I have been trying to reduce my usage.
I still cannot find a way to resist pulling out the phone to:
- perform a quick search (browser or ai)
- listen to podcasts
- listen to audiobook
- check the data of the last running or gym session.
Are there alternatives that are as friendly? Or being friendly is the danger here?
I haven't Smart Comic before. Thanks for the recommendation. Definitely going to give it a try. (I admit that panel handling is a nice to have feature, but what makes or breaks a comic reader for me is how easy is to sync comics---but this is a long departure from the thread).
YAC Reader [1] has great panel recognition. My other favorite comic reader has attempted but never got something that I could use.
> It identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the ‘losers’ (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generate such data).”
I am honestly very curious who hasn't observed the same behavior in large corporations too. (And to be clear, I'm not defending this behavior; rather curious if it's not an unfortunate generalized situation that occurs not only in academia).
I'm using Scrolla. Initially I had used vim-like extensions for browsers. Obviously Firefox and Chrome extensions are eras ahead of Safari's. Scrolla was like: "hey, I can get this everywhere on my system".
Wooshy and kindaVim are more or less in trial mode (I'm paying for the latter). I'm not yet relying on them heavily.
I do appreciate the foundation of these apps though and I'm very happy to have them around.
It was no further than 1 week ago when I was talking with my spouse about how could we compare the size of some cars. We found it very tedious to even find the official dimension. And we had no idea how to visualize the differences. This is absolutely fabulous!
Every month, I comb through previous month Downbeat, JazzTimes, and Jazzwise magazines putting together a list of albums. The trick? I do this with past years magazine though.
I recently discovered the MusicBox app; sort of a listen later. My current playlist has 62 albums, as in December, these magazines are publishing their best of lists.
As someone close said a couple of days: "I didn't realize how much time goes into this music I might not always like to listen every day".
Whatever system I have (tried to) used over time, I've run into the following challenges:
1. how to deal with old tasks (are they relevant anymore? should they be removed?).
2. connecting tasks to their related source and needed information to act
For the former, the accumulation of old stuff has consistently led to less and less usage of the system and as a result to a continuously decreasing trust in that system. Adopting a new solution has given the feeling of a better system with better chances to success; but it has mainly been about having a (temporarily) new clean inbox.
> I have a simpler suggestion, nicknamed the Big Bang license. Congress should allow anyone with a scanned library to pay some price—say, a hundred and twenty-five million dollars—to gain a license, subject to any opt-outs, allowing them to make those scanned prints available to institutional or individual subscribers.
Wouldn't this be great? Many of these materials are not indexed and chances to discover them are decreasing every day. Second, getting access to these materials is for many almost impossible (out of print, not available in the libraries, etc.)
I recently finished reading Walter Isaacson's The Innovators books. One of the things that caught my attention was that for many of the people mentioned in the book there was a mention of extra-curricular interests.
The store was in read-only mode to prep for the new iPhones so the sales loss is already accounted for.
As a side note (and speculation), as compared with other online stores, I don't think the Apple store has the same risks as the other stores (the fact you don't buy the Mac directly from Apple doesn't really affect their revenue).
This got me thinking how much test coverage exist for the kernel. It sounds like most of those issues could've been caught by tests (and I'm not referring to API compatibility, but purely to the behavior of the implementation)
Are there alternatives that are as friendly? Or being friendly is the danger here?