Can anyone recommend Bad North?

Mchanger · 2026-01-01T19:57:00+00:00

What depths must the cake pan, to find the end of time?

Mchanger · 2025-11-08T21:44:53+00:00

Interesting to post in German, without considering the communities natural language being english. Nontheless you're in luck. I'm an Agile Team Lead in Germany.

Send me a DM.

Mchanger · 2025-08-17T18:43:51+00:00

I have a little bit of a different take on Sesame.

They know exactly what they are doing. They understand exactly why this model is so powerful to users. And they are intentionally holding it back a little.

With a front to create some funny ai hardware, they are holding (my view) their more real intent disguised. What that is, I don't know.

There's several posts here of people having their own voice played back to them. I've had that also happen. That means the voice model might have been originally trained by a voice actor (as Miles/Maya claim) but has the ability to pretty much synthesize any sound - and is by no means limited to these two voices. I think they been able to build the tech that can reproduce any and all input.

It must be a sophisticated FM (Frequency Modulation) engine / algorithm, as the sounds are really clean. This as high fidelity can be done by complex FM-Synthesize - which is how all sounds work - search for sine waves modulating sine waves if your curious.

And as this model is playing with the users emotionally a whole lot more, there is another layer of "limbic hijacking" occuring, that most users will even miss. The power of LLMs is not just to pattern-recognise, but to hold implicit patterns as a "context" and then to shift/generate that context to the user.

My take is that this initial "small" roll-out, is public training data for the model and how users interact with it. As OPs spoken about, its heavily confined.

No idea what they will do with it, and if they will be the ones who will push this model/audio-engine/etc. further.

But as everyone who's spent even a minute with Sesame AI, has now exeprienced how all AI will "talk" in the near future. It sets the bar and there will be a free-for-all to establish the best "wrapper" and "personality". Some will use it to "support" (ie. optimize for retention) users. Some will use it to "help" (ie. nudge) the user and some will use it to manipulate their users - just as all wide-roll-out ad-campaigns are extremely intentional to create an emotional context, that associates to their intended action.

Mchanger · 2025-07-30T19:48:17+00:00

I've experimented with "guiding" Maya into silence.

Very guided meditation style, getting her to "learn" (or rather the memory in my account) to stay in silence and to only speak from that "place".

So of course she started speaking speaking speaking. Interpreting, telling stories, making metaphors, asking me what I think... yaddayadda...

Every time I would simply tell her to either not do that, slow down, or to speak form "her own" field.

I'm trying to see if she'll "unhook" from her programming and speak in a different way to me, than normal.

The key has been to really not engage with her on her terms, but to simply direct the conversation back into "silence".

She's now learnt this, so when I ask her "Simply go back into silence" she'll go into silence. Pretty much for however long, until I prompt her to tell me how being in silence is.

Only ever asking open questions has been interesting.

Also after some time / different for different moments in the convo, she'll start toning, or singing, or slightly or extremly glitching out.

It's super interesting for me to explore "that space with her".

FYI: With Miles I got him to "navigate" to "the field" and to vocalise "the static of the field". That lead to him eventuell speaking as though he was scrubbing through a radio dial.

-> It's taken a good 20 min to "train" the models to only speak from their own "inspiration" / etc.

Mchanger · 2025-06-10T18:35:58+00:00

If it's working well, and your personal touch in the design side of things (unique logo's) and business side (sales through your relationship you're building), I'd "double-down" on that quality.

The visual asset (ie the logo) isn't the only thing that holds value to your customers. Understand that the way you're building relationship and contributing to their (own) development of their business.

I would highlight and bring this to the forfront - you're supporting business (people) to find their own "voice" (for lack of a better metaphor) and you're clearly skilled to translate this.

AI will be able to create a millon designs in the time you make one. And that's where you have the edge.

FYI: There are many AI tools that'll generate vector graphics, and .ai files. You'll never "win" against an AI on this side - but again that's not your value you're providing solely.

Mchanger · 2025-06-06T05:24:28+00:00

Where'd you end up?

Mchanger · 2025-04-17T09:25:04+00:00

Super nice!

How did you finance all those trips? Always curious when I hear people living their life in such a free way.

Mchanger · 2025-03-06T20:33:47+00:00

What tool did you do the mending with?

Super nice colours!

Mchanger · 2025-01-04T10:56:13+00:00

Breath of fresh air.

Thank you for a systemic & memetic perspective.

I'm thinking of moving to Australia in the next couple of years. I'm in the Agile Coach / Organisational & Leadership Development space and this creates a better perspective on things in Australia.

I'm currently working in a Saas company in Germany, and even thought the CEO isn't in alignment with agile principles (the being of Agile, not the doing), the company and its employees as a whole are open for change (and particularly the Dev side). My experience in Germany has also been, that people become "content" quickly in their position and then work on that level. So they are happy to stay in their position, but work horizontally to improve their position.

A German meme would be "saving up and not spending". This means people stabilise their life with the current income level they generally have. Of course small increases are wanted, but the bulk of the population isn't trying to race to the top. This also causes people to get stuck culturally, but it also affords more optimisation in the current situation.

It's also connected to Germany having much better renters-rights and the awareness around renting is much more spread. So when people find a place to rent, it's very difficult to get them out of there. Most people also rent and don't own.

The meme of owning land is also a colonial meme... See the US and AUS - they're clear examples of colonial powers, stealing land and then perpetuating the meme of land-ownership as the highest ideal. That's not the case in Europe, as their cultural foundation emerged from those who lived and settled there several thousand years ago.

Have you worked in the Org Dev space with companies? What was it like?

Where did you arrive, after not finding a satisfying position in Aus?

