If we just take this idea in good faith one could make the point that social media and books are more similiar than they appear. They both end up in escapism. They both can teach or entertain. They both are mostly anti-social.

The difference in form increases effectiveness but in the end they are a tool that is designed to escape reality.

>... in the end they are a tool that is designed to escape reality.

Non-fiction books would strongly beg to differ.

Interesting ideas. The bridge from what he built to what you suggest is far. The free outlook plugin sounds like a good onboarding vector but who downloads outlook plugins? Not the type of person in a medium/large company who is using 360 and/or has IT manage software like outlook.

You are on step 49. Being able to sell hostile image data requires a volume. The free plugin is local so is the plan to sell corporate data?

Investing in a software patent without the ability to enforce is a waste of money.

I think he might be better off making this into a wordpress plugin before going to outlook.

I got a headset and wanted to do vr apps but found the medium to addicting and now I just play with no desire to create.

I fould golang to be one of the worst target for llms. PHP seems to always work, python works if the packages are not made up but go fails often. Trying to get inertia and the Buffalo framework to work together gave the llm trama.

This is silly. If the person believed this was the bank the 3rd code would be used. Best answer is don't answer phone calls and force people to send letters.

Doesn't feel so roaring.

Not for you…

Do your work today and tomorrow you can fool around and have some fun. Do the minimum today so you can do the maximum tomorrow rarely makes sense.

For one year I read every free moment averaged a book every 3 days mostly biographies many on wrestling. The year I got an e-reader (alura tech). Stopped after the screen broke.

The book that stood out the most. Sugar Barons.

Have you tried going back 80% ap articles, some opinion columns, classifieds and sports with a lifestyle section.

We are living in an era of more news, different formats more in depth. I think our expectations are misaligned we expect everything to be one click away and social media to present it to us in a doom scroll. The articles shared just here on hn you would never find in a newspaper. If you are lucky you discover a zine like phrack or 2600 and wait months for the next issue.

I read the newspaper, just like you described, in the 90s and 2000s as a kid. It was really interesting and valuable. Honestly, yeah, that sounds amazing.

There was an endless variety of special interest magazines. We bought those too.

If they are beacons maybe democracy has outlived its usefulness. Bad pr for democracy as a concept.