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I do but mostly for coordination and comms sharing with my spouse by using group aliases. Summer camp registration, school nurse contact info, car insurance, library holds...all super convenient to get joint notifications for things. And yeah, also to remember who we gave contact info to which we can drop if it gets spammy.

I own a reasonably well performing indie bookstore. I've noticed for the model to work you need a critical mass of other local shops clustered to make the trip an experience for families and diverse tastes. My working theory is that three of such small businesses are sufficient and could operate well with a common inventory strategy and manager (e.g. a bookstore, a toy store, and a tea or candy shop...nothing that spoils in the very short term). When I've got a bit more time I want to try that idea and see if it works as a way to revitalize otherwise charming old downtown areas with vacant retail space and communities wishing to bring back their main street. Giving this idea away in case anyone else has tried or wants to try sooner than me and report back.

I started coaching my son's little league baseball team a few years ago, mostly because that was the only way I could keep him interested it and I just wanted him to keep playing a team sport. But, that first season showed me how incredibly rewarding the whole process can be. Every practice, every game, you see them improve. And the more you work at designing a good practice, helping each player develop skills, the better they get! And, the joy...the pure, unadulterated joy of a short stop making a a clean throw to first for an out, a hit into the grass with a quick slide into second for a double, a dash across home after a wild pitch rolls into the cage for a run on the steal! I don't get paid, of course, but it's the best job I've ever had.

Most Substacks have an RSS feed (I'm not sure if one can disable it or not); in this case: https://samkriss.substack.com/feed

agree, was similarly hoping for something akin to a total factor productivity argument

This is the way. I've been dual booting with Ubuntu for almost 20 years now and my main finding these days is just how easy it has become and how rarely I need to switch to Windows. Sure, it happens and the option is always there, but Ubuntu as a daily driver is solid.

My issue is the pods fail to dissolve ~5% of the time and leave a gunk that clogs the dispenser which again requires time and effort to clean. I'm convinced by the video to try powder again but I've had the filming issue with almost every powder I've tried. So, we'll see what happens...

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Out of curiosity, what embedding model did you use for this?

I thought the Rav4 had been outpacing it for awhile now. (Plus, that's also artificially limiting total vehicle sales which are, unsurprisingly, still trucks.)

This was exactly my reason when I lived in a tiny apartment in Boston having no exhaust or fan in the kitchen itself. Put the Foreman Grill by a window with some burgers cooking, job done.

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im in the market for a printer, mind recommending one?

yeah it wasn't an option for a variety of reasons. for instance, landlord of the prior location will subdividing and reletting the space and that work will take time to complete. another consideration is remaining inventory tends to be the stuff that doesn't sell well anyway and even at a steep discount that inventory occupies valuable shelf space.

yup...it's razor thin. the ones that we found doing well are very, very good at community engagement in events and partnerships with local schools, community colleges, etc.

yeah, it was the same for us. really one day we woke up, talked about it, and agreed, why not. worst case, i'll work a few more years than i had originally planned or whatever. best cast, we have delivered a valuable service to the community and can work on it for many years. my wife will be full time and it's very much her dream too. i hadn't thought of the newsletter but that's such a good idea...stay tuned, i might dm you.

yes exactly, my wife and i are the same way. some of the other shops we talked to were surprised at the amount of foot traffic from people who for one reason or another just happened to be in the area. anyway, we will have a full 8x13' room for scifi/fantasy; that's my section too...we could probably use more space for that. :)

we have a really great local library system where i live so what we're working on is definitely more a local store. we'll have a mix of titles based on our knowledge of community preferences (my wife is also a writer and knows much more than me about the local scene), seasonal titles (e.g. featuring new and old horror titles in october), plus events like author readings and educational seminars.

thanks! my wife and i both really like local bookstores and often stop into them when we travel. and you know, you only live once...so why not.

at full retail price, you're often looking at 40-50% for books...but then everything goes on sale at some point. sideline merch (think the stuffed animals in the kids section) can get 60%+. but after rent, expenses, etc. we're just hoping to break even in year 1. the math suggests its possible but we're about to find out empirically. in the end, most evidence also suggests there are a lot easier ways to make $30k net a year. but it's a community project as a much as a business.

my wife and I have a new side project: we're opening a bookshop! the last local store is closing due to retirement and we figure the community demand is still there. we're negotiating the lease, sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves, and source the initial inventory. i'm currently figuring out how to connect our point of sale system to our accounting software. good times. :)

This was a fun one to lookup. eBay 2001, Amazon 1999 (first order was a book I needed for high school as well as VHS tape for the movie Heat), but my winner is Yahoo Mail 1997. I'm sure my AIM account would be older but is long since deleted.

I'm seeing weird effects from the "Try it out" text that chases the cursor. Sometimes it jumbles and freezes, etc.

But there's no way I'd ever want the ownership of my house or cars or other property controlled by an NFT.

+1. My dad died in 2015 and the lawyer who held his Will had apparently gone out of business in the early 00s. I spent a lot of time in the probate courts but was eventually able to gain access to the assets so I could clear the estate, settle his debts, and put him to rest. Arbitrated reversibility and sanctioned transfer of title is a feature, not a bug...I feel that point often gets lost in the web3 debates.

I need to read the article but your comment speaks to exactly the analysis I'd like to see: what was the productivity change among those with a stable WFH situation prior to COVID vs. during COVID, and how does that correlate with family status.

Personally, the biggest change for me in COVID WFH was not the remote meetings -- I already had plenty of those -- but it was the introduction of a second job: part-time Kindergarten teacher.

For me, I highly value switching to an asynchronous order system and the apps give me that. In the pre-app days, I'd sit on hold for significant amounts of time trying to get an order in on a Friday or Saturday night. (For one of my favorite local places -- in Chicago -- this is still the case as I have to fight through a busy signal every single time.) If a restaurant offers a self-managed online order system, I'm all for doing that instead.

Terrariums (e.g. https://www.etsy.com/listing/880201016)

We all received a kit in the mail and on a Friday afternoon, everyone was guided by an indoor gardening expert. It was a calm, pleasant, ~2 hour exercise and I got a fresh plant for my desk out of it.

I see it a lot when integrating legacy healthcare systems that effectively operate on state-transition queues with an assumption of in-order processing.

Just came here to say this actually happened to me. About 10 years ago I lived in a high-rise apartment in Chicago. One day we got a bill in the mail for ~$50,000 -- turns out, I got billed for the entire building. It took weeks to sort that out.

That said, I realize that one anecdote doesn't mean anything.

Nevetheless, I appreciate the hack you suggested of excluding books from allowance. As a parent, that's something I'll now implement. Thanks for sharing.