> Um, again, you’re asking me to go back and figure out what was in my mind at one point or another.

Yeah dude, people expect you to be able to explain your reasoning. Even reasoning that you did in the past(!) which is pretty much all of it.

They mentioned that Gmail, Apple, and others don't do anything to stop you from getting emailed from people you don't want to hear from, but this new tool does. I've only gotten a probably less than 10 spam messages in the past decade, they all go into Spam. I check spam every once in a while for the occasional time there is a false positive, but otherwise requires no action from me. Vs basecamp approach which is more akin to having every first time email sender go to a spam folder (screener), where I have to manually approve or deny it. Unless I'm missing something that sounds like an incredible amount of work, vs the spam feature of Gmail and others. Yes you only have to do it once per sender, but most all the spam in my spam folder is always from unique email addresses so would be a nightmare with this tool. And even if they still have a seperate spam system, then all the normal emails I'd have to manually approve. Eek. And they are asking you to switch to a "hey" email which is a major ask for most of us who maybe have had our emails for a decade or more. And that email address could go away at anytime if the system fails since hard to imagine hey.com existing in a decade.

Question about MS strategy: why would someone use this over Chromium or Firefox?

I Honestly think 3 x 12 hour days would be better than 5 * 7.5.

Did you guys noticed the Marie Kondo reference?

Here is a trick: don't engage with those people.

Someone said bad words to you on the internet? Close your browser tab: you're done. Learn that you can't please everyone and you're better alone than with bad company.

I don't know if it's because a lot of drama queens and marketing people populate social media but it feels like most people can't fucking live without the approval of everyone when reading some websites.

If you want to bring conference in (it's IRL, can't close a tab) here is how to react: when someone start telling you shit, stop speaking, turn 180°, go join another group of people. It's rude? So what? Some person is now fuming while you're stress-free and engaging with better people.

Learn to ignore people. Learn to say no. You don't have to please anyone.

You can work from when you're 14 in Australia (possibly with parental consent, I can't remember, I was 14); but there's fun issues with contracts and international companies, I'd assume.

For the first 9 years of my life, my family either did not have a PC or I was not allowed to use it for more than a few minutes. My parents relaxed a little bit and allowed my brother and i to read for an hour to play video games on the computer for an hour.

I played an online game called runescape where you could trade items to other players, but it was tedious and required a lot of repetitive typing: "buying chaos runes 80gp each".

I downloaded an auto typer but i was paranoid of getting banned. I wanted a more human auto typer so i found a tutorial for making one in visual basic. It was more or less copy and paste, and as a middle schooler i really did not understand the code.

I became really interested in botting after that, downloading, modifying, and eventually creating more sophisticated scripts. Automating the game became the new game for me.

I would come home from school to a banned account, think about how they may have detected me & automate smarter.

To this day I will often spend more time writing code to automate something than i save.

Automation is a way to make the mundane work a fun game

I have a similar website for french people: www.3pages.fr

It seems like some people do get into dark places when they break their chains. I've considered several times having a limit that would prevent you from writing 30 days in a row or something.