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Same exact story for me.

Audiologist suggested treating it like a rock in your shoe. At the time seemed like impossible advice but now I just live with it and it’s 100% fine.

Also the idea that it is actually made worse by anxiety was a game changer for me. Literally, “don’t worry about it” is the exact right advice.

Pre-record your demos 10 months ago

Live is also a massive time waster/cost.

Apple can pull it off, but if you’re at a mid market tech company you just sunk like weeks people’s time into choreographing a live movie. Super stressful time sync.

Sample size of 1.

A disc herniation caused me pain all night until it eventually destroyed my circadian rhythm. Even after it healed and the pain went away I had terrible sleep disruption. Up every 90 minutes, couldn't fall asleep until 4 am, waking up at 4 am. The works. Going on a few months.

Then I found sleep restriction.

First two weeks were brutal, but then biology takes over. And just like that, in a couple weeks, you rebuild you ability to fall asleep naturally and you're back to normal.

And in retrospect, this is exactly the approach we took to sleep training our young children. I swear by it.

This is such an important point.

Finance world looks at the consumer benefit as an interesting feature of the investment opportunity, while the technology world looks at the investment opportunity as an interesting feature of the technology change and consumer benefit.

The two communities will talk right past each other like they’re speaking different languages.

Only if a significant amount of people are being directly infected by the cows and a mutation occurs in a person to allow spread to other humans. So seems like the chance is low, but not zero.

The real worry is pigs.

If it makes its way to pigs, we are in trouble. From what I understand, pigs contain a mix of avian and human receptors that make them the ideal mixing ground for crossover. Cows do not.

My 8 year old son was not psyched when I told him “no Roblox”…

…instead I dragged out a bunch of old Xbox 360/One games and let him enjoy a world free of microtransactios, casino inspired skill trees and loot boxes, and weird sex predators.

At first he resisted, then he fell in love with Portal and Command and Conquer and forgot about Roblox.

I feel bad for kids now that are just getting sucked into these engagement hacked “games”. No fun.