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Comment · 6 years ago
>Make sure your todo system is a keybind away at all times

This point here I think is incredibly useful in general. When accessing your full to-do list feels like its own todo, you're gonna have a bad time

Comment · 6 years ago
Standing meetings are also used to force procrastinators to report in frequently enough that they stop relying on "secret" all-nighters at the end of the week to get their work done
Comment · 6 years ago
Necessary to what end? It could be necessary to maximize survival for the species, but that doesnt make it necessary to maximize survival for an individual.

It's perfectly possible our heuristics are muddied beyond necessity in order to generate variety in action, so as to reduce risk to the unknown for the species - even though it would cause a minority of individuals to consistently make sub-optimal choices. From a speculative standpoint, it's easy to find examples of people doing things that we consider 'stupid' but it pays off because of some unlikely event occurring in coincidence.

Reality has a lot of unknowns. There is no perfect model that could account for that. It's possible being hyper-intelligent (beyond our current ability) is (or was) a disadvantage for the species

Comment · 6 years ago
Wuhan is a commercial center, not an industrial one. It also is not a major port.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is a perfectly concise articulation of my thoughts as well. I will add that it is still good to keep in mind that owners of the models are indeed self-serving, but it does not need to be a cynical thing. Most of the time, the self serving motivation is to simply provide the best service possible
Comment · 6 years ago
Not the good ones ;) Most will not make sense without context of private company work anyway

But as an example I also get a lot of fluff ideas for video game mechanics. For multiplayer games, the ability to tag another player for tracking. So you can pull up a menu and see players you've tagged and their recent performance and such or create your own 'achievements' and see what players have accomplished them (with necessary privacy options included of course). The primary use-cases being clan recruitment and pro-player analysis.

Random product idea example: A renting service for size-adjustable tables. So you can test out what table size fits best in your space. counter-height vs standard, square vs skinny, size A in room 1 or size B in room 2, etc. probably too small a market on this idea though since itd only be worth it before expensive table purchases

Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah, this is why I have been working as a data analyst. I've taken on as many vendor management responsibilities as I can and help out with COGS and revenue attribution analysis for finance. I have been collecting ideas while making steady wage, and eventually I'll pull the trigger on something

I have a backlog of like 200+ viable new product / feature ideas that help solve some business problem or improve the efficiency of activities people do with financial transactions involved. Many are too small to be stand alone for sure, but I do not believe million dollar ideas are grown in a silo

Comment · 6 years ago
considering every transaction gets taxed, and it's a zero-sum market.. there is no damage done overall. The opposite, actually. Money is raised for the government thanks to the activity.

It's possibly a foreign relations issue if the winners or losers are heavily biased towards one country or another. Like if all the winners were Russian and the losers were American

Comment · 6 years ago
>Probably doesn't work in some urban sprawl American suburb

yep, hi. It's also the same kind of area where road maintenance is the highest problem. Lot's of road wear and tear, and not enough funding to maintain properly

Comment · 6 years ago
(ime) Trains only get you to your destination faster if your destination is a train station
Comment · 6 years ago
The suburbs will maintain their own roads before the bottom falls out. low income suburbs probably will not survive, but there's no law that says they cant have shitty roads that require a jeep to drive on
Comment · 6 years ago
but you were able to lead the group into a chant in the first place so how would that have happened if you would have instead favored being in the background from the beginning?

Maybe your sentiment can be enhanced by not gatekeeping participation - but by promoing a handover of leadership to more symbolic choices once the work of buuilding momentum is done. This is a rule that could be applied to any demographic-based leadership that needs to organize its aesthetic as it grows

Comment · 6 years ago
Nice, thank you for the info. I'll check this out
Comment · 6 years ago
The only thing I saw was that they dont share it and I can have it deleted at any time
Comment · 6 years ago
Can content from Histre be exported and easily digestible into a home brew solution or is the user dependent on maintaining* an account with Histre in order to not lose what they've put into it?

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