Brian Groat
@BGroat
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Toronto, Ontario
Joined May 2011
I LOVE working. I just want to be able to stop whenever, for as long as, I want. 14 hour days? No problem. But I want to be able to unplug at a momentās notice when my best friend calls. Work all weekend? Sweet. But I want to take a month off if my Dad is sick.
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The primary value I've gotten out of generative AI is that everything on the internet so rock-bottom awful that I'm pretty much completely offline now. In the past I didn't like being online, but there was good stuff to keep me hooked.
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Also Shakespeare was not high-brow. It was rude, and crass, and performed for peasants. It's a similar pedigree to Two and A Half Men, or The Big Bang Theory
Why did we make reading Shakespeare such a big part of being āeducatedā? No one was supposed to read Shakespeare, youāre supposed to watch it. Theyāre plays. Itās like if 400 years from now we made reading the Star Wars screenplays the mark of an intelligent individual.
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Never seen it, canāt prove it
you ever think about the fact that everything is always just going on? like that one restaurant you went to 10 years ago in another country is just open right now, the hostess is seating people there as we speak.
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I know a dude who bought several homes in Toronto from 2000-2010 on the back of being a waiter at a posh restaurant. $1,000 tips, a few tables a night, a few nights a weekā¦ it adds up
@ZyMazza Sociologists have already studied this to death. Generally professors with an PhD are the lowest paid high status job. Highest paid low status job is a waiter in an ultra fine dining restaurant (they easily take home $200k) but you are essentially a servant.
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I had a very easy baby. People ask me if I want another child and I say no. I donāt want to be confronted with the fact that I may not actually be very good at this Dad thing
If your baby sleeps well itās not hard to have a baby. But if your baby doesnāt sleep well it is very very very very very very very hard. People with sleepy babies and non sleepy babies are not understanding each others realities here
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My most popular slide in all of my past fundraises is "Here's how you get screwed" I outline all of the ways that an investor can lose money as a result of my dishonesty or incompetence, and the guardrails I have in place
It feels counter-intuitive, but: Often the best way to build trust in you / your business is to pull back the curtain and explain to your potential customer exactly how you make money. (The insight is that, if they're smart, they're going to be trying to figure it out anyway,
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I use to carry form NDAs with me so that I could whip one out when someone was cagey about their "stealth startup". It was also just some CRUD bullshit with no real IP
That awkward moment when some guy asks you to sign and NDA before telling you their revolutionary startup idea...
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Weirdly enough, after I became a parent I immediately began categorizing people as "adults" and "children". I later learned that unerringly that "adults" corresponded to people who were also parents... without me being intellectual aware of this fact
after becoming a parent i subconsciously classified everyone i know into "trust to watch my kids," "trust only with direct supervision," and "you will never meet my children" fairly stressful when latter two groups include family but what can one do
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Use this language on a child and you immediately become a one-in-a-million parent
Dropping a straightforward "I'm wrong, you're right" in conversation is an incredible hack -- it'll make people look at you like you just grabbed a bullet out of mid-air (More below)
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Maybe Iām an idiot but Iād immediately answer this. Maybe the price is too high and they pass, and I list the lead āClosed-Lostā Best case they close immediately on a price I think is fair
Agent calls up on a property I have listed: āWhatās the lowest price youāll take?ā Iām not going to negotiate against myself. If you have an offer in mind, write it. Very annoying tactic.
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He didnāt. Itās canon that Batman thinks of himself as āBatmanā and āBruce Wayneā is the disguise. He did reveal his true identity when touching the Lasso of Truth
Was there ever any explanation on how he was able to resist her rope here?
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Honest to god a propaganda firm headed by Charlie with a budget of a few million could do some damage
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If you use dairy and sugar you donāt like coffee. You like ice cream
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Thereās a saying in certain Buddhist circles āenlightenment is an accident. Meditation makes you accident proneā I think it applies to everything. Success is an accident, discipline makes you accident prone
Smth that has been helpful to me is the conceptualisation of growth as 'random leaps' or 'random inflections'. You hit your head against the wall FOREVER and eventually you break through and FOOM.
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Harry Potter is ~fine~ and worth reading if youāre 14 (unlimited free time) and your friends read it (something to talk about). Pass as an adult, and if youāre a child read whatever your generationās HP is
Iām an almost 40 year old man. Iāve never watched Harry Potter. Worth it now?
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I'm intrigued by this, and think I'd probably agree with it... but I have no idea what you mean. What are APM? eAPM? For context, big believer in gamification/strategy. But want some context here
@tszzl Agree, call it effective APM to be more nuanced. If someone has an eAPM 2x your own, you will probably get wrecked regardless of strategy. High eAPM = more at bats, so even though real life has higher variance than SC, the high eAPM players get more at bats and knock more out
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I think current AI seems really impressive to the kind of people who think audible is the same as reading
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I live in Canada. Iām Indigenous, but pretty white passing if you donāt look closely. In 2016 commented on police racism in TO not being that badā¦ A black friend responded, āI was stopped by the police on my way to THIS eventā I internalized my experience != all experience
Most of my friends who advocate for a color blind society mean well. The ICE detentions highlight the flaw. My white friends have little chance of not arriving home because they got detained by an ICE agent. That reality for our Hispanic neighbors demands our attention.
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The lionās share of the time I spend with my son is teaching him exercises to be happy and to practice spontaneously making friends in the park
What are you going to encourage your kids to do? AI is going to replace 95% of jobs. College seems irrelevent at this point. I'm having a really hard time thinking about this. Thoughts?
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I feel the same way. People will often show me something AI generated and say, āLook at this PhD level summary!ā And I think, āIf my assistant gave me this quality they would be firedā
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Do people have access to much different AI models than I'm using? They're great, very cool, but they qualitatively don't feel like they're on a path to world domination or destruction with more scale to me. What am I missing?
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