Before you take Sasha Chapin's advice to blow up your life seriously, ask yourself whether you envy the life he's living.
> My existence really started getting good when I started blowing up my life more regularly, with a substantial eruption every couple of years. I quit my job and moved to Thailand without doing any research about the country, figuring that I could be a bartender again somewhere if it all went south. That ended up becoming the material for my first book. My current professional chapter began when I said “fuck it” to journalism when I couldn’t take the constant ethical compromises and the bullshit of pretending to care about the news cycle. After some flailing, I now make a lot more money and am a lot happier. Blowing up my first marriage was the most difficult one of all, but it was an obviously correct decision, for which my ex-wife later thanked me—we were locked in a pattern that was hurting both of us, and if one of us didn’t walk away, we would’ve eventually been one of those unhappy old couples who constantly radiate bitterness.
...because he switched careers and had a divorce? Not exactly a sign of a failed life, IMO. As a software engineer I feel damn lucky that I chose a career that I really like AND pays well; most people can't say the same. As for the divorce, you could get rich in a day if you knew how to reliably spot one of those coming early in a relationship.
What does China know about COVID-19 that the rest of us do not?
Why put in place such a severe policy of forced internment, in response to very few cases, when cheap and plentiful vaccines are available?
(Never mind that mRNA vaccines have never been approved for use in China, which is mind-boggling, given that they're proven to be safe and effective for preventing serious illness or death from COVID-19.)
In my opinion the reason is political, that is, I think zero-covid policy is a form of citizen control to prevent protests/insurrection against the accumulation of power by Xi, but also against the economic crumbling surrounding the collapse of their real estate market.
If you didn’t have any faith in the mechanisms you had to mitigate COVID-19 pharmaceutically, you would act in much the same manner.
Sinovac may just not be that good over time, or maybe it’s just a pride thing in which we have a political leader staking heroic, superhuman claims on a Zero-COVID strategy.
I think there are many factors. First, the Chinese healthcare system is much smaller than western healthcare systems. Combine that with a much larger population and a pandemic and you end up in a bad situation really fast. Secondly, they’ve refused the mRNA vaccines, which are significantly more effective than their home grown vaccine. Third, and possibly most importantly, Xi et al both inflated the danger of Covid in their communications to the public, and made zero Covid a point of national and personal pride for Xi. He would lose face if they turned back now.
That’s my main beef with them as well - I haven’t used the later models so I don’t know if this has changed, but my 7 and all iterations I’ve had before that literally launch out of my hand if I’m only casually gripping them and make even a moderate movement.
> And my money is that they'll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner.
Thinner is absolutely better. The ergonomics and lightness of the iPhones 6 through 8 are far superior to the thick and heavy iPhones Pro of today. Without Jony Ive at the design helm to push the "single slab of glass" vision, the thickness and weight has been gradually creeping upward for years now to cram in more batteries and hardware. A return to thin iPhones would be a good thing.
2) Whatever happened to taking a bunch of hard drugs with your friends and seeing what happens? Kids these days with their "trip sitters" and "safe spaces" and "Psilocybin Community & Education" hubs.
We had safe spaces. They were Grateful Dead shows. You had a community of people who would look after you, guide you and give you advice. You sound like you could use a trip...
#2 is what led to the idea of tripsitters. It's essentially the same concept as a designated driver - someone sober to keep everyone out of trouble. Some people can handle it fine, others really can't at all, psychologically, and most anyone on psychedelics responds to unexpected adverse situations poorly. I agree it's not how my generation did it but it's not a bad idea at all.
Because ever since the first Airpods I was able to jump on any of my devices and change it from Speaker to Airpods and it would instantly switch. I didn't need to unpair or disconnect from one device before it was usable by another like I do with my Sony 1000MX3.
Yep. I had this experience. It was for some reason, REALLY good when AirPods just came out, and seemed to degrade with subsequent macOS updates (In particular, I had more trouble switching between phone and laptop later, but not much trouble between phone and iPad).
