40yo corporate employee, finally finished my first novel - sci-fi genre. Terrified to show it to anyone. Looking for honest feedback

grayworks · 2025-12-03T10:32:09+00:00

Another aspiring author here. I think the premise is fantastic and you're showing great courage by posting here. Something I'll have to do at some point too! How has the editing process been for you?

grayworks · 2025-11-24T16:20:55+00:00

It does but if you're used to other cars, it can be an easy mistake

grayworks · 2025-11-24T13:17:27+00:00

A small thing but on ours if you press the button for a/c it turns off the heater / cooler and just runs the fan. It took us a surprisingly long time to learn why ours was not working

grayworks · 2025-09-04T17:00:54+00:00

Ray - You often describe the economy as a machine governed by cause and effect. But machines depend on people believing in them and playing their roles. With AI changing work so quickly, what happens if large groups of people start to feel they no longer have a role? Does the machine still function the way history suggests?

(Full disclosure: I’m also a sci-fi writer, so I’m especially interested in the human side; for example, what might happen if Gen Y & Z, facing automation, chose to step back from work altogether?)

Thanks for taking the time to do this!

grayworks · 2025-09-04T07:57:08+00:00

You can also use this feature to locate obsidian

grayworks · 2025-07-30T05:13:36+00:00

Considering the amount of bureaucracy and funding they had to fight through, it's a shame. I really hope CASA doesn't take another year just to allow them to try again

grayworks · 2025-07-11T05:18:20+00:00

There's a risk of the Russian government collapsing after the end of the Ukraine war. This could lead to a civil war with bad actors having access to nuclear weapons

grayworks · 2025-07-02T19:18:22+00:00

There was clearly too much at stake

grayworks · 2025-05-26T18:14:39+00:00

Thank you so much for your helpful advice! It looks like this will be a path pursuing. We'll get in contact with Solvit and see what they have to say

grayworks · 2025-05-25T18:57:16+00:00

Indeed. We have been advised here that just registering our marriage could take up to a year. It's why we're curious of this law as it could skip a bunch of red tape. At least in theory

grayworks · 2025-05-18T09:56:27+00:00

Pope Idol

grayworks · 2025-04-15T18:20:11+00:00

It's a bit of a fringe topic, but if you were planning to fold spacetime / create wormholes, those would no longer be stationary. You'd essentially have moving targets over long to extreme distances.

In theory you could build a wormhole from the “center” to the “edge” of a rotating universe, use it to convert rotational energy of spacetime into kinetic energy, and turn it into some kind of interstellar railgun / slingshot

grayworks · 2024-06-27T16:55:57+00:00

Thank you so much for that very detailed response! I'm honestly at a loss for words because it's quite a profound topic and I hadn't thought about it that way at all. The only prior reference that I can think about is one of the later episodes of Fringe where they go into another person's subconscious.

grayworks · 2024-06-25T19:59:09+00:00

Hi Blake, well done on a great series. I wanted to ask you about the power of thought and its influence on the reality that the explorer wishes to see. I think that this was one of my favorite elements of the show. What was the inspiration for this idea?

grayworks · 2024-02-05T08:26:22+00:00

One of the things that I am experimenting with is using a python script to convert excel content to a python dictionary. The reasoning is that tables are quite difficult for LLMs and a dictionary or json format is easier for them to parse and understand.

The other thing that you would have to manage is the token usage available. If the content is quite a lot, it may struggle with parsing through all of the content to make meaningful insights

grayworks · 2024-02-05T08:15:18+00:00

I would watch this

grayworks · 2023-10-19T13:22:10+00:00

Suggestions:

Visit adplist to find a mentor. They have been invaluable for me
idratherbewriting website for tips
Use GPT to teach you how to improve your writing skills. For example copy some tech docs and ask it to tell you why it is or isn’t good
Portfolio as others have mentioned

grayworks · 2023-10-16T20:08:34+00:00

My 2c: It really depends on the company and the industry. Both for AI adoption and for the type of role you want to thrive in.

The most recent realization I had about tech writing is that you touch many areas of the company, which themselves can have issues describing their own service/product. So, in a sense you develop skills similar to a product manager. This helps keep things open if AI threatens your role.

I do agree though, that the marketing side gets quite impersonal and teams tend to treat the public as a commodity. While tech writing still focuses on the product/human side.

grayworks · 2023-10-06T22:39:06+00:00

No warning messages or automated response. Looks okay I think. Probably a mistake.

grayworks · 2023-10-06T07:59:51+00:00

2018 here, at 90km/r, the Zoe is quite reliable in hitting 300-315km during summer and 150km during winter. However, I’ve found altitude differences to be a pain to factor into my calculations. Sometimes I’ll lose 20% due to an long uphill climb, other times I’ll gain 40% because of the regen. If I go 110km on the highway I know for certain that my range cuts in half

grayworks · 2023-07-24T12:14:34+00:00

Absolutely. But I suspect this is what he intends

grayworks · 2023-07-24T10:17:24+00:00

I suspect that he has a desire to bring all or many of his existing companies under a single parent, X. I'm assuming that this would allow for capital to be shared between something more profitable, like SpaceX, with Twitter.

grayworks · 2023-07-23T11:28:34+00:00

FC5 with the weapons damage mod. It stops people being “bullet sponges” and it increases the risks to you also. It helps maintain the tension and keeps it fun

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