TikTok complied with their regulation last year. The regulations basically requires social media platforms with > 1 million nepalese accounts to get a license to operate in Nepal.
Depends on who you ask. I'd consider it damaging but nowhere near as damaging as X in recent times. And would consider FB worse that both for sheer the hysteria it generates in the old.
I think it less like: governments see social media sites as damaging, so they ban them.
It is more like: a lot of people see social media sites as damaging, so they don’t particularly care when their governments ban them for whatever arbitrary reasons the governments come up with.
So, I’d expect the more that social media sites come back online to reflect their responsiveness to dealing with government demands, not the damaging-ness.
we use PipeDrive to track deals (customers and investors) and keep team aligned. most important features for us are getting the team to BCC PipeDrive and automatic attribution of emails to the correct deal.
what I need is a way for any arbitrary team member (not just the sales people that have a PipeDrive account) to be able to BCC PipeDrive/Okapi and get that email linked to the deal. think of some engineering questions being answered directly by hardcore scientists that don't normally have anything to do with sales. I want them to simply BCC and internal address at our domain which forwards to Okapi or PipeDrive. then the person in charge of PipeDrive can attribute those emails to the right deals if the system can't figure it out automatically from previous correspondence)
Right now our email sync is maximally simple, so that it's predictable for customers. If anyone on a thread has the sync set up, then any thread with outside parties gets synced. Each outside company/person is associated with the email. Also no BCC stuff, too easy to forget.
We're working on a simple way to do deal->email association. Right now you can only do deal->company->email, so if you have concurrent deals on a company there's not a great way to disentangle them.
Our company, biotech, doesn't want arbitrary extensions grabbing email out of our servers. BCC the CRM is the only way.
Big companies have different departments. You could have a deal with department X at TargetCo and department Y. Generally those are different people (and emails) at each of those departments. So you associate email to the deal based on what email it's copied to.
Just use emails to link to deals. Forget about company.
Company association is useful. But it needs to be a historical association. Example Jonny works at MSFT now. But used to work at FB. Jonny could help you win a deal with FB even if he doesn't work there now.
there is a little boy inside me who wants to watch all six lectures right away. but now with two kids and constant demand from work, I have gotten used to consuming education as 2 minute physics shorts on YouTube.
the issue is much deeper than the format of media. it's a sense inside me that I'm "wasting time" not "productive" (related but not the same as not remunerated). I feel I* don't have permission* to just enjoy it ... I can give some reasons, like if I go for a bike ride with the kids it gets me and them exercise and my wife some respite, but sit and listen is just passive consumption that will never be productive... I wish I was free of this sense of guilt
I relate so much to this. The only time I could see myself watching something like this is if the wife falls asleep a bit early on the couch one evening. Or as someone else suggested, if I could get the kids interested.
I do listen to a bunch of podcasts and audio books while I'm doing chores or driving, but that's about it these days. I have a faint hope that I will get more time for personal hobby projects (like learning more physics) as the kids get a bit older (currently 4, 7 & 13).
Does your wife have to wait for you to fall asleep before she does something she wants to do but you have little interest in? You could just watch these lectures together - instead of, say, watching the news.
So glad to hear that I am also not the only one with two kids and demand from work and so little free time.
Sometimes I fall asleep at night trying to “catch-up” to all the podcasts and lectures.
You know what's great?
By the time your kids are around 9-12, you can watch these videos together.
Watching just for fun, they are still a wonder to learn from, and they are so we'll presented, that the kids will likely watch with interest. (Maybe half at a time.)
I know what I'm about to say is not true. but it's a kernel in the right direction.
I live in a city where no matter how hard I work I will never own property... and I have this irrational belief that just harder work will allow us to be happy.
Chill. I say that as a reasonably accomplished scientist.
Yes, work hard. But there’s a difference between working hard on the right thing and doing it just because it makes you feel good.
You’re much less likely to find the right thing if you’re in a spiral of working on things you know will be a waste of time. You can pull as many 16 hour shifts at a gas station as you want to, but people only do that because they’re broke, not because they might find it fulfilling.
I recommend reading http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html in its entirety. You strike me as the type of person it was aimed at. And believe it or not, one of the most important takeaways is that you have to allow yourself to play, just a little, in order to Rome the kind of work that makes you happy.
