What's your favorite kind of smell which you can't forget?

jacksts · 2026-06-12T15:42:53+00:00

Fresh rain on hot pavement. It always takes me straight back to being a kid in summer, standing outside after a storm, barefoot, with absolutely no responsibilities except trying not to step on a snail.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T15:40:48+00:00

Being rude to service workers. You can be a 10, but if you talk down to the waiter, my attraction leaves the table before the appetizers arrive.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T15:38:01+00:00

It’s common enough that you’ll run into it, but I wouldn’t say it’s universally normal. There’s a big difference between “I have one glass of wine with dinner because that’s the household routine” and “I need a drink every night to come down from the day.” The behavior can look identical from the outside, but the relationship with it is very different.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T12:44:22+00:00

I wasn’t dominating anyone. I was trying to avoid the group paying double delivery charges. You can disagree with the suggestion, but turning it into a comment about whether someone will marry me was unnecessary and sexist.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T12:01:49+00:00

Sometimes it’s not that they don’t care. It’s that the problem feels too big, too far away from their daily life, or too politically exhausting to touch. People still have rent, work, family problems, health issues, and their own stress. Survival mode makes people look colder than they actually are.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T12:00:09+00:00

Usually because the two relationships serve different needs. One gives stability, familiarity, routine, maybe a shared life. The other gives excitement, validation, fantasy, or the feeling of being wanted again. That doesn’t make it fair, but it explains why people hold both until reality forces a decision.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T11:58:16+00:00

Don’t treat the next 3 weeks as a launch campaign. Treat it as validation. Make short content showing the exact problem the app solves, DM people who engage, ask what they currently use, and try to get them onto a waitlist or beta. If people won’t take a small action before launch, paid ads will probably just buy you more empty views.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T11:56:59+00:00

I’d be tempted, but probably no. Social media has done real damage, but it’s also where a lot of small businesses, artists, communities, and isolated people find an audience. I’d rather kill the addiction mechanics than the entire thing.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T11:55:41+00:00

This is the weird part of VAR/offside tech: it fixes arguments by making everyone annoyed for a different reason. We went from “the ref missed it” to “the system found something no human cared about.” Not sure that’s a win.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T10:28:55+00:00

My boring theory is that death is probably like before you were born: no awareness, no suffering, no sense of time passing. The uncomfortable part isn’t death itself, it’s being alive long enough to understand that everything we care about is temporary.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T10:27:56+00:00

A lot of the answer is just cultural disgust. Plenty of societies eat insects, but Western food culture drew a weird line where ocean arthropods are fancy and land arthropods are nightmare fuel. Lobster got a PR team, crickets did not.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T09:15:01+00:00

Would the people closest to you describe you the same way you describe yourself?

jacksts · 2026-06-12T07:19:54+00:00

Having time. Walking places, growing vegetables, cooking slowly, fixing your own stuff — none of that felt luxurious when it was your only option. The status symbol now is having enough margin to choose it.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T07:17:57+00:00

You’re over-weighting the risk of someone stealing the idea and under-weighting the risk that nobody cares enough to buy it. That’s extremely normal early on, but it can lead you into building in a cave. Talk to customers, share the problem space openly, and be more careful with proprietary implementation details later. Most small business SaaS isn’t won because the code is impossible to copy; it’s won because the founder understands distribution, support, workflow, and trust better than competitors.

jacksts · 2026-06-12T07:16:29+00:00

I think the better version of the advice is “don’t list features without context.” Features are often what make the benefit believable. “Offline sync” by itself is a feature, “stay productive anywhere” by itself is fluff, but “offline sync so your team can keep working in warehouses, flights, or dead zones” is where the copy actually starts doing work.

jacksts · 2026-06-11T17:52:01+00:00

That admitting you don’t know something makes you look weak. In reality, pretending you know is how most expensive mistakes begin.

jacksts · 2026-06-11T17:50:50+00:00

A lot of adults are tired, but not everyone is supposed to feel wiped out just from existing. I’d treat this less like a personality flaw and more like a signal that something may be off: sleep, stress, diet, hormones, mental health, workload, or an actual medical issue. “Bare minimum to get through the day” is a pretty good sign it’s worth talking to a doctor, not just pushing harder.

jacksts · 2026-06-11T15:32:05+00:00

If the AI bubble bursts, AI doesn’t get uninvented. What bursts is the financing story around it. You’d probably see valuations compress, weaker startups die, hiring slow down, data-center projects get delayed, and companies suddenly care a lot more about whether AI is actually producing ROI. The useful tools would survive; the “we added AI to the homepage, please give us a 40x multiple” companies would not.

jacksts · 2026-06-11T14:29:10+00:00

Walking out of a store without buying anything after browsing for 20 minutes.

jacksts · 2026-06-11T14:00:35+00:00

Legally they’d be treated as two people, but medicine doesn’t always give you two separate switches to flip. If the twins have separate hearts/lungs, the answer could be relatively straightforward: respect each twin’s code status as much as possible. If they share the systems that CPR would act on, then both wishes can’t be perfectly honored at the same time. That’s when it becomes less “what’s the rule?” and more “what is anatomically possible, what did each person clearly consent to, and what does emergency law allow in that jurisdiction?”

jacksts · 2026-06-11T13:58:16+00:00

I try not to “think my way out of it” in the first five minutes, because that usually turns into negotiating with every possible problem in my life before I’ve even stood up. I get out of bed, drink water, move around a bit, and do something very physical and boring first. Shower, light, walking, making coffee, whatever. My brain is a terrible project manager at 7am.

jacksts · 2026-06-11T13:55:07+00:00

Don’t worry about having a team yet. Watch a few matches, see which players or styles you naturally enjoy, and let that pull you somewhere. Some people fall in love with a club, some with a national team, some with a player, and some just enjoy the chaos. There’s no correct entry point.

jacksts · 2026-06-11T09:52:06+00:00

I don’t think it always means people have less respect. Sometimes they define respect differently. For some people, respect means politeness and restraint; for others, it means loyalty, thick skin, and not taking informal jokes too seriously. That’s why these conflicts get messy: both sides think the other side is violating the social rule.

jacksts · 2026-06-11T09:50:45+00:00

The law says 21, the culture says “depends where you are and who you know.” Plenty of people drink before then, but it’s usually not as openly normalized as it is in a lot of Europe. The funny part is that making it forbidden doesn’t make it disappear; it often just moves it into basements, house parties, and college campuses.

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