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Are they grandfathering customers in to the pricing that they signed up under?

This looks like a product from a very small team doing price discovery. Is your stance that they should need to take 10 years of annual pricing changes to discover their optimal price point?

Edit: and they have a self hosted version for free? Nothing to see here.

This feels right to me on the hardware front, especially about laptops and desktops.

Their basic form hasn't even remotely changed over the past 30 years. There have been improvements – smaller, lighter, more powerful. There have been tweaks – convertible laptops, for example, but those haven't really stuck nor displaced the standard laptop. We are approximately, what, 40 years since the first thing that resembles a modern laptop, and it's fundamentally the same form factor.

Even phones have grown in capabilities much more than they have changed in form factors.

I wish we were closer to the 'next big thing', but I'd put bets on things staying largely the same. VR/AR, either via a headset, glasses, or contacts seem like the safest bet, but in no way a given.

Lots of people – even very smart people – like guidance around what expectations are. This can be doubly true in some environments, like certain corporate environments, where the official policy is not in line with what leadership actually wants to see.

As one example, consider the "unlimited vacation" policy and pushback around those. Sure, the official policy is unlimited, but try taking more vacation than your manager wishes you would and see how that affects your next performance review.

This is definitely my second favourite truffle documentary after 2021's Pig.

Most (all good?) authors will prioritize good reader experience as one of their own requirements, so a good reader experience comes naturally downstream from being author-first.

Very important line from the FAQ:

Q: Is this still developed?

Yes, it is used and developed. Just not very actively. Most importantly Shrugs does not yet support “XOXC” tokens, which are often required by company Slack installations. We are interested in adding this feature, but there is no timeline yet.

I’m just a guy who built a thing that people want to use and have questions about, not an org to fix. I think many people who “suffer” from lots of requests are the same. I wish I could charge enough for my help to justify a personal secretary!

There are two different types of "receives a lot of email". The first type makes up the bulk of the people who receive a lot of email, and that's the type where almost all of the email isn't actionable. Newsletters, receipts, spam, etc. Anything sent in bulk.

The second type is people who receive a lot of correspondence – people expecting a response, or otherwise need action.

The people who claim that it is the receiver's responsibility to process all of their email almost exclusively fall in to the first type, because nobody who falls in to the second type can reasonably process it all.

I think the problem is that what is important to the sender is not necessarily important to the receiver. I am not Travis of Uber, but I do have expertise in a domain such that I frequently get people reaching out to me to solicit advise or answers to a question.

It is very important to the person asking the question that they get an answer. It is less important to me that they get an answer, and so if I'm busy at the moment those emails won't get a response. I do wish more people followed up though, because I do wish to help; the more they follow up without getting angry or hurt, the more likely they are to reach me at a time when I am able to help.

I'd bet it's a combination of these things. I know a few people with moderately successful podcasts, and the core thing is this: getting prominent people on your podcast is easier than most people on the outside expect, and harder than most people seeking guests expect.

Prominent people generally like getting their ideas out there, and having a 30-120 minute conversation is a relatively scalable way to do that. Sure, they get asked by a lot of people, but that's where the other points come in.

Let's take prominent guest X. They might get 100 podcast interview requests a month. They might do 1-2 podcast appearances per month (average, most guests cluster their appearances for PR purposes). From the very start, Lex, through his MIT stature, first and second second-degree connections, etc. would very likely be in the top 2% of the 100 people asking; most people asking are some combination of no audience, not targeted in their ask, abrasive, etc. If you're in the top 2% of 100 requests, and they fulfill 2 requests per month - you're looking pretty good. Throw in an element of "luck" in the first few guests if you'd like.

That's just getting started. Once the flywheel starts, it's easy.

Should we forbid Catholics for the same reason?

As someone who quit smoking using vapes, and has recently kicked vapes after a good five years – it's all in the vape. If someone was selling you based on "cloud-size", they were the wrong person to be talking to. They were a vape enthusiast. You're not looking for the "best" vape experience, you're looking for the vape experience that is closest to smoking.

