Yoav

2 hours deep- and I'm about to be escalated to a "senior advisor"... SMH

Hell hath no fury like navigating Apple's Business and Developer Services.

@eitanbender Depends on your view of utopia. All needs provided for, absolutely. Human fulfillment? Still up in the air where that will land.

@y_yoav Utopia.

One thing that bothers me about a lot of the recent "AI abundance" discourse is that it quietly assumes two things that seem demonstrably false. • Humans are good decision makers. • Humans desperately want to create. Both are false. The future isn't everyone becoming a creator because AI freed them from work. Nor is it billions of people wielding AI as brilliant directors through the force of their superior judgment. The more likely outcome is that AI creates, AI decides, and humans consume an ever-growing mountain of increasingly cheap goods and services. Still abundance, but not the kind people are talking about.

If I see another vacation autoresponder I'm going to freak. Where the fuck is everyone going on a Monday during the workweek? It isn't even fourth of July weekend yet.

As a frequent user of applications built for businesses - I am often astounded at how bad they are compared to consumer products. Lots of reasons: - multistakeholder acquisition process - high switching cost - talented sales... Market talks, but I'm not loving the language

Sloppiness has a way of bleeding. Sloppy about health, likely sloppy about lots of other stuff.

Going to sleep at early and waking up with the birds as the sun rises (while not being tired!) is one of life’s greatest gifts

“A man who plans can thrive” Planning is such an underrated skill in a world that force feeds short term thinking against long term vision.

I’m fed up with X force feeding exclusively video content. Want curated, thought out prose I can READ

One of the most disappointing experiences in B2B software is the transition after the contract is signed. The shift from “high-touch revenue opportunity” to “managed cost center” is immediate and painfully obvious.

Sometimes, it is difficult to determine whether customer service is stupid or just plain lazy.

Apple: "Our contact center is receiving higher than expected volumes. Estimated wait times can be over 20 min." Steve Jobs really is gone...

@johnloeber Looks a lot like the stories of dysfunction at Eskom in South Africa… not the right direction to be headed…

I can’t stop thinking about the LA copper wire thefts. For background: in LA, thieves have been stripping streetlights of their electrical wiring and selling it for scrap. It is amazingly destructive: for every $1 of wire they sell, the city has to spend $100-$1000 on repairs. Literally, the thief might make a couple hundred bucks, and the city has to spend six figures. (Oh and the streetlights are out, which may lead to traffic accidents or other problems.) It’s an extremely antisocial crime. Astoundingly, the city seems unwilling to do something about this. A guy invented a better way to lock down streetlights — they didn’t want it. The idea of “look for the thieves and put them in jail” has been unpopular for reasons unclear to me. Proposed solutions, like making scrap yards record who sold them copper wiring, seem ineffective. The most cynical explanation for this is that the incentives lead to crime: the money spent on repairs is primarily spent on local union labor. For them, this is great. There’s a whole industry for servicing these problems. And the city gets to say that it is working on fixing the issues. Up to some limit, the more of these issues, the better. Everybody wins: the thieves win, the laborers win, the repair industry wins, certain politicians and candidates win. Well, the actual resident, the taxpayer — they lose, but what are you gonna do? Live with the lights off? Vote for the tough-on-crime candidate? Unthinkable. You can look at this as a system that has degenerated into being a recursive loop that drains the resources of its citizens

today's weather forecast is very funny: "Showers and thunderstorms likely before 8am, then rain likely between 8am and 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 1pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. West southwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%."

France and the UK sending a mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz after a ceasefire is like dispatching the fire department once the fire’s already out. What a joke.

Attempt to close an account with a bank: - meet banker - authenticate - banker can’t close account due to error - back office team 1 can’t close, requires team 2 - back office team 2 can’t close, requires team 1 - rinse and repeat 4x smh Bank bureaucracy. Truly the final boss

I don’t agree with @RandPaul on some things — but this really is a great idea. Deficit is one of the greatest challenges our generation will inherit. Time to act is now.

I don’t think we’ve ever seen this level of irresponsible behavior by our politicians in Washington. And I mean both Democrats and Republicans. They need to cut it out, compromise, and stop holding the entire country hostage once a quarter.