The next step is to open source your family as a project on Github
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In the future, I'll cite you as a visionary when this unfortunately comes to pass!
The Slackification of the American Home
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Re: The Slackification of the American Home
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
They needed paper planners 50 years ago. This is the same thing only digital.
Yup. Many of us had chores magnetically attached to the family fridge with a red and black dry-erase marker conveniently nearby. Sure, we didn't have 'sprints' or weekly meetings like the families in this article, but if I missed my chores my parents were absolutely going to take some time to talk to me and ask what was going on.
I actually like the idea of weekly “sprints” for a family. That’s a pretty cool way to set goals and actually work towards achieving them as a family. Life and personal development is iterative, the “sprint” concept fits into that perfectly.
Re: The Slackification of the American Home
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Expect different, not necessarily less. The context is obvious: Parents get less house time, do more house-irrelevant things during said time, and most importantly - the outside is more hostile, so more and more kids life is organized and initiated by parents.
Where is the evidence that suggests outside is more hostile ? Aren't our cities, generally speaking, safer now than they were at most times in the past?
They are. It's just that outrage media is 100x more powerful and present and as a result every small crime and mishap is shouted from the rooftops 24x7.
Re: The Slackification of the American Home
#74The next step is to open source your family as a project on Github
I'm imagining the classic scene from movies where a teen boy comes to ask the dad if he can take the daughter to prom, except he just opens a pull request
Re: The Slackification of the American Home
#75This reminded me Atlassian's 2013 April Fools joke, JIRA Jr. ( https://www.atlassian.com/jirajr ). Funny how life imitates art.
They really did some cool stuff. For instance they also made an Angry Birds clone: https://www.atlassian.com/angrynerds
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#76Trello pisses me off. Stacking some colored cards with notes. A four year old could come up with the idea. Yet acquired for $425M. The world is not fair.
Why didn’t a four year d think of it first then?
Lot’s of things are obvious in retrospect.
We put men on the moon before we put wheels on luggage.
Re: The Slackification of the American Home
#77Something I’m trying to get better at is to be more intentional about everything e.g. I think I’ve come to the realization that I’ve wasted a lot of time and spent time doing things I shouldn’t be doing because I allowed myself to “drift” in ways that don’t help me at all. I do not have a family or kids, but anything that helps families be more intentional with how they spend time with each other is a really good thi…
> Something I’m trying to get better at is to be more intentional about everything e.g. I think I’ve come to the realization that I’ve wasted a lot of time and spent time doing things I shouldn’t be doing because I allowed myself to “drift” in ways that don’t help me at all.
I disagree. Some things just need to be tried out to see if it enriches your life.
Yes there will be regrets but there is always a risk for potential worthwhile pursuits.
Not everything can be predicted.
Re: The Slackification of the American Home
#78Biggest stand out in this article is the stats about declining free time for play - as has been said quite a few times on HN, humans need to be bored and to play in order to be creative. Stagnation awaits otherwise I fear.
Re: The Slackification of the American Home
#79Well, it just seems a brand friendly way to say "Hey, this families use technology to track activities like we use to do with pen and paper".
And I personally use org-mode to track my kid's activities (and my own), but I believe a plain white board is better to track the shared goals and messages.