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Jocko willinck (and many others I am sure) likes to state that you can’t rely on motivation because it comes and goes. Rely on discipline, build habits using discipline if you want to get anything done. A trite but in my opinion helpful statement is discipline equals freedom.

I have to use an iPhone in order to test our highest grossing platform.

I’m not here to debate why apple has the most popular platform, I’m just stating what feels to me like a fairly unequivocal observation - apple’s software is pretty bad compared to Amazon’s. For whatever reason the company that takes millions in App Store revenue from my company, certainly doesn’t use it to make their software better!

As in can I justify my claim, or what are the reasons that Amazon produces better software? I would say the former is a qualitative statement and I am going to have a hard time backing it up with facts, and the latter I have no idea.

I run into non stop issues when interacting with apple software as an app producer, from Xcode to iOS to App Store to App Store connect. Their apis are pretty horrible, both the reliability and the design.

As an end user of apple products, I regularly run into odd software problems with my MacBook and iPhone. Every CarPlay experience I have had is buggy, both from the actual CarPlay connectivity as well as apples own CarPlay enabled apps.

Apple Watch is a horrible nightmare to make anything more complicated than a simple remote display.

I could go on and on. However on the Amazon side of things I have never experienced a significant bug, aside from the audible app freezing on occasion when interacting with CarPlay. I blame apple though based off how their own apps work. I say this as an extensive consumer of Amazon products both as a business owner, developer, and SRE, as well as an extensive user of Amazon consumer products.

All this being said I don’t like amazon as a business, I can find flaws in their decisions, but they are business decision flaws not just straight buggy products.

Yes but I would argue Amazon has better software than apple by a long shot. Ignoring how you felt as a worker out what you read Amazon employees feel like, Amazon has better results.

Addiction issues are a totally different animal. Just look up the definition of addiction. I’ll comfortably stand by my statement of use on the order of every few years being wellllllll within the margins of reasonable use.

It’s not more low key it’s actually much more intense, or rather can be depending on dosage. Easier to exact dose with LSD. Mushrooms are over quicker and as a result can be more pleasant.

I publicly, to my peer group at least, state I have enjoyed benefits of psychedelic drugs every five or ten years, I am pretty sure I have my shit together compared to most people. That being said i know the people you are talking about, but they in my experience use drugs much more frequently. Multiple times a year, and regularly also smoke weed etc.

Obviously biased when talking about myself, but I think you can split your judgement into a frequency argument rather than a binary yes or no.

Peaceful Protest Coup

You are talking past parent. They are saying the cancellation is a signaling mechanism that gives them no confidence to build out new refineries and other infra that is required to lower prices.

No because this wasn’t caused by hepatitis virus, but an adenovirus.

Then how do you satisfy the real need for an outlet for aggression? I personally did this with motorcycle racing, which is competitive but mostly non violent. Cooperative activities are great and I really enjoy them, but don’t scratch the same itch.

Large dollar denominated debt, strong dollar, results in potential defaults on that debt.

Pretty sure USA won’t let Pakistan falter given their nuclear state status, but definitely interesting times.

With the looming currency crisis in Pakistan, we are probably closer than we ever have been to nukes falling into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.

Also not too friendly with Russia or china these days…

Factor in only unarmed shootings and it’s tiny. The rest are mostly armed and dangerous people actively involved in violence. That it a shocking high number of suicide by cop.

You can watch a thousand videos if you care to and it’s eye opening. I made it a habit of watching the body cam footage of shootings in the news and it’s almost always clearly justified, though I do understand that there is a minority viewpoint that doesn’t consider any deadly shooting justified, even if it’s of an armed individual engaged in a crime.

Yes but you have to discount ubiquitous firearm ownership. You can argue that is problematic pretty successfully but I don’t fault police officers (as a whole, obviously individual bad actors, again we have 350mm people here and 1mm police) having to shoot armed and dangerous individuals.

Thank you for this. I’ve tried explaining this to many of my peers and family but even now, this viewpoint is considered bigoted by many, at least in major metro areas on the west coast. I think part of the problem is people are responding to the messenger (the right) rather than the message.

There are roughly 350 million people in this country. It’s surprising the number of people killed by police isn’t higher. Everyone contextualizes police shootings as if they all happen in their local city, so the numbers seem large.

I want this number as small as possible while not over correcting so much that we have other negative consequences (violent crime increases).

So what? So does my diabetic aunt who has had half her intestines removed because she can’t respect her dietary needs. Doesn’t make it true.

Taking off my pedantic hat, I think we agree. Meaning in the pragmatic real world, if you can keep weight off it’s better than having the weight on, and no one is doing that in the real world with an all sugar diet.

With that being said, metabolic disease produces lots of skinny diabetics, and that will definitely shorten your life span.

Not anything, you could run a five hundred calorie deficit and only eat table sugar. You’d lose weight and gain serious metabolic disease.

This is an extreme, but obviously there’s better and worse things. Maybe it’s pretty comparable in the reasonable middle, but let’s not kid ourselves and say anything can work if we are talking whole body health not just weight loss.

Hopefully you see this, a bit late to replying. The trick is sticking with it long enough that it goes away. I started weightlifting about a year ago (was always healthy and enjoyed cardio based exercise regularly) and I was regularly sore and tired. I set some ambitious goals that required dedication and effort. After about four months weightlifting three to five times a week, I no longer got sore or tired. Feels worse to not lift than to lift.

I personally really enjoy achieving things, so I put some ambitious goals on paper, staked my plan with some cash that would pay out to a close friend if I failed, and got to work. I paid out enough cash that it would hurt if I didn’t achieve my goal. I paid it up front and if I succeeded it would be handed back to me. And damnit I pushed hard to get that cash back!

Finally, I never would have done this without purchasing home equipment.

Exercises are typical compound weightlifting. Bench, squats, deadlifts, presses etc. set up home equip so I could fail on my last set of bench and recover (remove fear of failure).

Gained 12lbs pure muscle, dropped some fat, look better than I’ve ever looked.

Finally, I clearly upped my testosterone level a bit with the exercise, energy and behavior changes (all positive) were noticeable. Same with posture.

Just stick with it way past what you would normally do and you can reprogram yourself!

That's my general take as well, but thought I'd float the question. There's also the consideration of $250k FDIC limits, though for the next 2-3 years that's as simple as maintaining a couple of different accounts.

Additional details: I am mostly interested in hearing about financial instruments. We do have a murky path to fueling more growth with some strategic hires (a designer might go a long way), but my founder and I are trying to ramp up our team, and our ability to manage that team, in a controlled and smart fashion. Meaning there is obvious gains to be had with an additional web dev and a designer, but it feels like we are 6 months out from having the right culture/structure/management skills to use them effectively. We went from 5 to 8 full time employees this year, so adding more is a bit risky feeling.