#94 - Is GPT-3 the Next Big Thing?

**Sam** (0:00)
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**Shaan** (0:32)
All right, what's up, everybody? It's July, the whole world is locked down or not locked down. We don't know what the hell is going on. But me and Sam just recorded this episode.
We talked about a bunch of things. We talked about a project that one of the podcast listeners has launched, an erotic newsletter that's doing $6,000 a month very quickly. And I think he built the project in about a month.
We talked about this crazy thing called GPT-3, which is this AI project that came out of OpenAI that everybody's losing their mind about. We talk about BNI, this old school business referral network.
And then we talked a lot about, Sam asked me a bunch of questions about life at a big company, which we're not sure if it's interesting or not. So I think we're gonna put it at the end of the episode. We're gonna chop the episode out of order. We're gonna toss that at the end. Maybe it's not interesting. Maybe it's interesting. It's up to you guys to decide. All right, hope you enjoy this episode. As always, let's do it.

**Sam** (1:30)
All right, what's going on?

**Shaan** (1:32)
Dude, I had a perfect day yesterday. I did everything that I'm supposed to do, which is great. Perfect in that my actions were perfect.
So, I feel good.

**Sam** (1:43)
And where you are, I'm obsessed with weather. Where you are, high of 82 today, currently 72 You have nice Californian weather.

**Shaan** (1:51)
I was just outside, I take all my calls by the pool. It feels fucking great. It's excellent, can't complain.

**Sam** (1:56)
So, San Francisco's been horrible weather lately. It's currently 60 degrees.
So it's been like 60 and cloudy the past week. Do you think you're happier with the sun?

**Shaan** (2:08)
For sure, yeah, for sure. Greenery and the sun, you know, I'm a human. I think that works on humans.

**Sam** (2:14)
So my wife is from Manhattan, like her mom and dad live in like the heart of Manhattan. And she's trying to convince me to move to New York. And my down, so there's two, here's the pros and cons. The cons are New York's pretty like objectively horrible weather.
Like at least nine months of the year, it's just like cold and like kind of wet and gray. And then taxes suck. And then like it's pretty, it's fairly dirty.
And crowded. And the pros are like you're like, sometimes if you're in the hustle and bustle, it can make you more ambitious and it can be inspiring, but also wear you out. But so my question is, where you've moved out to, there's way less people, it's more space. Do you think that the risk of getting fat and soft is worth the being happy with space and weather?

**Shaan** (3:09)
Yes, given where I'm at. If I was 24, I'd be like, yo, this is not the right move. In fact, when I was 23, 24, I was living a sweet life in Australia. And Australia is like sunny, you go to the beach, people don't work that hard.
Everyone in the country basically has a truce like, yo, I won't work hard if you don't work hard and we'll all stay at the top. And I was like, I got to get the fuck out of here. Like, I'm definitely going to become less ambitious, less motivated.
I'm going to become less of a person because I'm not going to challenge myself. If I stay here, I'll be so comfortable. But now where I'm at, 32 years old, sideburns all gray, you know, got a kid, got a wife, got a dog. For now, that slowdown pace and being less in the hustle and bustle. And having experienced it, I'm good. I'm ready for that next chapter now. So this is I feel good about it. But then again, I'm human and we just justify whatever the fuck we do anyway. So but I believe it. I don't I don't think I'm talking myself into a into a bad decision. I think I'm in a good decision here, especially now that everything's online, dude.
I actually believe this.