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I sometimes catch myself recreating the Win95 color on my Mac. Thanks for this!

Very human, well done! Thank you!

I think we‘re suffering from dopamine inflation. We need a more low-dopamine software.

Great concepts, great execution. A rebellion against the dopamine dealers.

If Instagram is bad for teenager‘s mental health, then what is the effect of LinkedIn on adults?

I like the idea, and it reminded me that the „Vim book“ had the subtitle: „Edit text at the speed of thought“.

How much faster should an ‚automated thinking‘ than a ‚manual thinking‘ be (allowed to be)?

I love your headline here :-)

Looks great, thanks for sharing the details and story!

I like your Windows postings, please don’t stop!

As for new habits: I stopped algorithmically curated news for myself. I use RSS and Leash as a browser:

https://leash.ax

Would love to see this as a Raspberry Pi image download!

Leash, a low-dopamine mobile browser replacement:

https://leash.ax

Does the iPhone recognize this as a ‚browser‘?

Reminds me of the Unsung blog, very nice!

unsung.aresluna.org

(Not sure if I‘d be willing to pay for it, though.)

A Swiss army knife of the day - after all, Swiss Army knives also serve a psychological purpose. And they do it well!

Thanks for the great question! I think they used to be so much fun because they were an unexplored frontier.

Perhaps we need a new frontier?

With AI, we‘re cargo-culting understanding. We‘re reproducing the surface of having understood something, but we‘re robbing ourselves the time and effort to truly do it.

Hadn’t heard of it either - very smart, could open lots of other privacy-friendliness-improved „client-based web“ apps

In a culture that likes things neat and orderly lined up!

I‘d be happy to pay for an upgrade if future macOS changes break the functionality of this - cool - app, which would require the creator to update it. More work, which I would pay for. But not a subscription, sorry!

Plus, I‘d prefer to (but that’s impossible?) install via the App Store, to avoid a black box.

Can I also post a question that is actually answering itself?

Great idea- if the person who made it is reading: Is this based on the board game „poetry for cavemen“? (Explain things using only single-syllable words, comes even with an inflatable log of wood for hitting each other!)

-10 points if you actually read your marketing yourself before copy and pasting it on the website

Lovely! Would appreciate a release via the App Store / notarization or so… is there a newsletter so I could get notified?

Thank you for this helpful differentiation. I agree - and if it‘s undermining our trust into ‚effort‘ (we start to be suspicious about how much some piece of work is really ‚worth‘), it undermines also our relationships.

A good example is ‚birthday wishes‘:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2IYqhdJuRfU&t=5m47s

(AutoCorrect, AutoComplete - generate? AutoCongratulate? How much is ‚okay‘?)

After attention, are we now in the trust economy… a brilliant idea for a plugin - thank you!

It was on the radio here (I live on its route)- the ‚receiving’ physicist said it would be way less than what we catch anyway from daily cosmic radiation.

It’s so amazing that the same man invented all these amazing things (including the machine that switches itself off) AND the ‚bit‘ (in his Master’s thesis).

If you can restrict the software, this would be a good way for controlling physical user ‚presence‘ - like in the supermarket, when a supervisor needs to scan their card for a cash register to take out a wrongly scanned item. I like it!

I wasn’t aware of the map empire, thank you!

Taking away some complexity comes at a price, and for some people, it’s hard to see that it outweighs the practicality.