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    The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Random Chat Thread...

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    Had a meeting with a potential vendor today. During the meeting one of the managers got astra to basically do what we would be paying them thousands to do, before the meeting was even over.
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    Didn't have a full week on this yet but got my newsletter going, threw together some graphics for more. Overall 1-5-10yr goals are coming.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    It's not necessarily music in general per se it's probably the reaction to speakers playing a loop of factory fed pop tunes in every grocery, restaurant, hotel lobby, airplane, airport, other store, you name it, and it's hard to escape these days.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I would like to go no music at my gym but unfortunately they blare the most horrible stuff, so I block it out with my own preferred music. Sometimes I run without music. Sometimes I listen to interesting things. I went for an easy run this morning pushing the baby with no music, just her...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    How is the newsletter based customer acquisition these days? I saw some people here mention Sparkloop, but it also appears that substack and other content markets sometimes do well.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I pushed way too hard on my runs trying to improve my speed, adding a second speed workout a week and giving it 100% effort. Ended up pushing into plantar fasciitis on one foot and some kind of ankle tweak on the other. Backed off my volume hard, and did some easy runs only. Today, I added some...
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    What is the BEST "value" you ever paid for?

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    I paid for a calorie tracker app a while back. Doing a dietary restriction for my initial weight loss phase helped lose 10-15lbs quickly, but pushing to lower bodyfat and towards a 34" waist again is taking more. I also like to have more variety than my restricted diet (was Chicken, potatoes...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    This week: Learning an app that will let me do some 3d design on my ipad so I can squeeze in some design time at odd hours and locations (things are different with a baby...). Generate some scripts for things to discuss on video channels (have a youtube channel, curious about TikTok because...
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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

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    Currently reading Choose Hard, Live Easy in the mornings and evenings when I have a little free time and the headspace for it and I'm not trying to fall asleep. Also reading Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare 1939-1945 when I am trying to fall asleep. Good, but helps me...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I've been reading Choose Hard, Live Easy, and it's been really good so far. Haven't been here in ages, and I really want to restart this journey. Lots has happened in the meantime, including getting married, having our first child, and dealing with hurricane damage (and also a related lawsuit)...
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    TAMPA BAY, FL Fastlane Meetup

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    I'm in the area, if there is a meetup I would like to join. I missed the other one.
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    2 failures, 1 success: My Onramp into the Fastlane

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    Thank you, I really appreciate this thread. I am trying to figure out what to lean on as I have a fairly good engineering background, but I have to be careful. For example, "moonlighting" clauses with my employer, and a lot of my domain knowledge cannot be publicly shared due to it being...
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    2 failures, 1 success: My Onramp into the Fastlane

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    Is your PE absolutely essential to your business in mechanical or not? Asking as I have a lot of experience but never took the EIT or PE exam as the industries I worked in didn't require it.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I've thought about this post here, and I think I'm lying to myself. Life has been good as a lot of great things have happened (getting married, honeymoon, etc.). But, the lying comes from not having perspective on a few things I could do to really change my life for the better. I have concerns...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I'm hoping to contribute more. Lurking as I haven't been making moves, a bit stuck in figuring out what to push forward on. But, life has been good. Maybe that's why I haven't been pushing...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Something about fabric airfoils freaks me out. For sails and such they are great. But, for flying I prefer something that can't fold up and can take several Gs over normal flight.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Duga/Chernobyl was quite the trip. Very interesting standing in the control rooms for that radar where they showed the US missiles they were looking for, coming over the horizon. Growing your own food is bad for the environment though! The environment of someone else controlling your food...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Yeah I get that. I gave up on a few of his books but liked Anathem and Seveneves.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    "There are characters in Snow Crash called Gargoyles, who are perpetually plugged in. You wrote: "Gargoyles are no fun to talk to. They never finish a sentence. They are adrift in a laser-drawn world, scanning retinas in all directions . . . You think they’re talking to you, but they’re actually...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I got a shot in the morning of prednisone. By the end of the day I could walk. I went for a run the day after. The long run was a week after that. Prednisone worked amazingly fast. And I cut out alcohol completely until I convince myself I won't have a 3-4 a night habit like before.
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