"The Kiss of Death Mistake"

You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?

Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.

One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.

Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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I just got temporarily laid-off -- why do I feel like I just got a vacation?

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Just got a new job. Starting on August 4th. That's despite having a very bad credit rating. AI was helpful in providing explanations, pep talk and encouraging me, and was overall a good tool. But it is still God who opens doors in the first place and the right timing. I know when AI also doesn't work on closed doors. This is a genuine opening. Mom is very excited about this. Will have to see how the caregiving situation will work at this. AI told me not to tell them about it until a few days before the start date and reach out to their HR. Hoping this works out.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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Just got a new job. Starting on August 4th. That's despite having a very bad credit rating. AI was helpful in providing explanations, pep talk and encouraging me, and was overall a good tool. But it is still God who opens doors in the first place and the right timing. I know when AI also doesn't work on closed doors. This is a genuine opening. Mom is very excited about this. Will have to see how the caregiving situation will work at this. AI told me not to tell them about it until a few days before the start date and reach out to their HR. Hoping this works out.
A man walks down the street, he says, "Why am I soft in the middle now?
Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity, I want a shot at redemption
Don't wanna end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard"

If you would be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me, you can call me AI
 

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A man walks down the street, he says, "Why am I soft in the middle now?
Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity, I want a shot at redemption
Don't wanna end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard"

If you would be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me, you can call me AI
shut up, boomer!!! if we wanted your opinion, we would ask. Haven't you broke everything (e.g., housing market) enough already..

:p hahahhahs j/k...
 

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shut up, boomer!!! if we wanted your opinion, we would ask. Haven't you broke everything (e.g., housing market) enough already..

:p hahahhahs j/k...
Don't get me started on the need for a land value tax, Millennial.
 

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In England, the employer should give the individual redundancy money for the amount of time an individual has worked for the organisation/company. Redundancy money is usually paid.

I'm not sure how it works over there.

I hope it all works out well and make wise use of the available time.

Congratulations on your new job.
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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Doing some caregiving tracking with AI:
Doing a shadow WFH before the Aug 4th start date and logging in caregiving tasks between the shift hours.
1) Yesterday, I had 98 minutes in caregiving tasks during the same overlapping scheduled full time job
2) Today it is like 3.5 hours - 4 hours.
Think I'm a bit worried about how this is going to play out because caregiving is a much bigger disruption than I had anticipated.
Lets see what this AI thing is going help navigate this with HR.
I wonder if we are talking about magic here because the numbers don't make sense.
This thing can only write polished letters to the right people, with my direction of course so it doesn't come across too AIish.
 

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I got a 13 week vacation to be precise...turns out 65 other people got a "vacation" too.

Isn't it great when your employer hands out "vacations" to people because businesss is slow?

I didn't have to even ask for this "vacation time". The weather is so great and look forward to the next few months.

I might also have to look at some other jobs while on "vacation" (but I might get recalled back if I don't).

Believe me when I said this. I tried to put on an act and pretend to be disappointed. I think I sold it.

Obviously I made sure not to thank the employer for the "vacation" as it's a lay-off and had to pretend to be disappointed and measured.

It's party time now! It's 2:06pm and I would be 6 minutes late for work. Oh wait, the whole day is free!
How are unemployment benefits in CA? :)
 

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How are unemployment benefits in CA? :)
I'm getting paid more from EI compared to my recent salary with the previous job. It's a long story how to explain the math.

However, EI may be short-lived because I'm going to be working at a new job.

Once I start working, then EI benefits stop. So long as I don't quit (usually probation doesn't lead to an "at cause" dismissal, so EI would probably be safe there) then the EI benefits would continue after.

However, my goal is not to stay on EI. My goal is to get a job that pays better than the previous job and is helps bring me out of poverty.
There is nothing worst than being in a soul-sucking job, and even if you do well and make allot of sales, the ship is still sinking because they are not paying properly. This new job I'm going to will pay well if I bring home the bacon, and pay commissions percentage, not "dollar store" incentives like the previous job (ie at least when I was doing it and was successful with it).
 

