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Study great art and you always find one thing modern artists hate: limits. Dr Seuss wrote Green Egg & Ham using only 50 words; sold 200 million copies. Dostoevsky had 27 days to finish The Gambler, did it in 26. The paradox of art: freedom is boring but constraints produce beauty
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I lived in Steubenville in the mid-90s while attending the university and recently visited last October with my daughter and was shocked at how empty the city had become. Even in the 90s the city was declining in population, but now it feels like a ghost town. Steubenville's problems go beyond fewer Catholics in the pews to real economic…
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I’m hearing horror stories around full-remote dev hiring on both sides - but this is a new low: a small startup nearly hired a strong software engineer who was… a deepfake. Twice.
The second time, they got it on video: this was the deefake that was sloppy. The first one they didn’t even spot!
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Thank you for sharing, Scott. Your vulnerability and willingness to share and teach others brings sunlight to the experience, and helps all of us heal from the errors we've made.