Alessio Fanelli: belief

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…I just thought diffusion was kind of dead. Like there wasn't that much, it was just like bigger models. You know, higher detail and now auto-aggressive come along and now like the whole field is open. Yeah. Um, and I think like, if there was any real threat to like Photoshop or Canva, it's this thing. Yeah. Just to wrap up the conversation, you have a great post called, sorry, you must pass, which if I did the math right, you first wrote in 2007, the first version, and then you re-updated it post COVID, you mentioned you made a lot of changes to your schedule and your life based on the pandemic. How do you make decisions today? You know, in the, as anything changed, like since you, because you updated this in 2022 and I think now we're kind of like, you know, five years removed from COVID and all of that. I'm curious if you made any changes. Yeah. So the, so that post, sorry, must pass was the issue that happened, um, is my schedule just, and life just got overwhelmed. Right. It's like, it's just, I just, uh, too many kind of dots and connections and I love interacting with new people online. I love ideas. I love startups. There's. But as it turns out, uh, every time you say yes to anything, uh, you are by definition saying no to something else. Um, this, uh, you know, despite my best app, you know, attempts to change the laws of the universe, uh, I have not been able to do that. So that post was a reaction to that because what would happen for me, uh, would be when I did say no, I would feel this guilt because it's like, okay, well, whatever happened to me, it's like, oh, can you spend 15 minutes and just review this startup idea or whatever? It's like, uh, and sometimes it would like be someone that was second degree removed, like intro through a friend or something like that. Yeah. And I felt, uh, you know, real guilt. And so this was a very kind of honest, vulnerable, here's what's going on in my life. So, so this is not a judgment on you at all, whatever your project or whatever your thing you're working on, but I have sort of come to this realization that I just can't do it. So I'm sorry, but I, so my default thing right now, and lots of people will disagree with this kind of default position is that I have to pass because unless, and Derek Sivers said this really well, it's like either a hell yes or it's a no, right? So, and I'm going to, there's going to be a limited number of the, the hell yeses, um, that I'm going to be able to kind of inject into this. Um, so yeah, that, and that's of all the blog posts I've ever written, that has been the most useful for me. So I, um, and so, and I send it and I still send it out personally, right? I don't have a, I don't automate my email responses at all yet. Um, don't do automated social media posts. Um, but yeah, that one's been very, and I, so I encourage everyone wherever your line happens to be. I think this, um, lots of people have this guilt issue and that's one of the most unproductive emotions, uh, in, in human psychology. It's like no good comes from guilt. Not really. And unless you're like a sociopath or something like that, um, maybe you need, um, anyway, you don't need more guilt.…

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