Most service providers ask their customers for testimonials. Its good practice.
Some businesses offer money (or services or discounts) in exchange for those testimonials. That’s a little over the ethical edge for my taste.
But lately I have encountered service providers paying people for negative testimonials for their competitor”s services. How low can you go?…
Some intresting thoughts on intelligence:
The brain is the organ that named itself and created all that we are discussing but it is a odd thing. It takes over 20 years of education before it is even remotely useful to an employer or society. To attribute ‘intelligence’ to he organ is to forge that, compared to machines, it can’t pay attention for long, forgets most of what you teach it, is sexist, racist, full of cognitive biases, sleeps 8 hours a day, can’t network, can’t upload, can’t download and, here’s the fatal objection - it dies. This should not be the gold standard for intelligence, as it is an idiosyncratic organ that evolved for circumstances other than those we find ourselves in.
📷 Day 24: Baby
As a team of two, we have to distribute the roles in the family. We don’t have a dedicated baby, so I picked up that role. I’m not sure if I’m playful enough, though…
Currently reading: The Second Mountain by David Brooks 📚
Hey is a fantastic email service that is about to get a whole lot better as you can send email to the world which will be published on your personal Hey blog.
When I write a certain kind of email — aka a blog post — why do I have to address it to someone? Why can't I just address my thoughts to the world? Direct to the web for anyone and everyone? Rather than define the recipients, I just write and let the recipients find me.
Finished reading: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 📚
90% of running a business is making a bunch of tiny improvements that nobody notices but end up being transformative over time.
📷 Day 22: Spell
These two ‘fat guys’ have been within arms reach for over 19 years now. I don’t use them as much as before, but they still come in ahndy once in a while.
📷 Day 21: Colors
The first fruit trees start showing their colors. Within a few weeks I expect we’ll see full sakura.
