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I find regret to be useless to me. It just keeps me up at night if I look back and ignore what’s with me in the moment. Learning from experiences is one thing, but feeling bad about choices I made in the past is useless because I cannot change the path I am on right at this moment. But I can step off it, or course correct.

If I find myself thinking “man I could have made a unicorn startup”, I pivot that internal monologue into “how might I start to build a unicorn startup”. In my opinion, the hard thing is listening to that internal monologue and really listening to what it is saying.

(“deep thoughts, by Jack Handy”)

Value for me is to scratch the zombie apocalypse itch.

One feature request is some form of animal and pest protection. Squirrels and cardinals eat a majority percentage of the veggies in my raised bed here in Austin. I think some bats eat the vegetables as well but that’s difficult to validate.

should give this to the coach too - Texas players get heat exhaustion

Trace and hudl use shirt number and person tracking. I bet they could add skin color and gait analysis to do this as well.

This. I walked into the computer room with my mom when I was a little kid. There was a dude printing out a pinup and taking pictures of it as the lines fed. My first exposure to porn.

I would have preferred the reverse of crushing our tools into something. I would have preferred pulling them out of the iPad to create. As a d&d fan, I could imagine a bard with a black hole pulling instruments and creative tools out in order to render magic.

I felt like I was watching the end of Terminator 1 when watching that iPad commercial.

I too found this effect in my dissertation research on same-different judgments of figures on a screen. Hard training achieved better and faster judgments than easy. The add from my work is the interaction effect of the cognitive style (holistic vs analytic) of the participant in comparison to the characteristics the task demands. If someone’s style was different than what the task required, hard training worked even better.

I left a $20 bill in my dissertation at the library if you can find it. I did that to see if anyone would read it.

The outcome would mean you would want the best designers in the world working on the problem. The use error in both conditions of answering a phone and diving are the same: the human factor. Only the importance of the outcome of the human-machine interaction error differs.

What brand do we trust the most to do the design job right regardless of context? Well, the brand a lot of people trust has the hardware and ecosystem. Do we trust the app developer, however?

I agree. I saw no data in these posts. Alternatives could be that they developed a deep learning algorithm to auto label intent and entity? Or possibly interest rate changes drove the stock down 50% and they need to get more free cash flow? Or they hit a glass ceiling in cpe?

I didn’t need to look away to click a link. Spoiler: it doesn’t work, nor do the comments

Right? Funny thing is my annoying nephew’s eyes can see the small text on that new iPhone without adjusting the default font. I of course have to. But at least I’m not color blind.

3. Be explicit about who you are building the system for

I have not yet run across a prototype or a product that does not have a producer and a consumer. Nor have I seen one yet that works for everyone on this planet.

Chapanis 1996 might be a good read.

This works for me.

1. Calculate calories: https://tdeecalculator.net/

2. Generate meal plan from calories: https://www.eatthismuch.com/

3. Grocery shop from checklist

3. Make meals.

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Several from that bot are great UX haiku.

The article lacks reference to the original peer reviewed research establishing these behavioral phenomena. While the intent is application, those who question should be able to dig into each distinct bias and the research behind them. Some, or many, of these may have helped us dominate as a species.

Not sure I agree with this. Most fruit trees need 2 of them and wind or bees/insects. If we spray insecticide or anti-fungal on the fruit tree, which many people do, then we reduce the bees, and get no fruit. The insecticide seems to be the unnatural addition that impacts the ecosystem.

I would argue for reduced use of insecticide.

We have kept Italian and Russian honey bees in our suburban backyard. Both came out of their hive, flew up 20 feet and left the yard, and even the neighborhood we think, most of the day. Stable base, near a source of water, and in the sun worked best for them not swarming on us. A lawn mower bumping into a stand meant 20 mins of angry bees, then back to business. Moving the hive on a pole would make me nervous for 20 minutes.

What killed two hives outright (we think) are lawn services going after mosquitoes in the neighborhood. Didn’t kill them but weakened the hive. They were subsequently taken over by fire ants and small hive beetles, each time after a split.

Bee keeping is so easy and fun and can be done through the mail. I agree with you, duke, if we could solve for allergies, beekeeping could easily be as commonplace as growing tomatoes.

Context matters. For example, at an intersection, both the context of what is happening with others at that intersection as well as what has happened to the vehicle coming up to that intersection matter. An intersection near a soccer field at 4PM has different dynamics than at 4AM. An intersection following a highway exit has different dynamics than an intersection in a neighborhood.