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The max volume doesn't help with songs that are far, far louder than others. I have this issue in our coffee shop, where a song that was playing at a normal volume on my AirPods, is extremely loud on Sonos. We flag it and take it off the playlist.

Side note: Sonos is atrocious when it comes to functionality and reliability, and it has only gotten worse recently. I can't discourage people enough from purchasing their product.

The angle of descent is of about 3 degrees, that's far less than the angle at which the aircraft is taking off. Thus the rear facing passengers would be facing down quite steeply on takeoff, and thus likely to vomit the airport lounge food they just had :)

It's not that simple. Something like this hurts the brand.

48v is a pretty big leap forward that I bet other automakers will replicate. So is assembling the interior (seats, console, etc.) onto the battery and lifting it into the vehicle. Also, the rigid wire harness that can be snapped in by robotic arms. The list goes on. I recommend watching some of the teardown videos.

There's still a physical button for the wipers. On the Cybertruck it's on the steering wheel. When you press it to wipe (generally used for spray-washing the windshield), the entire menu pops up where you can choose the speed, frequency, etc.

I'm surprised, to me it always looks & feels very different than most other Western cities, in part due to low-rise buildings and almost exclusively independently operated restaurants and shops.

Most other large European cities allowed for high rises and chain coffee shops & restaurants, to the point where they've started to become indistinguishable from one another.

Rivian really is tapping into a market that's underserved by Tesla with their new lineup, and into an outdoorsy trend that is going to last for decades at least.

I've rented the R1T and R1S through several roadtrips last summer and even though I ended up getting the Cybertruck, had it not be in product yet, I would definitely have purchased the R1T. Rivian is building a lifestyle brand, and an ecosystem of products for adventurers. I'm very excited to see the R3 in person, and ended up preordering an R2 after the event.

It also helps that RJ Scaringe is a very likable guy. My bet is that Rivian becomes one of the top 5 automakers in the world.

Self driving will largely make this topic irrelevant soon, however in the meantime, their time would be better spent developing a measurement of intuitiveness for touchscreens.

With a few exceptions that they've since corrected, in a Tesla operating most functions comes naturally, it's similar to using an iPhone. Even the lack of gear shifter in the Cybertruck isn't throwing me off (though they did put an additional touch control for it by the rear view mirror).

He went through detox 65 times.

This is a forward thinking strategy for a camera maker. Instead of trying to fight the iPhone, they realized that this is a segment of the market they wouldn't capture regardless of the form factor they would adopt for Blackmagic cameras.

We have 4 Blackmagic cameras at xTribe studios and they are great, but when Gen-Z podcasters come in, they'll often just put an iPhone and a Rode shotgun mic on a SmallRig cage.

I fly a lot, and have noticed a very strong smell of fuel several times on various aircraft, while still at the gate just before taxiing to the runway. It always baffles me that passengers don't overreact to it, because it can be very pungent and will cause a mild headache.

I've always wondered how toxic this is. Apparently it's caused by wind blowing jet fuel fumes into the air conditioning intake so it's indeed fumes that make it into the cabin for a few minutes.

As someone who is more interested in building the product than marketing it, I found the following recent reads helpful in achieving a balance:

1. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore - making your product work for the masses

2. The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen - achieving escape velocity, getting viral referral traffic

3. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss - it might seem a bit gimmicky but negotiation always comes off gimmicky

Motivational stories:

4. The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

5. The Founders by Jimmy Soni

6. The Upstarts by Brad Stone

7. Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton

8. That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph

9. Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc

Can't skip:

10. Zero To One by Peter Thiel