Some of the controls are a bit disorienting. All observations below are from the demo:
1) When I create a goal, theres no obvious way that the goal is "created". I just press the back button? The send-comment button was where I initially tried to confirm that a goal had been created.
2) When I create a subtask, and then exit the subtask menu to get to the first task, it gives me a blank page.
I really really like the idea, but the demo is a bit too buggy
Thanks for reminding me. I planned on doing "cycles" between my favorite substackers (buy, cancel, read the backlog, switch to a new author), but i ended up with 5 concurrent subscriptions. Canceled now.
I was just reading a blog complaining about commenters not reading the article, and the next comment I read on a completely different article did not RTFQ.
> got some kind of shallow, automated message like this?
Jakob describes how after he is reminded of the person in the morning, he researches what has happened to them since he last spoke and finds some genuine content/connection to send to that person.
It should be reassuring to know that most of the things you interact with are actually too bandwidth constrained to care about those things, and the algos you interact with are fairly obvious and explicit (Feeds, curated things, etc)
A person yelling "fire" in a crowded theater gets in trouble, but a person yelling "there is no fire" in a crowded theater in a theater definitely on fire is... being silenced?
Consider that maybe the space shuttles exploding _was_ our thing. Boomers got to see the surface of the Moon. Zoomers got to see cheap flight and robotic victories. Millennials were raised by a NASA flying an explosive trailer truck.
I think there are reams of people living in cities like SF, NYC, and DC that are retired and make do without a car. In fact, I would bet that the elderly live better lives on all metrics when they are able to live carless in a walkable neighborhood.
Cars probably do help them kill their dignity- at the expense of their grandchildren's quality of life.
If you get disposed of in 9 out of 10 companies, then 50% of the time it takes about five disposals to find a job where you do get promoted. Seems like the strategy to take if you want long term success and not long term marginal subsistence.
People that play zero sum games only get to play with other zero sum players. There is some risk they will lose. People that play win-win games get to play with other winners (and be winners).
Serialized fiction is basically how many many classics came to us. Today, lots of online fiction, like Andy Weir's The Martian or Scott Alexander's Unsong, starts out as serialized fiction that comes out in sections. The episodic model for books isn't novel.
If it were a hedge against inflation, it would behave like a hedge against inflation, and yet it shows no similar characteristics to preexisting inflation hedges? hmmmmm
1) When I create a goal, theres no obvious way that the goal is "created". I just press the back button? The send-comment button was where I initially tried to confirm that a goal had been created.
2) When I create a subtask, and then exit the subtask menu to get to the first task, it gives me a blank page.
I really really like the idea, but the demo is a bit too buggy