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Yeah, but you’ll be able to use all that wait time consuming ads!

If my account was occasionally fomenting international crises, perhaps it’d be justified.

Bust the trusts

This whole article sounds like a rehash of Zen Buddhism, or Stoisism. The advise overall is sound, but needs more context and leaves a lot out... which is why it's frustrating that the author didn't say "I stole all this from Zen Buddhism" or something.

He does also miss the point (also made in Zen) that while you are nothing, you are also, in fact, everything. Both facts; that you are the center of experience and also one insignificant part of an enormous objective reality are both true at the same time. As Shunryu Suzuki would say "do you understand". To which I say... uhh... I guess?

Blockchain will change the world!!! Then his examples are more items at Walmart and furniture rental. Hahaha

I don't doubt that blockchain has the ability to upend business as usual in myriad ways, and there are a lot of really exciting projects out there that have that potential... but the examples this article used definitely don't live up to the hype of his opening paragraph.

I have a lot of productivity programs, calendar apps, todo lists, mind mapping software etc. etc... But the greatest tool in my arsenal is a notebook and a pen.

Every morning, before I start working, I browse my calendar, Omnifocus, notes from yesterday, and with my notebook, I write down the three things I absolutely want to get done today.

I don't always get those three things done, but I sure do make a lot of progress on them and feel good about my productivity at the end of the day.

Something about the ritual and physical act of writing stuff down with a pen really does it for me. When I forget to do this or start working without it, I feel directionless and will mostly just answer email and get inconsequential stuff done all day.

So by defining poverty on a relative sliding scale, we'll constantly be working to improve the conditions of the least fortunate of us...

Good.

So you're the guy!

Step 1 - Wild speculation on something Apple might be doing. Step 2 - Why we are all doomed! Step 3 - Shame on you Apple!

In my 20's, most of my friends and I were in one touring rock and roll band or another. A bunch of societal malcontents, dropping out of college and trying to do something else. Maybe that's not terribly common, but I really didn't know many people who pined for the family life... but biological urges are hard to fight... Not just the urge to procreate, but the urge to raise and nurture kids. The urge to nest and create stability. It's not for everyone, but it IS for most people. Not because of some societal constraint, but because of biological ones. Societal constructs just helps us to fulfill those desires more easily.

Every person I know, in their 20's, could have written the same post as OP... Myself included. Now they are all married with children... Myself included.

Someone please do a snarky markdown one next.

If you live in the future, you and everyone you know is healthy and fit. This is due, in large part, to a food delivery system that uses your medical data to plan and deliver meals for you.

I think this is why facebook won't be the company to capitalize on this possible niche. People's facebook friends, and the things they share on facebook are all very personal. You share way too much for people to just talk to and friend anyone on facebook.

When you go to a house party, all you bring is yourself, and your social skills. You don't show people your baby pictures, grandma's birthday presents, or your relationship status. Other than name and face, you can be fairly anonymous. There is also the aspect of a host introducing you to others, or forcing some kind of mingling of different circles of friends.

That all seems like it would translate well into a social platform. Mutual friends, forcing some kinds of interactions between their acquaintances, where there is at least some anonymity, but not total anonymity.

...and water is wet. In a kickstarter project, features and staff are constrained. The only thing left to play with is schedule.

My friends stopped this game when we realized that in a relatively even matchup, the first player will win about 85 percent of the time. Going second is just so much of a huge disadvantage. The first player can surround 2 or more spaces easily leaving player 2 always playing catchup and defense. I'd like to see a future version that fixes this. Also, sometimes a game can get stuck in the endgame with both players playing chicken, not selecting any of the last few letters. Both situations are less than awesome game dynamics that need to be addressed.

At WWDC, in the external accessory and core bluetooth talks, they make mention that they would prefer to see bluetooth 4.0 LE profiles for payment systems, and other NFC type applications. I think this is a big reason they feel they don't need NFC.

The Core Bluetooth framework is definitely worth looking at if you are interested in iPhone external connectivity stuff.

I bet that episode is ripe with animated gif fodder. They always got that weird self-satisfied look on their face when they were playing.

Something about this article reminds me of a post-scarcity future star trek paradise where everyone works on whatever gives them joy. At Valve, your basic needs are taken care of (a paycheck, healthcare, etc), and you produce the things you love to produce. If this works on the level of a firm, would it work on the level of a whole society?

I thought that part was interesting. How did they sync up? She was on his home network so the default is his stream? This also implies that there is some kind of stream syncing problem. What if we are in a public place and we all watch slightly different streams? We all have separate experiences? Who gets the rights to different public streams? How many billboards are currently showing on this blank white canvas on the highway? How many virtual worlds are currently overlapping the real world and who has the rights to the default one?