I can reason that what I'm saying is wrong, but it's how I feel. Some other comments have recommended getting therapy... I have, since I was 18. That's the only reason I'm able to say these things and see myself comically on the treadmill. I'm voicing these things aloud because I figured others might felt lack of permission to indulge in a few hours of physics lectures because of a sense of duty to getting things done
Spoilers ahead! (If historical allegory can have spoilers)
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When he collapses from overwork, the pigs send him to the knacker's yard to be slaughtered, in exchange for money to buy a case of whiskey for the pigs to drink.
Squealer says that his sayings, "Comrade Napoleon is always right" and "I will work harder!" should live on in all the animals;
I could have written this same comment. I fully understand where the mental irrationality comes from. I’ve done therapy etc. But what I call “the hearth of the city” means it’s hard to ever really relax. Caring for a family accelerated it.
I believe you should take your time and watch them. It is possible that it will work like with reading: if parents do not read, they do not show an role example to their kids, and then kids do not like reading. I believe parents should think of how they kids see them, what habits and hobbies adults have.
I'm not entirely sure it will work with watching lectures of Feynman, but I think it will. Especially if you discuss what you saw with others in presence of your kids. Or even discuss with kids themselves, they will not understand a word probably, but it doesn't matter really.
> I feel I don't have permission* to just enjoy it ...*
I believe you should feel an obligation to just enjoy it and to show your enjoyment to your kids. If you don't, then how your kids will know, that you can enjoy watching lectures?
You don't have to make it about projecting an image.
Make it about living your proclaimed values. Otherwise, those aren't your values.
My kids have learned to mock my hypocrisy (usually when I'm hanging out on HN or worse), and I never disagree with them; I just try to be better and tell them I want them to be better.
I assume your kids are somewhat young, and probably not going to be an ideal audience, but are you able to watch it with them? I know Feynman is known for his traceability, so maybe your kids will be entranced :)
> I assume your kids are somewhat young, and probably not going to be an ideal audience, but are you able to watch it with them? I know Feynman is known for his traceability, so maybe your kids will be entranced
I'm so glad that someone stepped up and suggested this, I was about to do the same!
[Full disclosure: have three kids - aged 7, 10 and 13 - and my goodness we do have our hands full with them...]
I realized that once I have a kid I need to push every hobby or whatever away for X years. It's like the more social button I clicked the more pigeon holed I am.
One area where AI agents can help, is in going to the supermarket! many times what look like competing brands, are all owned by the same people, like Kellogg's or Procter & Gamble. they just create different packaging to appeal to different people. branding is just obfuscation. it'd be great to have the veil taken off, and every time you look at a product it shows you how the marketing team who made it, placed it in the market, should be cheaper than this other product but more expensive than something else, and so they created a new image in order for it to find a place in the market. market. But underneath the colorful ink, it's all the same crap
> One area where AI agents can help, is in going to the supermarket!
No need for AI there - there already are apps that you can use to scan the barcodes of products to filter for Nestle [1].
> But underneath the colorful ink, it's all the same crap
Not exactly. There are definitely differences between brand-name products and whitelabel ones... in food, for example, substituting actual sugar for cheaper HFCS, or industrial farming produce and meat as ingredients instead of certified-organic ones free from pesticides, or different ratios between "valuable" ingredients (meat) vs filler (grain), or legit aroma/flavour instead of synthetic. In non-food, product quality (plastic parts vs metal), repairability or stuff like warranty / support / security update availability.
Does any of that matter if the consumer consistently chooses the cheapest product? If the shopper chooses the soap with lowest price per gram, what does it matter what brand it is or who owns what brands? An AI assistant might be much faster and directly relevant to the consumer by finding the best deal than investigating the irrelevant history of brands and marketing and shell corporations.
You realize that AI agents will push the most malicious, unhealthy, sponsored, Nestle and Kellogs shit to you? You realize what's happened to the internet, and SEO spam, and social media, and you think AI will be a force for good, informed consumerism? Or do you think it will be controlled by whoever has the biggest ad spend budgets?
I'm reading this thread intently after a friend who was in a clinical trial for psilocybin went for a ketamine treatment only a few days later. She has that floaters and brain fog. She recently started on an epilepsy drug that seems to be helping
