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I had a similar experience (wrote about it here: https://blog.startopz.com/2019/02/21/the-downside-to-getting...). I was looking at a to do list that I couldn't accomplish in a year.

The biggest issue I had is not filtering what I put into my to do list. I was putting "ideas" or "to read/watch/review" in the same space as my "to dos". By throwing them all in the same bucket I would quickly feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I had to do. By separating ideas into Trello, to read being clipped into Evernote, and my tasks in Asana it significantly reduced the number of tasks I woke up to each day and reduced my stress level (which helped me focus better).

Last year I even moved a lot of my tasks out of Asana and into a bullet journal. This has further helped reduce the number of tasks that I am looking at on any given day.

I had an idea for a similar project last year. I thought it could perform a few functions:

1. Help compile a list of local issues

2. Empower people to help fix those issues (recognizing the different people can help out in different ways on the same issue)

3. Allow groups to highlight their contributions (e.g. local Libertarian party or Lions club or whoever can highlight X number of closed issues in 2020)

This direct action platform would certainly be susceptible to trolling and abuse but it also would directly provide the answers to the OP's question.

(One other hope would be that, if this caught on, maybe political campaigns could redirect some of their ad spend to helping fix these issues as that would allow them to say, "We did this".)

Your response seems quite cynical to me.

Quantopian has been around for a while. They scratched the itch that a lot of programmers have of building an automated trading system and beating the market. Quantopian allowed them to test their trading theories without acquiring the backtesting data and building the test infrastructure. I'd imagine it kept some people from "gambling" with real money.

In my mind that means the agenda has been covered and it is time to wrap the meeting up.

Just started Walkaway a few days ago.

Agreed, would love to hear about a bookclub if someone were to do it.

It is set a couple hundred years later but this Charles Stress story is a fun read about a group of coffee lovers:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/to...

I feel like SharePoint and Google Docs are fundamentally different products that Confluence.

Looking for a Confluence competitor with permissions, version tracking, templates, and search but don't feel like I have found a good alternative.

I have the same card and have issues with locking up and crashing in both Windows and Linux. It looks like the kernel in Ubuntu 20.10 might have a fix for some of issues.

I am not the OP but I exclusively listen to podcasts on my desktop and have done it that way since I stopped using an ipod a decade ago. There are three business podcasts I take notes on in Google Docs. So I can see the utility.

I think a journalist or researcher might find this useful.

City of God (and the documentary that was a special feature of the DVD and was better than the film)

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Ghost in the Shell (as someone else mentioned)

Between Confluence, Salesforce, Azure portal, and Addepar, I am starting to wonder if I am the one that is insane in expecting web pages to load in under seven to ten seconds.

Typing in Asana is painful as well.

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a novel that bookshop lovers might enjoy.

I never bought any of those as I assumed they were the same game of Monopoly but with different pieces and renamed properties. I had no idea about different gameplay.

WebEx and Skype are the popular alternatives. And if you want to talk about poor software quality I think Zoom was created because WebEx is such poor software from a user's perspective.

I have one of them for work and I like it in general. Nice screen. Quite fast. Having the function key in the bottom left gets me (I use control+[ as my vim escape key) is slightly annoying but nothing to do there.

There are two issues that seem like there should be a fix for but I can't find:

* Having a left and right side of the trackpad. I would prefer to disable that and just use two fingers to right-click anywhere on the track pad.

* Cursor doesn't disappear when typing. I'm some apps it does and in others it doesn't. I would prefer it do it all the time.

I did as well. I was certain they were going to be rescued!

I haven't subscribed to Medium but there are certainly some articles/guides I have read there over the years that have been helpful.

Wells Fargo used to require that a new password be sufficiently different from an old password. e.g. if my password was "Madison111$" I could change it to "Madison222$" except that when I did so I would be prompted to change it again the next time I logged in. Since I always iterated on a version of my password this was an issue. The reason was explained to me when I finally called and asked why I was being required to change my password every single time I logged in. So, I changed Madison to Matthew and was good to go.

Not sure how they were doing that if they weren't storing the password in plaintext.

The Dropbox web app not having that same functionality is my biggest pet peeve with the product.

Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

https://ecorner.stanford.edu/series/etl/

Last paragraph: https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-red-sox-warned-indians-astr...

I read an article today from 2018 that mentioned the Astros banging trash cans. Apparently MLB has known about these allegations for a while and didn't investigate. It took it coming out on social media for them to finally launch the investigation.

TVs have sleep timers where they turn off after the set amount of time. Or at least they used to. You might be able to use an Alexa plug between the TV and the wall to the same effect.

My guess would be that he has created all of this documentation and that nobody is reading it. Everywhere else in the company there is probably a culture of creating project requirements with a series of meetings and emails and it doesn't even occur to his colleagues that there is another way or place they are stored.

I also remember demoing the 3DO at Incredible Universe. What an incredible store design they had. I believe I also bought my copy of OS/2 there.

It does but doesn't have the preview.

Print to PDF. I print invoices and payment confirmations to PDF. In Chrome it is nice to get a preview and then to save without having to load a native PDF viewer. I also print coloring pages for my kids and being able to preview those before printing is helpful in cases of seeing how it looks in landscape or portrait and see if they would run over to a second page.

And if they have to assume it isn't water then why not handle it as such? As it stands now they have bins for travelers to discard their potential explosives (water bottles) in.

Google isn't an employee-owned company but I imagine that they do own a decent amount of stock due to the compensation structure. Maybe they could use that as an avenue to have their voice heard?

The sentence works without asking "why I should care?":

"Never heard of Pando, wondering if anyone could give brief insight into why it's significant?"

Including the abrasive phrasing when it is not needed is toxic and not helpful for polite discourse.