Some things I've learned:
• You're not in control of 99.9% of things. But you're fully in control of yourself, and how you respond to the things you're not in control of … which is most everything.
• Everything is balance, and the oscillation to achieve it. All imbalances will be reversed in time, including those in your advantage.
• There is only here and now. Allowing your attention to be captivated by things that already happened, things that haven't happened yet, things happening far away, or things bigger than you can control only serves to steal what power you do have.
• People just want to be seen. Or put another way, they don't want to be invisible. This accounts for the vast majority of human initiative, action, conflict … and money made.
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- Something I've found is quite common: musicians / poets / writers using voice memos to quickly capture "sketches" that pop into their heads before they lose them. Often to share with collaborators.
This seems like a _fantastic_ tool for that.
- My guess: they send you a new one.
- I'm with you.
This thing costs $75. Over 4 years, that's $0.05 a day. Let's say you're 40 and plan to buy these until you die at 80. We'll pretend inflation doesn't exist: $750 for 40 years of use.
It feels like backward objection handling where people can't find a use case for something, but feel like they should, so invent a totally irrational objection to it.
- > if the company ever goes under it's now worthless because I can't get a new one.
I don't understand this logic.
Do you not go to a restaurant because there's a chance they won't be around in 4 years when you might want to dine there again?
- > and devoid of children
YES! This is a big piece of it. Fewer kids + more of them wanting to be inside / parents wanting them to be inside = less kids to play with = even less likelihood of them wanting to play outside.
This is like social media in reverse: nobody wants to be inside, but some people are only inside, so everybody is inside.
- I will say: a vibrating alarm is worth its weight in gold if you have a partner, child, early-morning wakeup … or all three.
- That's a good clarification.
Trust implies shared values/worldview and past experiences where outcomes match expectations. Also respect.
Trust is not possible when there are regularly incongruous outcomes, or where definition of respect / values are just aren't aligned.
Do you think your counterparts overseas believe themselves to be as trustable as you are, and it's just a cultural rift? Or is that too charitable?
- Vibrating alarms on watches aren't unique to the Apple Watch, fwiw.
- I believe Parent is talking about trust in the ability to deliver on promises, not in handling of IP.
- My point was: we don’t need to list all the reasons we won’t buy apple products on any post about apple, even if it has nothing to do with the article.
We’ve beaten the horse many times over.
- It’s here now, and live, so … the good internet that is?
- What a branding disaster.
Disney+ is the name of the app, within which there is Disney+ the _subscription service_ and Hulu, the _former_ app and current content platform/subscription service?
- No, parent is right: everybody "masks" at work. Call it putting on a persona, playing a role, whatever - but as you said, it's less effortful for some than others.
- People tailgate because they're toddlers and locate their locus of control externally - if anything, they'll be very happy tailgating driverless cars because they can throw as big a fit as they want, there will be no consequences, and they'll feel they got to blame something else other than themselves.
- No way! Thanks for making me aware of this - first I've heard of it.
- Are we talking about the same Garmin?
I have an Instinct 2 that cost me under $200 new, goes 2+ weeks between charges, and handles all activities I throw at it quite well.
I agree: their launching of a subscription service is disappointing, because (1) it was wonderful having a no-recurring-cost ecosystem before, and (2) presumably that's where they'll be investing their product dollars. But, it's not required, and to date, it's not particularly high value.
- 1. Text is black on off-yellow for me, not sure why you’re getting white text
2. There’s literally an email link at the bottom of the page
- possibilities: (1) they get lots of angry customers and bad press, and are tired of being made to look bad because of gov req's (2) it costs them more to manufacture all the fancy nanny tech, so their bottom line would be positively impacted by rolling back the requirement for it
If you found a community on Facebook, you’d likely have found it regardless without it.