I'm an AI developer at the intersection of immersive and emergent storytelling. I help novelists, game designers, and filmmakers vividly imagine their worlds through a set of custom tools I've developed.
sometimes life is great
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9 years ago I was talking to the SpaceX Comms team about potentially joining their department. My son was 14 years old and just starting to get interested in space tech, so I asked if I could bring him along. They said yes, and we took a picture in front of HQ in Hawthorne before going inside. Between that moment and today, Josh joined our family group chat with the folks who work in the field, he went with me to the launch of the Mars InSight lander (my cousin worked on it), he started building true-to-life spacecraft in games and programs, and generally jumped headfirst into things. Last year he was finishing up his senior year of college with the desire to work at SpaceX. But with his soon-to-be fresh degree and no experience, he didn't think he'd be hired by them in his field. He was working at Subway part-time during classes, and found the opportunity to talk to a few SpaceX employees about ways to get in. He ended up applying in the Foodservice area, and parlayed his Subway management experience with his personal/freelance creative accomplishments and his love of the industry to stand out. He was hired for a job one level higher than the one he applied for. He worked there on 10-hour daily shifts, 5 days a week, for six months while still finishing his final college semester. He's now been there 9 months, is getting great reviews, and already got (and declined) an offer to get recruited into another department. Last week he took me and his siblings on a tour of HQ, and he asked if we could recreate the photo from 9 years ago. I stole it from his Instagram and now I love it. No LinkedIn business lessons to be listed out here. No application to or from my own life. Just a dad who's really proud of his son as he begins his career. ❤️ (If you ever stop loving these emails, just unsubscribe here - no hard feelings!) |
Nate St. Pierre
I'm an AI developer at the intersection of immersive and emergent storytelling. I help novelists, game designers, and filmmakers vividly imagine their worlds through a set of custom tools I've developed.
I'm restless tonight. Restless and unfocused, but creative. Not a great combination. My output would be muddled. But I can put these feelings to work a different way. Here's what I'll do: I'll create a list of interesting personal questions at the bottom of this email I will choose 5 to answer here for myself You choose up to 5 of your own, and reply back to me with your answers for yourself This is a way for all of us to have a low-stakes connection opportunity. If I get enough interesting...
I may regret this . . . it remains to be seen, haha 😬 But I think we can afford to give away our full $1,000/month YouBots platform to nonprofits for free, based on the money coming in from regular paying customers. For more details on where we are as a business, check out the LinkedIn post I just put up: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7322712667536642051/ If you or someone you know works for or with a nonprofit, they'll want to see this. It's probably easiest just to...
it me The internet as we know it today became prominent around 1993. I was 15 years old, and I started making my living from it just a few years later . . . which means that I’ve been working in this space for the majority of my life – over 30 years. I used to enjoy going online. The connections I made with people were almost always positive. I learned new and interesting things. I witnessed creativity and beauty in so many forms. I spent many years building philanthropic communities,...