I was in the same boat as you

Best piece of inspo: have a goldfish memory when it comes to criticism and failure

That is, forget after 3 seconds

That's why I turn almost all of my personal notes into blog posts, so I can use Google to search my notes.

Not a stretch. He's the only CEO that could be blamed for it.

Eric let a million products bloom, and Larry was too gutless to make the hard calls.

Sundar gets credit for heeding Wall Street (and his CFO's) call for fiscal responsibility, but the implementation has been poor.

Bingo.

Microsoft as IBM is a horribly outdated take.

Because of MS, they helped me love desktop apps again: VSCode, Outlook, Edge, and the ever so controversial Teams.

Agreed.

Gmail, GDocs, and GAnalytics have been the hardest replace. I can't find a reasonable free alt. to those.

You can give HedgeDoc (https://hedgedoc.org/) a try as a replacement for Google Docs.

It is the one that works best for concurrent editing IMO (but it is markdown which can be a problem for some)

What was Vic's bold vision?

Integrate Google+ into every product made by Google.

That was a bold vision. May Vic's legacy rest in peace w/ G+.

I think Amazon was first in the (free) banana business

you joke, but first producy they changed on whole foods were the bananas.

before: organic (south america) and regular (central ou SEA) for 69, 59.

then: both chikita's brand with regular and organic stickers (clearly the same produce, always from SEA) for 49 and 39 cents.

thats was days after the announcement

Did you inadvertently reverse to regular/organic order, or was organic cheaper after?

For me, call quality on Meet is absolutely the worst compared w/ Zoom and Teams

Fascinating

How do Europeans keep ice off bike lanes? Salt?

Tractors and snowplows. Salt kills the bicycles and salty slush is much worse to drive in. Hard packed snow is actually the best to ride on.

Interestingly Oulu bike roads clearing contract states the company doing the snowplowing can do inspections only on bicycles, not cars :)

There's a difference between riding on hard pack with a bike, and driving a car over it. I have no idea why you think an experiment with hard-pack snow on automotive roads is in anyway indicative of what works on cycle lanes.

Hard pack on a hill doesn't seem to make sense for bicycles either

In Reykjavik they used sand at first because pedestrians prefer that but that is pretty dangerous for cycling so they use salt on designated cycling paths and sand everywhere else.

It depends.

Salt only works until ten below zero. After that it only makes things worse.

When it works the result can be magical if combined with sweeping. Trashes the drivetrain real bad though.

There's a nice big picture how Oulu does it, halfway down the article.

It depends.. salt works down to -18C on cycle paths as long as you maintain it snow free and do not have big puddles of water. Brushing the snow away down to the asphalt is my preferred surface condition for cycling.

This video is a great explainer https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU