Ship Public Work, Cut Social Noise | Generated by AI
Given your situation — contractor at the bank, mortgage at 900K, two kids, wife supportive of stability — here’s what I’d prioritize right now:
This week, specifically:
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Ship something small and public. You have nanoGPT training experience on MI300X, DeepSeek v4 MoE knowledge, and CLI agent tooling. Pick one thing — maybe a minimal MoE implementation, or your
ww/zzagent polished up — and push it to GitHub with a README worth reading. One star from a stranger is worth more than 10 internal bank tools nobody sees. -
Don’t let the AMD MI300X sit idle. $2/hr is cheap if you’re running experiments that compound. What’s the next training run? LoRA fine-tuning on a domain-specific dataset? DPO on nanochat? Pick a concrete experiment and schedule it. Idle GPU time at $0/hr is wasted learning.
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Write one blog post from something you learned at the bank this week. You’re already doing 400+ posts. The bank gives you real financial/enterprise AI problems. Sanitize it, abstract it, publish it. That’s your silent startup marketing.
This month:
- If you’re not already tracking token costs and model performance across deepseek-v4-flash vs mimo-2.5-pro vs claude-opus-4.7 for your agent workloads — build a simple eval harness. That becomes a tool. Tools become products.
- Set a concrete “quit number” target. 900K → 500K mortgage delta is ~400K CNY. At 5,500/month that’s 6 years passively — but extra payments or income accelerates it. Know the number so you’re not drifting.
What to cut:
The 27 WeChat groups. Today. Mute or leave. That’s probably your single highest-leverage energy recovery move.
What are you actually stuck on or blocked by right now — technical, financial, or otherwise? I can go much deeper on any specific thread.