Yeah, I agree. Though I feel I can imagine a lot of startups or businesses that require a lot of work, but donāt require as much brain power. I could have chosen a sector that doesnāt move as fast as AI (which has an endless stream of papers and posts to keep track of) and just requires me to build a useful product/āservice for people. Being in a pre-paradigmatic field where things feel like they are moving insanely fast can feel overwhelming.
I donāt know, being in a field that I think feels much more high-risk and forces me to grapple with difficult concepts every day is exhausting. I could be wrong, but I doubt Iād feel this level of exhaustion if I built an ed-tech startup (while still difficult and the market is shaky).
(Actually, one of my first cash-grabs would have been to automate digital document stuff in government since I worked in it and have contacts. I donāt think Iād feel the same intensity and shaky-ness tackling something like that since thatās partially what I did when I was there. Part of my strategy was going to be to build something that can make me a couple million when I sell it, and then go after something bigger once I have some level of stability.)
Part of what I meant by āshaky-nessā is maybe that thereās a potential for higher monetary upside with startups and so if I end up successful, thereās a money safety net I can rely on (though thereās certainly a period of shaky-ness when you start). And building a business can basically be done anywhere while for alignment I might be āforcedā to head to a hub I donāt want to move to.
Then again, I could be making a bigger deal about alignment due to bias of being in the field.
Thatās startups too, no?
Yeah, I agree. Though I feel I can imagine a lot of startups or businesses that require a lot of work, but donāt require as much brain power. I could have chosen a sector that doesnāt move as fast as AI (which has an endless stream of papers and posts to keep track of) and just requires me to build a useful product/āservice for people. Being in a pre-paradigmatic field where things feel like they are moving insanely fast can feel overwhelming.
I donāt know, being in a field that I think feels much more high-risk and forces me to grapple with difficult concepts every day is exhausting. I could be wrong, but I doubt Iād feel this level of exhaustion if I built an ed-tech startup (while still difficult and the market is shaky).
(Actually, one of my first cash-grabs would have been to automate digital document stuff in government since I worked in it and have contacts. I donāt think Iād feel the same intensity and shaky-ness tackling something like that since thatās partially what I did when I was there. Part of my strategy was going to be to build something that can make me a couple million when I sell it, and then go after something bigger once I have some level of stability.)
Part of what I meant by āshaky-nessā is maybe that thereās a potential for higher monetary upside with startups and so if I end up successful, thereās a money safety net I can rely on (though thereās certainly a period of shaky-ness when you start). And building a business can basically be done anywhere while for alignment I might be āforcedā to head to a hub I donāt want to move to.
Then again, I could be making a bigger deal about alignment due to bias of being in the field.