“Disapprove of tolerance” is such a ridiculous straw man is genuinely quite amusing.

I don't want to be a downer on this because it sounds like a cool system, but it might be worth checking whats in the receipt paper as a lot of it is pretty bad for you:

https://toxicfreefuture.org/press-room/new-study-finds-toxic...

Yes, the main problem is the paper with bisphenol, which has been banned in Europe.

Even though bisphenol-A is banned in EU, I believe bisphenol-B is still allowed. I suspect - though I don't know how to research whether it's true or false - that everyone just switched to bisphenol-B, which is said to be either similarly, or more toxic than BPA... :(

Even assuming that "BPA-free" paper I'd buy is really so, and not just BPA-covered one imported from China and said/labeled to be "BPA-free" by someone somewhere in the pipeline...

You need to go out of your way to buy phenol-free paper. It's a thing but unfortunately it's a niche rather than the default.

If the labeling can be trusted it isnt hard to find phenol-free receipt paper on amazon.

However, none of them say what their actual 'active ingredient' is and I am curious if these are necessarily known to be better. Most of them describe themselves as 'plastic coated'.

Yes. A short video I watched mentioned that even touching these thermal papers with normal gloves is unsafe.

The receipts that a large majority of humanity has been handling on a daily basis for decades? Unsafe? In what way?

I'm doubtful it's a majority.

Walter Isaacson's book "The Code Breaker" is about this subject. I couldn't put it down.

All his books are like that. The Innovators is my personal favorite.

> but at this point there is just as much self-reported evidence that prayer works.

If you remove the assumption that a deity answers the prayer; what they're doing is focusing on gratitude and if asking for things they are identifying goals. This is a healthy mindset so unsurprising that they report it "working".

Meet is actually surprisingly brilliant tbh.

100% agree - it also has had essentially no fanfare or sales/marketing, despite it being far and away the best VC software (IMO).

Against all odds, they somehow learned from their dozen failed attempts at the space, and succeeded the 13th time.

One thing I've found useful is to have deliberate google meet calls when having planning discussions or firming up decisions.

I set up the recording and transcription and then up front we define the problem and what we want the outcome to be. Afterwards I give the transcription to ChatGPT and get it to summarise the content, decisions, etc and add that to our documentation with a link to the recording.

This helps you stay on the same page and also gives context to people who werent present about what has been discussed and decided.

Gemini is actually good for audio transcriptions, I tried other AI tools that were much worse.

I didn’t find another good use of Gemini, but the audio transcription combined with the summaries were great. Best I’ve seen.

Couple of my favourites: building a story brand, obviously awesome and the saas playbook.

There’s good advice in this thread that is cautioning about getting stuck in research mode. There’s only so much you can get from books. You need to try and fail at some point.

My recommendation to this point is to not treat the books as a set of “how tos”, instead use them to develop a model of the world to test your instincts against.

I’ve been using an awesome app called athlytic that takes this to the next level.

That’s the ultra.

If 36 hours (Ultra 2) isn't enough battery life, then you and your friends aren't the target audience for a smart watch with a display.

I guess we yearn for a world long past where there weren't so many daily charging cycles because things were just either plugged in or not.

Sure, but that's just the price you pay for having fancy portable gadgets. You want longer battery life, there are tradeoffs.

Personally, "it's finally a little thinner" is the thing that has me planning to buy an Apple Watch for the first time.

It's partially the general UX of charging a watch. I find it easy to put my iPhone on a stand next to my bed every night, but for some reason I find it annoying to take off my watch and put it on the same stand. Both devices generally need the same amount of effort to charge but ones more of a burden.

Maybe I just want to do it less because I'm wearing it not carrying it in a pocket or having it sit next to me somewhere.

Since I sleep with it I find it easier to just have a charger on my desk. Generally only needs about an hour a day to fully charge.

It’s all Apple Intelligence and that’s not coming to the EU currently.

They said France next year, so i guess they’re working through it

I think they say French (the language), but that might be for people outside the EU. German is notably missing from their list, though it’s a bigger market for Apple than French.