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Super happy to see this. Feels like there's a strange gap in infrastructure projects for AI.

Not everyone has infinite money to throw at tokens!

Aaaaaahahahahahahaha, sure they are. Sure.

This is really cool. Design makes all the difference.

Not exactly a new topic. But I completely agree. It's not just that forcing your coworkers to think for you is rude, it also slows down the entire team. You're saving a few calories, the entire team grinds to a halt from the paper cuts of your questions.

I've seen a LOT of bad managers do this.

The reason democracy works is not because a majority vote FOR a certain policy or not, but because a majority can remove shit leaders without a bloody revolution.

Democracy is a corrective system, not a prescriptive one.

I have this problem every day. Worked fine with zoom, but never Teams. No idea why.

This is amazing news

Love this.

What are computers for?

Local first could be the file format that allows us to use devices without cloud services. Back to file first, vendors of software apps, pay for software once (or one year of updates or whatever).

It's s new horizon.

Love the design. I’ve seen other startups do the same thing and fall on bank integrations, will you solve it?

It's amazing to hear Steve talk about this. The fact that Xerox Parc had something like a proto internet hooked up to a proto computer in the 70s is still mind blowing.

Not sure I understand.

In “the capacity to effect the determination of resolve“ isn’t the “determination of resolve” the same as will power?

My attempt is to reframe as willpower as having mental capacity to take information into account, or to lack the capacity and default to path of least resistance logic.

In all three we are assuming there’s an actor making a choice. But I think we can stay at that level of abstraction for this discussion.

“Misleading” is accurate I guess. I guess I’m trying to reframe “willpower” into just being a side effect caused by information processing. Not a system in itself.

That does not oppose experiments with chemicals etc. Just offer a different explanation for how they work.

Current theories about willpower has a bunch of conflicting evidence. What if willpower is actually not about will at all, but about how the mind handles information?

HTML output is a really interesting use case. But are you not worried about SEO spam?

I don't understand how people end up banning things like this.

Yes, people are using them, mainly parking them, poorly. But that's always true with new things. Norms have not been established yet. But it's getting better fast.

Bicycles are still a huge problem in many cities but seen as morally good. The fact that people are using scooters so much is clearly an indicator of usefulness.

I don't think this is a problem. It just takes longer. Seeing bans like this always makes me sad.

Generative models can create single use UIs. Each problem might generate a use case specific UI for us.

Basic test of Neon.tech - serverless postures database - to setup a fully serverless blog.

I love this take. That's a really wholesome point of view. Will try to adopt it more myself.

I'd say I used to love it. I love the transparency and the communal learning that happens. But like all internet phenomena it has become full of people who just use it for cynical marketing purposes.

I've been looking for good explanations to talk about design with non designer for over a decade. And I think I've discovered an explanation that helps make discussions specific. But I really need peer-review, so please give me some good arguments:

Does this explanation make sense? Or am I missing something? Do the examples illustrate the idea, or are they vague?

I hope this helps, or that someone points out some clear flaw. Thanks

I see. Reading the article you linked I understand the frustration.

This dopamine view is a little oversimplified.

Does is significantly change the argument though? Even if dopamine is not the mechanism, the activities are still pleasurable?

I don't mention euphoric at all, Scott Alexander mentions it but I think he's talking about a general pleasant impulse rather than euphoria.

Are you saying dopamine does not work like this?

I think the purpose of the metaphor is that external activity and internal state are non-correlated.

With great intensity and interest chopping wood (or coding or whatever) can be really fascinating. Without interest most activities are chores.

I pulled together some great tweets about addiction in normal startup life, like being addicted to working hard, being productive.

What do you think? What's your strategy to live well instead of chasing the old high?

How though? People say this like search is simple, but how do you search for things?

I'm using Roam and I still have this issue.

Vitamin D is great for the immune system. Should help with all infections. Including Covid. Always good to do the research ofc. But I'm not exactly surprised.

That's a really interesting attribute to focus on. Never thought of novelty as a standard.

I think there's an argument to be made for culturally convergent "taste" as a measure of value. We like what others like, we're all trying to predict what others will like to increase our own status, etc. These forces should result in a convergent "good taste" to win.

>The reason mobile devices aren't taken seriously as "computers" is because they're locked down and they're still treated as second class by most services.

100% agree with that.

My point is that there's very little work that doesn't in some way touch mobile devices. Most people use them for communicating about work all day every day. And yet still, like you said, they're treated like second class devices. Despite clearly being the largest form factor in use!

I think this is the legacy of my generation I'm trying to put my finger on here.

As long as us millennials create services, they'll be desktop first. Because that's how we're used to thinking. But when gen Zs create new tools, I would be surprised if they weren't mobile first.

I'm having this debate over and over with clients, and I've had to realise I'm not the kid pushing against the ageing adults that "don't get it" anymore. I'm a part of the problem...

The internet should be mobile & touch first. Desktop and laptop computer are niche products. Most people use touch devices.

Preach.