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Related reading - 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary

Blurb: Explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life.

Maybe the best move forward for Samsung is to come out as followers of the surrealism art movement, they could use Magritte's famous 1929 painting to accommodate this press release - [The Treachery of Images - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images)

While the suspicious cases are now almost common knowledge, I'd be interested to read about cases of the opposite - shell companies being used to facilitate transactions and not doing anything remotely shady.

I'm not the target audience but have the following doubt

App icons are a high-stakes one-off expenses for application developers, there are fewer* use cases for needing to continously create new icons. Hence, a plan-based payment seems a worse offer for both you and the clients.

* can't think of any actually

Anyone here finding hard to balance politeness and what the author calls courting rejections?

Is this (another) canary in the coalmine? That there's no hypergrowth lurking just round the corner for most companies.

I'm not dismissive of businesses like Lemlist, but would propose another angle.

I find that businesses that are spin out from agency models are particular, inherit a strong characteristic and outlook similar to agencies. This is not a critique of their model per say, but an observation that leads me to be hesitant to take advice from agency-born models and apply to more typical product-focused B2B or B2C settings.

This leads me also to note that that the nature of content exposes us to a lot of people who believe in posting content. I'm not against it, but would like to fight the common urge towards content as the best strategy to go to market. However, given that the medium is message, we don't hear from people who don't need to post to do business.

This is a great addition to your search engine, thank you for sharing and continous development!

Years ago I was interested in the same area - visual exploration of websites, but from a different angle. I created an addon that created a timeline-based visual index of all websites exchanged in a chat channel. This was pre-Slack, the goal was to create an archive of all the relevant materials and attachments that teams exchange at work.

Technically, it was a plugin for Hipchat, a scraper, and index in Elasticsearch. Relevant things of note:

- Besides lexical similarity, I had visual similarity of website screenshots

- Chronology was useful when finding "the thing you shared with me after I sent you that starflower thread"

- I think I had a color filter for "finding that purple website"

There's not takeaway here, just wanted to share.

I bought a mikortik router aimed at small offices and can't complain about it's reliability. A general suggestions is to shop in a higher category than home use.

The idea is there's a categorisation of products that goes: home, office, enterprise, industrial. Reliablity and price goes up accordingly. Take this with a pinch of salt.

I found a lot of humor in your anecdote that the light sensor had to be replaced.

In a similar vein, a family member had a hardware issue in their laptop where some keys would not register some of the time (moisture). Their understanding was that they did not press hard enough for the device to register the press. This confusion between the boundaries of electronic and mechanical problems led to some mocking.

If your anecdote can be taken at face value - they could find some respite in the fact that by pressing the keys too hard they could damage some peripheral electronic parts.

Well, we have to ask to share the story "talking about license deals when talking about a VC investment"

Bird, Spin, Tier! An onomatopea to illustrate large transactions.

I'm mimicking CDE, previously with NSCDE, now with Plasma - [Commonality - KDE Store](https://store.kde.org/p/1314028/)

[FrogFind!](http://frogfind.com/about.php)

Counterpoints provided recently in: [What Did People Do Before Smartphones? - The Atlantic](https://archive.ph/OLGDp)

Used the following engine to find outliers - different results than the typical popular search engines mentioned so far.

[Budget air tickets from low-cost airlines - combine lowcost carriers for optimal routing - find cheapest airfare among many airports at once](https://www.azair.eu/index.php)

Contrary to most commenters, I'd believe there might be an audience for this.

All the rivalry and shady tricks on Spotify suggest that the competition to get attention as an emerging artist is huge.

What you mentioned about dropbox and screen recording was a great observation. I would double down on the niche and see how else are artist trying to gain an edge when promoting.

I think we here don't really appreciate how narrow the average online producers' technical expertise is.

For any Kobo (as well as Kindle & PocketBook) owners considering stock firmware alternatives, there's also [KOReader](http://koreader.rocks/)

The latter - had they given proper thought to the consequences of moving into touch-screens they would've never gone there. Obviously I'm generalizing and discarding the impact of novelty on sales and marketing.

Two recent events suggest to me that this type of analytical look on interaction modes is commonly underappreciated in the industry. I write this partially from the perspective of a disillusioned student of interaction design.

1. Recent news of vehicle manufacturers moving away from touchscreens

2. Chatbot gold rush of 2018 where most business were sold chatbots under the guise of cost-saving

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