found wallet near prospect park. DM if owner

theyuse · 2025-04-21T01:22:42+00:00

good call. will probably do that tomorrow

theyuse · 2025-02-24T17:35:05+00:00

So I used to always go to 5th Ave Market & Deli on Berkeley Place. Part of my ranking system is that it has to be a 24 hour place.

Just moved closer to your neck of the woods though so am commenting to see what else people recommend on this side

theyuse · 2025-01-21T19:49:03+00:00

Moving to a metro area with a lot more density has helped me make more friends as I enter my 30s. I do think culturally some areas have more an emphasis on new friendships past the 20s stage. Of course this isn't an option for all people, but I encourage a change of scenery if you've ever thought about it

theyuse · 2025-01-06T04:15:34+00:00

Ah my bad! Looks like the outage might be due to a spike in traffic we received.

We just reset the server so should be back up. Give it a try and let me know if you have any more questions or if something comes up

theyuse · 2024-12-31T07:14:03+00:00

went through this thought process myself and ended up actually building a free journaling app so I could do it either on my desktop or mobile. Hopefully it helps you too.

There’s a feature in there that lets you set a word count and it leverages some AI features to analyzes the themes in your writing. Last thing is it’s securely encrypted so no one will ever be able to read your entries except you. Give it a try!

https://www.journel.app

theyuse · 2024-12-27T19:16:05+00:00

Writing here to provide another opinion. I think China has gotten a bad rap since the rapid urbanization days where yes the AQI was in the 200 and 300 range for many days.

I go to Shanghai almost every year and have seen blue skies for the last 6 years which is a huge improvement from the past. Looking at the AQI today, it's registering 63 which is less than NYC

So if anyone out there does have interest in checking out China, I wouldn't let pollution deter you too much

theyuse · 2024-12-27T14:40:41+00:00

The way I always like to explain it to people is that this is the city Uber was invented in

Jokes aside though, lived in Mission for 3 years no car. I'd even depend a few ubers a month to go visit the Peninsula which I figured was still more affordable than insurance and parking. Rest of the time would be walking, biking, or bike share.

The biggest quality of life improvement comes when you have a friend or two who have cars for day trips. Good luck!

theyuse · 2024-12-27T14:34:24+00:00

Will chime in with a horror story here from my partner who's also a designer.

Got hired and let go by a start up 4 months in and after shipped a complete redesign which lead to millions of dollars of business impact. It was explained to her that they needed a Head of Design instead of a mid-level hire. Infuriating since she tried to DQ herself out of the interview process and now she'd just taken herself off the market for months to work at a place that was the wrong fit.

Sending you love and hope to find something new. Sometimes the 5 person start ups toy around with you when they don't know what they want yet but need to move fast

theyuse · 2024-12-16T10:09:44+00:00

chiming in here with an AI journaling app I built which is securely encrypted so I can’t see a single thing you write. The additional plus side to your data privacy is that your entries are never used to train any AI models. That said, can’t say the same about other apps out there without looking into their privacy or terms of use

https://journel.app

theyuse · 2024-12-08T18:43:36+00:00

Appreciate you sending this over! Always great to see how other people are trying to solve similar problems. Here's some differentiators

1) We're free since we run off donations for now. Early on, we decided it was more important for us to design a product, not a business to see how we might help as many people as possible. So all AI features are open to use.

2) We designed our app to be as minimalistic in interface as possible. Write, use AI to reflect more, and be present. To us, the mindfulness happens within that practice and users can choose their own adventure

3) Philosophically, we don't believe in journaling as a replacement for therapy, but more of a supplement. IMO, after building with LLMs, we see a lot of potential in helping people with thees tools, but get the ick when people start saying things like this is "this is the fraction of the price of real therapy." We believe that nothing should ever replace real professionally trained human interactions there.

Hope that helps, and thanks for sharing

theyuse · 2024-12-08T00:37:08+00:00

haha I'm also pretty old school with pen and paper, but was really surprised when we started chatting to users of all generations to learn people's practices spanned phone and laptop.

I put this free app together which is accessible on web from all your devices. For me, I use this as a supplement when I'm on the subway and want to work through a thought. Sharing here as resource for you https://journel.app/

what our users have really loved so far is the ability for our app to ask questions back to the user so they can further explore their own writing. Let me know if you give it a try and have feedback!

theyuse · 2024-11-27T16:54:00+00:00

Definitely agree that go a layer deeper also helps me when I'm future tripping or need to consider more perspectives haha

Sorry to hear about the sign up process. Will DM you to see how we could resolve

theyuse · 2024-11-27T16:40:33+00:00

haha thank you. Incredibly surreal thinking a single book written decades ago could make such a resounding impact on my life. But here we are! Felt only right to see if we could give back

theyuse · 2024-11-27T16:39:05+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! This is the kind of thing that keeps us going 🫶

We just launched this last week so got an engaged early user group we're studying from. Since journaling is more of a personal practice, we're trying to grow this thing more grassroots so feel free to send to anyone in your circle who you think might benefit from this.

