jasonv

I spent time this week with Joplin.

Why I won't be using it:

* If I live in Markdown, I want to edit it WYSIWYG. Maybe that's wrong, but I don't want to live in .md code mode (for this reason, I miss Evernote). I author in Typora, but I don't want to keep notes in MD.

* It's sync-ing options don't map to the most used syncing tech on desktops these days. I'd have to pay for Dropbox (given my current ecosystem) just to use it to sync.

* I want folders and sub-folders. Folders and tags don't work for me.

* I wish these systems had a built-in journal mode, like Roam.

Productivity hacks are the new startup hacks.

(Kidding, not kidding... I'm more annoyed by "founder" specialness/pithy comments on Twitter than productivity hacks, though, I haven't seen a Roam submission in a few days; And yes, I know where I am).

Good Q. Those seasons were so bad it killed — or at least severely diminished — the casts’ star power. Who’s still hot from GoT?

I have to check the list, but what I’ll be looking for is a community for entrepreneurs discussing Year 5, or 10+ experience topics. Most I’ve checked drown in startup 101 topics.

I remember seeing a show of his stuff at the Pacific Design Center in WeHo many years ago. Lovely.

I've been waiting for Apple to update the AppleTV (I gave mine to a deserving friend), so I replaced my aging Roku with a FireTV (for HBO Max). Works great.

So Medium wants my email to read the article, and when I give it email it says I have to upgrade to read the article.

Shady.

I have Mail and Meet.

I see Meet, but not Chat, and none of my Chats show up in the Gmail app (iOS), and there's a separate Chat app (which doesn't do the account switching I mentioned).

If Chat is built in, I don't see it yet.

This has been much discussed the last bit of time, on what basis are you buying shares in a company..?

Switching channels/teams in Teams is far less efficient than moving through channels in Slack, which means I'm less likely to engage well in Teams.

The mobile Google Chat still doesn't let you switch accounts, like Hangouts supports. Perplexing, given how much people in the Google-sphere context switch.

How do those of us inclined... commit, represent, and impact?

I end up ordering from Amazon the things that Whole Foods, OfficeMax and BestBuy won't keep in stock. I moved recently, so we've been ordering 2-4x /week while getting the new place in order.

I buy locally what I can, but retail offerings are so anemic (even for, say, granola bars) that online options massively eclipse what stores carry.

I don't want to order from Amazon, but I don't want to get by with the meager brick-and-mortar offerings.

Another example: Recently I went to Best Buy to grab an HDMI-DisplayPort cable. They had it priced at $38. Amazon had it for $12. I'd have paid up to $20 for the retail stock surcharge, but that overage was obscene.

During the outage today, my Alexa’s were streaming music. When I said, “Alexa”, they went right into reporting that there was an issue. I couldn’t even issue an “Alexa, stop”. Seemed.... dumb.

I use Slack and Quip and they’re not the same thing.

There are people who sit through credits. We're a minority ...even in theaters, I'd say 10% or less... but, since we're _paying_ subscribers to Netflix, why can't we turn on a feature that lets us watch credits?

I'll use this thread to share one of my oft-wished features: all mobile apps should come with an on/off toggle, too.

Sure, I can delete the app, but if I think I want it in 2 weeks (say, while travelling), there are a lot of activities I might want to disable for some duration, without deleting or losing the local data.

This is often held against Brave as well:

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/brave-privacy-brows....

You can be informed reading the right resources once a week. Being exposed to news content isn’t the same thing as being informed. And we don’t vote daily..

Just different. Neither an accusation nor an assertion. A conversation starter.

I use hangouts because it's right there in Gmail. The last few timse I looked at Chats, it couldn't connect with my other @gmail users. Now it does. That's nice.

But rooms doesn't work yet (someone else said it's coming to Gmail), and I can't see how to make Chats show up in Gmail yet, so I can't turn off Hangouts yet, and is it even possible to?

