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I was about to mention this...

What aways amazes me about Brown is how much he accomplished in so little. I play trumpet, in high school was in California All State Jazz and Classical. I'm by no means a prodigy, I merely brought that up to say I know a lot of musicians.

When you ask any trumpet player to name their top 5 go-to artists if they want to sit down and listen, I'd say that 95% plus would have Brown somewhere in that list. This would be true of people ranging from myself to pro studio musicians. Heck I don't know anyone who's dedicated to the instrument that cant hum along perfectly to Jordu or Joy Spring including his solos.

In only 26 years of life, he has become one of the most iconic names in hard bop, a genre containing the likes of Freddie Hubbard and Horace Silver.

To think he did that in 26 years, one can only imagine what he'd have done if he made it to 60+!

I'll have to check it out, haven't seen any of his work! I based my current system off of Cal Newports work. I basically intentionally designed and overly comprehensive and overly complicated system and paired it back until I had a good balance of inputs and outputs!

Hey Daniel, hope all is well. I completely understand and I'm sure I'll check it out at some point. I'm just saying in my experience I've yet to find a tool that justifies adding yet another tool in this space.

My issue is that with productivity theres a big factor of "good data in good data out". If a system is too overdesigned it often gets underutilized. I used to have complicated setups for my "productivity" but honestly I've paired it down to one google sheets time tracker with a few fancy features like time predicting on projects but not much.. and google calendar. It wasn't until I reduced my tools that my productivity increases.

I worry that overanalyzing productivity will innevitably lead people to forget the 1 rule of "do less".

I second this! Couldn't agree more. In all honesty, some of the best parts of jazz lie in its history. For example listening to Clifford Brown might make you think "huh this is neat". But understanding his relationship to gillespie, early death, etc, puts his career in a unique and fascinating frame.

I understand the concern about this being rather useless fluff with no real differentiation beyond a cute and UX. However, as someone who grew up playing music, I truly believe that listening to "difficult" music exercises the brain in a way similar to reading a good book. Because of that, I am all for any lipstick on a pig that might bring the general public deeper into classical music.

As much as I see the concerns, the issues that could arise from resilience are issues that can arise anywhere where human self-interest is present which is just about everything. I am excited for firms to start focusing on greener office buildings, even if their are some using it to greenwash for optics.

Though as I mentioned, I completely see your point. I guess I should rephrase to “I am excited that there is the potential for positive action in this space.

I think this is illustrative of a broader theme which is how enduring and baked in a lot of our climate degradation is. As much as the chlorine compounds will decay, but not exactly anytime soon. To think we won’t have an issue with this again before they’re decayed would be ridiculous.

It’s the same thing with the broader topic of global warming. Absolutely we should seek to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, that’s a no brainer. But at our current stage in developement, especially with some countries not exactly being team players in this fight, a lot of the increase and future increase in temperature is baked in (pardon the pun). As much as I’m all for mitigation, much like the wildfires themselves, we will already have plenty of consequences to come. That’s why I’m so excited to see focus shifting more towards mitigation and resilience. We need to be prepared for the inevitable we’ve caused.

What I think is important in looking at the difference in treatment between “big tech” and telecom firms is the political expedience. Not to sound too much like a Mayhew acolyte, it can’t be denied that most legislators have their primary focus on reelection. It comes as a priority before efficacy of legislation.

To the voters, telecom companies have always been a priced in annoyance. Additionally, their services aren’t differentiated so although they’re annoying with pricing, the average voter doesn’t see them as quite so pervasive. You pay, you forget. They’re all mildly frustrating to deal with but un-noteworthy .

Big tech on the other hand is in your face. I don’t see my telecom but you can be rest assured I see Microsoft, Facebook, etc on a daily basis.

This means that a congressman fighting telecom is taking a stand against an amorphous blob that we forget about after our monthly bill. Conversely a congressman fighting big tech is a valiant warrior fighting greed and corruption.

I’m sure people here have different views due to a grasp of the nuances but the sad truth is that most of america isn’t all too aware. Big Tech just seems scarier.

I think it’s the pain more than anything of paying $60+ for a game only to have paid expansions and in game currency.

I’m really outing how young I am…

I personally don’t really think it’s a problem to blend them. In general, it’s still far better than not getting enough in at all.

I think the important thing to think about is that not all vegetables are created equal. The nutrient profile of spinach versus lettuce isn’t even comparable for example. Then you have fibrous veggies like broccoli that can be great for digestion. So a diversity is amazing, making your core dark leafy greens and adding ancillary vegetables on top.