For this, you'll actually want to go with one of the Big Tobacco-backed vapes, because it's also what they want – the closest thing to smoking. I suggest Juul or Vuse, both of which are backed by Big Tobacco, contain nicotine salts (fast acting like smoking), and have a similar draw and lung hit to cigarettes with smaller vapour than other devices.

You'll also completely avoid refilling and everything, as they're "closed pod" systems.

For five years, I considered (ritual aside, as you can do it discretely essentially anywhere) vaping to be superior to smoking in every way. Good luck.

The point is that 5% (or 10m phones) does not make sense for Apple to continue to build, but that has no relation to whether it's worth it to another company.

I had some early model MSI Wind Netbook. What a great little machine. They were nice and hackable – I remember replacing the Wifi module with an OS X friendly model and getting a nearly perfect Hackintosh experience for a few hundred bucks, and in a form factor smaller than anything Apple had at the time.

I think Chromebooks largely displaced the Netbook segment, which is sad. Feels like today you can get: A cheap, bigger laptop; An expensive, small ultrabook/Mac; A Chromebook.

Just a tip on the dock moving from monitor to monitor – this is most likely intended behaviour that you're triggering by accident. I agree with you, it's annoying, and it shouldn't work like this, but it does.

That being said – the dock will move between monitors if you take your mouse cursor and move it to the very bottom middle of a monitor and hold it there for a few seconds. If it's jumping from one monitor to the next, it's likely that you're triggering this accidentally in the course of doing something else. You can move the dock back to your intended monitor by doing the same deliberately on the monitor you want it to be on.

Even if this was true (nearly everyone who has studied Musk says that although he may not lead day to day engineering, he is gifted at figuring this stuff out)…

It is clearly non-trivial to rally a group of people, funding sources, and, er, marketing resources to accomplish what he has accomplished.

Evidence: nobody else has done it.

As a non-designer, I don't have the skills or the vocabulary to say whether this is true or not, but at first glance Apple and Teenage Engineering seem to share little in common. Can anyone who knows better enlighten me?

Check out https://storeleads.app – should have close to 100% of public Shopify stores, plus other platforms if those are interesting.

Anyone can claim to be a writer, but it seems obvious that he actually _is_ a writer. See: the book he wrote.

Writing also _can_ be more than just fluff, but it doesn't need to be. It may not be your style, but long form, not-concise content has it's place. See: The New Yorker, etc.

I don't disagree with the feedback that it's rambling; for some, that destroys the value, while for others that's the point.

It's also an interesting representation of a topic he touches on; that social media has turned everything in to bite-sized nuggets of insight with no meat around them, that nobody – not even literary reviewers – have the patience to sit down and fully digest anything longer than a simple blog post length summary.

If the engineers and product team were effective, there would be more product development.

If the marketing team was effective, there would be more user growth.

If the sales team was effective, there would be more revenue.

If everyone was more effective, Twitter would be worth more.

It’s probably an over-simplification, but Twitter being stagnant is not exactly a minority opinion.

$1599.

If you view every minute an interviewer is doing actual work as harmful to the world, then wasting said interviewers time would be even more of an ethical good would it not?

... I've never seen a monitor with USB ports not on the back.

The premium version of Unread[1], an iOS and iPad OS feed reader has this feature. It's also a generally beautiful reading experience.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unread-an-rss-reader/id1363637...

Funnily enough, Tiny is in an adjacent market to this via one of their companies, Supercast[1]

[1] https://www.supercast.com

This feels like gatekeeping writing unnecessarily.

It's a fairly common sentiment among writers that writing is painful. "I don't enjoy writing, I enjoy having written", etc.

This is almost certainly an example of the Seinfeld Is Unfunny trope[1], where older things seem boring and lame today, because the state of the art has moved forward so much, even though they were completely groundbreaking and genre defining when they came out.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...

That is not practical for many people who wish to be a part of society anymore. See: rollout of virtual vaccine passports, etc.

That strategy will last ~15 minutes until Google is doing the same thing.

Then what? I would argue that what Google is doing already is way more privacy-compromising than this.

I am sure OP's service is great, and not to distract from it, but you may also enjoy Sanebox, which has been unsexily solving this exact problem for ages