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I’ve tried a bunch of configuration from 13″ laptop to 31″ 4K monitor.

13″ QHD (2K) is a bit small after a few hours.

31″ UHD (4K) is just too big: not only I have to be much further away from the display, but my eyes need to move from diagonal to diagonal, hard. Strain and also, addiction. It’s so clean, my brain keeps saying.

24″ FHD (1080p) is kind of perfect: everything is in my vision, I can open a few windows without issues and I can see the pixels, which is reminding me to go for a walk from time to time.

I keep saying that we have peaked with technology and every day, I have proof of that. That’s exciting to me!

Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher stated about two thousand years ago that the only immutable, unchangeable law was the Law of Change.

The response was getting stoned in the streets of Athens.

I understand those people throwing rocks, smart ass Heraclitus.

You went around, talked your shit, made a lot of sense and mfs couldn’t handle the truth. Hence the cailloux in your face.

It’s a vertical phone.

Vertical videos. Vertical photos.

Vertical timeline. Scrolling up and down.

Work, woes, love, public, private, it’s all vertical.

It’s the leaderboard. The pyramid scheme. The “you’re supposed to be on top of everyone”.

It’s the high-rise building. You are supposed to be at the top to exist better.

It’s a taller car to look down others.

Horizontal is head to head. It’s our surroundings. It’s nature.

Horizontal is responsibilities. It’s also cozy, calm and freedom. I’m in love with my horizontal plane.

Yeah, I know that.

The hilarious part for me is that this entire article talks about phones messing up teenagers, as if phones hadn’t and are not fucking up adults at all! Phones fucked up adults first, keep doing so and teenagers simply follow.

Bro. Due to phones:

• Adults have zero attention span compared to 15 years ago.
• Adults drive so erratically despite having 4 GPS in the car.
• Adults walk around without looking around.
• Adults are insanely addicted to notifications.
• Adults play it like “it’s work” and we all know that’s bullshit.

Y’all are all super distracted with your phones. You can’t control it. You hear a ding, you see a bubble and nothing else matters. You are addicted to no end, demonstrating to teenagers that this is acceptable.

Change that. Now.

S L A Y I N ‘

My trial just expired and I’m kind of sad, which is the first time ever that I’m sad about a software trial expiring.

Why? Because Hey.com is fabulous. They did reinvent email, and email should be like Hey.com now and forever. It’s that great.

The HUGE problem is, it’s not cheap (yet totally affordable), and it’s hard to justify the cost.

The massive challenge for Hey.com is that we all have found (terrible) ways to manage our free emails, ways that we kind of don’t want to give up on because of the good old sunk-cost fallacy. And for new email users well, they need to know about Hey.com and they probably just want an email account to log in somewhere. They don’t really use email (though I’m sure they would with Hey!).

It’s very annoying to me that such a great product is struggling to find its way into the heart of our digital lives because damn, it’s so good.

One interface, one screen to rule almost ALL communications? Bliss and massive achievement.

So I encourage you to use it. Try it. If you’re looking at that ONE email provider to rule them all, please choose Hey.com.

Reading about Union Station in L.A. It opened in 1939, but the city had plans for a central train station as early as 1905.

Railroad companies were competing and didn’t want to share tracks or a common station. They fought so hard, it took 20 years and two supreme court hearings before they could agree with the city to have a shared station. And by that time in 1939, people were all about cars and that new thing that was faster than anything before, planes.

A whole generation started paying taxes between the start of negotiations and when they concluded. For a train station. Wild AF!

When I hear people in their 20s today talking about “car culture this, car culture that, ban all cars boo” I’m just like “trains kind of suck, stop being dogmatic also pettiness has been ruining everything since forever”. Then they order an Uber or jump on a scooter, zip through traffic with that thousand-yard scooter stare, and I shake my head.

It is pouring. Not sure why this is happening in southern California—who placed the order? But it sure is here. Thunderstorm with snow in Los Angeles, yes ma’am.

I noticed people paying their groceries with cash all the time these days. Not a good sign.

There have been thousands of thousands of layoffs in tech in the past six months. In an in-demand field. Also not a good sign.

And just like that, one year of war in Ukraine and now everyone in the West has checked out. Just like all wars, we don’t know what/where/how this is going to pan out. Wonderful.

Still rare, but more and more folks are getting cured from HIV. That’s kind of outstanding yet, it feels normal? We humans squash those diseases away, that’s what we do (thanks, science).

I keep iterating and testing my house design. This is done with Sweet Home 3D, a great little app. Things are still a bit off measurement wise, but it gives me a better idea of what’s going on and in this picture, the house is at its smallest size: 114m² (1,227 square foot). If I expand just a little bit more, it works beautifully.

You can’t see it here, but I can see the colors and finish and final form. It’s going to be amazing.

I had one today! I stuffed my nostril in the bottle and it smelled like innocence, vacation and high-pitched voices.