I recently got some bone conducting headphones which have the dual bluetooth built in, and that is even more seamless - literally just plays the audio from the active device, though it's not perfectly accurate, and gets really confused by Spotify doing off-device play, but it's clearly nicer than even having to choose the output channel.
Looking forward to trying this out w/ my AirPods though.
My Bose Soundsport and Jabra 75t support simultaneous connections. Faster than "almost instantaneous"...because it's connected to 2 devices. I can watch a video on youtube on my laptop and immediately pickup a phone call. I never understood why Apple didn't support this. My Soundsport also annoucnes on startup which devices it's connected to..which is helpful when you have more than 2. My Soundsport is several years old, and Jabra had it since 65t, at least.
Edit: Also apparently this device switching feature for Airpod Pro is good only for Apple devices, and Apple devices on the same iCloud account.
Two simultaneous connections unnecessarily drains the battery of whichever device is not currently being used. It would also provide an inconsistent user experience when using more than two devices (say an iPhone, iPad, and a MacBook). I can see why Apple prefers to make actual switching as seamless as possible rather than support simultaneous connections.
Do you have to choose which device you are listening on by interacting with the headset, or is there a way to toggle that from the source devices?
I am really looking forward to this feature. Maybe I'm alone in this but I have constant connection issues switching between my Mac and phone when using AirPods (especially frustrating when answering calls).
You're definitely not alone. Switching my airpods from phone to laptop is always a frustratingly long process. First have to select my airpods in the audio list, wait 15 seconds until my airpods make a boop noise. They're not connected yet though, my mac will switch back to internal audio almost immediately. Need to repeat the process again before they will actually connect.
At least going the other way I only have to select the airpods once in the phones bluetooth device list.
Great to finally see some competition in this space.
Like a lot of other lesser-known industries, private equity has consolidated all the top self-storage software management solutions.
SpareFoot acquired SiteLink[1]. The combined SpareFoot and SiteLink were acquired by Cove Hill Partners[2], a private equity firm founded in 2017, and merged with storeEDGE[3], a third company, to form Storable[4], the company behind SiteLink, storEDGE, and SpareFoot. Storable just acquired Easy Storage Solutions[5], a fourth company, a few months ago. SpareFoot, SiteLink, storEDGE, and Easy Storage Solutions are now all the same company.
Thanks for this post. I own a self storage company and use Easy Storage Solutions and had no idea Storable recently acquired them. I enjoyed working with a smaller, privately owned software company. Knowing this has peaked my interest in Open Unit. Taylor - this could be a good marketing angle to take.
I have submitted multiple feature requests to Easy Storage Solutions but none of them have been acted on. If you guys are open to feedback I'd love to get involved. We could use my facility as a testing ground. I have 250 units over 15k sq ft.
We should connect over the next few days. I think this warrants a further conversation between our groups. Please send an email when you’ve got a moment - I can be reached at taylor@openunit.com. Since Day One, Lucas and I have included operators in the discussion to dictate the functionality and we’d love to have you included at the table as well.
We definitely see that there is a large opportunity given the recent consolidation.
There’s been a huge reduction in the optionality available to storage owners and operators when it comes to choosing the software they need to run their businesses.
Often when there is consolidation in a market you end up in a scenario where customers’ voices are lost in the cacophony of competing interests. Sadly, this is often to the detriment of the smaller businesses.
We’re hoping to change that and be the partner that smaller operators can trust to help them succeed.
> My existence really started getting good when I started blowing up my life more regularly, with a substantial eruption every couple of years. I quit my job and moved to Thailand without doing any research about the country, figuring that I could be a bartender again somewhere if it all went south. That ended up becoming the material for my first book. My current professional chapter began when I said “fuck it” to journalism when I couldn’t take the constant ethical compromises and the bullshit of pretending to care about the news cycle. After some flailing, I now make a lot more money and am a lot happier. Blowing up my first marriage was the most difficult one of all, but it was an obviously correct decision, for which my ex-wife later thanked me—we were locked in a pattern that was hurting both of us, and if one of us didn’t walk away, we would’ve eventually been one of those unhappy old couples who constantly radiate bitterness.