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The irony did not lost on me that an article about superfluous visual elements is overlayed by an unnecessary distraction. But maybe the point is to not be 100% utilitarian but to weave in a "warm" feeling of the season. It did give me that a fuzzy feeling for the first few second. Then I was bored; then annoyed. Which pretty much follow my feeling of using Tahoe: Cool -> Meh -> Uggg!


No matter how well meaning or great it is, a large UI/UX changes without explicit user control (users clicking some download or update button) will always be met with vocal users revolt. I have not met a large UI change where I go "this is so much better than what I'm used to for the past years" Why do sites do this? Is the goal to attract new users? Just know that this comes at the cost of existing users irritation.

I will take around 1 year to get used to all the changes--just in time for the next large one to take place again. This is why I am always in a state of discontent.

Off topic--this came closely after my Sonos systems UI changes. It's like the whole world is telling me I am no longer their market demographics.


Is there a benefit difference between digital journal and analog (pen) ? I’ve been having this internal debate. Any thoughts?


I like the idea of analog, there's something about writing on paper.

Practically, digital is much better. Everytime I see something that might be useful I past a link. I paste links to discussions I need to follow up on. And then I also use a homemade plugin for Obsidian that lists my to-dos across all notes(1), so whenever I think about something I need to do I just include it directly into the text and it's listed there.

I think you could do something somewhat similar on paper (I tried a while back), but the overhead is simply too much for me.

1: https://github.com/cfe84/obsidian-pw


How much retention do you require though? For me having a more organized week is probably useful, not sure about having to retrieves years worth of information ?


I've done analog for years and tried to do digital this year. I switched back to analog. With digital, I tended to just dump everything whereas with analog I reflected and edited for concision. The things I typed I forgot; writing things down I remembered. It's much the same as taking notes - the act of physically writing helps "set" the information.

I know a lot of people will say to do digital for ease of searching. I find that if I write it down, I'm much more likely to remember and not need to search in the first place. And digital I think it's easier to get lost in the ways to try and optimize the process with a file, format, editor, plugin, method, etc. With paper, I have some paper that I can write in whatever format I want at the time.

I use these every year for taking notes: https://www.leuchtturm1917.com/weekly-planner-and-notebook-2... . I've been using the A5, but will probably go up to the B5+ for next year. I've been using these for the past 7 years.


The digital camp tends to jump all over the place with a new solution to the same problem without ever getting it right or getting closer to the root of it. You will notice a whole lot of todo apps, organization articles and a new solution every couple years. None ever solve the fundamental problem - friction and focus.

The analog camp, solved this, each in their own unique way, but all using the same tools (pen and paper). Its much quiet here, as we all have moved on to real problems.


I've yet to find anything better than pen and paper. You just grab the pen and go. Also, it's really hard to hack paper.

Apple Pencil & iPad works fairly well, but the multipurpose nature of the device often means that I need to navigate back to my note taking app.

Typing things into a log (for me) effectively pipes it to /dev/null.


Pen and paper is far superior in my experience.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40953297


If analog works better for you, maybe a good stylus would be a usable middle ground? Don’t cheap out on it though. The inexpensive ones aren’t worth it.


i’m a vulnerable narcissist. still don’t know what to do about this information.


If this is more a question than a statement, I would look at these key problems:

>Still, their awareness of their gap between their ambitions and their inability to act causes intense self-criticism.

Figure out why you are not allowed to act. How do others act without enough knowledge? They approach decisions differently.

>In March 2019, doctors told Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Corey Knebel that it was his call whether to end his baseball season early to repair a torn ligament in his elbow. Knebel said during a press conference, “It sucked that it was my decision. I hated that. I really wish the doctor would have just said, ‘Here is what we’re doing.’” He wanted some other omnipotent entity to choose for him.

*edit: A Freudian slip? 'Other omnipotent entity' should be 'other omniscience entity'. Omnipotence doesn't help with making the best decisions.


Post more memes to /r/vulnerablenarcissist


if you find out, be sure to let everyone else know.


the humblebrag personality type


this will be abused. How does one verify a business is indeed practice racism? How does the business owner rectify the allegations?


It seems that these things are done under the principle of "it's alright if we get a few false positives in the name of progress".

Will there be an appeal process? How do you clear your name after an accusation has been made? Who's to review the evidence?


Benjamin Franklin helps


"Benjamin Franklin" as in $100 bills? Or something else?


what does lying more as adults equate to?

Edit: found the answer in the article:

The analysis found that parenting by lying could place children at a greater risk of developing problems that the society frowns upon, such as aggression, rule-breaking and intrusive behaviours.


"The roll is made out of three layers of different plastic"

So it's basically Paper vs Plastic. What is bad about the cardboard boxes that these thing replaces?


Are you asking what is bad about the cardboard, or what is bad about the box?

Nothing is wrong with the cardboard except weight. Nothing is bad about the box except for the remainder of unused space that is in almost every package (and filled with more expensive paper or inflated filler)

For a shipper, minimizing weight and wasted space is a double win. This product has nothing to do with what the consumer wants.


So its even more difficult to recycle than single-layer plastics and still of no use to anything too large for a padded envelope.


Well it's multipurpose. One roll can ship many different things. Otherwise you need an inventory of various sized boxes. I'm guessing it will find an instant niche.


So many questions:

How many people have these type of phones at Facebook? Are we talking about 10 people 100 people? How many would have had these phones even without working at Facebook? What’s the percentage of burner phone user at Facebook as compare to silicons valley engineer in general?


Don't worry. Everyone have this idealization of what type of parent they will be until they actually have kids. There are no rule book to say what good parent looks like.


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