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"The Balancing Act: Reflections on TSMC's Customer Focus and Personal Fulfillment"

Feb 7, 2024 - 10:53pmSummary: The speaker reflects on the customer-focused approach of TSMC and its importance in business, while also discussing a personal struggle with balancing self-focus and advancing the interests of others. They find satisfaction in moving the ball forward for other people and are working to create tools that fulfill initial promises and improve ease of use. The "burrito project" mentioned seems to involve creating fundamental tools, exploring AI, and making computer tools more accessible, highlighting the magic and potential of fetching personal data with simple requests.

Transcript: Some things, I mean, you know, I mean, it's TSMC, but that they really care about their customers and yeah, I don't know. I think that's obviously in business, something very important and I guess maybe something I'm struggling with at this moment because I have people wanting to use the thing, but I'm kind of focusing on myself a bit. And I don't know how good that feels. Like I'm okay with it for like a day or two, but when I can like move the ball forward for other people, it definitely does feel better. Um, it's finding that right balance of like, how do I provide the tools that make it possible to do the things that people want, you know, is build them to the initial promise and then move them over the line. And when I think about the burrito project, a lot of it is fundamentally tools. I mean, at least that's what I hope. Some of it's like me discovering like how AI works right now. And some of it's like, well, I want to make tools, computer tools easier for everyone. Like it's not perfect right now, but it's magic that I can just fetch arbitrary personal data via, you know, fetch request more or less. It's, it's like pretty cool.

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