@billyisyoung

take care of yourself + focus on what you want to see more of you are living your life at this very moment

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ideally what your therapist has is not necessarily a higher IQ, but a bird's-eye view of your life, which essentially gives them map hacks and wall hacks (like from FPS games) and then the work is helping you expand your vision, so that you're able to live a more fulfilled life
Amigo
@TopboixOct 14
therapy only works if you have a lower IQ than the therapist
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and then i think the actual highest leverage skill you can have as the client is a high level of openness and honesty about what you're thinking and feeling
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e.g. in the case where you think therapy isn't working because your therapist isn't smart enough have you actually tried telling them that? what did they say or did you not say anything, and just end treatment? (to which i'd say, why didn't you tell them?)
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running list of skills/mentalities that fall under what i call "Learning How To Be Effective" - you can just do things - you can just ask if you can do things - you can just talk to people and ask them questions - talk to your customers (paulg) - actually do the readings
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- learn how to make Effective requests to people xitter.cf/billyisyoung/status/21…
billy
@billyisyoungOct 17
there is so much alpha still in what I call "Learning How To Be Effective" one example - when making a request to someone, you can gain big time points if you formulate your request in a way that helps them easily understand and fulfill your request
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there is so much alpha still in what I call "Learning How To Be Effective" one example - when making a request to someone, you can gain big time points if you formulate your request in a way that helps them easily understand and fulfill your request
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an actual example - this past week, I had to consult with a TA on an ethics question for if the volunteer I found was suitable for this class exercise we were trying to do I explained to my TA the dilemma AND my current thinking about what I was considering and why and where I stood, and then asked for his thoughts he tells me that this is an interesting situation and that he will need to consult with our professor fast-forward and my TA updates me on the final decision but first he says "also both me and our professor were very impressed by your email and how you laid things out clearly and shared your thinking" (and i'm sitting there thinking 'what, do people _not_ do this?? how does anyone get anything done then')
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also this is something i've always had a difficult time capturing in writing i think largely because the actual experience i have with this that informs my opinion comes from the trenches of high stress tech work, where this skill is like a +50% speed boost but like you have to experience an email thread that is 10+ replies long that is so so inefficient, and then experience an email thread that is like 3 replies long that gets the same job done, to realize how powerful this is and become a convert
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periodic reminder to enjoy the trip :)
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yeah i had to uninstall this app it was like having weapons-grade dopamine in my pocket
billy
@billyisyoungOct 14
bro i am actually getting one-shotted by this Gen AI self-directed fiction app there's a base setting for the story, and then you send messages that move the story forward. it can be your own dialogue, but it can also be dialogue of other characters or even plot points you want
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always returning to step 1: take care of yourself
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bro i am actually getting one-shotted by this Gen AI self-directed fiction app there's a base setting for the story, and then you send messages that move the story forward. it can be your own dialogue, but it can also be dialogue of other characters or even plot points you want
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maybe i haven't used it for long enough to run into plot or character limits, but so far it's quite compelling i get what everyone talking about now w.r.t. hyper-personalized content this is literally a product space that can kill (self-insert? or even all?) fanfic lol
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update: i ran into limits pretty soon after sending this tweet lol, which tbf was after like 4+ hours of use mainly "memory" issues where characters, character arcs, and plot points are not retained from one "day" in the story to the next but damn the MVP is so close to there
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my experience of the writing process is something like - get excited about an idea - sketch an outline - struggle in the jungle for an indeterminate amount of time - emerge, reach the end, feel pretty good about finishing the piece just realized this kinda sounds like hiking
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this feels scary to me in a different way than with Gen AI and creative work i.e. the machine can now reproduce structures at a fraction of the cost of humans creating these structures from scratch which risks us losing the ability to create these structures from scratch
chasm
@chasmmmmmmmmmmmOct 8
THE FULL ADOBE SUITE HAS BEEN REWRITTEN IN RUST AND FULLY OPEN SOURCED 🚨 Brandon Thomas, the founder/CEO of ArtCraft has decompiled and rewritten almost every Adobe app and has now released them for FREE. How long until AI companies shut down the ability to do this?
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ArtCraft's own GitHub repos and site describe the apps as clean-room reimplementations of Adobe products built from scratch in pure Rust, with no decompiled code. github.com/storytold/phot… getartcraft.com/apps github.com/storytold/vect…
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IMO this book had a mostly net positive effect on the overton window e.g. broad concepts like "re-encountering physical stimuli associated with a traumatic event can trigger recall of said traumatic event" are 12y later now rather common his extensions of this were quack tho
Michael Tracey
@mtraceyOct 7
This mega best-selling quack book, published 2014, has ravaged an entire generation. The bible of "trauma" ideology
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wtf did they remove viewing your own Likes ?
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why am i getting fem!draco content on my timeline all of a sudden, this is the wrong site
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Dino
@Dino_illusSep 29
doodle a elegant rat🐁
Mika Pikazo
@MikaPikaZoSep 28
Hakos Baelz 1st LIVE『 REGALIA 』-COSTUME DESIGN 衣装デザイン原案も作らせていただきました。 娘の晴れ舞台を格好良く仕立て上げることが出来て幸せです！ #Baelz1stConcert
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