For me, it has been easier to have uninterrupted focus time when I know that "in X minutes, I can address that notification." Without the preset breaks, a notification begged to be looked at because when else might it get addressed?
Not necessarily. They're contractually required to make X number of episodes, but there's no way to guarantee quality or ratings. If they make cuts in the staffing of budget for this show, the show quality will drop. Suppose they cut the VFX budget by 75%, for instance: the show will have horrible FX, but they can still meet their contractual requirements. Or they could cut actor salaries in future seasons (which maybe haven't been negotiated with the actors yet), causing key actors to quit, necessitating either re-casting (which is usually bad) or rewriting the story.
I'm not convinced proof-of-stake means less equity. PoW is very capex intensive between hardware and energy. Especially during a time when energy prices are soaring, the big players have access to extremely cheap electricity that keeps them profitable, while the small players shut down.
The phrase "giving a shit doesn't scale" makes as much sense to me as "honesty doesn't scale." It's not a question of scaling it out, its just a question of how you operate. Do you care? Are you honest? Do you have integrity? You should be able to do these things at any scale.
That's not necessarily true - you can be honest and not give a shit.
Take OP's example of buying a table - the company they worked with really spent a lot of time understanding their needs and making something custom for them. An alternative would be to go to IKEA and buy a table. IKEA does not give a shit in the same way and will not spend a great deal of time learning about you and what you're going to use your table for to ensure you get something perfect.
There's absolutely nothing dishonest about that. It's not even to say that they don't care about the quality of their products. It just means they're not going to go the extra mile. Of course, it also means you're going to get a table for probably an order of magnitude less money. That's a perfectly reasonable tradeoff, and it's a good thing both types of businesses exist.
There are a few things that I think would be really interesting to do with this data:
1. Provide a different scoring mechanism. Number of guesses is a bit simplistic. I'd like to see something where blank squares are 2 points, yellow are 1 point, and green is 0. Then a total score could be computed across all guesses, with the goal being the least number of points. It would incentivize "hard mode" I think.
2. Provide a difficulty rating of the daily word based on average number of guesses
3. Given a "spoiler free" answer, make a game out of guessing what the original player guessed.
1. Some sense of "par". Can you crawl twitter for everyone's solution tweets and get a sense of the average guesses for the day?
2. "Unwordle". For people who follow the hard-mode rules, how far can you get deciphering their guesses based on their shared color grid? Could you make it competitive between friends to see how well you can guess each others guesses? Would that encourage more creative guesses to trick your friends?
Carfree Cities is a book (and website) that I've really enjoyed and explores the concept of how to design car free cities http://carfree.com.
It approaches the problem from several levels. From how you lay out a city to accommodate mass transit, to street layouts that make living more enjoyable.
I once called a repairman to look at my dishwasher because it was stuck repeating the wash cycle over and over. He power cycled my dishwasher and the problem was fixed.
Get a job or internship at the right company. I work for a hardware startup and recently spent two weeks overseas at our manufacturing facility along with two of our interns. The opportunities are out there if you're looking for them.