One hack is that spinach wilts down super nicely. If you’re ever behind in a day, olive oil, cup or two of spinach, and some garlic and you’ll have a very enjoyable way to cram nutrients.

Great breakdown, enjoyable read. I think it highlights why more and more tech firms are hiring employees with psychology and economics backrounds. The attention economy combined with the ever-growing presence of a razor and blades style market with in-game purchases in pay-to-win games is insane. I understand it from a profitability perspective. In addition it allows for more enduring cashflows.

From a less direct perspective I remember vividly when my mom would be shook at the idea of a $30 Pokemon game for the DS. Now we pay $60 for a game and expected to pay up to $60 in DLC's not including ingame currency purchases. Oh how times have changed.

I completely agree, but to add to this I also think it's an issue with information overload. Popular culture and pop science is all about quick fixes and crazy complicated "30 day transitions". It causes people to think that there are 3 types of people:

1) People who are naturally fit without effort. 2) People who have crazy gnarly diets and regiments. 3) Everyone else.

This causes them to give up as it seems like far too steep of a climb. It's incredibly sad because the basics of "eat a little less, a little cleaner, and go for a walk" would kickstart a revolutionary change in most people. If you're maintaining weight on 3500 calories, it doesn't take a ton of work to start losing a bit of weight, even if its at a slow rate. People just see the first step as insurmountable.

Not to mention the millions of fashion models and actors who take steroids then say they have a perfectly attainable physique and it was all hard work. Alas, that is a disucssion for another post.

P.S. Hope the procedure goes well!

As someone who has been very interested in diet and health from many perspectives, be it general health and wellness when I was younger, competitive cycling and rowing, and more recently competitive bodybuilding, I have come to a tragically bland conclusion.

Every day it seems like there's a new study about a new food that will revolutionize XYZ. Meanwhile, most people don't sleep well, dont drink enough water, overindulge in alcohol, don't get enough excercise, and don't get much sunlight.

I think it should be everyone's primary focus to sleep well, drink water, get outside, get active, and eat generally decently. The huge cognitive and physical gains that would come from these basic activities far surpass any marginal benefit from optimization. I hate to say it, but if you're not eating a good amount of vegetables and fruit, decent protein, sleep, etc, no amount of mushrooms will catch up to that detriment.

Now if these fundementals are in place, findings like this are truly fascinating! I just see so many people put the cart before the horse far too often.

I am actually rather curious whether there's any difference between in-ear and over-ear headphones in terms of their effect on hearing. Assuming the same volume, content, etc.

I couldn’t agree more. And I must say, now that it’s being used as a bridge between technical and nontechnical talent it’s becoming ever more vital from a career perspective. Most people recognize the value of fundamental coding skills and if you’re even just above average at coding in a non-CS field, you seem magnitudes more valuable than you really are. In both industry and research, ears immediately perk up when they realize I have a background in economics but competencies in coding beyond the standard regressions in R that everyone does in econometrics. It’s hilarious because as mentioned prior, I’m rather pathetic compared to most people on this forum.

As much as this may seem like merely an interesting dive into the subject of wear and tear, the broader world of bicycle geometry and design is fascinating. I used to race downhill and the tire path of the bike's design combined with how that path changes as the rig goes through its suspension travel is integral to feeling stable/planted. When you see some of the patents regarding modern bike design, especially in the world of suspension linkage, its mind boggling how much depth is put into these machines. All so I can go fast down a hill, fall on my ass, and get covered in mud.

One thing I’d add to this conversation, though I’m certain it’s already been stated: As many have mentioned, there is a large subset of the user base that uses Python for applied purposes in unrelated fields that couldn’t care less about more granular aspects of optimization. I work as a research assistant for international finance faculty and I would say that compared to the average Hackernews reader, I’m technologically illiterate, but compared to the average 60-80 y/o econ/finance faculty member, I’m practically a Turing award winner.

Most of these applied fields are using Python and R as no more than data gathering tools and fancy calculators. something for which the benefits of other languages are just not justified.

The absolute beauty of Python for what I do is that I can write code and hand it off to a first year with a semester of coding experience. Even if they couldn’t write it themselves, they can still understand what it does after a bit of study. Additionally, I can hand it off to 75 year old professors who still sends Fax memos to the federal reserve and they’ll achieve a degree of comprehension.

For these reasons, Python, although not perfect, has been so incredibly useful.