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I left my tech job to build a meditation app

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Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app

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Post by meiraleal »

bartread wrote: post #110
meiraleal wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, you can't. If you don't cook you will not understand the differences of the various types of knifes, forks, spoons...

Not a fan of cooking != doesn't cook I'm not really a fan of cooking either but I still do it most days. It is possible to know something about a thing, have experience of a thing, have some useful insight into tools that are useful for it, all without enjoying said thing.

Yes, this is a phenomena the internet amplified: unknowledgeable people confident that the little they know is already above-intermediary level.

Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

tsjq wrote: post #72
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #56

Perhaps we don't need an app to meditate? Does everything need to have a tie to tech and the latest gizmo?

>Does everything need to have a tie to tech and the latest gizmo? add ties to cloud , and wearables, and 24x7 tracking, and some motivational quote notifications to keep the user more connected. and then sell data to advertisers.

you forgot blockchain.

Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app

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Post by bartread »

meiraleal wrote: post #111
bartread wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a fan of cooking != doesn't cook I'm not really a fan of cooking either but I still do it most days. It is possible to know something about a thing, have experience of a thing, have some useful insight into tools that are useful for it, all without enjoying said thing.

Yes, this is a phenomena the internet amplified: unknowledgeable people confident that the little they know is already above-intermediary level.

You have to be kidding? Literally nobody here is claiming that their knowledge is above-intermediary level. How is it that you're misinterpreting what people are actually saying so badly?

Are you doing so deliberately?

Do you not perceive the acute irony of what you've just said in the face of the fact that you have shown such a basic misunderstanding of the comments to which you've responded, whether deliberately or otherwise?

Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app

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Post by meiraleal »

bartread wrote: post #113
meiraleal wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is a phenomena the internet amplified: unknowledgeable people confident that the little they know is already above-intermediary level.

You have to be kidding? Literally nobody here is claiming that their knowledge is above-intermediary level. How is it that you're misinterpreting what people are actually saying so badly? Are you doing so deliberately? Do you not perceive the acute irony of what you've just said in the face of the fact that you have shown such a basic misunderstanding of the comments to which you've responded, whether deliberately or…

If you think my understanding of what he said is the same as he claiming that he knows what is better for cooking without liking it I have nothing to say to you.

Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app

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Post by froh »

BlissWaves wrote: post #84
froh wrote: post #18

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and turn off and back on notifications and calls. and dim the screen. and collect the progres. and allow for intermediate "checkpoint" dings . and are flexibly configurable. and allow for guided meditations. definitively minimize power consumption. etcetcetc ps: for a backend think about collecting meditation statistics, and pulling in meditator networking, online meditation groups, running longitudinal meditation st…

Not to mention, a double-blind questionairre following a meditation, meditator ELO score and finally match-making based on said score.

how could I forget about the meditator ELO score! competitive meditation! rankings!

you made my day :-)

Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app

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Post by tsjq »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #112
tsjq wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Does everything need to have a tie to tech and the latest gizmo? add ties to cloud , and wearables, and 24x7 tracking, and some motivational quote notifications to keep the user more connected. and then sell data to advertisers.

you forgot blockchain.

and Quantum Computing

Re: I left my tech job to build a meditation app

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Post by playpause »

nso95 wrote: post #102
playpause wrote: post #92

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So there's too much tech and people should just stop? It's not that I disagree, I just don't think you're adding anything interesting to that debate. And you are shitting on someone's work.

That's...not what they said

Well they didn’t really say anything, is my point. Just a shallow dismissal of an individual’s work.
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