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vivid242

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    Comment #49151596

    Very human, well done! Thank you!

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    Comment #49103192

    I think we‘re suffering from dopamine inflation. We need a more low-dopamine software.

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    Comment #48959942

    Great concepts, great execution. A rebellion against the dopamine dealers.

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    Comment #48917879

    If Instagram is bad for teenager‘s mental health, then what is the effect of LinkedIn on adults?

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    Comment #48886342

    I like the idea, and it reminded me that the „Vim book“ had the subtitle: „Edit text at the speed of thought“. How much faster should an ‚automated thinking‘ than a ‚manual thinkin…

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    Comment #48869976

    I love your headline here :-)

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    Comment #48841570

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48711854

    Looks great, thanks for sharing the details and story!

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    Comment #48617549

    I like your Windows postings, please don’t stop!

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    Comment #48616010

    As for new habits: I stopped algorithmically curated news for myself. I use RSS and Leash as a browser: https://leash.ax

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    Comment #48515404

    Would love to see this as a Raspberry Pi image download!

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    Comment #48515389

    Leash, a low-dopamine mobile browser replacement: https://leash.ax

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    Comment #48472515

    Does the iPhone recognize this as a ‚browser‘?

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    Comment #48341221

    Reminds me of the Unsung blog, very nice! unsung.aresluna.org (Not sure if I‘d be willing to pay for it, though.)

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    Comment #48213483

    A Swiss army knife of the day - after all, Swiss Army knives also serve a psychological purpose. And they do it well!

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    Comment #48164637

    Thanks for the great question! I think they used to be so much fun because they were an unexplored frontier. Perhaps we need a new frontier?

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    Comment #47906747

    With AI, we‘re cargo-culting understanding. We‘re reproducing the surface of having understood something, but we‘re robbing ourselves the time and effort to truly do it.

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    Comment #47791141

    Hadn’t heard of it either - very smart, could open lots of other privacy-friendliness-improved „client-based web“ apps

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    Comment #47787071

    In a culture that likes things neat and orderly lined up!

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    Comment #47743105

    I‘d be happy to pay for an upgrade if future macOS changes break the functionality of this - cool - app, which would require the creator to update it. More work, which I would pay …

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    Comment #47723185

    Can I also post a question that is actually answering itself?

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    Comment #47648122

    Great idea- if the person who made it is reading: Is this based on the board game „poetry for cavemen“? (Explain things using only single-syllable words, comes even with an inflata…

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    Comment #47605782

    -10 points if you actually read your marketing yourself before copy and pasting it on the website

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    Comment #47573030

    Lovely! Would appreciate a release via the App Store / notarization or so… is there a newsletter so I could get notified?

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    Comment #47556418

    Thank you for this helpful differentiation. I agree - and if it‘s undermining our trust into ‚effort‘ (we start to be suspicious about how much some piece of work is really ‚worth‘…