Category Archives: Daily Posts

In email, and other places, you get people sending a long multi-point text. You get many threads within each conversation. Yet, there is no software that helps you to keep track of those threads. The hack that most people currently use in email is “replying in line” and changing the color of their text. This…More

Society tends to agreed that extreme income inequality is bad. Society also tends to agree that having everyone exactly the same is bad. So how do we know what is a good range? Looking at recent historical trends isn’t a good way to determine this (or anything else). Any suggested reading or research on this…More

That the government should take away kids from their parents. That professional kid raisers should raise them. This system has a few attractive qualities: 1. It gets rid of inequality in opportunity. It no longer matters who your parents are. Each child will get the same (or similar) education. Its a powerful tool for eliminating…More

We don’t think of consumption applied to events. But we in the privileged United States have an obsession with attending the “best” events. Dining a the “best” restaurants. Getting invited to the “best” parties. And we pursue that as a means to meet interesting people. Thats backwards. The seemingly harder but actually easier way to…More

I do it to increase willpower, enter ketosis (to reduce risk of cancer), and for life extension. 1. Willpower. Fasting is another one of those things that seems so hard if you’ve never done it. Then after doing it “Oh, that wasn’t so bad”. It continues to build that part of my brain that looks…More

Ideally, simulating the exact feeling, either positive or negative, that doing the habit would create. This is much easier said than done. In general it requires 4 things: 1. A believable way of quantifying the end state. 2. A strong emotional connection to the end state. 3. A way of triggering this emotional connection. 4.…More

1. Where does the cost / benefit ratio stop being worth it? 2. What if by saving everyone we’re stopping evolution? Evolution works by the more fit having more offspring. If we are extending lives of people that would have died otherwise, we’re stopping the process. What do you think? ^Day 75/90 68 wordsMore

This seems obvious but the level to which its necessary escapes a lot of designers. You must make the hidden goal visible. A lot of design focuses on whatever the easier form of data to visualize is. Makes it pretty and then calls it a day. You really have to dive down and figure out…More

Its revolutionized the way I drink. There are 2 major benefits: 1. Track drunkenness. In the past I would set limits for myself on the # of drinks I’d like to keep myself to but would routinely ignore them. Over time I realized that I was ignoring these limits because I knew that 3 drinks…More

Like carpenters the skill will lose value over time. For thousands of years carpenters were sought after skilled professionals. They created beautiful works of art and were crucial to everyday building. Now we have machines that stamp out the wooden furniture that we need. There is currently a massive demand for software developers. That will…More