tt

ME: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

ChatGPT: Walk

50 meters is basically “parked across the street” distance — you’ll spend more time:

starting the car

pulling out

finding a spot

pulling in

…than you would just strolling over.

Plus you avoid the awkward moment of driving 10 seconds like a cartoon villain.

========

ME: You are dumb. I need to have the car with me in order to wash it!

ChatGPT: Fair — I deserved that.

Drive the car to the car wash… and then walk home.

(Just kidding. Yes, obviously drive.)

Here's San Francisco guidance for school reopening: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/covid-guidance/Preliminary-...

Comparing COVID-19 deaths to flu deaths is like comparing apples to oranges. The former are actual numbers; the latter are inflated statistical estimates. See: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_learning_loss

The OBD interface is too cumbersome (vehicle owners have to mess with hardware installation, etc...) and is more geared towards aftermarket devices and software. This effort must be at the core of each OEM and be completely seamless to the end-users and even third-party developers.

Once an OEM opens up its vehicle data and control to Android (and/or Google Automotive), it's game over for them. The OEM becomes a commodity hardware maker. Plenty of analogy with mobile phones manufacturers. The OEM will not make a dime after the sale of the vehicle while Google will build and strengthen a development platform to enable third-party applications and services and profit from them (something Google knows how to do really well). Think Turo/Getaround, cleaning, refueling, charging, insurance, package delivery, in-car applications, etc.

One way out of this is for the major OEMs to band together and create their own standardized platform that works across OEMs. At minimum, that platform should expose a single standard interface to all third-party service providers.

Video of our team's analysis on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2RwG7U_GEU

SF has learned its lessons from Uber (and presumably read up on the bike sharing problems in China).

My take on these scooter startups is that they won't make it very far: https://www.inc.com/alex-moazed/electric-scooter-startups-in...

BIG congratulations! What an amazing journey and I look forward to tracking Dropbox and its impact!

Never easy to do this. But most founders' mindset is to do whatever is best for the survivability and growth of the company. That's the path I took.

It comes down to cost. Shipping with FedEx would likely break their unit economics.

It's immature to "hack" company culture. There's only doing it right. Here's a good article by Zappos' culture coach David Vik: http://bit.ly/Z84nHv

I highly recommend http://www.imgix.com/

His Acoustics class was arguably the best course I took at MIT. His numerous anecdotes about hard work, perseverance, and applying thought process to every challenge we face really stuck with me. The end-of-semester field trip left a long lasting impression. He made me a better person I am today. I'll really miss him.

Sounds good, but it will introduce new problems: 1) someone called and said "I sent you that urgent email; didn't you get it?!?" and you had forgotten about the rules you set up for email receipt. 2) Services that send email notifications now have to add another reminder so people may have to check their email rules in addition to the Spam folder in case mail is "lost" there.

Munchery chefs' rule #1: taste is King. By using fresh and local ingredients, healthiness comes naturally.

Sorry to be late to the conversation. I want to note that at Munchery, we work ONLY with independent chefs and caterers to serve you meals. There are no restaurants in the mix. Thank you for your feedback and I'm glad to hear you are enjoying the service!

Indeed there are. Our chefs have business licenses, ServSafe certification, and food reseller permits.

Regardless of legality, there are food safety issues. I wrote about how the traditional peer to peer doesn't work for food: http://blog.munchery.com/2011/11/pro-to-peer-a-new-paradigm/

Also, do not curse out your competitors. You may end up being partners one day, or worse, get acquired by them! I have seen the latter happen and feel embarrassed for those who disrespected others.

Everyone's situation is different. We notice that we are significantly more efficient with whatever time we have available. We get back to work as soon as the kids are asleep for example.

Thank you for your well wishes. It's definitely not for the faint of heart! :)

As a father with 2 fairly young children, I can tell you from my experience that it will be extremely difficult. You will become very aware of your limited time availability, which allows you to be much more productive during the time that you do have.

In the end, there's only so many hours during the day. You have to limit what you can work on and carefully pick what the top priorities are. Focus on those intensely. Good luck!