure he is doing better than others. But he won’t. Because this is not about altruism but jealousy.

Here is how to properly hate legacy media

This vile woman is also responsible for: - AB5 - gutted freelancing/independent work (the anti uber/lyft law) - AB218 - unleashed huge public-entity abuse liability - AB1066 - cut farmworker hours/pay She also tried to kneecap CA rooftop solar/net metering. What a legacy!

Holmes (my memory system for coding agents) now has 2,257 commits. I keep building instead of releasing it. I really just need to bite the bullet and push this out.

Yup. Doing it daily for 5 years now. Honestly there isn’t much visible change. They also feel mostly the same. First 50 is so easy you don’t even notice. Next 30 is like you are doing pushups. Last 20 can be strenuous sometimes. Never had any pain from them.

Worst. Advise. Ever.

First time @vaultaire_app gotten over 120 daily downloads (139). But also first time it only got below 20% in in-app purchases (13%) for the day. I think I got traffic mostly solved now. Time to focus on conversion.

Working on something (again) and need your help. Currently all the mobile agents dump on you a wall of text in a small terminal. I think that's wrong. I am running a tunnel and a daemon that watches the agent and notifies you when stuck Which of these 4 designs you most clear?

"Our conclusion: personalization lives at the selection layer, not the salience layer. People differ in what they read. What stands out is mostly shared." Super interesting

I feel immense satisfaction when I finally finish some long lasting box of pasta, or bag of toilet papers, etc. Especially if I see empty spot where it was taking space before. I hate owning stuff.

Started playing with Ads on Apple iOS store for @vaultaire_app Avg CPA less than $1 and CR at 90%. With blended conversion rate of 7.29% to paid, and average revenue of $22 per conversion, I am looking at around $0.63 profit per install. Not bad at all. Now just scale it up.

Is there worse auth experience than Google? I just hate the world a little more each time I have to use it.