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by smeej 3y ago
> it is impossible to feel sorrow and gratitude at the same time. This is very much the opposite of my experience. Being grateful even for the losses that have brought the most sorrow, the two things at the very same time, has ripped m
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by smeej 3y ago
When I read that they'd closed a Series G, I laughed because that's definitely the farthest down the alphabet I've seen anybody go, and it made me wonder if there's even a theoretical limit to where it might stop.
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by smeej 3y ago
I think the point for such leaders, unconscious though it may be, is to feel safe. There's something they're hoping never to have to experience or feel ever again, and this is what they're doing to keep that from happening.
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by smeej 3y ago
It does seem a bit like a fight against what might otherwise become the death of their self-image. The difference between it and actual grief seems to be that the unwanted outcome is not inevitable here. Sometimes this works. Hopefully we
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by smeej 3y ago
> Ward’s reaction to the scandal was all too familiar: first, attempting to downplay the concerns; then, publicly attacking the person reporting them; then, rushing out a “thought leadership” puff piece that raised more questions than it
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by smeej 3y ago
Really? Selling your data is core to the business model of virtually every merchant that offers the ability to create an account and/or use a membership "rewards" tracking system.
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by smeej 3y ago
So far, I've yet to be in a friend group that wasn't willing to switch to Signal once I explained my security concern. This includes my group of women who are spiritual directors in their 60s, not exactly a demographic you'd
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by smeej 3y ago
As a child, I had to wear a horrible orthodontic device called a bionator that forced me to learn to speak with my jaw closed, navigating my tongue around a formidable hunk of plastic and metal to make myself intelligible at all. (It took t
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by smeej 3y ago
Thanks for saying so. It feels like a lonely road a lot of the time. I'm taking some time away from work to try to pay attention to this. The urge to enter a cloister and stay forever has started cropping up, which may mean I'm ta
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by smeej 3y ago
I didn't realize 2GB plans were still common. I'm paying $15 a month for 5 (U.S., in New England), and figured people who paid real money for their plans had enough that one app wouldn't matter. But then McDonald's also
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by smeej 3y ago
These are on the way toward what I mean for sure. They're still missing the element of, "Your last meeting was with Alice and Bob, who are in Marketing. You have half an hour before you have to leave to get to a client meeting, so
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by smeej 3y ago
Do you have a mockup video or docs or something that would help me get a better sense of what this hopes to be? I'm not able to find much info on the linked page or on X about it.
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by smeej 3y ago
I actually wasn't thinking about the team scheduling element, though that seems really useful especially in scrappy teams that have to wear a lot of hats and sync ad hoc a lot. I was thinking more about the task side, where if I had co
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by smeej 3y ago
I don't (and won't) use Google Calendar, so there's still a cost to me. In fairness, I don't use Notion either, and wouldn't start for a calendar (I've tried, but I seem to be one of the odd people for whom Not
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by smeej 3y ago
As soon as someone invents a calendar/to-do app that helps you schedule your next tasks by using AI to reduce context switching (e.g., can tell from a meeting's attendees and a project's responsible parties that you're p
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by smeej 3y ago
I've been looking for this kind of feature for a long time. Lots of orgs need to plan out certain things over the whole year with their various teams (you don't want two teams trying to do their biggest fundraising at the same tim
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by smeej 3y ago
I'm about 99% sure calling it "creative comments" is just a brain slip (or TTS error) and you meant "creative commons," but because that really would be a creative change, and the 1% chance that I'm wrong has a
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by smeej 3y ago
"Too long"? Are we not talking about, like, 60 seconds? Admittedly I don't use these things, but is there some major inconvenience I'm missing?
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by smeej 3y ago
Verging away from the topic, but while it might be possible to imitate someone's consciousness after they've died, perhaps extremely convincingly, something tells me we'll each still find out the hard way, individually, tha
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by smeej 3y ago
Can you download the app from their parking lot, on their WiFi, do your thing, and uninstall it? Leaving a food app installed seems unnecessary in the first place.
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by smeej 3y ago
Oh yeah. Couldn't care less about that. I mean it several levels back from that, being a subject in my own story rather than merely an object in anyone else's, being someone who has an identity and makes decisions and engages othe
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by smeej 3y ago
I recently realized everything else I'd ever worked on amounted to nothing, because I had never figured out how to be someone. (I was some thing to someone growing up, but someone who still doesn't know other people are also some
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by smeej 3y ago
My dad actually deeply resents the invention of Google, because now everybody can check and realize he's full of shit. He only appears smart to people who don't know anything about the topic, and now everybody knows he isn'
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by smeej 3y ago
I had a manager when I was a new hire who had no concept of this difference at all, and it led to his firing me in my 4th week because I "should have been coming in with more knowledge." He actually told me I should have just come
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by smeej 3y ago
One of the things I'm actually worried about is that there are several things in my house that I don't think could be automated, at least not within the parameters available to me as a renter. I do have two accordion blinds I ra
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by smeej 3y ago
I keep trying to talk myself out of wanting to do this. I live in a very small studio-style home with a total of four lightbulbs in it. It takes fewer than 20 steps to get from any one corner of the house to any other. But every time I read
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by smeej 3y ago
This was my take exactly. I read the original and thought, "Wow, this sounds like really interesting stuff this poster us excited about. I wish I knew what the terms meant, though. I'll have to come back to this when I have more t
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by smeej 3y ago
Mediocre is "just good enough not to be so bad it causes problems." And for the many, many things in my life that are not important to me, "bad, but not so bad it causes problems" is, in fact, "good enough."
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by smeej 3y ago
I'm short "crypto," but long bitcoin. Most of the ecosystem is scammy garbage, but I think there's still going to be enough demand for sound money that a currency that can't be artificially manipulated by a centra
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by smeej 3y ago
Being able to buy it in a run-of-the-mill tax advantaged account would be a very big deal. It's possible to do it now, but not easy.

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