Matt Haughey

thank you Schmigadoon for replaying an argument I had when I was 7, talking to grandpa as he explained how everything used to cost “2 bits” and my mathematical mind immediately going “why is 12.5 cents a metric people build prices around?! It doesn’t even match with our coins!”

Stitch Fix is really good! The stuff they sent me was 80% things I love, while the other stuff let try out new things. They *should* play up that they have human curators picking out great stuff just for you and be honest that they're screwing over those curators by cutting hours

I once asked the team behind rebooted http://Digg.com  how on earth they make such a consistently great zeitgeist-y homepage each day, if it was analyzing twitter links among popular users or something and they were like "we hired a bunch of extremely online 20-somethings"

someone that worked at stitch fix once yelled at me on here because I said it's weird how good the clothes recommendations were for the year I tried it, they must employ thousands of hip college students to make it happen and they insisted it was all AIhttps://twitter.com/emilywithcurls/status/1423696451356475392 …

It sounds obvious when I say it now, but for 30 years I thought people get happier by chipping away at the ceiling, to try and maximize their happiness further. Instead, actual life-changing swings upwards were always found by working up from the bottom, cutting away bad things.

One of the harder lessons I've learned over decades is that the way you get to a happier life isn't by aiming for surrounding yourself with more happy things, it's from focusing on removing/reducing things that make you miserable.

it makes sense when you realize San Diego has no weather, it's basically room temperature all the time, year-round. I used to tell east coast friends I didn't understand "taking time off the sport in winter" because February and July were the same in SoCal.

also reminds me how weird it was when Xgames got all corporate/aired on ABC in the early 2000s and they suddenly started doing medal counts by country, when everyone in motocross lives in Riverside, CA, everyone from BMX is from Orange County, CA, and every skater was from SD

my favorite part of watching skateboarding at the olympics was hearing literally *every* competitor from every country currently resides within a 20sq mi chunk of north San Diego county.

put this GIF in the Smithsonian, you cowardshttps://twitter.com/AlolanMeowth/status/1423136945861918723 …

Me: oh boy, 6hrs of track and field, I’m 100% into watching this! NBC, 2hrs in: do you like synchronized swimming? Maybe a few minutes from a basketball quarter final game? Me: how is the heptathlon going?! Are we gonna get to see javelin? NBC: here’s more ads

In 2021 I have YouTubeTV, peacock, etc and NBC is playing ads and joining matches 3min in, they’re skipping competitors to show more ads, and my “recordings” on YouTubeTV have video that barely matches the titles. Why is it such a pain in the ass to see your favorite sports NBC?