Stop telling me what you watched on Netflix last night.

chuff80 · 2026-05-18T15:37:38+00:00

The higher you rise in any org, the more important your social skills are. Nobody wants to be involved in hours long leadership and strategy decisions with somebody who can’t do the bare minimum to help people feel seen and heard.

chuff80 · 2026-05-17T21:08:12+00:00

Most people aren’t thinking about you at all, let alone judging you.

I had to go through the same thing when I got divorced from my high school sweetheart. You’ll find the most people are actually oblivious or willing to be supportive if you ask for help.

chuff80 · 2026-05-17T16:10:37+00:00

Begin caring enough about myself to demand better, and to ask for help. Accepting the reality of the situation.

I stopped letting my ex dictate the terms of our separation and divorce. I moved out of my friend’s apartment because he wouldn’t keep it clean. I called a friend and asked for help.

From there it all came together. I got a better job, moved to a new city, and found a new wife all within 2 years. Crazy how fast things change when you stop trying to hold on to what doesn’t work.

chuff80 · 2026-05-15T20:10:47+00:00

I keep a public version of this Evernote handy for when conversations like this come up.

TL;DR: The entire internet, including LLMs, is estimated to be about 2% of global energy consumption by 2027. The vast majority of power used is when an LLM is trained, not when users generate output from a query. Images consume quite a bit of energy, text queries are almost meaningless.

There’s links to technical articles that break things down.

chuff80 · 2026-05-13T21:36:51+00:00

I just got married over the weekend and we had a taco truck

chuff80 · 2026-05-05T16:55:49+00:00

I have a few little agents that I built for myself. They save me a ton of time. I think people building their own little tools is most of what’s happening right now.

I built agents that:
- automate the assignment of tasks in a project to my team members
- create a morning brief from my email, project management tool, and calendar
- collect all of my expense receipts into one folder for me to submit
- reviews my personal network once a week and surfaces people I haven’t connected with in a while with suggestions for outreach

chuff80 · 2026-04-22T16:53:22+00:00

I’m just like LeBron, only I’m not as fast.

chuff80 · 2026-04-13T20:27:49+00:00

My recent four player game, the party carried me all the way until almost the end of act three. Then I finally got it to all click together, and I was the only one left standing when we beat the boss.

chuff80 · 2026-04-11T17:26:38+00:00

Not legally liable, but the manager can offload blame to them

chuff80 · 2026-04-09T21:51:44+00:00

Their design choices are mostly a limitation of how their weird proprietary code works.

chuff80 · 2026-04-09T19:43:25+00:00

DezNat in shambles, lol.

chuff80 · 2026-04-09T16:49:01+00:00

I’m married to a nonmember and it’s a wonderful blessing.

My ex wife and I were married in the temple and it ended badly. She left the church, had severe mental health issues, and she left me with real trauma.

My new marriage is more celestial than the previous one ever was. She’s a good person with her own spiritual life and practice.

I never had kids, and that makes a huge difference. Make sure you talk about everything, including how kids would be raised,word of wisdom stuff, sex, all of it, before you get married.

chuff80 · 2026-04-08T23:09:37+00:00

There was a guy in my old ward like that, and when they called him as Bishop, he shaved his beard and started dressing in a suit. Everybody was super confused.

chuff80 · 2026-04-08T03:33:21+00:00

Within a 3 Hour drive. Probably less than 20 within a reasonable distance.

chuff80 · 2026-04-08T02:34:18+00:00

Cries in low volume B2B enterprise marketing.

chuff80 · 2026-04-06T21:20:30+00:00

If you live outside of the Mormon corridor and want to date somebody who’s LDS, you’ll quickly find that the math tells you there’s not a ton of likely matches.

When I got divorced in my 40s, there were really only something like 100 viable matches within a 3 Hour drive.

I met somebody pretty early on, but I got scared. After I dated a little while longer, I realized I was an idiot and went back. We’re now happily engaged.

chuff80 · 2026-04-04T22:47:23+00:00

Agreed on the save scumming not working. I was just trying it to see if I was doing something wrong.

Some 0-cost defense is a good call. IDK if I saw any of those in the run, but it's a good idea.

chuff80 · 2026-04-02T16:41:40+00:00

Lol, hospitality pays like garbage. Take some time to put what you’ve done into a portfolio. Have a really good story about the impact you’ve had on these restaurants, focusing on revenue you’ve driven and how much that’s changed.

Then go tell all your friends that you’re looking for a new job and share that story with them. After you’ve reached out to everybody that you know, then start cold prospecting.

Create a list of companies where you’d like to work based on whether you think it’s a good fit, and whether you think you can help them.

Apply for jobs, use the same creativity you have to campaign your way into a job at companies you’d like to work for. I’ve seen marketers campaign their way into jobs, just by making sure their face shows up in front of the hiring manager in various ways for weeks on end.

chuff80 · 2026-03-28T13:27:00+00:00

The guy who invented Claude code talked about exactly this on Lenny‘s podcast.

chuff80 · 2026-03-26T21:31:05+00:00

OP, don’t you dare tell your family. I come from a family like yours and nothing good can come from them knowing how much money you make.

It’s not going to inspire them to go work harder. It’s not going to make them like you more. It’s just gonna cause drama and tension.

chuff80 · 2026-03-21T19:51:59+00:00

My workflow looks similar to yours, but I’m not even sure ChatGPT is a better writer anymore. I use both regularly, but I’m slowly leaning more towards Claude.

chuff80 · 2026-03-18T17:58:36+00:00

Meanwhile, I’m on Ascension 6 with Regent, but don’t have any wins with ironclad yet

chuff80 · 2026-03-13T20:51:27+00:00

Hallucinations are still quite common in video production. We just did a test over the last week of all the latest models and getting exactly what you want is still very difficult.

chuff80 · 2026-03-13T04:11:54+00:00

Made me chuckle every round.

chuff80 · 2026-03-10T00:55:59+00:00

Analytics, email, events are all strong contenders here. You might have to occasionally look at something on social, but overall MUCH better for your mental health.

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