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In addition, the documents show that TikTok was aware that “compulsive usage also interferes with essential personal responsibilities like sufficient sleep, work/school responsibilities, and connecting with loved ones.”
How can anyone see that and think, yes we want to be in this business.
Also the full text version https://nymag.com/article/tom-wolfe-radical-chic-that-party-...
Even though the ones with the photos look much more interesting.
Happiness is not really a good indicator. If you need that much to be happy, most likely once you have all that money, you still won't be happy. So might be better to find out if it is happiness you really want or freedom from needs and necessities of this world. The price of that might be much less than 1200M dollars.
Might find this video from Jane Street helpful:
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. The firs impression is it seems to be a sci-fi novel, but it is actually much more about humans than robots or future. Started slow but easy to get through. A great read.
Thanks for the clarification, and digging deeper than I did.
My biggest mistake was while studying in university in 2004-05, i took three electives in AI, such as Neural Networks and Machine Learning. Even though I enjoyed the subjects and did well in them, I was too afraid to major in them and make a career out of it. I got scared by the math but also life took over and i probably didn't see myself having a career in AI. Now 15 years later looking back, it seems such a dumb mistake not pursuing those further.
Great insight from the front lines into some of the reasons behind the collapse of Kattera[1].
It is refreshingly different to read how a unicorn failed instead of all the success stories we see all the time. It also probably didn't help that it received kisses of death from Softbank Vision Fund and Greensill.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-08/katerr...