When I read the title the first thing that came to my mind were Magna Tiles. Glad they made it on the list.
It's the only toy in the house that lasted the test of time from she 4-8 (and counting). Also I love tidying up Magna tiles, even that is fun!
My oldest kid got a small sample of Clixco and was surprisingly entertained even with a limited set of possibilities they offered. They're great fidget toys as well.
Nice idea but I think the predictions are way off. I ran a 3:17 in spring and targeting a 3:10 marathon in a couple of weeks.
As unlikely as it sounds Strava predicts 3:13 (think they base it on my last marathon), Garmin is similar. Runalyze is about as off as you are.
Maybe you're putting too much emphasis on weekly volume. M35 and I can run this with 50k weekly and 75k peak volume. Relatively confident I'd be able to sub 3 with weekly volume of 80k/100k peak.
I'm definitely the target audience for this: I hate Goodreads and I still use it on a weekly basis.
A couple questions:
- where do you get your book data from? To my knowledge Amazon has a de facto monopoly on this and there's nothing more frustrating than missing latest or niche books, its covers, etc. or having wrong data/duplicates.
- do you plan on offering a migration path? I've got years worth of data on Goodreads.
> But just like there are the EM and Higgs fields there could be countless other fields that don't affect our day to day reality in any way, but in that sense they might as well not exist.
Then you also have to accept that you're not talking about objective reality in any way but isolated to human experience and limited by our cognitive and experimental abilities.
Yes, mission statements are usually just bullshit.
But if you want to fulfil your mission you still need to make money, otherwise you have a dead company.
Making money can never be a goal in itself. At the very least the money serves the status of founders and shareholders or enables one to pursue economically unviable hobbies.
I've followed Calm closely when I was in the startup game and I think they deserve recognition for trying to find a different way. One that benefits founders (primarily bootstrappers) and investors alike.
Seems like the third party in the mix has taken the hit in this constellation.
For anyone interested in other theories that were not mentioned and not satisfied with the unfalsifiability of Many Worlds I can recommend reading Carlo Rovelli's book Helgoland and his Relational Quantum Mechanics[0].
Your ecosystem has gone so complex that you can't test it anymore. So instead of handling errors properly you suggest to implement a convoluted user flow that offers always failing actions (install a printer when there's none available).
If that's really the suggestion of product and engineering leadership at MSFT no wonder all their products...err...work as designed.
Explanation of the pieces would be nice too!