@oldbooksguy “Explain rent control.”

@ddunkin Good point; what was I thinking? I totally forgot consumer safety, which only the government cares about.

@SCP_Hughes When you’re unfamiliar with the area the schematic maps mislead you about time and distance. Easier to read doesn’t help if the result is more easily making the wrong decision.

Some days I dream of a world where we teach economics in K-12.

@paulg An incredible story about how one person can change the world and the power of sad animal photos. Also, please observe the deep sadness as this hamster struggles to file his taxes.

@kenthendricks And those ‘information traps’ were also geographically constrained. To get network effects you had keep them together, in libraries, universities, etc. Today duplication and distribution are free yet we continue to maintain and venerate those physical facilities.

The tiniest iOS annoyance that annoys me daily: iOS capitalizes automatically, but you can’t easily override it. If I ask “What’s up?” There is no way to NOT capitalize the following ‘T’ without typing Tthere and deleting the first T.

@hughcards If only the previous generations had thought to write something down so we’d know this wasn’t anything new…

Write your own spy thriller. Just feed the prompt “They knew the extraction point!” to your AI assistant.

Walked through @culdesac Tempe today; lots of activity indoors and out. It’s feeling like a place. Excited to see this model grow and develop. And they did it with an empty lot in car-centric Phoenix area; just imagine if we brought the same pedestrian-first high-density mixed-use thinking back to… wait for it… cities.

@ElieJarrougeMD Subarus have an ‘eyes on the road’ warning chime that is incredibly sensitive. Glance at the passenger, get chimed. Read a billboard, get chimed. Blink, get chimed.

@lukesophinos Chat boxes on websites are insanely frustrating. Slow, poor discovery, lack of clarity about capabilities, not knowing if you’ve got a keyword bot, an AI agent, or a human…

@KTmBoyle I think this is a great signal about your son’s future. Have you introduced him to “How It’s Made”?

And don’t get me started on the Outlook rewrite which throws away every subtle and elegant power-user feature they put in over decades. @Outlook was nearly perfect; it just needed Ctrl+Shift+V for plain text paste and a fix for HTML email rendering. Now it’s been reset to v1.1 level functionality. You can’t drag messages between email accounts, drag-to-folder has lost all the subtle helps, etc. And I haven’t yet been able to stop it from ‘auto-formatting’ my typing, no matter how many settings I adjust….

@bgrainger @Microsoft They even broke Notepad for me. What was a useful little tool to quickly work with throw-away plain text now auto-saves temporary documents I didn’t want, opens to your last text instead of an empty window when you run it, adds unnecessary tabs, etc.

My bank: Password?… Welcome back. My dishwasher’s app: Your password has expired. Please create a new one with 17 letters, 9 digits, 3 symbols. You’ll need to change it every 30 days. You’ll need to apply for a separate account for our unique and mandatory two-factor authentication tool.

“I’m still looking for the right button” doesn’t make me feel as stupid (or frustrated) as “I keep saying what I want over and over without being understood.” Which is why I hate voice interfaces.

@jack But what if most people think at around 5 wpm and all the excess wpm (in or out) is chaff?