[mgfist]

Neel, based on your linkedin, you're 27 or 28. You're a grown adult. Stop following your mom's orders. Quit your job, take some time off to decompress and recover from your clear burnout, then figure out what you want to do. Life isn't Microsoft or flipping burgers. There's a lot of things in between. You have one life, don't waste it trying to please others. But simultaneously, don't assume that your burnout is permanent. Just take a break my friend.

[cmdtab]

He seems to be of Indian origin. Indian households can be very tight knit and prioritize financial success a lot more.

[handfuloflight]

Tight knit might be downplaying the hold mothers of the subcontinent tend to have over their children.

[ericjmorey]

All the more reason why they need to hear the truth

[echelon]

Neel, don't crawl into a hole. Use your skill. Fuck big tech.

Let's use these LLMs that they think will replace us all to create browser agents that remove ads, tracking, click bait, attention stealing... heck, we could even de-engagement farm the internet. No more trolling, hate, or toxicity.

If we all get personal assistants at the edge on our own pane of glass and hardware, then they have to pay us for access.

Want to show me an ad? Pay up.

Neel, quite often in life it turns out that your burning problem is also a thousand other people's burning problem. In your case, it's billions.

[cmdtab]

Unrelated. What happened to your anime studio?

[echelon]

Thanks for checking in. :)

We're still working on controllable video diffusion tools for artists, and we've learned a lot. I posted a bit about it a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102395

We'll do a "Show HN" soon!

[throwaway314155]

You could remove these few sentences:

> Neel, based on your linkedin, you're 27 or 28. You're a grown adult. Stop following your mom's orders.

And be a lot less patronizing, more convincing.

(It appears you mean well though, and I do understand the point you're making in spirit).

[mgfist]

You're probably right about my tone. But I genuinely think a lot of 27 year olds don't feel like adults capable of having agency. Not long ago the average American used to have several children by that age, and today most of my friends (of similar ages) would be shocked at the prospect of having kids this young - they're just not ready yet! But that's a mindset thing. No one's ready for kids, you just do it and learn. Neel needs to be told that he's an adult, and has agency as a result of that.

(A child is a placeholder for any hard decision).