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?
Me: “Promoted” out.
@patio11
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The Pick Two Dilemma: Honest Competent Reliable Workers
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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.
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Stripe Atlas Impact on Business Formation and Growth Curves
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Yeah, the thesis was Stripe Atlas (and other products, but that was then most relevantly to me of the portfolio) could bend curves by directly interfering on rates of business start, survival, and growth.
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Balancing Ambitious Goals with Practical Day-to-Day Execution
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(One of the at-times-fun at-times-challenging part of that job and ambition generally is that you both need to hold that scale of goal plus “Ugh nobody is going to write this ERB file if I don’t huh” in your head at the same time.)
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Stripe’s macro impact vision from 2016 still driving execution
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“If we execute very well, it will be visible in global macroeconomic indicators” was the pitch that got me to join Stripe back in 2016. (Still lots to do!)
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Accidental Healthcare IT Infrastructure Leadership Path
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(I say this as someone who is unlikely to become CEO of one of largest platforms in the world for the HN karma, but OTOH “%^{^{*# it, I will show you” is at least 2% of why I accidentally ended up running healthcare information infra.)
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AI Deployed to Teach Mathematics Importance to Children
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Unclear to me. I have been occasionally deployed to tell twelve year olds that math is important.