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Your calendar can get automatically updated from your emails; I imagine Lyft can likely access your calendar.

Psychiatrist Peter Kramer writes about how the availability of a technological solution prompts us to see the problem everywhere - such as lithium for bipolar, Prozac for depression, Xanax for panic attacks, and now Adderall for ADHD. What problem is next that we find a solution for? I think it will be something for impulse control perhaps.

Slightly above ‘average’ inflation-levels, compounded over time, creating an intrinsic tax on wealth and inflating away the debt-to-gdp ratio so it remains roughly the same or near-same levels. Combine that with an increase in retirement age, a reduction in retirement benefits, and an increase on social-security tax incrementally over the next decade. Gen Z will perhaps be the first with a retirement age of 69 (nice).

If you don't mind using java, you can use the open source Apache PDFBox library

https://pdfbox.apache.org/

It's relatively performant and it's a mature and supported codebase that can accomplish most pdf tasks.

Thomas Pynchon was ahead of his time with his book title https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%27s_Rainbow