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How many Teslas would Musk sell when his $100,000 car becomes $250,000 after tax?

Also had the same initial read of the logo. Thought it said "Leai·ndot". Other than that: Paul, "thanks" for sharing your story. Interesting and well written.

The point of the article is that you should be counting hours. Even if the hours themselves are not your goal or measure, there are still physiological reasons that too many hours are non-optimal. Even and in some respects, especially for, knowledge workers. Too few hours and not much gets done. Too many hours and you're wasting money and effort while harming quality.

"A history of the half of the world with recorded events in 100 seconds."

iPad FTW.

"FREE Butterball Turkey Certificate with every test drive!"

I got this ad in the mail today from a local Jeep dealer. Dealers clearly have no clue. Could you ever imagine Tesla thinking up such a dumb promotion?

Kids know if you spend more money than their friends' parents. Not if you make more.

There is no price worth the headache. Life's too short and the days too few to have any one of them tarnished by toxicity.

One type of authenticity speaks to origin an item. Whether it be a painting, writing, or any other work, when a work's origin is in doubt, it can be said to be lacking authenticity. The inauthentic part of ghostwriting is that the name of the author on the content is not the person who created the content.

Protip: when you write tounge-in-cheek, <parody> tags are required for some readers.

Gains have been and continue to be steady. I quietly smile and take it with a grain of salt when someone longs for "the good old days". People have quite selective memories of their favorite decades.

Try out hourly backups with Time Machine. The incremental backups are quick and comforting.

Good for Dr. Atkinson! Anyone who doesn't think teachers work hard enough, care enough, or are skilled enough is full of it. When I go to my kids' after school activities and see teachers there night after night, on their own time and dime. When I see teachers buying supplies out of their own pockets. When I see teachers in school weeks before start to ready their classrooms. When I see these things I have little tolerance for the sentiment that teachers just slack off. All that happens with this approach is that the best teachers say, "I don't need this crap" and leave.

Purchasing your own insurance is the easiest way to ensure continuity of coverage and ensure you are not choosing your life's work based on the inconvenience of changing medical coverage plans.

"But I can’t pay them $2000 a day and $672,000 a year for the exact same product that I was getting for free back in March!"

Another in a long, long list of customers whose plans fall apart when a free or one-price-for-life service realizes it cannot continue with business as usual. Today's pro tip: Do not build your livelihood around a third-party's free service. Eventually that service will either 1.) shut down, 2.) kick you out of their ecosystem, or 3.) start charging you.

I'm not sure what is more surprising: that people continue to build businesses with these Achilles heels or that they seem shocked when the third-party changes the game.

Why price at the lowest amount that makes it worth it instead of the highest amount that people will pay? Said another way, did you test $6/month, $10/month, $20/month?

If this is an investor pitch, it's missing one critical piece of info - namely, how will it make money? Or am I just old-fashioned in thinking a business should make money?

I'm 43. I concur Mr. Wulf that "large scale, high stress coding" is "a stupid person's game". Now, some people find a thrill in coding under pressure. More power to 'em. Yet we see too many developers accidentally ending up in high stress coding situations and thinking that is the norm and accepting it as their fate. There is no reason it should be this way. Professional programming should be and can be fun, enjoyable, creative. As Mr. Wulf states, our profession offers an unusually wide variety of projects, tools, teams, and working environments.

Choose poorly from among this variety and you'll burn out. Choose wisely and you'll have a long, enjoyable career with plenty of extra mind and body capacity for other interests. It's up to you.

Jeff sums it up well: "If you can't wake up every day and, using your 100% original equipment God-given organic brain, come up with the three most important things you need to do that day – then you should seriously work on fixing that."

"simplicity is at the heart of LinkedIn’s mobile vision." Then the article goes on to describe complexities of the implementation. Maybe my old and cranky mind has lost touch with what people mean by "simple".

There is nothing patented in this patent. Note that "Claims 1, 2, 3 and 4 are cancelled". That's all of the claims.

You seem certain that "everyone already doing this" is doing it in the way specified in the claims. Are you?

The phrase "luxury status symbol" caught my attention. More often than people realize, the utility of luxury is independent of signaling status.

There are many well designed and built items which people would own and use even if no one sees them using or knows they own it. For me, Apple products fit into this category.

Though interesting, the article should more accurately be titled "Living Without Clocks". Mr. Corona still uses time to synchronize activities with others but does not use a clock.

For me, a clock is invaluable. I'd much rather simply look at the clock than have reminders pinging off of events which occur at the same time daily. But I can see how one wouldn't really know which works better for them until trying each way.

I agree it is a significant exception. For what other reason would one want to know the time other than to know that you have a commitment to be somewhere or to do something? That's the whole point of a shared, synchronized system we call "time". I think I'll write about "Living without a Car - (Except for When I Want to Go Somewhere)".

EDIT: Upon further reflection now I think I get it. It's not that Steve is living without time, but more accurately he's living without clocks. There's a subtle but important difference.

"some students said that they will sue the university if any serious punishment is meted out" [1]

These are our future business and political leaders ensuring unabated corruption continues for generations to come.

It's world-views like these students' which explains why articles like this Onion spoof are sadly funny: http://www.theonion.com/articles/wealthy-teen-nearly-experie...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/education/students-of-harv...

The anti-skeuomorphism crusade is more distracting than the designs it calls out. If I were a designer and if I had any influence, I'd add some gratuitous skeu-ness to a design just to attempt to calm the skeuphobia sweeping the design world.

"Such freedom in turn requires a liberating education, one centered not on indoctrination or social conditioning."

And yet, it would be easy to consider the education the author envisions as indoctrination and social conditioning itself.

"A skilled engineer can get a product comprised of small packages up and running in the same amount of time (and sometimes less time)"

Maybe "up and running", but then new skilled engineers that follow in enhancing and maintaining get to try to figure how it all works and waste the first x months of their time on board coming up to speed on the proprietary combination of frameworks and interfaces.

Very closely related to Fogg's behavior model of "trigger", "execution", "motivation", Charles Duhigg in "The Power of Habit" writes of the steps of the habit loop as "cue", "routine", "reward".

Habit is coming up to be a big topic in app design and development.

"The Power of Habit" is a good read which systematically lays out some science behind what habits are, how they work, and how to leverage them.