Nope, but I've finally made a life that works for me with a job I love that lets me travel the world like I want and still accomplish something meaningful. :)
To me, his message was to always be thinking of what you desire. What you desire isn't the same as what others desire. Everyone's definition of happiness varies. I'm trying to say if everyone lived the message that Alan Watts so eloquently articulated, then there would be no "sacrifice". What one person thinks of as a sacrifice wasn't really a sacrifice in the eyes of the person who made it because they did what made them happy so that enables you to do what makes you happy.
Because people don't live according to his message right now, we make ourselves miserable by trying to repay the debts of other people's sacrifices for us. Rather, I would have it so we pay those debts forward to the next generation by enabling them to do what makes them happy, not holding them to some standard of what we think makes people happy just because we raised them or provided them with the means or money to do something they enjoyed.
You're right, outlasting everyone is a way to suck less. But it's not a real way to be the best. Being the best and sucking less have similar starting steps but very different ending steps. Where you stop on your list and write "repeat" is where the journey to being the best just begins.
I don't know about you, but I never want to just be mediocre. I want to be really damn good at whatever it is I try. Even knowing that one of the greats could "come out of retirement" and still out-do me is not good enough for me. That's just patience resulting in complacency and mediocrity.
Is it bad that half the time I was reading I thought this was a sarcastic post and that eventually the author was going to make the opposite point of the one he actually did end up making?
Then I saw he was from NC State, my Alma mater. And everything made sense again.
I don't think I'm quite sure what this is trying to do - can anyone explain? It seems they want to make a distributed DNS system based on the model of BitCoin - P2P keys that identify the nameservers for certain domains? This would avoid the regulation of SOPA.
But there's no way to be certain because I can't make heads or tails of that spec page LoL.
I think there are 2 camps of users - I'd rather organize my own lists than trust Facebook to do it for me. I honestly don't trust Facebook to do it...
The author of the article hasn't completely thought this through though. He's saying it's shit work which Facebook automates for you but then he goes on to say relationships are complicated and some people are in overlapping "circles."
He shoots himself in the foot right there. Facebook's auto-populated groups can't figure out the complicated nature of our relationships with people. I have many shades of friends and people who have varied interests even within those shades of friends. It's too hard for an algorithm to be able to deduce this very human aspect of relationships.
The way he showed the virtual buttons last night made them seem highly customizable by each app for different purposes. So once app creators start making these custom virtual buttons for their apps, they will not have multiple versions of their app for phones with and without hardware buttons...
The question is what happens when the phone has actual hardware buttons and you port the OS to it which has virtual buttons in it...that gets weird I think...
Isn't the problem with their hack though that it can only work for ONE calendar? Whichever one you set as the default is going to be the one service that Siri can interact with.
So if RTM is set as your default calendar, then all your Siri reminders go into your RTM calendar, which may not be your actual calendar of course.
And getting other services to use this same hack will result in users having to choose one service they prioritize over all others because you can only have one calendar.
Of course I am an Android guy and don't really know how Siri and all this is working - I'm just guessing based on the instructions provided at RTM's site on how to get this to work...
A few minutes or half an hour are different...this guy has upwards of 500 tabs - you can't come back to that in a few minutes or half an hour...
I said 10-12 tabs consistently - and by that I mean app tabs that remain open. The rest should be opened for research as needed AND THEN CLOSED WHEN FINISHED. For everything else that you need to consistently check updates on, you need to find a way to turn it into an RSS feed or Twitter feed or whatever that feeds into an existing tab for an app you already have open (e.g. Google Reader or your social media aggregator of choice).
This is not "my" way - this is the way of the human brain. You can't do that many things at once and you can't focus on that many things at once. You would be overwhelmed by 500 tabs of information...that's why most of us have 1 site where all our information aggregates and 1 email address where the rest forward and 1 cell phone rather than 5-6, etc. I'm saying that people that do this type of EXTREME tab browsing are inherently disorganized and lack focus and attention to anything they do.
Yeah, downvote it to hell, I really don't mind. If you do this on a regular basis though, I'd love to hear from you and how you feel about whether you are an organized individual and one who adequately focuses on the things that are important to you.
People that do this are NUTS. Ever heard of Evernote, Read It Later, or the plethora of websites that exist for this very reason? Man up and shell out a few bucks...there is NO reason you should have more than 10-12 tabs open on a regular, consistent basis...