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Just gave the three weeks notice to the old company and synched the start date of the new company to align with the 3 week notice period. This is the first time resigning from a company that laid me off. However, I want to make sure the break is clean.
 

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After starting this new job, I'm now on a PIP, and just saw another lady at this job, whose probation period almost was about to run out, with her account "deactivated"...from my looking at the stats, it appears she even started that morning to work. I have one week on this PIP, but so far have saved enough EI hours for just medical (need 600 hours, crossed that milestone last week). I'm close to the 700 insurable hours. It would be interesting how the next week will unfold. So far it looks like I did ask for overtime today and it looks like I'm coming up with a narrative that they just released fresh leads. I would also have to look at other options such as taking one week off (ie caregiving leave). That would be in the event the following week is not successful (I'm not thinking of taking the actual week on the PIP plan off especially since fresh leads were still recently released).
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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I was working remotely for this one company for 3.5 years. I think I probably clocked in less than 5 hours/week on average of work. Basically a loooong vacation.

The last 6 months of that job I roadtripped the entire country. At the end of that roadtrip I got laid off, and they paid me 3 months of severance + year end bonus.

Just LOOOOL it was one of the happiest moments of my life
 

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The best feeling is that stretch of time you have before you start a new job. If I get a job offer I ALWAYS say I need 3-4 weeks before I can start (because i'm such a good employee, I need more time to settle all my affairs at my current job) then just quit with no notice and enjoy the next 3-4 weeks off. Best way to get a guaranteed vacation.

Alternatively you can just not work and force them to fire you; if its WFH you might be able to get away with not working for months before they fire you.
 

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The best feeling is that stretch of time you have before you start a new job. If I get a job offer I ALWAYS say I need 3-4 weeks before I can start (because i'm such a good employee, I need more time to settle all my affairs at my current job) then just quit with no notice and enjoy the next 3-4 weeks off. Best way to get a guaranteed vacation.

Alternatively you can just not work and force them to fire you; if its WFH you might be able to get away with not working for months before they fire you.
I don't get that first scenario. You're quitting but not getting paid. That's a guaranteed vacation but it's unpaid..
 

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I have still survived...this is the last week before the officialy probation ends. This will result in either confirmation that I'm suited for the role and the job continues beyond this week, or vacation-time again. Either way the probation will be resolved this week. Numbers looking great so far. The PIP is working out and AI is helping develop new scripts for customers and ways of handling the calls that are more psychologically sustainable. Several people were fired during probation so I thought I was going to be next but pulled through each time so far that when I thought it would be my turn...that time never came. Despite the great results, in sales, you are only as good as the last week, and I've had days where I made no sale despite my best efforts. Lets see how this week goes.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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I got a 13 week vacation to be precise...turns out 65 other people got a "vacation" too.

Isn't it great when your employer hands out "vacations" to people because businesss is slow?

I didn't have to even ask for this "vacation time". The weather is so great and look forward to the next few months.

I might also have to look at some other jobs while on "vacation" (but I might get recalled back if I don't).

Believe me when I said this. I tried to put on an act and pretend to be disappointed. I think I sold it.

Obviously I made sure not to thank the employer for the "vacation" as it's a lay-off and had to pretend to be disappointed and measured.

It's party time now! It's 2:06pm and I would be 6 minutes late for work. Oh wait, the whole day is free!

Unfortunately, I don't think you'll be the first. Hope you're navigating this well though. FYI -there is a light at the end of this tunnel, that's what i'm building towards.

I've been neck deep in AI. Data is showing this wave will reach 50% white collar job impact/replacement via AI by 2032. I was sharing this to our strategy department two years but they thought it was too early. I quit big tech earlier this year because they're just too slow compared to the speed of which AI is moving at. The below data shows 45% by 2032. If you add in what's already been impacted, it will put us at roughly 50%. I shared this data a couple of years and ago, and mentioned internally that teams need to move faster and build faster as RL (recursive learning) will improve to the point where AI will paint the landscape of human civilization and society in a few years. Then it will utilize energy to quickly fill in different pieces of the puzzle. I think people fighting to hang out to trying to out execute AI will be in for a rude awakening when they realize this thing called AI never sleeps and thinks 1000x faster than you do and is trained on everything that humans have documented.