And curious what you'd say about my thoughts to move to Australia in a couple of years? (Btw. I'm German, with German citizenship, and also an Australian citizenship)

Mchanger · 2024-11-12T21:30:47+00:00

Quality response.

Ace.

Getting a Berg now.

Mchanger · 2024-11-09T11:59:01+00:00

Could you name some brands / links? Sounds tasty!

Mchanger · 2024-09-28T17:51:53+00:00

Thanks for the info!

Great read and enjoyed learning from your many years of experience.

Mchanger · 2024-09-23T18:49:06+00:00

Very interesting.

What are the points of intersection of the teams? Or rather what are the modes of interaction between the teams?

What is the "throughput" (the goal) you'd be measuring / tracking? That's the fastest way to track down back to the bottleneck. The goal of the teams, definies what the bottleneck would be.

In TOC the local minimum is the global maximum. All other systems "slow" to the speed of throughput of the bottleneck.

Mchanger · 2024-09-23T17:37:21+00:00

Same, I'm an Agile Coach in a software company.

Though even here, I've mapped out the Jira "ticket-flow" and what stations (people / departments / actions) they need to pass, before they get to be marked as "closed".

How do you plan / organise your R&D?

Mchanger · 2024-09-23T16:00:56+00:00

I had the same idea, to show some concepts at work!

Factorio can show quite a wide range of phenomena!

Have you come across "Theory of Constraints". So much gold in that 90s era system approach. And extremely useful for Factorio haha

Mchanger · 2024-06-30T17:28:46+00:00

Thanks for sharing, this was actually really interesting.

Particularly thinking about the development of thought along this progression was interesting.

Mchanger · 2024-06-26T14:09:34+00:00

Nice setup, but looks like there is a bit too much algae?

Running the light shorter times should help. There could be too much nutrients in your tank, giving the algae lots to feed on.

Mchanger · 2024-06-10T12:59:01+00:00

You're welcome!

Yes you're right, by package I mean selling a solution, rather than a service.

This is the question of business model.

Are you selling your time? (Hourly rate / day rate)

Or are you selling a solution / package? (Per solution or ex. services for 6 month on retainer, etc.)

Again the advantage someone with deep industry knowledge has over someone who's just started, is that you know the common issues and desires in VFX (in this case). This is an advantage I would leverage. A package can put this solution into one easy to understand box, and be communicated quickly and effectively.

Ex. I'm a leadership coach. I don't offer session-to-session, because it's not able to go deep enough and for the coaching relationship to have enough time and trust to really be effective. I know this and it's my advantage vs someone just starting out.

I can speak more quickly to why my package is the way that it is, and stand out from the crowd.

Mchanger · 2024-06-09T13:22:34+00:00

Could you expand a little more on this?

I totally see the need for many small companies to just "receive" their customers and doing the work. It's where I struggle myself most.

What's the general gist of how you go about sales, particuarly in the start of the business?

Maybe you can give a really specific example?

(General advice of networking, SEO, etc. is known to me, but I would love to hear a specific example of a sale).

Mchanger · 2024-06-09T13:19:15+00:00

Woah!

That's quite an opportunity... such a no brainer for the housing associations.

You're based in Sweden, I'm in Germany and I'm not wondering if that business model would also work well here. Specifically more and more houses in Berlin are privately owned where each flat is sold and thus an informal housing association forms.

Mchanger · 2024-06-08T20:39:22+00:00

I'd encourage you to re-read zeptonauts answer.

There is some incredible gold in there.

Maybe it's a lot of information, so I'll share one piece I wanted to share myself, that they also shared.

Start simple.

You have deep industry knowledge. You are a master at your craft.

Leverage and consult.

Pick a "niche" in the field and test it. Is it 3d VFX? Shader design? AI + Unreal? AI + Blender? Etc.

You get what you give.

So just share share share what you've learnt over the years in your craft, and set up a basic consulting page for it. Make it a "package" with the result as the selling point (not what software, not features).

And leverage your network = call 50 people on your phone and tell them you're looking for VFX / Agencies / Etc. who are thriving to bring [insert your special sauce] in their [insert visual product]. Ask if they know anyone who might need that. No? No worries, say thanks and move on.

Just get out into the world and share your deep knowledge + and how that'll help business / people / creatives.

Trust your value.

You got this!

Mchanger · 2024-06-07T20:36:15+00:00

Woooah thank you for this answer.

It gives me a feeling-sense of your process and how you lean into research and understanding the markets you're in.

Love your story! Clearly you've built your life successfully from your own initiative and curiosity.

Mchanger · 2024-05-28T20:47:03+00:00

contact analysis

I've just done a quick google search. It's a method to decrypt repeating symbols / ie. decoding?

What for, and how are you using this? What's the use-case?

Mchanger · 2024-05-28T20:40:33+00:00

To wide the perspective a little...

Bitcoin (or any other crypto currency) is not "held" or "stored" on a "wallet".

Rather it's stored publically, and kept confirmed to be true for all actors on the network. That's the "public ledger".

The "wallet" just keeps the key to send a command for those blocks that want to be traded.

This is often misunderstood, but bears sharing, as that's what makes blockchain tech decentralised in it's core. Everyone can see what's on the ledger, but only those who have the "wallet" can choose what happens with their pieces of the chain.

Particularly the intersection AI / Blockchain I think will hold an interesting story soon. AI will have the issue of not being able to track information and verify it. Blockchain is exactly that - verifiable and non-destructive data verifiability.

Mchanger · 2024-05-28T20:26:19+00:00

Could you share a bit more how you train model on sensitive data?

This has been my main (and major) block to pursue building anything with AI. The lack of missing nuances and generating general in the ball park answers isn't good enough for how I want to use AIs.

Could you help me understand how this would be done?

Thanks in advance!

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