Zvi Mowshowitz: belief

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…Yeah. For me, I need to maybe know when to cut my losses a little bit more. I have I'm very stubborn or somehow I feel like I have because I've set this expectation, if only for myself, that I'm gonna do a song for every episode. Now it's like, I really wanna follow through and actually make that happen. And I'm very reluctant to say, yeah. This one isn't working. I'll just ship this one without a song. I probably should be a lot more willing to do that because that would if I could cut my losses at the right time where it's like, you know what? I'm five generations in, and haven't heard anything good. I would save 90% of the time that I'm currently putting into something like that. But it it would involve, like, admitting defeat in certain moments. And for some reason, I have a real hard time doing that. I I respect that. I think there's a good value in saying I'm always gonna do this thing even though this thing is hard, even though this thing doesn't always work out. And even if I'm not happy fully with the result, I'm gonna put out something no matter what. And then that gives you a discipline. Right? The same way that people say write every day. Right? Or work at your art every day or whatever it is because it makes you better. Because you need to just create a thousand ways not to make a light bulb until you can make a light bulb. You can't give up. And similarly, I have to choose an image. Right? I have to do the thing. With the AI editing, there was one post in the last week where I said, no. The speed premium here is really high. It's just not worth waiting half an hour to make this process happen. Half of which is waiting for the AIs to come back with the answer and half of which is implementing it. And I just I should just post now. And in hindsight, I'm very happy with that. Sometimes you're actively worried half an hour later, the post will need more editing for new events and suddenly you'll never get it out. And this this loop will keep happening. And so, you know, I think you do have to understand that sometimes the minimum viable product is what you should ship. Right? Sometimes, like, you gotta understand, just ship it. Right? Like and, you know, vibe coding again, like, if you're coding lots of new tools that you would never have coded before, then unless those tools are in turn saving you time, you're spending extra time, and you're now super extra busy. But if you're replacing things that you would have done anyway, but would have taken much longer, now you're saving tons of time. Right? So, you know, we need to all orient towards how do we save more time, including, like, real time experiential time, not just, like, time per task or time to accomplish the same thing, but save time. Like, preserve Slack, preserve our free time. Because I do think that, like, the standard of what you will do in a day has gone dramatically up and we haven't noticed in the last five years. Right? Like, it's what you were expected to accomplish. I mean, may maybe some of this is just me being in a special situation personally, but I think a lot of it isn't. I think a lot of it is now that we can be much more productive, much more is expected of us. You know, the whole, like,…

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