> Here is my bold prediction - Microsoft will try acquire Notion within a year.
Microsoft do already have their own Notion ripoff/inspired product (Loop) though. It is a bit half-assed and the development pace is glacial so perhaps a new team behind it would be something they'd be interested in.
It's also a bit too unserious for me these days. There's always this stupid bs stuff like "my partner and I stopped having sex for 3 months and it improved our lives". That kind of crap belongs in Cosmopolitan not in a decent paper. They still have insightful stories at times but it's hard to wade through all the crap.
I stopped supporting them during the Brexit negotiations because I was sick of hearing those entitled conservatives complain that they couldn't get from us (EU) what they knew they could never have because it was just the rules.
But I recently came back to it after seeing a link to it somewhere but it seems such a hollow shell of what it was now.
> In the days before Slack and being constantly plugged in people were a lot more conscious about interrupting others and we had less interrupts. The reason we have more interrupts today is that it's just too easy to interrupt people.
So much this. Our org moved pretty quickly into organising and communicating via Teams when the lockdowns hit and people starting working from home. Moving that quickly meant that many basic things like messaging etiquette never really got thought about. Even now I'll still receive messages when my status is set to DND or receive complete junk openers like "You there?".
> If it an electrical contact in the door handle, it would be very difficult for anyone to monitor or inject other signals.
You could even take it a step further for extra safety: the door handle could have a slot that requires a specifically shaped piece of metal to be inserted. Only a piece of metal with the correct shape would allow the lock to be opened.
Alas, being of a certain age means that any kind of liquid before bed will result in an early-hours wakeup to relieve the bladder - negating any potential sleep benefits :(
> The software support for iPads have been excellent imo, especially compared to competition.
Yes, excellent in comparison to the other "black rectangle" devices, phones, tablets, etc but compared to a regular PC still awful. My core 2 duo PC from ~16 years ago is still going strong.
I think the difference is, with an "open" platform like the PC it's up to the user when they want to replace the hardware, usually when it's too slow to keep up with the things you want to do. But with these newer devices you're completely at the mercy of the manufacturer - at some point the power flipped and that's a shame.
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