Becoming another individual’s whole world changes your own, for better or worse.
I was a “such is life” type of person when experiencing tragedy, and fairly ho-hum during joyous moments. With kids, something changed, or “rewired”. I tear up at Bluey episodes and lose sleep due to irrational fears of an early death and not witnessing moments in my kids’ lives.
I tried to use Wave to collaborate on a blog post with friends, rather than emailing each other critiques.
They thought it seemed to complicated and stuck with email.
I’m haphazarding a guess that maybe Google didn’t stick with it because, if I recall, most if not all of their services were free and this one probably cost a lot to run without a clear monetization strategy. If it didn’t increase the size of a captive audience, and they weren’t willing to show ads in the product itself, and they weren’t going to get better data from users to inform their ad services elsewhere…why run it?
The “just tell me what to build, I don’t need to understand why” trope exists for a reason.
I’ve worked with a range of engineers in terms of their curiosity. In my experience, the ones who cared enough to ask or push back on decisions were exceptions, not the rule.
This doesn’t mean they weren’t curious people. It just means they weren’t curious about The BusinessTM or The MarketTM.
> If you have T1d, you've been able to get the prescription-variant of this product for years with insurance, so there really is no reason to get this unless you're un-insured.
is dishonest at face value.
The OOP cost can wildly vary per insurer. As important is whether or not the insurance company covers it when you need it.
Typically insurance only covers 30 days at a time. That means on day 29, insurance will refuse to cover the cost at the pharmacy.
Real world schedules, flukey tech and devices, fluctuating pharmacy inventory, and occasionally needing an endo to confirm that you still aren’t the first person in human history to reverse Type 1 diabetes, etc. make “this was covered by prescription insurance” a flimsy-at-best argument against T1Ds considering this.
Surely you’re not a US resident, because “covered by insurance” is definitely not a good enough reason on its own to not consider this here. 30 days of CGM device coverage from our insurance costs more than this.
That said, one actually legitimate reason a T1D may be better off with their prescribed device is if Dexcom doesn’t readily replace the OTC versions the way they do for prescriptions.
This happens way more often than I imagine most who are unfamiliar would think. Anecdotal from an internet stranger, but just last night, we had a third G7 in a row fail well before the 10 day timeline. And speaking of insurance..they wouldn’t cover the early refill we tried to get a week ago when we hadn’t yet received replacements from Dexcom.
"You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where can I sell it."
I think this Jobs' quote is more applicable now than ever. Not to mention Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 was spearheaded by Jobs himself. He'd likely have plenty of opinions about today's AI advancements and user-friendly ways to integrate it.
Social media gets a lot of deserved blame for worsening our ability to connect meaningfully across interests and differences in beliefs.
But I have to imagine dating apps have been nearly as bad in terms of their impact on emotional development alongside another person.
They commoditized relationships, whether intentionally or not. They squarely fit the bill of “too much of a good thing”. Relationships are hard, and dating apps removed the incentive (i.e. avoiding the effort of having to find someone new) to work through the hard shit.
I’m sure there’s been a net positive effect for some demos or cohorts. My bet though is a significant number of people are facing an increasingly harder time finding meaningful, long-lasting relationships, either because they or their partner have too high of expectations for how “easy” they should be, and they know they only need a few swipes in an app to reset and try again.
This was me this past weekend. Wife was craving Subway for some reason. I didn’t object until I saw that a foot long was $12. I genuinely couldn’t believe it.
To your own point, the reports serve little value aside from a fabricated narrative that some companies like to build feel-goods around.
Discuss the complexities and needs. Break the work into small chunks. Define what progress means. Set expectations for making progress. Regularly and honestly review why you/the team are or aren’t meeting expectations. Rinse and repeat.
Perhaps this is over simplifying it, but these are the tried-and-true high notes in my experience. If at any point one of those steps isn’t feasible, then it’s a larger issue that implementation process likely isn’t going to solve, so the “to measure velocity or not” point seems moot.
All I saw was that they were dismissed as “extreme hypotheticals”. All of that despite the publication of Project 2025 openly calling for the next conservative president to bend and break bureaucracy to carry out their desires.
We’re firmly in the Fuck Around stage of what exactly this ruling will and will not allow, and one way or another, we’re going to Find Out within the next 3-6 months. I know which candidate I hope to Find Out from.
> I’m equally surprised at how few people seem to understand supply and demand has influence on prices.
Whenever this comes up about athletes and musicians, I say the same thing. I’ve watched friends lament how much money quarterbacks get compared to “heroes” aka police officers, military, firefighters, etc… yet vote against tax increases and buy sports jerseys.