Growing up in an Indian village, everyone relied on the local Kirana store. Everyone had an 'account' at the Kirana store. The farmers would zero out the account at the harvest time.
Now when I go back, there are eCommerce motorcycle delivery drivers everywhere though the number of Kirana stores still remains about the same. I have never seen a Quick commerce delivery driver though - I guess villages aren't the target for Q-commerce companies.
I love this. I have my commonplace book in Roam Research. Search in Roam is not perfect and I have wondered lately if there was a way to get all of the content into a graph DB and then query using LLMs. But I haven't had time to tinker with it - I am sure open source libraries exist that do exactly this.
Can your library take all highlights from Readwise or just Kindle? I use Readwise Reader quite a bit and will love something that takes everything I save + all highlights + other places (Roam Research, Email, Calendar) etc. and I can just ask it questions.
You definitely could! Funnily enough, I have a function named "justBooks()" [1] that filters the Readwise export to just book type tags, but you could use the entire export, or whatever upstream method you want. I think much like journaling, every one's use case will be catered to their own tasks/quotes/ideas, but allow me to share centralized advice. You'll definitely need: 1) a database that supports vectors, I use Postgres 2) a low friction way to get your "new" highlights from your reading practice, I use Readwise 3) an llm to "cache" transformations [2]. This transformation does an insane amount of work, and takes it to the next level in terms of utility, I wouldn't skip it.
This 100%. You also have to keep in mind that taking photos in public spaces is protected under the first amendment in the US. Yes, the first amendment has become a bit unpopular lately but even then, fighting this battle is going to be extremely difficult.
What I do wonder is how private space owners will deal with AR/VR.
How do they deal with it now? An AR/VR rig is more obvious than a smartphone and not nearly as ubiquitous, so usage should stand out more. Seems like a sign or other notification would be enough to stop all but the most obnoxious assholes and influencers.
The only negative of studying in the US is that it is becoming close to impossible to stay long term after your degree to work due to the outdated work visa process.
But your other option is to move to Germany, which you can still do after getting a US degree. So you seem to belong to one of the rare categories that I think should study in the US - globally
mobile and not super tied to staying in the US after getting their degree.
The only other category is if someone are genuinely brilliant i.e. companies would fight to keep you even if that involves dealing with a crazy visa process.
I remember Computers@Home. Convinced my parents to buy me my first PC after reading that magazine. The included CDs were a delight. Internet was so slow that I only ever played game demos from the CD. Haven't thought about that magazine for years!
It really depends on the publication. In a past life, I was a newspaper reporter in a town with two papers. There were strict guidelines against doing this. If you lost the scoop, well, too bad.
I have seen this behavior more often in Europe but I guess it might be a thing in the US now too - I have been away from the day-to-day journalism scene for a long time.
Looks amazing! I played with Reader for the last hour or so and it looks so much better than Pocket. The import from Pocket - delightful!
I had originally started using Readwise to sync my Pocket and Memex highlights with Roam and it looks like you guys have removed the need for both by building Reader.
My pocket (pun unintended) thanks you, provided price isn't going up. But I think there is a lesson here. Pocket has done no innovation for years - a classic 'cash cow'. But then you guys show up and make a product that (for me) is 10x better. It is also clever that you haven't taken any VC funding because I don't think this a product that will ever be venture scale. Now, you guys can build cool stuff and make a good living in peace without chasing that elusive venture exit.
Thanks! Yeah, part of the motivation for Reader was that our original readwise app was integrated with a bunch of these apps like Pocket and Instapaper... and we saw them completely fall by the wayside.
Our users were constantly asking us to fix things with Pocket/Instapaper that were out of our control, so they kind of pulled this app out of us :)
Yeah, if I ran Pocket I'd be really concerned now-- particularly because they've made it so easy to onboard as a Pocket user, with it automatically retrieving all your saved articles.
It’s Mozilla right? I’m not sure how much money they make off pocket but I imagine that it’s no where near as much as keeping that google money flowing.
That being said, I imagine every bit counts for Mozilla. Anybody have any idea how big their user base is?
