Been messing with fitness watches, and ending up in my usual Paul Is Cheap mode of thinking, "Fk it, I'll just keep what I have". My current is a beat-up Fenix 6, and I'm a longtime Fenix user, dating back three versions. A quick summary of devices I've now messed with. #xp
Fenix 7
Pros: Touch screen, terrific battery life (14 days), and no scratches.
Cons: Not that much better than my Fenix 6, scratches aside
Epix 2
Pros: Touch screen, higher resolution screen, and no scratches
Cons: Ridiculous price, the screen is a bit whack in bright light, shorter battery life (6 days)
Apple Watch Ultra
Pro: Great screen, lots of apps, priced comparably to Fenix, and no scratches
Cons: Short battery life (1.5 days, max), screen in direct sun, and Apple-only ecosystem
What am I missing?
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Heretical, but ... flat-rate pricing is what's destroying the ski industry, not algos. Resorts are overrun by people on season passes, resulting in massive lines. Dynamic pricing is one solution.
Granted, resort skiing is a ridiculous, mass-affluence non-sport sport. I would be perfectly happy to have it eat itself, goaded on by flat-rate pricing, private equity owners, yield management algos, etc., so I'm admittedly an unreliable narrator here.
Failing that, we're likely to see more resorts eventually impose daily quotas, or even become private clubs, as is happening in various places. As I say too often, the physical world does not scale to digitally-aided and abetted appetites.
I try not to say much about the current AI/chat mania, because it mostly makes me want to punch me in the face repeatedly, but I will say that I find monied tech bros' paeans to a post-AI UBI (universal basic income)... instructively stupid.
I mean:
1) We ran the experiment of paying people to stay at home and surf the Internet already, and the main byproducts were the Capitol riots, Qanon, and OnlyFans. Do it a second time and ... well, let's not.
2) If said bros think that people having jobs, even ones they hate, isn't essential to self-worth and societal stability, they need to read more widely in history and philosophy—but at least more than their diet of inbox pitches and wackaloon Substacks.