I find it incredible that in 2017 people still debate if animals can think. You just need to interact with one or more dogs to understand that they think, and in most cases they think much better than humans.
Lately seeing what humans did and still do to planet Earth, and what they do to each other based on completely made up topics like religion or plain material topics like skin color is making me wonder if humans can really think, or we just pretend to.
I stopped eating animals this year, after I finally realized how cruel the entire food industry is, AND how damaging it is to the environment.
If humans pretend to be more intelligent than animals, the minimum thing they can do is looking forward preserving and taking care of fellow animals that were not "gifted" more abilities.
My 2c, no technical user would ever want to host their blog on a 3rd part platform when it's so easy to self-host. The exception are platform with network effects (e.g. Medium). Why should I post on your platform when I don't know if in 30 days it will still be online? And given the lack of focus on grammar and spellchecking on the landing page, why should I assume what's in the backend is better?
- Growing my own vegetables. During the summer, half of my meals are home-grown, and I store the ones I can for the fall/winter as well. And I give away a lot for free to friends/relatives.
- I quit eating meat, after realising the impact the meat industry has on everything from animals rights (most important) to pollution, water consumption etc.
- I try to bring more consciousness on this on people, trying not to be a pain but planting some seeds in their mind.
It was a groundbreaking book _at the time_. For me, certainly. But I hear it mentioned in nearly every SMB interview podcast I listen to.
Many things are outdated now or simply more mainstream, as it's been read by almost everyone and part of the culture of many.
I consider it a book marking an "era", at least to myself, much like "The Web Startup Success Guide" or "Micro-ISV" by Bob Walsh.
You can't ask Tim to "update" the concrete steps, as those are the ones that worked for him at the time, and now he's doing very different things and he's a very different person.
It'd be awesome if there was a button to download a file with the code that's used, and the code that's unused, instead of just having a diff. Hint hint :)
Lately seeing what humans did and still do to planet Earth, and what they do to each other based on completely made up topics like religion or plain material topics like skin color is making me wonder if humans can really think, or we just pretend to.
I stopped eating animals this year, after I finally realized how cruel the entire food industry is, AND how damaging it is to the environment.
If humans pretend to be more intelligent than animals, the minimum thing they can do is looking forward preserving and taking care of fellow animals that were not "gifted" more abilities.