That's funny, I was having a conversation with a friend last week about how neither of us ever use the keyboard backlight. Cool to see that someone actually does!
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And then you're right, basic supply and demand theory would suggest that supply growth has outpaced demand growth over the same period (and by a rate about the same as the inflation rate to keep nominal prices constant). But why? loosening regulation/enforcement is mostly on the demand side, I would say. It's probably getting easier to grow higher quality pot (more information readily accessible, better equipment, mobility, economies of scale, etc). The overall market likely behaves perfectly competitively (its a commodity, no single dealer could charge more per unit of 'high' without losing business). So, perfect competition with supply growth = lower real prices.
I find that tea doesn't give me as much of a high as coffee, but it lasts longer without any come-down. Awesome.
I think that the last point he makes is probably the most valuable and one that I only just learned, that is to not worry if you miss a workout or two, or if you have that cake on the weekend every once in a while. I always used to set myself a very strict plan for whatever I was trying to do, and inevitably whenever I fell off I would feel like I failed and wouldn't be able to get back to it. I've recently started taking a more relaxed approach to my 'goals' and I feel like I've made much more progress, as long as the trend is in the right direction you're good to go.
Sums it up for me pretty well.
The book was published in 1986, which would probably mean that the interview was done after he was fired by Jobs. Certainly reinforces the warning to take Raskin's word, too, with a grain of salt.
Says something about their idea of a 'business'
I'd have to say that as far as simplicity, iOS seems to be the leader right now (maybe not the most powerful/customizable though), in comparison to RIM/Android.
Only reinforces the point of the article. Like he said at the end: "In fact, the projects where there is doubt are the ones to pursue." Those projects are different for everyone, you just have to jump in.
Living in Vancouver though, it seems that everyone that could get some form of transportation has ended up here or in Victoria; it certainly feels disproportionate to the population/economy.
I'd have to think that letting the design guy worry about design would probably be the better route, rather than clouding with all of the other business decisions and realities in a major way
Exactly! It is surprisingly easy to buy something in a store instead of ordering from Amazon and waiting, for +20%, or taking a cab home instead of the subway/bus, or hiring a weekly cleaning service, or buying nicer ingredients and eating out at nicer places because it's convenient, or, ...
Its all the little things in life that really make your experience better and allow you to do the things you want to be doing, not the big ticket items that people traditionally associate with wealth. I think that that is what FYM is all about, really
Also: why, after millions of checkins over public networks, is this only coming up now? Surely someone would have got burned by this by now?
And as far as the market being expensive in relation to historics, again you have to compare apples with apples. There are more people investing now than 50 years ago, and there are more big companies. Both of these facts will drive up the price of the mainstream companies' shares.
A bunch of my friends are traders, and it seems that the consensus right now is that as far as the stock market is concerned, nobody knows where this is going (either way), and is scared to take any real position (that's why volatility has been up lately, volumes are down (and not just because it's August).
My take is that we're most likely headed for a period of Japan-like stagnation. There are huge structural employment issues in developed countries to take care of, properties are likely very much underwater for many homeowners that do still have jobs in the US, and governments are taking the knee-jerk reaction to the stimulus needed in 08/09 by introducing austerity measures, which will only serve to slow the economy further than it is at the moment. The debt levels in developed economies are still waaay too high, but there is a very real risk of taking the crutches away before the economy can walk again (hence Bernanke returning to easing measures: he sees the writing on the wall).
So, while governments worldwide go about trying to tackle the debt problem, growth will slow and there will be little job creation in many sectors. But the real change has to come from the people learning that, fundamentally, they can only spend what they earn, and that debt is not a bottomless pit.
If they had just said from the beginning that they were out for their own interest (just like everyone else), and not tried to play the good guy even when it would hurt them, then nobody would be surprised by this.
London for sure.
You gain grit by doing things that need to be done, hopefully in pursuit of some greater goal (more than likely, just getting paid). Not by for-the-hell-of-it forced work. That just turns you off everything.