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I find when I start worrying about what my desk looks like that I’m just procrastinating. I have noticed no correlation between my desk being messy or stylish with actual focus and productivity.

They do though, they've asked me on the iPhone if I want to have personalised ads, and I said no. Now I don't get personalised ads.

I’m more concerned with overly rigid planning and zoning rules distorting the ability for high demand to increase motivation for supply.

The two things that stand out for me would be:

1. Set deadlines, and hold people to them. Repeatedly missing deliveries means an end to the engagement.

2. Sunk cost. He should have fired this agency much earlier instead of throwing good money after bad.

Yeah that was my general feeling. I'm paying upwards of £40k for the car and the first day I press a button and get told I can "buy" the feature, not a good experience.

The local taxis in my town don't seem to every want to take fares. They seem to be eternally waiting for a better offer and grumpy if you try to take what they consider to be a small trip. Never had that issue with Uber drivers.

I wasn't particularly impressed when I got my new 4 series and had to pay £20 or something like that for auto-highbeams, even if it is a one off.

I can sort of understand a subscription for the speed camera data, although its a bit cheap, but for the lights it seemed mad.

This is really cool. In the last couple of years of my grandad's life the most useful thing we got him was a walking aid that had a tray and a basket on it. It made such a difference for him being able to move things around his flat and stay independent.

> In substance they are similar in that they both want/ed tighter "vertical integration" of tools ("DX") in an opinionated way, with the money-making plan being convenient paid hosting. "Look how easy and fun it is to make powerful stuff; we hope you give us money to host it for you!" So far the only company that's had success with this pitch is Amazon of all people, by offering a staggering array of partially specialized EC2 instances behind an API.

I think NextJS and Vercel probably fall into this bucket as well.

It’s handy in a bunch of places. Like the go menu, if you have that open and hit option you get some more power user locations.

Also it’s Command, Shift and Period to toggle showing hidden files.

The answer to some of those is just the alt key though in fairness. Hidden files is just a keyboard shortcut.

Sadly, no. We're actually going to pay them for a bunch of their marketing tools because, as shitty as it is, customers really do respond well to seeing reviews on there and they trust them more than testimonials on our site.

I thought their prices were crazy initially, but the amount of times we hear "oh I saw your good reviews on trust pilot so we decided to go with you". Just got to suck it up and pay the toll.

It's worth pointing out this is still beta 1 and Craig Federighi said they are actively working on it still in his chat with Gruber.

The specific part of that chat for those interested: https://youtu.be/WfnvsepVJC0?t=2485

An issue we had with trust pilot is that we got a bunch of our users to give us reviews, and then trust pilot cut 40% of them based on whatever they have going on in the backend, they couldn't tell us. That for a small company is quite a valuable thing to lose tbh, they claimed they reached out to those people but ones who we are close with said they received nothing. They gave us no pathway to prove they were legit review, just deleted.

Left a pretty bad taste tbh, trust pilots only suggestion was to use their email setup where you CC them into customer comms and then later they email the customer themselves to ask for the review. Just seemed like a way to tie us in deeper with them.

I find the general feeling here is that the system isn't perfect, but none are really and what we have has worked for a long time and there isn't much desire to change it.

We'd just be switching for the baggage of an elected head of state and I'm not sure there is any stomach here for another issue that divides so deeply after going through the Brexit campaign/process.

We already have a non political head of state. I’m not sure I see any benefit in us switch to a system like Italy or Germany.

President Boris. Sounds fantastic. Perhaps not though, yeah?

DO's lack of SQS type offering seems even more strange with a product like that. What are people using to plug this gap?

Personally, I thought the content was good and then the plug at the end was fine. It didn't detract from the content in any way that I could tell or make me suspicious of your motives.

My desire to read the comments sections on reddit and increasingly on here completely baffle me. If I was sat in a room and the people in there were saying things as stupid as I see on reddit I would leave that room and wonder how the hell I ended up in it. What possible reason do I have to be wasting time reading the barely formed thoughts of what must be predominantly teenagers. Yet ... I find myself back there.

> he seems lost in his own sauce

I read this as a polite way of saying he's up his own arse, which seems accurate.

It feels to me that the type of communication slack is used for can't scale to a huge company, rather than it being a tooling issue. It's useful to be able to pull disparate people into a channel when working on a project, or to be able to find someone from another team to ask a question. But, expecting people to be able to discuss things with everyone from a large organisation all of the time just seems destined for failure.

At a certain size it probably makes sense to have actual humans in each department working out what communication needs to flow to the rest of the organisation and moving it in a different tool. Maybe links to those "publications" are posted in an all hands channel that most people have muted until they're ready to sit down and catch up with what everybody else is doing, but I can't imagine a situation where they should be getting notifications in real time about it.

This isn't really an issue with M1 Macbooks now. But I did used to hate how hot my Intel Macbook got.

> All the ceremony of carefully taking a record out of its sleeve, checking for dust, putting it on the record player etc. is too much hassle for me.

This is what I like about it really. It's quite a deliberate focussed thing. For most of my music listening when I just want noise in the background I stream it because it doesn't matter. But sometimes when you just want to sit down and enjoy something special, the ceremony seems to add something.

It's an interesting technique that you can see used in books for young adults, they leave the protagonist fairly blank in many regards so that you can essentially paint yourself in there, or fill in the blanks with what you wish was there.

It probably explains why he attracts the type of people he does and why he has the sort of following he does.

It also seems an odd thing for him to be solving since a lot of the marketing noise for his companies is bot driven. Perhaps he's more interested in "solving" the problem in specific ways.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/musk-is-of...

I actually find it tends to split groups between those that watch episode drops and those that wait to binge later. Not to mention the spoilers that people drop when they assume someone is watching along.

The Netflix decision that is causing me the most aggravation is that they are the only service I use that doesn't integrate with the watch next bar on Apple TV. I forget that I'm watching something, especially if they are doing weekly episode drops, and then lose interest if I've forgotten what's going on. Everybody else is able to add their new episode to that bar so I can work through my backlog, and even pop new seasons in there if I've watched the show in the past.

It feels like they're making decisions to suit themselves rather than me and it winds me up considering they are the more expensive subscription.

A thousand brains is another really interesting book I read recently.

Seems to have helped a lot that people are back socialising with their friends so the cabin fever has lifted and they don’t feel the desire to get back to the office to scratch that itch.

Also, kids are back at school.