I wish someone made a social media site that has no news feed or any feed, like the facebook of old. Only get notifications and updates from actual people who you have friended. I genuinely think this would be popular, it wouldn't drive the engagement that the feeds and algos do but it would be a more wholesome experience the one we all bought into at the dawn of the social network, only for our friends to be swapped out for a constant drip of 'engaging' content.

Stephen Wolfram is one of my heroes. But not for the usual thing of being really good at science and technology.

He is my hero because he has won capitalism and entrepreneurship. He is incredibly wealthy for all the stuff that a normal person needs, does what he really enjoys and has no shareholders to worry about.

The only other company I know of that is similar is Valve. Both at the cutting edge, doing very interesting things and just leading a meaningful, stressless life.

I am modeling my companies heavily on Wolfram and Valve. May other companies take some notes from them too.

I built a small corner of my garage into a work space. I have a portable AC and space heater for temp control, the walls are lined with soundproof acoustic panels (denser than the foam in this article's pictures). the space is enclosed using some 2x4s and plywood panels (all of which can be broken down quickly and reassembled, there's nothing permanent). I built a sliding barn door.

I didn't put a huge amount of effort into the sound isolation, the acoustic panels mainly reduce echos but do nothing for low vibrations (people walking around the house, cars idling outside, airplanes). I have total control over the lighting (I don't want to see any daylight when I'm working). It can get a little stuffy if I don't turn on the AC/fan.

Personally I love working in a little space with my back to a wall. Because of the acoustic tile, many people think I'm just in a work office. I find the limited view (basically I'm looking at a monitor with a wall right behind it) keeps me from getting distracted.

Yep, I suggested that as well, but I assume it'd be at least 10K, since the "storage room" still has its garage door from when it used to be part of the garage. So that whole wall would need to be re-built, and the room would need to get ducting, vents. Extra 5 or 10K for that conditioning? Soo, it might happen one day, but I'm not ready to go all in on that yet.

I guess having to enter the API key is not a great user experience for regular people who aren’t developers.