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I'm still loyal to Anthropic. Not perfect but I trust them. End of story.

Also consider how many people have to wear them every day or close to. How much they interact with food and packages that most of us eventually touch. Food for thought.

The problem I'm solving isn't just relating to tourism. It's much bigger and beyond Hawaii too. This is just the perfect place to test what I'm building.

I agree. It's overcrowded in places that are not built to handle that many people. The resentment between locals and tourists is growing, also between locals and people who move here with a lot of money and don't add any value to the community but demand a lot from everyone else.

You are right. I posted this partially because I live on Kauai, am working on a solution, and just to see what others thought.

This is definitely bigger than just Hawaii.

No, I live on Kauai and Maui before this. The Hawaii Tourism Authority runs ads on the radio for 'sustainable travel' and they want fewer people here paying more to curb overtourism and crowding, damage to parks.

I agree with them. I posted this to just see what others thought.

It's interesting how many people I meet from the tech world that move out here or vacation here often. I don't want to leave but would do some extended trips to places on my list for sure and always come back to one of the islands.

It's funny in a cosmic way how YC was once led by this guy.

Oops. Thanks, I missed this. I worked 16 hours that day.

This is the most important chapter in the book according to Ray himself. Titled 'The Overall Big Cycle' and it covers the 5 major factors to keep an eye on as we all navigate our future.

I hope this is helpful and sparks some quality discussion of micro and macro trends unfolding in our line of work. It's fascinating and frightening at the same time. I'm along for the ride though, don't know what else I'd do with my life.

I asked ChatGPT and it said it 'means more than CS degree or working at a big company because it shows you are self-taught, scrappy, resourceful'.

It's not a big deal whether it is or not, I just haven't met anyone else who has gotten it. People who are a lot more experienced than me. I'm a bit of an outsider coming to the Bay Area, I've been cruising in Hawaii for a few years.

I'm moving to the Bay Area whether I am accepted or not. I believe in what I'm building and am ALL IN. I haven't been this excited to work 100 hours a week in a LONG TIME.

My startup is helping Maui rebuild after the fires. My early adopters and testers will be on Maui mostly. It's a win-win-win. The branding is inspired by Hawaii, so it's only right that I do it this way.

He is trying not to get Nuremberged.

He is a snake. I also live on Kauai and most of the locals don't want him here, he is trying to turn his image around but most people aren't really buying it or haven't really thought about it too deeply.

He, in my view, is desperate to hang onto 'his throne' but all it takes is the right person, with the right vision, at the right time...with enough support.

Funny you mention Musk, I checked out a stack of science textbooks from the library and have started to reimagine a lot of things based on them.

The times we live in have made many very afraid to try new things but there are a good amount of us who are just done with business-as-usual.

Thank you, I am riddled with self-doubt sometimes but working through it by facing it instead of avoiding it.

I live in Kauai, a few miles from him. I know people who have worked at his property too.

Right now on the North Shore there is Mark Zuckerberg, tons of wealthy people moving in, AND a giant mega resort called the 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay all putting strain on the economy and ecology.

I am still carrying through with my vision of a better world. It started back in 2010 when this account was created. I was laughed at then for wanting to take on Facebook. I never quit and kept learning this whole time. I am close to Mount Doom now, Ring is still in tact. I am a little beat up after the Maui fires and that I had to relocate to here but I'm still going.

I remember reading he sold his residence there. I could be wrong. Maybe he has multiple homes there.

I'm afraid to share it here just yet while I flesh out the final edits but I can email it to you and we can discuss privately.

We are actually very similar, I love to be minimal but elegant at the same time.

I live in Maui, all my possessions can fit inside my Honda Civic. My office can fit inside a backpack.

I want to upgrade to a MacBook Pro, from iPhone 13 Pro to 14, fix my iPad 2 Pro. I have a few subscriptions but am going to consolidate as much as possible in the coming weeks.

Design checks all the boxes for me. I am naturally gifted in this field, deeply interested in how everything works, how I can increase quality of life for all beings.

There's a kind of excited curiosity that's both the engine and the rudder of great work. It will not only drive you, but if you let it have its way, will also show you what to work on.

We are going to meet one day PG and I will thank you for encouraging me since I was 17. I am 33 now and determined as ever.

First thing I would like to see gone is business bros sharing 'guides' after you follow them, threatening to start charging real soon. Go fuck yourself, get a real job.

I know what you mean, my life has unfolded in a similar way.

What I have realized is that until we evolve our hearts and minds, no amount of technology will solve our collective existential crisis.

With that said, I am still young (33), live in Maui, and am still hungry and foolish to try new and bold things. :)

It's fascinating how everything that make up civilization is being reimagined as we speak. This is really just the beginning of a new millennium and look at all that's already happened since 2000.

Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.

He seems to be going through a similar phase as Kanye West, gotten so big that he believes his own myth and surrounds himself with yes men. Both have flown too close to the sun it seems, like Icarus.

Him stepping down from Twitter is probably to save Tesla's stock but like you said, the damage to the brand may be long-lasting. At the same time, EVs are becoming more mainstream in general as other brands catch up.

Moving to Maui without a plan at the beginning of 2020. Instagram - @amar.yana. Reach out there if you want to connect.

I’ve heard of it, it doesn’t check all the boxes for me personally.

Vedas.

ELI5 anyone?

This is very similar to an Einstein quote:

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude."

-- Albert Einstein

Me too. Meta is also very scary. TikTok is a Trojan horse that siphons data while getting billions of people addicted, both could ultimately cause more harm to society than cigarettes.