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Highly recommend Shape Up by the basecamp team:

https://basecamp.com/shapeup

It's free. It's good.

Roam appears to remove the time and effort needed to organize notes. Just write. Links will happen. No need for silos, no need for hierarchies.

They are removing the friction and effort. This has huge implications and potential.

I am with you on not going and looking for notes (I don't often browse through my photo library either, which is a close analog).

This really feels like it's onto something special if you can let go of the evernote paradigm.

I thought it added to the credibility as it positioned them in my mind as a longer term thinker than myself.

By the way, I’ve been bouncing between bear and Ulysses and I’ve decided that I just love the Bear experience more than any other editor. There’s something really elegant about it....

I've already retreated to mostly cozyweb! It's great here.

Here’s exactly how it rolled out: I get a call, my wife has been taken to the hospital in nyc, and it’s a bad situation.

I look at google flights, see the upcoming flights, don’t book because I don’t know how long it will take to get to the airport.

Driving to the airport, I call Delta, almost book their flight until they casually mention it’s delayed 8 hours.

Call United, it’s a 30 minute wait to book a ticket.

I put my Tesla in auto steer and pull out the app. Fucking thing keeps reminding me to touch the steering wheel. Eventually the Tesla revokes my auto steer privileges for the rest of the drive. Thanks. A. Lot.

I scream into the airport, while talking to Amex travel. There’s an united flight boarding in 20 minutes. Amex tells me that due to the inherent delay in the online ticketing process, to buy my ticket at the airport.

And that’s why you might have someone who couldn’t use the website to book a trip.

They say you don’t know what the guy in front of you could be dealing with. I was that guy that day.

I called Amex back and they expedited the ticketing. United never called me back after I left my number earlier for their automated call back service for the 30 minute hold time.

The flight was going to board in 20 minutes. I still needed to get through TSA, etc. I didn’t feel I could trust trying to book online vs. the person at the terminal in front of me.

Might be a generational thing.

I had the weirdest experience at the airport yesterday, LAX. I went to the the United ticket counter to buy a ticket for lax to nyc, same day. They told me I was better off buying online. In fact they looked completely unprepared to book a ticket. I couldn’t believe it. I checked other counters and sure enough, I was at the right place.

So I tried using Hipmunk yesterday. It felt tired to me for some reason. I ended up booking on Amex platinum travel. Who do people use for booking flights?

Headline matters 10x more than the content I have read, as people won’t read more than a paragraph.

I would love to know how you effectively run a 100,000 person company, particularly when they are all knowledge workers as opposed to retail, food service, etc.

Is google well run? How do you tell?

What do you do with the note cards? I love note cards, but now I just have stacks of them filling boxes.

In high school I actually worked at one of these organizations. It was the typical boiler room you might imagine: Grubby, dirty office space in a forgotten retail center with dingy cubicles consisting of a beat up desk, a phone and a stack of 3x5 cards to call. We were taught to do just about everything we could to convey that we were active duty officers calling for donations, without actually saying that. Middle class citizens were all too often happy to donate or, in our case, buy tickets to what I assume was a non-existent fund raiser because of who they assumed we were. The whole system felt 100% fraudulent from top to bottom.

I lasted about 3 months and moved onto telephone sales for a major retailer. Back then if you had a deep voice you could make way better money than your friends working at fast food, etc.

I can recommend telephone cold calling as a means for getting an extremely harsh but powerful lesson in reading people via voice tone very very quickly. :)

When you have teenagers, your cultural consciousness will be reset to the much, much faster flow of that age. And you will return to the era of non-stop slang and hipness.

Stan-ing is very much a common term for Gen-z. And they have stan accounts. And I sort of get it. :)

This happens gradually, but started in full force at my house around age 15.

I have 3 boys, 13-18. It's an incredible amount of fun.

Both of these games are excellent intros to game development. ROBLOX more so in my opinion - it’s a lot like the old school quake-c modding days and such.

I tried to get my kids to play around with web pages and tutorials, but it wasn’t until they wanted to create mini games in ROBLOX that they got busy.

I'm a big big fan of the "1000 true fans" concept as applied here. It's not for everyone but.... who knows? If you are persistent and passionate...

https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

https://seths.blog/2008/03/1000-true-fans/

You'd want to take a deep dive on how arena entertainment works. Here's the headline:

Live Music is a loss leader for alcohol sales.

95% of the gate goes to the acts, and some of the alcohol depending on whether you are jimmy buffet or not.

Like 3rd party insurance, no one is really in a position to care about the ticket experience or expense.

The artist cares about getting the right venues and the right tour routing.

The venue cares about getting the right artists with the right age groups.

And thanks to vertical integration a company that owns the largest ticket service, manages acts, manages tours and owns festivals, nightclubs AND arena venues... well, ticketing is doing just fine.

There's no one really to leverage a new solutions. source: friend was former ceo of tickets.com

We had some employees in NYC earlier this year. They make California employment laws look simple in comparison.

Definitely, Definitely get a service there that knows how to handle all of the fine details.

Having used wework for a couple of businesses, and left after 12 months or so, I have a slightly different view.

I think wework is a noisy, distracting and expensive pit stop on the way to remote work. The company turnover at the weworks we were at was remarkable, to me. I don’t know the root causes (business closing? Unsatisfied?) but it seemed very transient.

Our businesses moved to fully remote and enjoyed a significant rise in productivity each time.

Wework feels like a massive bet on open plan offices. They didn’t work for us.

Define “eventually”. What’s your dosage history, etc? Do you take magnesium, zinc, or anything else to combat tolerance?

This is amazing writing. I hope the author is able to find the appropriate outlet to use her obvious skill.

My understanding is that Tesla wanted to use a standard for their build out but the standards committee dragged their feet in order to stall them. In Europe they do use a standard plug.

Any issues with finger speed or dexterity?

I was at the conference referenced in the photo - SAASTR 2017. The level of arrogance of the CEO was striking - down to the literal slouch in the chair for the entire talk.

I've remarked several times to people that he was the most arrogant conference panelist I've ever seen. The line between confidence and arrogance is pretty distinct in my opinion and at that time this ceo had no idea where that line is.

You misread that. It's 326,000 PER pga tour spot.

quick scan - not sure what is happening here. My 10 year old LOVES this game. He watches you tubers play this for HOURS AND HOURS. this confuses me.

I think it's pretty cool.

There. :)

The most interesting part of the article to me is how useless the WSJ comment section is.

I cannot believe this is still an issue for major publications.

You're actually making 180k equivalent because you don't have time to spend the money.

My 9 year old son would rather watch people play minecraft than actually play it. I'm not talking about competitive or pro play (if that even exists for minecraft) - just people goofing around.

Potentially just an enormous new business for games.

I still can't get my head around it. It's like his version of cartoons.

Players were very upset that everything they did was ranked and they couldn't just play for fun without it being rated. It was a jarring change at the time. There was at least 1 unofficial effort as well that met with a similar fate.

I think the success of driverless cars will depend on the experience. If the cars are incredibly slow/cautious and you look like a segway riding dork but just inside a glass cage.. then I don't think it works.

Get the user experience right. The youtube videos of tesla drivers drinking coffee and reading the paper at high speeds looked like great fun to me.

RE: FourSquare. Very interesting to me that he doesn't mention that they just changed out the Founder/CEO this week and did a significant down round. I almost feel like the entire article was a camouflaged smoke screen for propping up FourSquare. Just odd.