PJM - November '22

Anybody else put on 5 lbs this month!? For me it wasn't even Thanksgiving πŸ¦ƒ - whenever I'm swamped with work I stress eat... +5 for November.

This month a bombshell dropped in the tech industry (well every industry is potentially affected) that I'm sure you've heard about by now: OpenAI's ChatGPT...

I was going through a new dev course and trying to figure out a complex task at my job when this dropped...and ohh boy is this an absolute game changer. I could have spent days trying to figure out this 1 task - and no joke, it took me less than 1 hour tweaking with ChatGPT (terrible name I know 🀣).

I'm not saying this is going to replace engineers - but it'll probably be like doing math without a calculator. Sure you can do it, but I'd trust my 5-yr old niece with an iPhone over your monkey brain πŸ’πŸ§ 

PROJECT UPDATES...

NADA

Still working a full-time gig + another side client. I have been slowly working through the new MasteringNuxt course to stay on top of the game.

CURRENTLY LIVING IN...

NEW JERSEY πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

As beautiful & amazing as October was - ehh November kinda sucked 🀣.

Hey - you gotta experience boring, shitty months to appreciate the beautiful, exciting times of the year ;) #seasons

That being said - it is fabulous after 2-3 years of being abroad during COVID to finally be back with family during the holidays πŸ¦ƒπŸŽ„πŸŽ…πŸ»πŸŽ‰

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CONTENT FROM NOVEMBER...

Business | Marketing

Most of what you see at first on Amazon is now an ad. I think now is the opportune moment for another player to enter the space. It's not just the ads - the product quality, the hacked reviews, the list goes on...

Seriously great job of marketing here. Between the Zuckerberg Icelandverse and this - Iceland is definitely winning at the marketing Olympics.

Design | Development

A good perspective from a Site Reliability Engineer from Twitter. It was interesting to read about how the systems held up after laying off more than 50% of the company.

Travel & Remote Work

πŸ™‹πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ I was one of those people that tweeted @bchesky on Twitter about this. To his credit he responded to me directly and said this is something they need to fix. Sooo yeah - I think he really meant it when he said he heard it "loud and clear" ...you're welcome ;)

This not only saves people's time, it actually benefits the company even more.

Science

Tristan back proving that social media boosts the worst parts of humanity.

Knowledge is not free. You have to pay attention. -Richard Feynman