The way he talks about Deep Research (which came out this week) as a core part of the workflow is the clearest tell that this is engagement bait. "No longer hiring junior or even mid-level software engineers"...as of what, 4 days ago? Gumroad famously has no full-time employees and a tiny team. So he went from not hiring junior engineers, to using AI and also not hiring junior engineers.
without commenting on the rest of it, i can share anecdotally that i currently have 3 dead airtags that i have been procrastinating updating the batteries on
It's built in to Siri though. So Apple benefitted from Shazam. I'd say Apple's Weather app has also significantly benefitted (albeit a bit late) from Dark Sky's acquisition
Filemaker might as well have been bought when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. It's such an acquisition from another era that it's a fully owned-subsidiary of Apple inc. that is completely separate from the rest of the company. Do you know how many other subsidiaries Apple has?
It (optionally) integrates with the Apple Music Android app now, and offers to add to your library there whenever you scan a song, so I assume it's a good funnel for them to get people into their service ecosystem.
for what you're after, my app howie.ai would work well. we don't do nearly as much as Martin does, instead we're narrowly focused on getting the scheduling use case right. i'm a@howie.ai if you want to try it out!
Dead & Co. at the Sphere was an unforgettable life experience. So much creativity in what they did with the visuals to honor the history of the band, its San Francisco roots, and the canvas the Sphere gave them. I'm going back in August!
I went opening night and was a bit disappointed with many of the visuals. Apparently not all of the rendering was done so I missed some of the better ones. I'm also going back in August to see the show again, hopefully with improved scenes.
based on everything tim has written that shows extreme self-awareness about his working/productivity style, and the fact that he makes a lot of money for his family by doing occasional multi-day binges of work, i think it's fair to give him the benefit of the doubt that they have a system that allows him to show up for his family much of the time while also maintaining his output of work
A good explanation for why one would defend him was given earlier:
based on everything tim has written that shows extreme self-awareness about his working/productivity style, and the fact that he makes a lot of money for his family by doing occasional multi-day binges of work, i think it's fair to give him the benefit of the doubt
Giving people the benefit of the doubt makes the world a better place.
So you think him not spending time with family isn't the same sacrifice that families around the world make every day in and out isn't a sacrifice?
Why do you think it's not a sacrifice? Because he enjoys his job? because it's "fun" and "entertaining"?
The problem here is that he is making a sacrifice - the sacrifice of giving his time to a career to provide for his family.
Let me ask you an honest question... if he spent that 40 hours in a cubicle and an addition 10 hours commuting to make less... would you consider that not a sacrifice? Of course you'd consider that a sacrifice - because he'd be giving his time to provide for his family.
So in this situation... he's giving his time to provide for his family.
Why does the fact he enjoys it/"it's playing with toys" challenge the fact that he's sacrificing his time to provide for family? Is it the "toy" aspect? Working from home? Jealousy about how lucky he is?
Tim does not seem like the kind of person who would do something like that without the full support of his family.
I know people who spend most of the year away from their family and who are not bad parents. Sometimes sacrifices must be made to make things grow and invest in the future. Don't be so easy to judge.
this comment is fantastic and gives a clear answer to anyone griping about whether this is considered "beating" the game. scruti is the first human to beat the game, now other people will try to beat it in other ways on other levels.
i found this a few weeks ago and have been really enjoying it. i’m on the paid plan. my screen time on twitter and instagram has gone down significantly as a result of the slight inconvenience every time i open them. and doing the breathing exercise before plunging into hellish social media is also surprisingly refreshing.
the app is a little bit buggy, which sometimes makes it impossible to “pause” it. but one could argue that’s a feature not a bug!
overall impressed with Clearspace’s clever approach to this issue.
appreciate that! definitely working through the bugs one by one - both bugs in our code and frankly bugs in the ScreenTime API itself. but we're starting to converge on a stable state, and to their credit Apple has been fairly responsive in moving the API along and responding to developer requests.
