Hilarious. The article tries to go even one step further past the loss of hype, by making an additional argument that ai might not be in a hype cycle at all. Meaning they conjecture that it might not even come out of the trough of disillusion to mass adoption.
I think the reason to not follow successful people online is that they did not get successful by following successful people online.
Meaning - they have a big online presence post-success. They use the online presence to bask in their own glory.
But this isn’t just for the sake of basking in ones glory. It is a sort of way for the successful person to leverage their success into more success. A positive feedback loop of sorts.
That's a real shame... I will consider raising the prices but I am really worried about it because it's really just an impulse purchase for a very small thing and I feel like almost no one will be interested if the price is too high.
You should be close to your customers. My cofounders and I coded most of the MVP in the bay because we all happened to be living there, but then we started going to tradeshows and saw that most of our customers were in NYC so we moved east.
If you are doing a startup where you are a B2B tech company that sells to other tech companies, the bay area is great.
This is somewhat relevant if you are interested in underactuated robots in production. One of our customers, Tokyo Kitty [1], a nightclub in Cincinnati uses two underactuated robots to deliver drinks to private rooms without spilling. We use convex optimization (chapter 10) to not spill, the bartenders and patrons love it [2].
Small nit from article - "You don’t build a nuclear power plant (or even a dam) without a plan for what to do if it goes critical."
Reactors going critical is a good thing.
From wikipedia: When a reactor's neutron population remains steady from one generation to the next (creating as many new neutrons as are lost), the fission chain reaction is self-sustaining and the reactor's condition is referred to as "critical".
