Insightful article, music celebrity is fascinating.
I have a musically-gifted friend in her twenties who got a full-time job singing and playing in a band in a live-music nightclub, she's the only musician I've met who plays music for a living, without a non-music side gig. Her own band has never toured and has a tiny instagram presence, she seems happy with that.
I have a friend who has been a working musician with no side gig for over 20 years. He makes money in a wide variety of small band types (pipe & drums for funerals and parades, Jimmy Buffet cover bands for festivals, jazz groups for events, etc).
What I take from his experience is that the things that make him successful are the same as many other jobs. He’s dependable, competent, on time and has a large professional network.
It's kind of cruelly ironic that a jobber artist needs to be very strong on "business qualities", while the stereotype is that artists are bad at those things.
that's good to hear! I always wonder when I see a band playing a live gig how they're doing. My friend's bandmates are very creative, but struggle with the professionalism part.
I know of atleast three software engineers who quit programming to pursue music fulltime.
This lady[1] got a Computer Science degree from UC Berkeley, as even an intern at one of the faangs I believe. Quit the whole thing and caught a flight to India. She's sung about 100 songs now and is quite famous.
This guy[2] got a Computer Science degree and worked as a Visual Basic programmer. Also wrote some FoxPro and Clipper code. Was working at Leading Edge in those days. Quit software and started singing. Has sung over 7000 songs. Very rich, 9 figures.
This guy[3] got a PhD in Computer Science and wrote an algorithm to reduce non-standard matrices to approx Hermite Normal. Wrote a bunch of NLP papers, even published in a pure math journal! Then quit software and started writing songs. Has written over 1000 songs now. Very busy songwriter.
i grew up around a lot of Indians - I was always jealous of how engrained being good at a musical instrument is within the culture. And the lineage of master to student presented with great importance before every Carnatic performance i've watched.
According to the article, Constellation owns 30 nuclear power stations in the US. I was surprised at that number, I thought there were far fewer. According to Wikipedia there's over 50 active nuclear power stations in the US, more than France or China or Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations
This project looks abandoned, but I was able to compile it from source and get it running with the help of ChatGPT :). Amazing it is still playable on Ubuntu 22.04, the last code release appears to be 2012.
A doc that doesn't get updated quickly becomes either useless or dangerous. Creating documentation in a tool that doesn't allow easy updating increases the chances that it won't get updated. I think wikis or Google docs are the simplest.
This seems like the only solution that's going to work long-term. The technology is available, and it will be used, better to embrace it.
1. All media and tools are allowed. You may use any media (texts, videos, . . . )
and tools (apps, calculators, . . . ) in my course that you find useful.
This also applies to AI tools such as ChatGPT, which can be very helpful in generating ideas and writing texts, for example.
So these tools are available to you in my course just as they are now in your everyday life and later in your job.
By the way, the use of tools will also be subject of our course. Let’s find out together how to use tools in a meaningful way to solve tasks!
2. You are responsible for your results. All tools have their limitations.
Information in media can be wrong. Calculators cannot work with real numbers. And AI language models like ChatGPT can produce well formulated texts, but they make errors and reproduce biases.
So before you proceed with results and impulses, you need to check them and revise them if necessary. The tool does not think for you, but you think with the help of the tool. The theoretical background is the approach of distributed cognitions:
”Cognitions become ‘distributed’ in the sense that the tool and its human partner think jointly. Whatever is produced is product of the joint system, resulting from the pooling together of the intelligences of both partners [. . . ]“ (Salomon, 1993, p. 182). In the end, however, you stand up for your solution. You have to be able to explain your solution to others. And you (not the tool) are responsible for errors in the solution.
Moment of Zen is a weekly podcast on tech, business, and culture featuring Dan Romero (Farcaster), Antonio Garcias Martinez (Spindl), and Erik Torenberg (Village Global/On Deck)
I don't think you need to worry about nazi propaganda from this group, that's actually pretty amusing. For example, the group includes Erik Torenberg, I believe he may actually live in Israel.
Whoever titled the video was trying to be clever, there's nobody here saying America should create a 1000-year kingdom.
I think the title refers to Antonio Garcias Martinez saying America introduced liberal democracy long before other nations, i.e. at 36:35 he says "the US is chided for being so young, but it's not. American (democratic) institutions are way older than (European) ones. Spanish democracy is younger than me. Italy and Germany were unified after the state of Florida existed."
Has anyone found pluralsight instruction useful? I wasn't impressed with the last free trial I tried with them. Video quality was fine, but the instruction wasn't compelling. Any courses you can recommend?
