the second-worst dinners are fundraisers and the WORST dinners are fancy auctions — do everything possible to avoid those dinners - Auren Hoffman

Gen X is the punching bag generation
it is the generation that everyone else equally hates ... and yet it will likely be the one that is called upon to steer us out the mess

traditionally monopolies' products do not improve much. and competition forces products to be better.

today, the opposite is happening.
high-competition spaces (like universities) are getting worse. low-competition spaces (like Amazon, Apple, Google) are getting better.

humans are monogamous but LLMs are polyamorous.
in 2024, we'll see LLMs in relationships with multiple other LLMs.