Giles

Oh and then I worked on democratic reform in Myanmar...

Yeah, I started my career working on tax reform and climate change policy in Australia.

It's been a rough lesson.

(I mean this as a compliment.)

#Bluesky has some real big nerd energy.

This is very fair. There's some #databs that are more #BS than others.

I mean, that's not so bad then? But, yeah LLM text is pretty bland 😂

I have a specific Claude model that I use for all my writing. I don't *love* how it writes, but it's much better than the default.

It also suggests things that I sometimes forget (like ideas I thought would be obvious).

That sense of relief when you've avoided sitting next to the guy that wants to talk about the intricacies of financial liquidation.

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I use it for ideas, but always write my own content.

For example, when I have a paragraph I can't figure out how to tighten I ask AI for inspiration.

I never use what it provides, but it has given me options I hadn't considered.

Does anybody else read #databs as #dataBS?!

When I see the tag I expect a post about B2B sales.

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It's easy to say "Isn't it great that people have constant access to food", but we've really created a nutritional hellscape that the public bears the cost for.

I remember a nutritionist saying that humans like to rationalize how we eat, but we really have no control and eat just like dogs:
When we have access to food we're highly likely to eat it.

I've been thinking about the 'food environment' since listening to a podcast on the idea and we really do make it hard for ourselves to eat well.

I'm waiting in the airport and people are surrounded by expensive and poor quality food.

People are bored and snacking on a variety of terrible food.

Can AI replace junior workers? The effect is still hard to spot in official data. But a study of 300,000 companies suggests where hiring is weakening

"...the decline over the next six quarters was 7.7% steeper at adopter firms (see chart 3). No such gap appeared in senior hiring. The kind of menial but mentally taxing work graduates do, such as debugging code or reviewing documents, seems especially easy to hand to machines..."

Yeah, the parliament survived that too. I wasn't in the country during the 2024 earthquake, but there was a small one while I was here.

Yeah, we were fine.

Eyebrows are weird.

Vanuatu is a land of contrasts....

A photograph of Vanuatu's parliament building

Some proof I'm in #Vanuatu
(This is the parliament)

Exactly. It's a bad look

A comic where a duck asks the WTP to cross the bridge

WTP #econsky
Credit: www.exocomics.com

The more I've presented, the simpler my presentation decks have become.

I want people to focus on me and my story, not the ten bullet points I've crammed into a slide.

I remember a friend who had included a regression table in his slides. When I asked why, he said:
"I'm hoping if I present details they won't ask any hard questions."

And I suspect this is the primary source of this sin.

💯!

Absolutely onboard here.

Either I'm telling a story OR the slides are, but if the latter is true why deliver the info as a presentation at all?

If you want to share details pair the presentation with a short briefing note, but don't drown the audience in detail.

Now I'm wondering how poor quality my previous posts were...
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Yeah, I've been posting much less lately.

🎶"You're so vain, I bet you think this skeet is about you..."🎶

Just a warning to that I'm going to redo my pinned bio post.

Apologies in advance for the cringe.

Google's new recaptcha panel is really confusing.

After 30 minutes trying to figure it out I went back to the old console.

You'd think they'd simplify the UI before forcing migration.

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I'd *love* this!

AI enjoyer list

Why, yes, I am an enjoyer of #AI
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