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Interesting! Sounds like it's potentially come from the public policy / macro economic modeling side. I'll check it out.

Thank you! I've added it to the list. I'm more interested in the business strategy side than the market trading side, but I find having perspectives from multiple disciplines can often be helpful.

Complexity Economics

I've been binging books on the topic as well as exchanging dialogs with a colleague over email. Books list:

_Completed_

The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1422121038/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (Economics, Cognition, And Society) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0472064967/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671872346/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947864351?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_...

_To Be Completed_

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy - https://www.amazon.com/dp/087584863X?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_...

Mitt Romney did this as well (although only to the tune of $100M). It was discussed in 2012 in various news outlets: https://www.investopedia.com/managing-wealth/grow-ira-100-mi...

it might not be the fire itself, but the fire suppression system might uses gases fatal to humans and so they must wait for those gases to vent / dissipate.

Roost Laptop stand + bluetooth keyboard and trackpad

Enormous impact on my posture when I'm using my laptop away from my desk. The stand collapses into a stick so it's easy to toss in my backpack.

https://www.therooststand.com/collections/roost-laptop-stand...

And St. John’s Antigua

Purple Pig offers this nation-wide from their Chicago location:

https://purplepigshop.squarespace.com/shop/purple-piggy-box

I have ordered it before and it's incredible. At the time I had the thought of "I wish someone would curate these so that I could do more during lockdown".

It isn’t but it should be. Being Mortal is a phenomenal book about end of life care that I would recommend to anyone and everyone old or young.

Can you say more about #1?

I think you need to look at it from monthly -> house price and not the other way around. If your budget / purchasing power is $1000 /m then your house budget is roughly as follows:

  $190,000 @ 5% interest
  $210,000 @ 4% interest
  $235,000 @ 3% interest
  $275,000 @ 2% interest
  $310,000 @ 1% interest

[Note - not exact numbers; 30yr mortgage; mortgage calculator.org via guessing numbers until the monthly was close enough to $1k]

The US Marines have been known to evacuate US citizens from foreign countries if war breaks out. Think of your taxes as an insurance premium for global personal safety.

There is an American baseball team that started their life as Florida Marlins. The thinking was that they would establish this tribe mentality for all of Florida. After years of not great results in that regard they changed their name to the Miami Marlins for the same reason - to better establish a tribe. They haven’t moved locations, they are just re-targeting their brand

For those who are curious, Virginia Tech has had a test road for 20 years: https://www.vtti.vt.edu/facilities/virginia-smart-roads.html

>it would be cool if it was just in Apple Maps ready to go

I have been to some Westfields (or perhaps it was a Simon property) where this is already available. I can attest that it is very helpful!

there is also ongoing research into making the boom less audible & turbulent over land, which would enable cross-country flights:

>Graves explains that SonicBAT is an unusual test in that it uses a typical military aircraft with its loud sonic boom to help engineers better understand the sounds from future quiet supersonic aircraft

>"We're hoping we can eventually lower sonic booms to a low rumble," he said. "The goal is to eventually accommodate jets that can fly from New York to Los Angeles in two hours."

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-supersonic-technology-desig...

I'd hope that Boom is also working on such an approach

What happens if you're a victim of Vomit Fraud?

https://thepointsguy.com/news/uber-vomit-fraud-scam/

And what if Uber is your government-provided method of transportation for health care?

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/uber-healths-non-...

>In China each adult citizen is getting a government mandated "social credit score". This represents how well behaved they are, and is based on crime records, what they say on social media, what they buy, and even the scores of their friends.

This really isn't all that different than what is happening elsewhere across the world today. Your Uber rider score represents your "social credit" for that service. Your Airbnb guest reviews impact if you will be allowed to rent a room. Each platform is putting social credit in place via crowd-sourced "trust"

EDIT: I don't mean to minimize China's human rights violations, but to posture that independently of central control many companies are implementing their own versions of these systems, which can have _some_ of the same effects in terms of losing access to services. Obviously one's Uber scores won't put you in jail / detainment camp and I was not intended to imply such.

@mstade - any updates? How's your friend's boat??

The 200k/yr also had a multi-year look back. So you weren’t accredited until year ~3 of making such a salary.

>And 50 nautical miles range is... not much

This is plenty of range for day trips throughout the Spanish, US, and British Virgin Islands. You could do multi-day trips if you planned your overnights at the various marinas with power hookups (e.g. Scrub Island, Cooper, etc.)

Does anyone know what their current status is? Their FAQs haven't been updated in over a year:

>How many boats have you delivered?

>As of March 2019, we have delivered 10 boats to customers in Sweden, Finland, Austria, the US and the British Virgin Islands.

>When can you deliver?

>We still have a few production slots available for deliveries for the summer of 2020. Scroll down and go to the order page to reserve one.

You might be interested in the restaurant Next in Chicago. From the Wikipedia:

>Rather than stick with one type of cuisine, Next completely changes its style every few months, focusing on a different time period, parts of the world, or various abstract themes for each "season" of its menu.

Next's very first menu was "Paris 1906" which was based on Escoffier's dishes from that year.

https://chicago.eater.com/2011/4/4/6688919/next-restaurants-...

There is also the G-SHOCK limited edition DW5600NASA20 with NASA styling

https://www.gshock.com/watches/limited-edition/dw5600nasa20

Sysco and US Foods already offer dishes for restaurants to white label. These establishments are just pulling those multi-restaurant offerings from the distributor to the retailer

https://www.sysco.com/Products/Products/Product-Categories.h... https://www.usfoods.com/great-food.html

The Things They Carried by O’Brian - it’s ostensibly a war book but is nothing about war. It’s about empathy. The world, unfortunately, mostly operates without empathy. Knowing that helps to understand various actions people take.

That makes sense - thank you for your reply!

Isn't part of the idea here to _be invasive_ though? If part of the intent of the service is change behavior then the coach must interject themselves into the clients' lives in order to create action.

How would you see the minimal invasiveness of email aligning with such a call to action?

(hope this doesn't come across as an attack as it is not intended to. Just trying to understand how you see these two ideas as compatible since I see them as opposing and so wanting to know what angle I'm missing)

I would argue that ad auctions on Google and Facebook are a form of marketplaces for consumer-generated data.

Urgency and scarcity also encourage folks to find solutions that they wouldn’t otherwise search for if they could just wait for the status quo approach.

The flip side to doing things that don’t scale is that once those practices become a standard part of your operations you are forced to figure out how to scale them. This causes you to find the scalability hell or high water whereas if you didn’t do the thing in the first place you never would have invented the scalability.