I'm building a tool specifically for those who are or will be laid off and are tired of being employed or having their income controlled by a 3rd party corporation and or government. Use personalized AI agents to help those laid off build a unique and defensible revenue stream that doesn't rely on an outside corporation/third party, have it take 20% of your time (instead of like 80%) and produce 3x-10x the income. I don't think money will be too relevant in the future so the goal is to make a bunch of it as fast as possible with the short period of time where it is relevant.

You can check it out at Raya.ai and happy to give you a walkthrough.

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Unfortunately, I don't think you'll be the first. Hope you're navigating this well though. FYI -there is a light at the end of this tunnel, that's what i'm building towards.

I've been neck deep in AI. Data is showing this wave will reach 50% white collar job impact/replacement via AI by 2032. I was sharing this to our strategy department two years but they thought it was too early. I quit big tech earlier this year because they're just too slow compared to the speed of which AI is moving at. The below data shows 45% by 2032. If you add in what's already been impacted, it will put us at roughly 50%. I shared this data a couple of years and ago, and mentioned internally that teams need to move faster and build faster as RL (recursive learning) will improve to the point where AI will paint the landscape of human civilization and society in a few years. Then it will utilize energy to quickly fill in different pieces of the puzzle. I think people fighting to hang out to trying to out execute AI will be in for a rude awakening when they realize this thing called AI never sleeps and thinks 1000x faster than you do and is trained on everything that humans have documented.

I'm building a tool specifically for those who are or will be laid off and are tired of being employed or having their income controlled by a 3rd party corporation and or government. Use personalized AI agents to help those laid off build a unique and defensible revenue stream that doesn't rely on an outside corporation/third party, have it take 20% of your time (instead of like 80%) and produce 3x-10x the income. I don't think money will be too relevant in the future so the goal is to make a bunch of it as fast as possible with the short period of time where it is relevant.

You can check it out at Raya.ai and happy to give you a walkthrough.

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Maybe this is irrelevant, or perhaps it relates to current events. I don’t have anywhere else to post it, but I mentioned that I work for an oil and gas company in Canada, and we’re currently under a hiring freeze that originated in the U.S. The last hiring freeze we had was in 2008, and it basically means the company wants to get ahead of the curve and is anticipating a recession.

The funny thing is that they’re no longer hiring for corporate or office positions. Most of the jobs they’re currently hiring for are boots-on-the-ground roles, like delivery drivers, gas fillers, and store managers. Even sales reps, whose main focus is account management and acquiring new customers, are affected by the freeze.

Some colleges are also concerned because Microsoft even offered 25% voluntary layoffs at the company, which is absurd.

I guess this is just FYI.
 
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Unfortunately, I don't think you'll be the first. Hope you're navigating this well though. FYI -there is a light at the end of this tunnel, that's what i'm building towards.

I've been neck deep in AI. Data is showing this wave will reach 50% white collar job impact/replacement via AI by 2032. I was sharing this to our strategy department two years but they thought it was too early. I quit big tech earlier this year because they're just too slow compared to the speed of which AI is moving at. The below data shows 45% by 2032. If you add in what's already been impacted, it will put us at roughly 50%. I shared this data a couple of years and ago, and mentioned internally that teams need to move faster and build faster as RL (recursive learning) will improve to the point where AI will paint the landscape of human civilization and society in a few years. Then it will utilize energy to quickly fill in different pieces of the puzzle. I think people fighting to hang out to trying to out execute AI will be in for a rude awakening when they realize this thing called AI never sleeps and thinks 1000x faster than you do and is trained on everything that humans have documented.

