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Kevin Bracker's avatar

Loved the "It’s Okay to Succeed in a Boring Way" segment. Most stuff (financial/health/etc.) is made FAR more complicated to make it interesting and generate sales/publicity. However, most of the stuff is pretty basic, but as you say "boring" so it gets ignored.

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Liberty's avatar

I think it's partly a symptom of what people *truly* focus on.

Most people are trying to social signal and are looking for other people's approval and to impress them rather than to actually succeed.

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Tiko Coassin's avatar

I met a writer this weekend who can't type well due to tremors caused by a medication he has to take. He was expressing his frustration with speech to text options and how he's though about quitting before.

Kind of crazy that just a day later I came across your point about human dexterity...

Great edition, as always.

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Liberty's avatar

Thank you Tiko!

I've been really impressed with Whisper based speed-to-text. I'm currently using SuperWhisper, and before that I used MacWhisper. I'm sure there are also versions for Windows if that's what the writer you met uses.

https://superwhisper.com/

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Tiko Coassin's avatar

I'll have to find out more - thanks for the recommendations!

BTW - your perplexity rec was a really good one, it comes up with some pretty comprehensive summaries against difficult lines of questioning. Impressive platform.

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Liberty's avatar

Yea, I still use it daily. I'm happy to pay for it, GPT-4 tends to give really good answers.

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Kudithipudi's avatar

Dragon Prince is a wonderful series. Thanks for the recommendation. This is the nightcap TV for me and kids 😀

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Liberty's avatar

Glad you and the kids are enjoying it!

My youngest is going around drawing imaginary runes in the air and screaming "ASPIRO!", haha

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