Ask HN: Idea Sunday

* Ideally no downloads or installs required, you just list your top x priorities (up to 3, because we all know that if you have more than 3 priorities... you have none).

* Each one limited to 50 characters or so (e.g. "Write Chapter 3 of my book" , "Buy food for Sunday's cookout" , etc.)

* You get a custom link that you can edit at any time, so when in doubt you reference it and know instantly what you should be working on

* Analytics would be extra fun, high potential for interesting trends. Basic sentiment analysis would yield "priority" trends and tendencies by city/state/country

A completely transparent social platform with messaging, activity tracking, content management, knowledge storage, wishlist/preference/opinion management, idea generation, etc.

You might not know yet, but privacy is the root of all evil, and the privacy madness has to stop.

The more we hide, the more we have to hide. It's a never ending cycle.

People don't see the world as it really is. They see the world the way others want it to be seen. They see an artificial, curated version of the world where people have no flaws.

This disconnection between what is real and what we think is real makes people feel broken, different, not good enough. How are they supposed to know that nobody is perfect when everybody actively try to show their perfect side? We all wear masks by fear of rejection, fear of being different.

Just like you, I need privacy because privacy is expected of me. I need to lie because people don't want to hear the truth. I have to wear a mask because everybody else does. Being completely transparent and honest is a sure way to be rejected and jailed. But if I had the choice, I would prefer to be myself, to never have to remember lies, to never have to hide.

Do you think the privacy paradigm is sustainable? Do you think it makes sense to use so much resources to encrypt everything? Do you think it makes sense to hide yourself behind proxies and firewalls? Do you think it makes sense to protect everything with passwords? Do you think it makes sense to keep creating fake profiles online? Do you think it makes sense to disable location tracking on your devices? Do you think it makes sense to constantly worry about others learning the truth? I don't.

I want to live in a world where I don't ever have to recall or input a password or a PIN. I want to live in a world where I don't have to lock my doors, lock my bike, lock my PC. I want to live in a world where I don't need to encrypt anything. I want to live in a world where I don't have to worry about privacy settings at all.

I want financial information to be public. I want all media content to be public. I want my location to be tracked and available to anyone at all time. I want my health records to be available to anyone. I want my every thought and emotion to be queryable. I don't ever want to waste energy communicating with the world information that can be tracked by machines.

In the future, people will not fear the NSA. People will not fear online tracking. People will embrace them. We will soon see people pay third-party services to track their every move, their every thought. Why waste my time being explicit about what I want and do when I can delegate that task to something else? The only thing I should input in a system are my values, my opinions, my feelings. Everything else is objective.

Privacy is the antithesis of society. Privacy is an act of pure selfishness. Privacy is slowing down innovation and discoveries in every possible field. Privacy is what inhibits humanity to reach the next level. I can't think of anything that sustains worries and fears more than society's expectation of privacy.

Privacy is a symptom, a defense mechanism. Privacy is not a cure.

Prove me wrong.

Ideally, I'd like to see the service keep diff's of the terms so consumers (and you) can see how they've changed over time.

I'm also wondering if there's any value in having cohorts of customers based on what set of terms they signed up under.