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You ask a friend for some advice about how to implement a test in your code.

Your brilliant friend will draft a great example of a test, detailing all the information so that you can actually copy their idea to use it.

Would you trust their code?

I would probably not. I’d double-check if they understood my request and see if the code might work as expected.

Or let’s imagine a different scenario: You ask a friend about some historical fact.

They start telling you countless things, but you’re uncertain if those are all entirely true. 

To which extent do you trust them?

Here’s the thing with ChatGPT: Currently, it’s like your friend.  It can be right or wrong, but we shouldn’t assume it’s always right. We should double-check when possible and trust it like we would trust anyone. 

How many seconds can you keep your eyes entirely focused, still, while talking to someone?

Yesterday I was watching a video of Mark Walberg talking to a kid and one thing that stood out for me was how much focus he was able to devote to the kid.
100% of his attention.

He didn’t look away, he didn’t check with other people, he didn’t look back. His head and his gaze was still, looking at the small kid, waiting for his reply.How often do we focus like this? Not at work, but when talking to others. How often do we devote our entire attention to the other, to see them, to help them, to hear them? 

I find myself often moving my gaze, entertaining myself with watching other things while I talk, or even think of other topics.

How would your approach to listening to others change, if you were to shift your focus to them this way?

No matter the weather, life, or your appointments, try to always enjoy the ride and look out of the window.

With the advent of ChatGPT there is a lot of worry about what will happen to our world, how many jobs we’ll lose and so on.

Setting these topics aside, there’s an area where ChatGPT cannot enter, and that area is Live events, live connections.

At least for now, nothing in a live connection between two humans can be replaced.

All the important things about noticing the body language, using the right words, being prepared and having care and attention for the person you’re talking to, all these things, will be valued even more in a world where it’s hard to know whether you were writing to a real human or not.

Look at us! We now live in a world of abundance, of limitless possibilities, of new ideas and applications.

All of the social networks have entertaining videos, posts, etc, that will keep our attention there for any time we want so we can skip the boring stuff of life.

Like waiting, in the train, in a line, in the car. Or if you have something you don’t like, then you can also skip that.
Don’t like cooking? You can watch videos, don’t like cleaning the house? Watch videos instead.
Or maybe you’re in a boring dinner, again, the world has a solution for you.

Except… that boring stuff, is life. Life is not made of 100% exciting stuff. In fact, life is mostly made of boring stuff.
The long cycle of a flower blooming and dying is boring. We enjoy it when it’s already bloomed, but the whole process is boring.
Cooking, preparing breakfast, saying good morning.
All of this is boring stuff.

The boring stuff is the glue to everything in life. It is the water that flows and fills every place, making life what life is.
The boring stuff is what people miss of us when we’ll disappear, like the kisses on the head before going to bed, or the small things we did every day.
Those normal, repetitive, usual stuff, will leave a mark in every memory and will leave a void when you’re gone.

That void was made of boring stuff.
Yes, we can skip the boring stuff, we can distract ourselves, we can entertain ourselves.
But in doing so we’ll be missing something.
Maybe on that boring train ride we’ll see something new, meet a new friend or a new love, see a scenery we didn’t expect, notice a random act of kindness.
So many possibilities, hidden under a normal, boring, train ride.