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I wouldn't even compare it to a tool. People frequently "build their own house" where they sub out 75% of the skilled labor and act as a General Contractor/glorified gopher. And yo…

Half of my property is woods and there are multiple fallen oaks that are slowly returning to the ground, but the canopy remains exposed. I'm constantly torn between letting "nature…

Feedback loop is right. I think there are parallels to the Blank Check podcast playing "The Box Office Game", where those cinephiles try to determine the Box Office Top 5 on the we…

Recommendations have gotten noticeably worse since the glory days of Discover Weekly. It's possible that my tastes have just stagnated in my mid-30s*, but I just found myself liste…

The growth rate is surprising to me. Anecdotally, I know at least 5 families who have canceled the service and are outspoken in their distaste (even if many just jumped to equally …

I mean, isn't that the exercise? I love MTJ's Bubble Bobble, but it is a simple game. If a "Rip O Matic" took Bubble Bobble and replaced the bubble blowing dinosaur with a sword-wi…

The streaming service is a Cathedral: You've paid your tithe to the temple of HBO Max? Marvelous, please come in, my child and gaze upon our wonders! What? James Cameron's True Lie…

It's funny that this was written in 1989, right after the Japanese pulled the industry out of the 80s Atari crash, where shovelware destroyed consumer confidence in Atari products …

This was a video I needed to see today! While most of tech is navel-gazing about the not-too-distant future, it feels so nice to see a presentation that looks straight out of Babyc…

But with MAME comes a bunch of licensing implications for commercial use. 9000-in-one cabinets just flagrantly disregard these implications and I have encountered bars that sideste…

Back in college (2010), a friend started working at a bustling coffee shop, and pretty soon our friend circle included her "coffee crew" of friends from the shop. Every Monday, a p…

I think the fad that most closely aligned with current AI absurdity was mid-2000s outsourcing.

Years ago, my friend and I had a tumblr called Loo York City where we reviewed bar bathrooms in NYC. We had some fun nights drinking at bars and writing up grandiose assessments ab…

I think the improvements and increased acceptance of prefabricated construction and machine learning can make for an intriguing combination. I am by no means a construction special…

Observe a trivia night focused on a specific TV Show (like Simpsons or Seinfeld trivia) and you'll see this phenomena en masse. People make connections based on plotlines, celebrit…

The question is: Would that be more cost-effective than just outright buying Ubisoft or a similar-sized publisher so your device has some content?

I don't do a lot of interviewing at my company, but I encountered my first fraud candidate two weeks ago. He said he was having connectivity issues and asked about not joining vide…

It's not quite "dying", but there is a pattern that is so obvious it's confounding: > Small group of experts form Boutique Consultancy focused on specific technology (Cloud, SaaS P…

I am curious how the leanest of "cutting-edge" startups will adapt to these new employee expectations. In the short-term, designing a company as "remote first" is a huge boon, but …

To start, malls tend to be built on highways removed from a municipality's center. Many of the people in this area will need certain amenities (for example, schools) and will have …

Yeah, I'm a firm believer in moderation and not allowing perfection to get in the way of progress. So many decisions can be seen as immoral once examined under heavy scrutiny and c…

I feel similarly, but when the thing being imitated is just breaded and fried "stuff" like a nugget, it seems like an inexpensive, tasty vegan filling should be simpler. Maybe the …

My wife is pescatarian, which has really lowered my consumption of meat. There is such a weird contrast between meat marketing and the actual use. With my reduced consumption, I am…

Not only is it tougher to book an act and fill a venue outside of a town whose economy is fueled by 20-somethings, but I think there is also a NIMBY factor, mostly justified by noi…

I'll do you one better: a curated retailer that only carried merchandise with a 10+ year manufacturer's warranty. And they automatically register/store all proof of purchase inform…