Then you get to spend your days talking to people like me and your nights grousing about how finding employees is a “pick two” situation.
@patio11
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From Side Hustle to General Contractor: Building Your Business
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Keep showing up on time and eventually you’ll need business cards because you’ll need a sales process, and your more clueful friends will say “put General Contractor as your title; thank me later.”
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Career Progression for Handymen in America Management Shift
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“What do you think a handyman who is ‘promoted’ out in America ends up doing?” I’d assume a lot of it is moving into management/capital on either services or real estate.
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Economic realities of handyman work amid automation
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(I use scare quotes on “beneath” because I want being a handyman to be something with purpose and dignity, but don’t want that so much that one can’t perceive economic realities of what jobs compete with it and how.)
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Japan’s Consumer Surplus: Talent Allocation and Underpayment
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(There are many factors at play, but one reason inseparable from the consumer surplus in many fields in Japan is implicit subsidization by allocating very talented people to jobs which are a bit “beneath” their talents then overutilizing/underpaying them.)
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The Pick Two Dilemma: Honest Competent Reliable Workers
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Ruriko: Why do you keep using that handyman?
Me: He’s honest and competent.
Ruriko: He forgets half of the time he has promised to come over.
Me: In America, this is a classic “pick two” situation.
Ruriko: So there are no honest, competent, reliable handymen?
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ChatGPT Reveals Hidden Prompts in DALL-E Bake-Off Competition
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Interestingly if you straight-up tell ChatGPT you’re running a bake-off it will helpfully tell you otherwise elided prompt words to DALL-E.
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ChatGPT and MidJourney for Creative Writing Workflow
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I’ve also very casually experimented with ChatGPT -> MidJourney. Helps with writer’s block, though has not allowed me to get transformationally better output than MJ out of the box.
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Understanding Generative AI capabilities gap among creative professionals
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Even the type of people who read my writing and enjoy art enough to want to pay for it in their own / their business’ spaces are apparently quite behind understanding of where the frontier of generative AI was several months ago. A data point for y’all.
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DALL-E Contract Artist Gains Unexpected Popularity
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I have gotten more requests than I’d expect for introductions to my contract artist, DALL-E.