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"Recognizing the Need for Help: A Journey to Overcome Isolation"

Jan 28, 2024 - 8:47pmSummary: The speaker recognizes their tendency to isolate themselves and sees the benefit of reaching out to others for help, as recent calls with Shahrouz and Raphael have been productive. They acknowledge the need to ask for help when stuck and set an intention to improve in this area. They also believe a computer could assist by recognizing their frustration and suggesting actions like meditation or consulting a domain expert like Raphael, potentially advancing their progress.

Transcript: I also want to make a note about, again, how I'm very good at staying in my hole. Very good at staying in my hole and not talking to other people or only talking when I think I'm ready or some shit. Yeah, I want to really do better with that because, I mean, it's just obvious that that call helped dramatically. And it's also obvious to me that I had a call with Shahrouz last week that was also great. And I had a call with Raphael the other week that was also great. And it's so great, I mean, to be like, it moved the ball forward for me. It wasn't... When I get stuck on something, I'm trying to articulate this to myself right now. When I get stuck on something, that's probably a good time to ask for some help, is take a breath and talk to someone. Reach out to someone who has expertise and might be willing to have a conversation. So I think that's where I want to go, for sure. And I want to do better at that. For me, that is another intention that I just came up with right now. My intention is to do better with that. And I do believe that a computer can help me with that. And I can articulate how as well. I think that's a big thing. I don't know how right now it can observe that I'm stuck. I probably am talking to it at the moment because I'm a weirdo like that. But I imagine that there's some way semantically to understand that I'm frustrated. And just assuming that's possible, probably what it should do is say, maybe you should take some time to meditate. Also because I have an intention to meditate. And also that probably in the meditation, it will give me time to breathe, step back from the problem. And maybe along in the meditation, I come to the conclusion myself that now might be a good time to talk to someone. And maybe if I've already meditated, maybe it can just suggest like, hey, do you want to talk to Raphael about this? Because he's kind of a domain expert in the problem that you're having or whatever. Probably would be helpful. So yes, that's something, I guess.

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