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March 29th.
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In America …
Healthcare - you either pay through the nose - or you are on a company health plan.
This proposal seems to be taking this a step further.
Somewhere to live - you either pay through the nose - or you live in a ‘company house’.
Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language.
Who knew that I was reading such bad material as a young teen?
Don’t get me wrong - I get it … BUT
- ‘potentially’?
- who decides what is offensive?
- where are the lines drawn?
Related but different issue that arguably stems from the same kind of thinking.
Talking about junk apps from Apple ( @simonwoods )… Contacts. Why is it so slow? BusyContacts and Cardhop both work at lightening speed on my contacts database. Moving to Apple’s relatively minimal product, Contacts and the whole system moves to a crawl.
Terrible Benchmarks and AI Text Generators
“Unless you’re going to use these tools to help you finish a crossword puzzle”
@birchtree - that’s probably the reason that @danielpunkass was exploring this … after all BlackInk is one of his products.
Plus if you can’t trust GPT to count letters in a word - then why on earth would you trust it to tell you about anything else?
I actually thought this exchange was a great example of the problem.
A Time Management Myth - Shawn Blanc
Reminds me of the old adage about planning … to paraphrase … plans are useless - planning is essential.
Two separate micro blog threads talking about Apple’s new Classical Music app …
To add in my two cents …. Trying to work out how ‘classical’ is defined, there are some odd omissions.
Say what you like about substack … they are innovative.
When I have been fired … and I have … never thought that one option was to ‘not step down’ … I always thought that was for people who were asked to resign?
… and I’m sure I’ve read this ‘play’ before ..
March 28th.
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For those of you who come to Reader from Readwise 1.0 (we 💖 you), you can maybe see how this represents the first milestone on the path of recreating Readwise 1.0 functionality inside Reader. You might need to squint, but it’s there!
Why can’t large conglomerates have telephone lines that actually have a smidge of quality, rather than very clear muzak … but as soon as someone talks the line is crackly, the messages are repetitive and boring and that’s if you actually get someone to answer the phone rather than keeping you in voice mail hell.
Today I am looking at you Lowe’s - but you aren’t the only guilty party.
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March 27th.
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It’s a longer story that I won’t bore you with, but remotes to three different garages is clearly excessive … if not to say confusing.
It’s served me well over the years, but maybe time for a new one?
