Chip Huyen: preference

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…I know you said it might be nihilistic. This is what Steve Jobs shared too in one of his most famous speeches. Just we all die someday day, so don't take things so seriously and it is freeing. Absolutely. It just makes you appreciate every moment, every day you have. Just like, yeah, let's just do something hard and scary. Okay, final question. You talked about how you're writing a novel. Most people in tech have never written something creative and fiction. What's just one thing you learned in the process about how to write better stories, better fiction? A lot of time when we read, we get tripped up by some small things. So I think I want to do creative writing because I just want to go a better writer and it tells us maybe try a different audience could have me become better at anticipating what this different type of audience would want to hear and what they care about. So it's a way for me to get a... So I think if I write it or even any kind of content creations is about predicting the user's reactions, right? The next token.…

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