my way of going about this (worked 3x already) - irl community engagement. and i don't mean just partiicpating community events, but finding your niche and becoming a local community organizer. connecting to people irl in general, but putting yourself in a position where your the "spider in the middle of the web" seems to be a particularly effective way. with the nice side effect that apart from the job situation, if you define your niche precisely, you'll meet a lot of people you are really resonant with.
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mindfulhacker commented on Ask HN: How do I prevent AI from reading/training off my content? · Posted by u/blindriver
i'm less worried about someone profiting from my intellectual property, and more worried about maintaining my edge... making sure i stay in a state where i can come up with unique, novel, fresh perspectives on a continuous basis... mainly though meditation, breathwork, bodywork, yoga.
mindfulhacker commented on Ask HN: What could I build to make your life a little easier? · Posted by u/uint9_t
an app to keep me off my damn phone, social media and youtube. i know there is plenty already, and it's not really working for me...
mindfulhacker commented on Ask HN: What's the competitive advantage these days? · Posted by u/creepy
i feel like given the commoditization of certain type of analytical skill through AI, the competitive advantage in general (on both an individual and company level) is shifting towards the ability to tap into higher order human abilities that are outside of what AI can do (or will ever be able to do).
- how broad and deep is your perceptive ability? can you see things that others are not able to see?
- how deep is your empathic and energetic attunement? can you sense subtleties in interpersonal interaction that others miss?
- how connected you are to the somatic wisdom of your body? how self-aware are anble to self-regulate you? do you allow your triggers to cloud your judment and blind you?
- how connected are you to your intuitive ability? can you know things that you have not learned? can you tap into uniquely creative ideas that no one has explored? this is not coming from the analytical mind.
my hot take is this: meditation and somatic practice is no longer optional in the age of AI. while everyone is deeply in the AI frenzy, the people who will stand out from the crowd are the ones who go all in to cultivate self-awareness and higher order human abilities.
mindfulhacker commented on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly refine.sh... · Posted by u/runjuu
out of curiosity: how did you handle the trade-offs between model size and quality for grammar correction?
I have Simon Willison's blog in my RSS feed.
https://simonwillison.net
thanks for sharing - subscribed!