Breakup.
The transition from Facebook to Meta will be the one of the essentials business case studies ever,
Although critics and difficulties are everywhere, and everyone believes Mark Zuckerberg made a dumb move.
Mark Zuckerberg really know what he is doing here, this is the essenses of entrepreneurship, take it to the next level.
There will always be difficulties, risk and pushiment,
if you start with nothing you lose less, even less critics more encouragements.
In Mark's case, you start resources, you lose more, you face more critics, your moves are studied more.
But Mark is a good case of an entrepreneur that really didn't settle(no one would admit they settled, until they look back)
1 Today I talked to brave young woman who is diagnosed with a deadly disease, but fight her way out and is working hard to make her second life meaningful. I asked her a lot of questions, and the most important question I asked is "How big of a role did psychological factors play during your fight? " The answer she gave is 80%.
1 Magic are done within a second, yet it took the magician decades to master the trick. This quote fits the developments of AI perfectly, AI development started even before the Vietnamese war, yet the term only became relevant in recent years. Why?
2 Because AI has never been developed, the famous GPT's are not actually AI, it is in fact, an guessing program that works just like how you are trying figure out what answers the teacher would wanted in an exam. Every time it receives an instruction, it looks through the data base, and calculates which combinations of words are likely to be the correct answer to your question.
3 Still it is very useful, first it is a good tool, more importantly it brings AI to the spotlight, which I believe would speed up it's development. However, instead of focusing on LLM, I encourage you to study AI that is based on reasoning.
1 First thing Steve Job has done when he returned to Apple in 1997, is cutting products, from 350 products to only 10. This action has triggered many of the employees, especially engineers who take their work seriously like their own kids. Steve Job's response to this is simple "Focus, is about saying no."
2 Two question I have been thinking about recently, first, what things would bring the most value for the world in a span of 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years? Second is what would bring me the most happiness and proud in a span of 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years?
3 Once you've figured out you should start building habits that could contribute to achieving that goal, and then you start building momentum and habits. This is the uneasy part that requires some will power, I've build my reading habit from 30 minutes to on average 6 hours a day now, it doesn't really take any effort for me to read 6 hours a day, but at first it definitely felt uncomfortable and on the first month I am pushing myself everyday.
1 After reading the book "The One", I decided to throw away all my 300 books, and only allow myself to keep 7 books at a time. Doing this wasn't a easy choice for me, I feel painful just thinking of all those knowledges and stories I'd miss, but I knew it'd benefit me in long term. I also took aspiration from the Steve Jobs's cutting product lines approach when he went back to apple. I believe it will make a huge difference in how I approach reading as a form of learning.
2 At 2023, I have built my habit of reading. From about 30 minutes a day at January to 3 hours a day in march, to almost 7 hours a day on average at August . Being so proud of myself, I bought over 100 books in last month alone, as I was so fed up with the concept of reading 1 book a day, turns out having too many books is not doing me any good. I have less motivation to read as most of the time I struggle to pick which book to read, and I actually got lazier.
Look at this image.
It's not a full black background, somewhere in this picture that is a white dot.
And that little white dot contains everything you ever cared about,
it is the the view of planet earth from far away space.
I want you to think about this, someday we will lit up all those darkness.
The question is how do we achieve that?
1 If you're passionate about your job and constantly try to do a better job, not only AI is not going to take your job, it will even make you better at it. However, it will definitely change the content of your job, most of the boring, repetition works will be gone, so what's left would be mostly thinking, intense thinking. Your need to learn to observe and think, if you can learn to observe and think, you will do a very good job.
2 I'm specially worried about the future teenagers who will grow up used to having short attention span, their potential would be hindered by not being able to focus. What I recommend is actives like reading books, drawing, gardening, even organising your room. These actives train your brain to learn how to observe and think about something new.
In the past we have thought of internet as a liberator that will destroy most of the chains imposed on a man, while some of those still remain true, we are seeing another trend emerging, the liberator might turn out to be the mightiest oppressor we ever had.
Those problems the internet promised to solve, they never came true. We asked for facts, we got opinions. We asked for connections, we got comparisons. Now, tech giants are now using the newest technologies to build the ultimate cell, the material of that cell will be their understanding of us, and we are the ones that volunteered the material.
So it's indeed a time for choosing, 1000 days later it'd be already too late, by that point they'll understand us better than we ourselves do, and we would be spiritually weakened to a point we refuse to make a change. Whatever happen in this 10,000 days will set the tone for the age of AI.
1 The art of human civilisation is the art of living together. This is my firm believe, and let me explain.
2 In the past people throw stones at each other because they want more resources to survive, they didn't wanted to but they have to or else they die. Fast forward to modern age, why are we still doing this? We discovered that we can expand outward into the space, and there might indeed a path to alchemy, or unlimited energy or resources. The art of conquering or war is no longer relevant, as putting more people under your control does not contribute to any actual benefits anymore.
3 So I say how about lets just dive into space and dig our golds? Some say this idea is naive and has complete no understanding of geopolitics or dynamics between countries. I say those people are losers who don't understand possibilities.