I'm building a tool specifically for those who are or will be laid off and are tired of being employed or having their income controlled by a 3rd party corporation and or government. Use personalized AI agents to help those laid off build a unique and defensible revenue stream that doesn't rely on an outside corporation/third party, have it take 20% of your time (instead of like 80%) and produce 3x-10x the income. I don't think money will be too relevant in the future so the goal is to make a bunch of it as fast as possible with the short period of time where it is relevant.

You can check it out at Raya.ai and happy to give you a walkthrough.

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That's all fascinating. I'm glad to work with my hands, because robotics have not yet duplicated the dexterity of the human hand. But it's coming. And when that happens, your statistic will apply to blue collar jobs as well.
 

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That's all fascinating. I'm glad to work with my hands, because robotics have not yet duplicated the dexterity of the human hand. But it's coming. And when that happens, your statistic will apply to blue collar jobs as well.
Exactly. The same will hit manual labor jobs. Just a few years later.

There will be some manual labor jobs that last a bit longer than a few years. Mainly the ones that have very unique scenario's that are hard to replicate data/automation for well. Like welding in weird positions aka underwater or through some rocks. Plumbing and fixes. These survive longer just because its hard to get a repetitive data point that replicates that exact scenario. Prolongs the inevitable but doesn't save you.

I'm not too concerned about post 2032 which is when most of blue collar jobs get hit mainly because by then it won't matter.

What I call the "Golden cage", gets raised in 2032, majority of the easy fruit to make money will be gone. 2032 ASI is showing full integration by governments. It's a double edge sword of utopia/dystopia. At that point UBI or Elon Musk's UHI (universal high income) becomes a necessity and likely on-chain of some sort. People won't have the ability to make money, and company by company and industry by industry will get assimilated into one. So even if you have money, there's no way to make more of it because all the companies get bought up, and all the middle men get removed. Countries within 100 years likely will be assimilated and merged into one.

Programs to track who needs what, and who gets what. You'll have everything you need but you'll have to pay extra for everything you want. Eventually, there will be an abundance of everything you need, but it will be heavily regulated and tracked. Like healthcare will track all your movement, etc. If you don't complete the minimums than perhaps your on-chain funds only purchase X amount of food or your food selections get limited to address you not staying on program, as that's the optimal way of dealing with it.

Money becomes irrelevant at this point as every has the same level of income, and the few rich survivors do get richer get they quickly get assimilated one by one. Essentially becomes a hive mind.

Most people are oblivious to this and don't understand AI acceleration. we're moving at 30 years digitally to 1 equivalent human year. By 2032 we'll be moving 300+ years digitally in a single year, that will make it's way into the physical world as well and catch up very quickly. So imagine things to get weird and get weird fast.

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So it's not a matter of working with your hands. The only that really matters short term is energy/compute and indefinitely is creativity or what I call "creative novelty". I write about it here in https://raya.ai/whitepaper . Since energy/compute is only a short term solution as that eventually gets assimilated and is also extremely expensive, the focus should be on developing and scaling creativity. Specifically, creative novelty, data outside of the bounds of AI's computational limits. It's already doing art better than artists, design better than designers, but if you are able to create something truly outside of the limits of what society has seen before, this is the only type of data after next year that AI can really use to self optimize. So if you have this ability, you're a billionaire.

The real currency of the future is not money, it's creativity. Also, if you don't want to be trapped in the golden cage, I would recommending you get off grid and become self sustainable. That's my plan. If you're in the grid/society post 2032 ish and you don't have a means to leave, it will be extremely difficult. Not necessarily due to physical restrictions, but you just won't control resources to allow yourself to detach from it. You will become completely reliant on it.

Raya.ai, the product i'm building is specifically for the group that wants to detach from the grid. Labeling them sovereigns as they're people who want sovereignty. I think it's also a strong philosophy that has been entrenched here in SS. Basically taking control of not only your relationships, but every aspect of your life back into your own hands. It's very anti EU and china philosphy where the state kind of controls everything but as an american, I believe a large group will be for this.
 
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