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I was thinking about this more but you’re right. I doubt there’s any acquired knowledge needed to know what’s repugnant to the human mind.

Probably not the ones—if any—that lurk 4chan and other extreme imageboards, having been desensitized to such content or probably even get something off of it.

I actually wonder now how much of their workforce would fit in that demographic.

Should clarify: by this case I mean Libra, not Facebook.

Platforms started by many people—thousands in this case—have way more leverage than a single person trying to do the same.

It may not be impossible, but in this case it should be sane to assume it would be a waste of energy for a single person to attempt it.

Congrats on completing another book!

Mental models seem to be a popular topic to write about in the last few years. As someone that has already devoured a lot of content about this, is there a good reason to pick up your book if I don't necessarily want to make the time to read more on the topic?

Pi-Hole is a great tool, just make sure to be exhaustive in your testing to see if it will break any services you depend on.

When I unboxed my old Kindle one day I couldn’t get syncing to work and had no idea why for several days until I tried adding a pass-through filter for Amazon in Pi-Hole, which was the culprit.

It’s a colossal move but we have to move the marketplace away from the current growth capitalism towards one of real utility.

I see this excuse a lot. Maybe it’s a valid reason in some industries. But IMHO it’s likely just a convenient excuse someone plays to further procrastinate on making the though decision now so they don’t have to make a tougher, maybe-very-unlikely decision down the road if they want to re-enter the workforce.

It hasn’t been useful for the past 2-years since they’ve stopped making firmware updates for that device.

That was my thinking when I went through the first page of results. I pretty much read all the books listed except two and it didn’t dawn on me until I started reading more non-fiction books from Asian authors – From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew, many books from the Japan Library series, etc. – that I had a very narrow view of how business and personal productivity works in the grand scheme of things.

As someone that likes the spirit behind Habitica and has tried it a few times – also contributed some bugfixes I desperately needed – I’m curious what you found a bit too much, since I felt the same way.

I’ve toyed in my head with the idea of making a similar app, still heavily-inspired by gaming but without diving deep into the 16-bit RPG pixel atmosphere and the baggage that carries.

I’ve realized lately that I do most of my procrastination either in Firefox or on my phone since those are the places I’ve naturally bucketed my consumption/lizard-brain-behaviour to.

So when I need to focus I’ll just start a Freedom (https://freedom.to/) session that prevents me from using Firefox (I use Firefox Dev Edition for work instead and don’t tend to use problematic websites in it anyway) and keep my phone far away from my field-of-view (it’s 80% of-the-time on silent mode).

If I’m still managing to fritter my time away then it means whatever I’m tasked with isn’t very important to me and I should strongly consider doing another project, whether it’s a personal or professional one.

For a smaller business I’ve found nearly all co-working spaces have mailbox services that can scan or forward incoming mail.

Definitely. Depending on how serious one's issues are, volunteering could be a shortcut remedy for loneliness and the need for therapy could be reduced. But if doesn’t work then therapy could help with underlying issues (my therapist suggested volunteering to me).

The book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport has a concept called Digital Declutter that’s a similar concept but towards distracting tech.

Maybe I’m extreme in my view. But I look at most companies that produce games skewed towards IAP/DLC/P2W as ethically corrupt.

They’re just wasting the talent of game creators to produce these games to pad the revenue of these businesses with no regard for the well-being of players (I’m not one to harp on the whole “only drug dealers call their customers users” thing, but it’s very apt here).

I’m hoping sooner-rather-than-later that the ratio of good vs. evil games is skewed towards the former. Unfortunately by that time a lot of execs will have already ran away with the money while leaving a pile of burnt-out developers and players.

I haven’t been really addicted to gaming since university. But now I largely look for ways to add gaming systems to my everyday life, such as travel hacking (optimize the points, miles and credits I earn for air and train travel) or adding incentives to new habits I want to adopt (minor cheat days if I’ve gone to the gym a certain amount of days in a row).

I believe it’s the urban planning involved in accommodating the physical traffic of vehicles the GP is getting at, not the emissions.

Electric vehicles do nothing to address roads occupying more space than sidewalks, for example.

Probably the best way is to look for the tentpoles that get the most attention – Digital Minimalism/Cal Newport, Center for Humane Technology/Tristan Harris – and follow the discussions around them to see if any other communities arise from them.

Link to the origin repo if you’d like to read the entire .plan archive: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive

Hey, repo owner here.

That does seem to be the case here. I had re-hosted these .plan files from a website – which has removed them – that had re-hosted them from Shacknews – which had also removed them.

GitHub seemed like a quirk-and-dirty way to re-host these while giving others an easy way of duplicating the original files so they’re less likely to be lost in the ether.

When the GP mentioned Elysium I was also reminded of the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie with the AR ads similar to this video.

Works for your devices. Doesn’t work for the outside world.

I actually forgot YouTube had ads until someone showed me a video on their laptop this past weekend. Was painful to watch them try to dismiss it.

Could buy one of those fancy electronic ones with a mobile app that can set notifications. Irony…

I was trying out a Korean facial cleanser with tea tree oil that I stopped using because it was too drying. But I found it was very effective at cleaning grime from my sneakers and as a spot treatment for white shirt stains.

And if OP does end up leaving the job, please don’t feel guilty about taking time off when you see others around you working harder but worse off than you.

Unless you were actually managing them you are not responsible for their happiness. Get yourself back on track before worrying about others (it’s cliché but think of the oxygen mask metaphor).

I found out this year, at 32, that I have a mostly-anxious/sometimes-avoidant insecure attachment style.

Some of the bumps I’ve experienced in life probably would have gone smoother if this was made apparent to me years ago and I had the tools I have now to work with it.

I sometimes wonder if the branding effort I’ve seen over the past few years is even overlaid company goals.

A lot of it seems to be designers signaling to other designers. Like Dribbble has expanded across the web and product landing pages are now the shots.

You can’t get away with making a basic alternative when you have players like Uber, Lyft, Grab, etc. that have refined the entire experience.

The alternatives I’ve tried in Canada succumb to failing miserably to even get the app experience right. There’s an extra level of competency needed to get an alternative to be considered competition.