I don't.
I hope to go around to discuss stuff at local salons that use competitors next week and hope to garner some first interest along my expected feedback.
I also already know from an insider that a decently sized Belgian chain has people really frustrated with Salonised so I hope to get my foot in the door there.
However before I try that it needs to be a bit more than an MVP.
Even tho I'm a rather smooth talker and potential salesperson it took me a fair bit of courage building initially to actually approach people about my product.
I'm sure that'll get better with experience.
Down the line even if I hope to catch most customers trough unpersonal means such as online advertising, mailing, etc I'll still have to simply try and approach many larger business/chains directly.
It’s scary, but I think most people react rather positively once they understand that you aren’t trying to force them into something, but rather are trying to see if it’s possible to create a positive - sum result for both parties.
On your site it says "The calendar data can come from one or more calendar providers". Is the connection direct (e.g. data flows from Google to epaper calendar), or via the app installed on the user's phone, or does it need your servers in-between?
We used to call this an "Industrial policy" or an "Economic development policy". Back in the golden era when a strong labor movement coexisted with a Red Scare. 78 years after Taft-Hartley and 44 years since PATCO, not so much.
We have maybe fifty or a hundred million people rotting away in areas where jobs are scarce and housing is plentiful, because we used government policy to shut them out of areas where jobs are plentiful and housing is scarce. We systematically exported jobs from places that aren't big cities because they can be performed overseas and our aristocracy can still profit from them by owning those people overseas.
I don't know if returning to a little more deliberate of an economy is even a partial salve for the place we've found ourselves, but I don't think this laissez faire thing is sustainable for a whole lot longer. We are overleveraged, and arrogantly delusional about our sway at the moment; "Ownership" is not some valuable skill. The fall of an anchor currency and global conversion to an alternate financial network would be a spectacular thing, an astroid striking terrain, which might leave craters on entire other continents from secondary ejecta. World wars have been fought over less.
"We" wasn't big government. It was a million homeowners who decided that the neighborhood they moved into should be frozen in amber forever. Everyone wants housing to be cheap but also for their property values to rise onto infinity. They push back against any attempt to change this and then complain about the inevitable results.
Dr. Caplan in fact does cover this point in TCAE, of course. He comes to conclude that only about 70-80% of the effect of education is attributable to signalling. A solid 20-30% still looks like good old fashioned human capital improvement, and it is largely concentrated around the basic primary education skills of reading and arithmetic. (He even has the spreadsheets where he calculated all this out online, and he has talked before about how sad he is nobody has ever tried to fiddle with the actual numbers.)
Probably not actual "2a+4=12, how much is a?" style basic algebra, though. In the United States, which is about lower-middle of the pack on PISA, about 1 in 3 adults would struggle with that level of algebra according to the PIIAC, to say nothing of e.g. the actual compound interest equation, even if the rough idea makes sense.
That's not "most people", but it's definitely "a plurality" of people. And yet life is pretty great!
My last point is that life in America is pretty great. You don't deny this, to your credit. But I don't see why that would link to "American democracy is threatened". If anything I would expect the opposite to be true.
"There's a threat to American democracy" seems like a strong claim to me by itself, let alone "There's a threat to American democracy partially because of its education quality." But, I'm an American myself, and I don't want to play inside baseball with how likely that actually seems to me.
Let's instead take Germany, where you yourself seem to be located. Germany has PISA scores quite close to the US's own, maybe slightly above or below depending on which recent year you look at.
If poor education leads to collapse, and if the two countries are about equal in their poor education, you should then be willing to accept, say, a 1 to 20 bet that German democracy will itself self-immolate in, say, 15 years. But, if poor education doesn't justify even a 5% risk of this happening in Germany, then I don't see why I would think it's a relevant factor in predicting the collapse of democracy in another country with a much longer uninterrupted democratic tradition.
(You could of course argue "No, comparisons based on PISA scores are misleading, actually there's robust pro-totalitarian brainwashing happening in US high schools that doesn't happen in German gymnasiums", or something, but (a) that's a much more precise claim than merely "US education is bad", (b) that seems really unlikely to me given I've never actually met or had an openly pro-fascist teacher at any level, and (c) even if it was true, the signalling hypothesis would still suggest any attempts at this just wouldn't matter very much by the time these kids are 25 or so.)
There's nothing mean-spirited about asking people to put rough numbers to their beliefs, even approximately. But I do think most people would be genuinely surprised to hear you think there's over a 5% chance Germany the Western democracy won't exist in a generation. If it does happen I need to remember to revisit a lot of things about how I myself understand the world.
Probably more accurate to say "genetics, shared environment, and non-shared environment". Modern evidence heavily weights (favors? leans towards?) the environments.
> When did the US citizens become so subservient to their government?
Technically speaking, they did in 1789. As to the practicality of it, the US government expanded massively from 1900-1950, so maybe during that time period. The FCC was formed in 1972, so on the issue of permissible purveyors of brain rot, maybe then.