Will chat show up in the right sidebar of Gmail, or below the labels in the left bar?

I've been rockng a Macbook Air since 2013. I love the thing and it works fine, but I can't do video editing, which I need to do. The new Macbooks were on the horizon, but I figured I'd wait for v2 of whatever came out.

So I bought a Dell gaming machine, for the GPU.

First impressions from the week:

* Windows is still pretty kludgy.

* There are no good Gmail cients for Windows (settled on eM, but it crashes a lot, on macOS I used Mailplane, Mimestream and Outlook; Outlook on windows doesn't automatically connect to Google Calendars, even though the macOS and iOS versions do).

* The Dell came with a terrible keyboard, I'll have to buy a better one. It didn't come with speakers, so I bought some (I was planning to get reference monitors anyway, but having NO sound for a few days was interesting). It doesn't have a webcam, which is fine, but I'd have to buy one if that becomes important.

* The cables, cables, cables.

* I can use the Phone app to connect to my iPhone, and iCloud on Windows works well enough (for Drive and Photos).

* Windows apps don't adhere to the design guidelines nearly as consistently as macOS apps do. Fonts and usability is far more varied.

I will see about dual-booting Linux, and I'll see about getting Davinci Resolve working.

His episode on the Rich Roll podcast was excellent, highly recommended.

Reading HN though, every assertion from someone who knows something can become a thread of dispute, disagreements and "yeah, but" digressions.

So, maybe, who knows anything..

Therapists don’t generally give advice.

Coaches do that.

I have an almost 17 year old who doesn't want a smartphone.

He plays Minecraft/KSP about 90 minutes each night.

But he'd always, always accept an offer to do something else with me or someone else in the family.

So I make sure, as his father, to make that offer sometimes. And I also feel fine if I'm feeling like a book or a movie or something else.

Not all kids become [insert teenager cliches] upon the onset of teenage-dom, for all the different reasons this can be true... but when I was his age, I definitely defaulted to getting on the computer instead of doing other things.

I do think it's interesting how little discussion there is in culling digital behaviors moreso during pandemic times. I personally don't have a lot of interest in any of the new iPhones because my iPhone mostly lives on my desk at home. It hardly ever gets out.

I live in a world where those incentives have created a platform where I can buy decent hardware to run the kinds of applications that aren’t available on the preferred platforms. Want a laptop that can last all day, edit 4K, and be operated as an appliance, not a passion project? You’ve got Windows and Apple. I have run Linux forever, from day one, and while it can run the services we need for the whole internet, it’s not desktop viable in the ways Windows and Linux are.

In this argument, I’m not sure that level of product development can be dismissed. I wish Apple had implemented this better, I just bought a Windows machine so I wasn’t dependent on one platform, I’m trying to move towards Linux again (to be aligned with my own values), but the engineering this community wants, and the readiness of the platform & product we can buy any day of the week at Best Buy ... doesn’t exist.

So I, personally incentivized to give Apple a bit of a pass on this one, and hope they iterate this solution in the right direction, and definitely hope they don’t turn the Mac App Store into the iOS App Store.

I relax more on longer drives with ACC.

I tend to drive faster, so slow drivers in the left lane drive me a bit batty.

With ACC on, that tendency is blunted heavily, and I just roll along, making occasional adjustments. But my temperament is much improved.

Been thinking about how to answer this.

People search for new systems when their current system doesn't work. I am not shopping for a new system.

I keep notes, wake early, do my thing, and record in Todoist the things I find myself avoiding or procrastinating. Other than that, I have a sense of what I need to do, a desire to do it, and -- maybe most importantly -- a strong sense of what it'll take to get those things done. And a track record that keeps me from ruminating on whether I need a different system.

I've been involved in creative endeavors such that I apply "creative mode" to most of my business and technical endeavors.

Being able to get things done, and feeling satisfied in that effort, usually belies the need for more or different "system".