I use an app for my home heating that lets me define a schedule every day. If I'm going out I can turn it down or off, and if I have guests over I can boost the hot water.
It already has an EV charger plugin, so I'm in complete control of my selling energy back to the grid if I want to use it.
Some of the comments on this post feel like the "government is coming for your guns" level of foaming-at-the-mouth.
Remember the ultimate aim is to use energy more efficiently and reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, not make it pointless or difficult to live life.
Just a note for any UK readers that this is coming in sooner than you think. There are already proposals on the Ofgem[1] site to force mandatory half-hourly meter reads that mean energy companies can offer pricing that more closely matches demand.
don't want to be part of that? run your house off your EV and charge it back up at night. my house takes about 6KWh a day, so I could run it for almost a week from my car even if I didn't charge it.
my parents have a way busier social calendar than I do. It's almost like when you're finished with work, the late hours, unusual shifts and occasional weekend call-outs, professional development and week-long 'team strategy' off-sites you actually have time to live life, have friends and enjoy their company in a relaxed environment - who knew!
Both of you can be correct here. It's possible (and I would say likely) that you end up having a bunch of social activities and yet still not go to parties.
I know as I've gotten older (still younger than OP but well on my way), my tastes have changed and mellowed. Gone are the days where me and my friends want to be in a noisy, booze-filled environment. Dining out, theatre trips, hiking, even an international holiday with friends to take part in a running event. Just no parties.
We celebrated our 15th anniversary with board games and silent disco. And people who don't like either of those can still have drinks, food and talk. It was a great combination I can strongly recommend.
My dad raised hell after he divorced and was single again. I was only 6 so I don't remember most of it, but I remember in general the house was the spot for the community's late-30s people. The high water mark I remember was he knew the drummer in a fairly-famous 80s hair metal band and they agreed to jam in his basement. The whole town came over for that one. I don't remember which band it was but they were big enough that it was newsworthy.
> Branson said he couldn’t afford to have people around him that were afraid to tell him no.
So the lesson here is even for a decision that will kill him and everyone around him, he would still rather not entertain debate and challenge from his subordinates?
Performing artists have for centuries had to balance catering for popular opinion and tastes versus a more faithful realisation of their vision in order to make a living. I don't see a difference with this at all.
For online creators, I think the high speed and frequency of material creation, release, consumption and feedback, coupled with vast potential audiences, global competition for the nichiest of niches, the ease of copying ideas, and the extremely high rewards and margins for the winners, … is unlike anything that ever came before.
These are many large quantitative changes, that are going to have qualitative implications.
For instance, given the small scale of each offering, post, etc., most creators won’t have developed deeply held individual visions to be compromised with a focus on adapting
Especially as due to lower cycles you typically created larger units of work: Not just a song, but an album. Not just a poem but a book. So you could do the popular part and also the thing you care about and somehow tie them together.
