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toepitt··on Ask HN: What did you want to do before *life* got in the way?
What would have helped put this goal higher on the list?
toepitt··on Ask HN: Are you powerful? Will you quit email?
I propose the same thingMr. Paul Graham proposed.

There are better ways to screen contacts outside the organization than being interrupted. Same for marketing messages and announcements. It's important to give different people different abilities, and sort tasks by importance or deadline.

A big chunk of text sent to people is practically spam.

toepitt··on Ask HN: Are you powerless? What would you switch to if you quit email?
Why is replacing email ridiculous?
toepitt··on Ask HN: Are you powerful? Will you quit email?
There are workarounds to both 1 and 2. A company or person with a legit message can vet the message without the need to whitelist the sender address.

If anyone powerful is serious about trying a new twist email me.

toepitt··on How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)
I'd like to know how to make an adult creative, not just a child.
toepitt··on Ask HN: What is the preferred platform for dev blog?
I found it more important to learn to write well rather than to add a comments section. Also, to have a way to get feedback before posting.
toepitt··on Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
I never used it and never will. I want something better.
toepitt··on Ask HN: Productivity tips/sources/literature?
I'm working on a project that improves general productivity (not just developer productivity) with common methods, based on science studies. The methods aren't popular yet.

The biggest insight is that it's far more important to work on big, important problems.