S1: Watch a number of videos. Last night, I believe, about
S1: people losing their jobs and starting like a YouTube channel
S1: and like just trying to branch out and maybe start
S1: a new career. And it was extremely sad. And I
S1: watched like two of these. And of course the feed
S1: showed me like ten more. And I ended up just
S1: watching these videos for like an hour and a half,
S1: two hours. And it was extremely sad. I feel like
S1: people are seeing the ground shift underneath their feet and
S1: they're like, why does nobody want me? Right. This one
S1: particular one was really sad because he was like, I
S1: thought I was a good product manager. And then after
S1: ten and a half months of interviewing and getting all
S1: the way through interviews and getting to the very end,
S1: and then not being given an offer or being given
S1: an offer and then being ghosted. After ten and a
S1: half months, I no longer believe in myself. I no
S1: longer believe I'm a good product manager, and it was
S1: just devastating to hear this and this. He was being
S1: so like, just open and honest and vulnerable. And it
S1: was just it was hard to watch and just felt
S1: very human. And this is essentially why I'm doing what
S1: I'm doing now is to basically try to. Help people
S1: who are in that situation and try to hopefully explain
S1: what I. See coming in terms of like. You shouldn't
S1: judge yourself based on what these companies think about your
S1: skills and what they think about your worth. Um, they
S1: do not determine your worth. And this is why we
S1: need something like human 3.0 is because human 3.0 is
S1: how to measure yourself. Okay, you in your entirety. Full
S1: spectrum is how you should be thinking about yourself, not
S1: in terms of do you have these particular product management
S1: skills that this particular type of startup needs or this
S1: particular type of company needs? That is a very old
S1: world way of thinking about things. And I don't fault
S1: anyone for thinking that way because you're trying to get
S1: a job, you're trying to pay bills, right? So I
S1: understand that. I'm just saying that society as a whole
S1: is stuck in the past in seeing the world in
S1: this way, and we need to move beyond it, especially
S1: because AI is going to accelerate this whole process where
S1: they're going to see more and more people as expendable
S1: in this way, the same way that this guy was
S1: fired in ten and a half months later, he still
S1: can't get a job. That's going to keep happening to
S1: more and more people, and we need a solution. So.
S1: I would say be kind to people. Everyone is hurting
S1: in some kind of way, and especially right now. And.
S1: When you look at our politics, I see a lot
S1: of the current situation as a symptom of people being
S1: hurt and people being afraid. And I think that makes
S1: people more mean and less empathic than they otherwise would be.
S1: And got this great quote here. Kindness is a language
S1: which the deaf can hear and the blind can see
S1: by Mark Twain.