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I’ve been using an awesome app called athlytic that takes this to the next level.

That’s the ultra.

It’s all Apple Intelligence and that’s not coming to the EU currently.

> People, and leaders who are building "cool demos". Things that tell a great story, but somehow never materialize into any material revenue for the company.

It takes experience to see something awesome, and still drill into who asked for it, what problem is it solving, what value is it generating for the end user, etc.

It's easy to forget that sometimes even something super cool is not that useful and when the rubber hits the road, no-one will pay for it.

Yeah I was thinking the same tbh, I don't want to end up forever tweaking things.

I try and keep it simple. Little reporter notebook so I’m not using devices in meetings and things like that.

Then I transcribe whatever needs to be a little more long term at the end of the day/week into either Apple notes or reminders. Then rip the pages out and bin them.

Im tempted to get something like todoist to organise reminders a little better but I’m cautious that it’s the road to procrastinating.

Obsessive organisation can be a form of procrastination.

I actually add more whey to it anyway. For some unfathomable reason I’d not considered just getting natural yogurt and adding twice as much whey.

You can do that with AWS regions though.

I'll trust them with my cloud infra when they can keep the high protein yoghurt in stock consistently.

What are the other 20% with you for?

What is the benefit that your customers see in using an European cloud?

No, just silence.

I’m sorry what? pPeople are doing this with taste and smell too?

Can people just imagine all of their senses?

I can’t really. If I draw I need reference material.

I can make little play dough models though? I know the shapes I just can’t see them in my mind.

Yeah I have this. I also can’t hear voices or sounds in my mind. Poor autobiographical memory tracks too, major things stick but a lot just fades pretty quickly.

I have it and I'm terrible with faces. If I spend long enough I can sort of pattern match distinct features but a whole face is generally lost on me.

Movies where you see a character that has aged or changed style are a mystery. My wife has to call out if it’s the same person. She’s pretty good at knowing when I’d have lost track.

I’ve always suspected it makes it easier for me to think abstractly without having any images to tie concepts to in my mind.

Until proven otherwise I try not to assume malice in every action.

A more charitable scenario might be that they hire the voice actor and it sounds a bit like her. Someone suggests why don't we just get Scarlett to do it properly, wouldn't that be cooler? They reach out and she says no. They decide to continue with the one that sounds a bit like her.

What do we think makes it hard? I would assume it’s just a process thing, there’s no technical magic that I can think of?

2x sounds low. I pay 7p per kwh at home and I think my most recent fast charge was closer to 70p.

I think the disconnect with these tools is that their endgame is not to be a developer tool, it’s to take them out of the loop.

This is a tool for product owners, it’s just too early for them to use it by itself.

At least there is some honesty there. Everywhere that does estimates, even if they make the devs think its complexity or some other nonsense, is translating that to days somewhere down the line.

I'm a big fan of how iOS lets you decide which images are available from the camera roll. So the app can have "access" to the camera roll but there is that intermediate stage where I can scope down which images are in it.

Those are really great videos.

I'm not recommending it; they just asked when it would be available.

It's worth noting that beta tests are there to catch these bugs, it's literally the point.

Should get betas in June at WWDC. Release is normally September when iPhones release.

It feels like anything that isn’t water has some negatives. Diet soda in moderation seems to be basically fine though.

I really liked this post and the way it was written.

My critique is that it feels a little idealistic. That might not be the best description, but it's like railing against the way the world just is. I'd love to see counter-examples of successful companies that do things right, but it feels to me like what most companies turn into is just the best of a bad bunch of options.

At the end of the day, we're all uniquely flawed people trying to work together in increasingly sized groups. It feels like some amount of dysfunction is to be expected. Having leadership flow between people depending on the problem being solved has the potential to make many people very uncomfortable day to day and in turn, erode the benefit of optimising competency for each task.

At the end of the day, though, that's why many of us tend to aim at small companies: the pain is not amplified. The advice I used to give colleagues at large companies was not to try and fight the ocean; you just need to let it wash over you. Bottom-up change is so rare at large companies that it just burns out those who try and alienates the people they need to impress to move up and actually effect change. The truth is that even at a high level very people can really change things fundamentally.

But maybe that's for the best. Fundamentally changing the way things work for thousands of people's livelihoods should be hard.

This would be my recommendation too. The global talent market for remote developers is extremely competitive. The days of failed offshoring seems to have passed, it's now much easier to build excellent remote teams but it is driving down salaries.