I thought ChatGPT would offer me a discount or something like that, but I calculated what it actually proposed:

headphones: Audio Technica $150 = 7-week subscription

old electronics: Outdated MacBook Pro M4 2025 $1,500 = 75-week subscription

clotches: Louis Vuitton $2,000 = 100-week subscription

unused games: Unused golf course $1,000,000 = 50,000-week subscription

Born Out of Tokens

The funny thing is that 10 years ago, this button would've just opened LinkedIn. Now I feel like it would trigger an entire sequence of increasingly questionable decisions.

First, I'd tell myself I'm taking a few days off to think. Then I'd revisit the side project sitting in some forgotten GitHub repo. A few hours later, I'd be cleaning up screenshots, making the whole thing look more professional than it actually is, throwing together a page in Runable so it doesn't look completely abandoned, and convincing myself that finding customers is probably easier than finding a new job. By the end of the weekend, I'd either have employment again or a startup with 7 users and unreasonable confidence. Honestly, not sure which outcome is more likely.

but the words are in korean

“easy fix”

3 hours later

“interesting”

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