Tag: AI

How many days are left to earn from Revolut?

~ Veselin ~ 3 Comments

I keep getting emails that I have 7 days left to earn from referring my friends to use Revolut. Is it really 7?

So, they appear to have a recurring campaign that invites people to their referral program every 21 days, then a reminder email on day 12 that 7 days are left. Then the amount changes (or doesn’t) and I get a new email.

The amounts vary between 50 and 200 BGN (25 to 100 Euro) with the 50 being the default, 80-90 offered when the bot felt happy, and 200 – about once or twice per year. I couldn’t find any seasonality.

These emails go back to 2022 when I probably signed up for Revolut. I’ve not yet tried the service because it wanted too much private data so I don’t know if it’s good or bad. I just admire how they never considered me an inactive user despite not having the app.

This email title only appeared once. Fellow MarTech folks on Revolut probably recognized it as something that doesn’t sit quite right.

Castel Nuovo

~ Veselin ~ 2 Comments

Castel Nuovo was built in the 13th century and hosted kings, popes, thinkers, and artists. I walked by it and it made me think about AI rather than history. People built that thing and felt like it was impenetrable, and then came artillery and it was suddenly just a cold building. A story that keeps repeating. You have a status quo, and you have people thinking how to break it, over and over throughout history.

Bion by Satanasov

~ Veselin ~ 7 Comments

These books were part of my Alley of Books harvest.

In a post apocalyptic world, one intact city remains habitable. Everything else is a radioactive desert. The survivors are highly dependent on a mythical high-tech building called “The Factory”. The further you go from it, the more destroyed the environment is. However, The Factory is clearly evil, and a resistance movement is forming.

A few very deep observations:

  • Part one is for 15+ audience, part two is for 16+. Part three can be expected to be for 17+ 🙂
  • Part one is a comic book. Part two introduces a robot girl with big eyes and some reviewers say it’s Manga

I enjoyed both, Manga or not. 5*/5

Sprezzatura

~ Veselin ~ 6 Comments

From Wikipedia: “…the art of making something difficult look easy”. Curiously, the same work done with effortless grace and visible hard effort is perceived differently. Add a pinch of complaining and the good job can turn into a nightmare without any other change in the visible outcome.

ChatGPT agrees and says Sprezzatura is rated 9-10/10, while the work done with complaining is rated 4-5.

I encountered that word in Wolf Hall where the author refers to 1528’s The Book of the Courtier. Wolf Hall is a gem and I hope to dedicate a separate post to it once I finish it.