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I started Inquiry [1] to share a thought-provoking article, podcast, video, or other link every evening that shares a new way of looking at the world.

Simply put, I try to share smart people discussing interesting things, regardless of whether or not I personally agree with them. I think there's a gap in curated content that is genuinely interesting and thought-provoking.

Over the past few weeks we’ve covered futurism, public health, charitable giving, policing, medieval warfare, cancel culture, happiness, investing, finance, geography, math, and much more.

Wanted to share with HN as well!

[1] https://inquiry.substack.com

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Comment · 6 years ago

This is an awesome video and I'd love to see more content like this. I love watching experts explain how they think

Comment · 6 years ago

This is genius. It's a little crazy that this is what it takes though??

Comment · 6 years ago

Btw, for those asking via text - this isn't automated for now, every question goes to a human!

Comment · 6 years ago

This is good advice. I'm hesitant to switch to a tablet because he already knows how to use a laptop and has never used a tablet before.

I agree with you. Especially the focus on security / 2FA has made it very hard to monitor his accounts, which is good and bad I suppose. For example, I changed his gmail 2FA phone number to mine yesterday, and they changed it back today. That's already a huge task when helping him remotely.

Websites are also getting much more complex which makes everything worse. For example, the new gmail minimizes the navigation tab on the left unless you hover over it. That's awesome for me, but TERRIBLE for him.

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Ask HN: How to help elderly grandparent with technology?

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Ask HN: How to programmatically turn a form into an API?

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Comment · 6 years ago

We've built human assisted AI to understand the top 100 most common data transformations so that you never have to google "how to do X in excel" or "how to convert A to B" again. Just upload your data, describe what you want us to do with it in plain English, and we’ll email you the results.

We've spent a lot of time transforming data in complicated tools at companies like Google and McKinsey in Python and Excel. We believe transforming data should be as simple as asking for what you want.

We're still in our beta so it's a free service to use!