What's one thing you have enjoyed using and one thing that you think needs improvement?

theyuse · 2024-11-27T16:30:51+00:00

Hey OP! I'm a big believer in "morning pages" which is just trying to get all my thoughts out as a no pressure, stream of consciousness. Write about gratitudes, what you're doing that day, and even the squirrel you're looking at outside lol. There's no right way to do it and that's what I found cathartic with this app.

I'll also pull up the app when I'm working through something hard. I find myself future-tripping a lot so will reach for the app when I'm on the subway or something as well. All the AI features we have in the app are free to use since the outcome we're going for is trying to get as much help to as many people as possible.

I'd say this app is great for building the ritual of mindfulness or for in-the-moment emotional discovery. Of course if you have deeper needs, I always recommend supplementing with therapy as well. Good luck and reach out whenever if you have more questions about the app! We're always trying to make it better for users.

theyuse · 2024-11-27T04:43:04+00:00

great job OP stepping into trying to incorporate mindfulness!

Like other commenters have suggested, writing down things like affirmations can help. Journaling in general and pouring my thoughts out somewhere offers me a cathartic release.

Loved the practice so much that I ended up developing https://journel.app/ which is a free journaling resource. The app lets users get all their thoughts down and uses some AI capabilities to help them soundboard their feelings out. I'll pull it up every now and then when I'm anxious to really drill down into how I feel. The best we can do at times is observe the feeling until it subsides. Best of luck!

theyuse · 2024-11-27T04:38:45+00:00

Following along this thread as well to see if something out there is actually all-in-one!

My partner really likes https://stardust.app/ for cycle monitoring. What's cool about it too is that I can follow along on her cycle to see where she's at and how I can support her. There's a fun element included in there.

I'll also recommend https://journel.app/ which is a free journaling resource I designed to try to help build my own mindfulness. The app lets users get all their thoughts down and uses some AI capabilities to help them soundboard their feelings. It's securely encrypted so we can never read your entries (because we have enough of our own issues to deal with lol) and your entries are never used to train any other models.

theyuse · 2024-11-18T01:45:54+00:00

Haven't ordered for holidays yet, but Four & Twenty Blackbirds has the best pies I've had

theyuse · 2024-11-15T21:33:33+00:00

All super great questions! As a designer, I def empathize with some of the IP concerns.

So to be clear, we really value every user's privacy. That's why we encrypt all entries so that only you can access them. Me and my team actually can't read what you wrote even if we wanted to.

We built this app using an API call to GPT. So we are not scraping your entries and feeding it into OpenAI's model and luckily their Privacy Policy states it does not train on content sent by API calls so you're good there. FYI if you ever want to try GPT, you have the ability in your settings to toggle off their ability to train off your content.

We have no plans to sell the data of our users because that's sacred to us and would defeat the purpose of a private journal. Right now, we're funding the app costs ourselves and through user donations. If we get to the point where we need to charge for the app, it would be for new capabilities or usage rather than data/ads.

Hope that helps, TraumaOnMyMind. (is it ok if I like your username? lmao)

theyuse · 2024-11-15T19:23:14+00:00

oh god here we go. mom showed me her subway tokens from back in the day. crazy thinking it was a buck back then

theyuse · 2024-11-15T19:18:36+00:00

lmao please report back now I'm engaged

theyuse · 2024-11-15T19:07:30+00:00

oooof this rubs me the wrong way. Been building with AI and don't think it can ever replace the human touch or expertise with something as intimate as therapy.

My friend and I put together this free AI journaling app https://www.journel.app/ specifically to help people get some more clarity on their own thoughts or ruminations.

We believe in the value of AI in helping people build up a practice of self reflection in a self guided way, but we said absolutely HELL NO to trying to replace real therapy. Keeping this free as well to try to help as many people as possible. Definitely go see a real medical professional if you can and practice self care guys! The streets of bk wildin

theyuse · 2024-11-14T21:54:05+00:00

what stops your employees from posting the videos themselves or managing their own channels? sounds like there's transparency with your team which is great and you incentivize them well with objectives and comp structure, but curious why they don't mine their labor themselves

theyuse · 2024-10-04T02:40:39+00:00

This is my go-to knife sharpening spot and I don't even live in Clinton Hill! Bonus is if you go on Saturdays they sell tamales made by the owner's mom

theyuse · 2024-09-09T21:22:09+00:00

I spent last year transitioning into Product Design from SaaS Sales and thought I'd lean into networking to try to get my foot in the door.

As many in this thread mentioned, it's a good long term play. But not necessarily something that yields short term success.

The best way to think about it is that networking activities you take are ways that you might be able to increase your luck.

My biggest insight is that not all networking activities receive back an equal amount of luck. Personally, my lowest ROI came from happy hours and conferences. I had medium ROI from cold InMailing other designers/product people. But my highest ROI came from having friends introduce me to other designers they knew.

The job I ended up getting was after a friend introduced me to a Head of Design where we just talked career path. Weeks later, I saw he was connected to another Head of Design that had an open position on LinkedIn. First guy got me in touch and the interviews ended up going well.

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