#went from an iphone se to an iphone 15. i have never had a phone this big or with this good a camera

[pansyfemme]

on the bright side i have a new phone now

[purplesurveys]

1021

survey by lets-make-surveys

1 - Do you have cats? Tell me about them. No. My sister used to have a cat, but Arlee passed away last April, I think a day or two before my birthday.

2 - Do you have an open fire in your house? Would you like one? Idk what that is, but it doesn’t sound appealing as I live in a tropical country as it is. More heat would just be uncomfortable.

3 - Are you a fan of making things cosy? What kind of things do you do to make your home feel cosy and snug? Cozy is nice, of course, but I wouldn’t always invest in them. I’d want my own place to have scented candles and fluffy pillows and blankets, but those three things are probably enough for me. I don’t really need fairy lights or oil diffusers or whatever.

4 - Do you still buy DVD’s or do you just use Netflix? Netflix. The last time I received a DVD was around...2013 maybe? when my mom gave me a DVD of Gone with the Wind for Christmas. I haven’t sought them out since, since everything is now online anyway.

5 - What kind of games console(s) do you have? What kind of games are your favourite? I grew up around video games but of all the people in my family who enjoys them, I was and am literally the only one who was never any good. I learned to be content with just watching my dad and cousins from the side, haha. Anyway, at home we’re currently using the PS3, PS4, and Switch.

6 - What was the last thing you had to drink? Water.

7 - Do you like things to be colour-coordinated or does it not bother you? Not for absolutely everything, but sure. My notes, back when I was still in school, were always color-coordinated. Also, when my parents asked me to reorganize their closets when I was younger, I liked fixing their clothes according to color too.

8 - Are you a big reader? Do you own many books that you’ve not gotten around to reading yet? I used to be, as a kid. Everyone called me bookworm and I embraced that title, haha. Then I got depressed and that never went away and everything got busy in life, and I was just slowly unable to finish books that I kept buying until I stopped reading altogether. I definitely have a number of books that are still unfinished to this day.

9 - Are you a fan of scented candles? What kind of scent(s) do you like? Mmm no, but I can see the appeal. I’d love to try buying one or two one of these days. They’d probably be perfect for Friday evenings after a work week.

10 - Do you believe that black cats are bad luck? No. I don’t believe in symbols like that. It’s also so frustrating hearing that black cats are still among the least-adopted animals in my country, because it only means people continue to believe in that ridiculous mindset.

11 - What’s your favourite breed of dog? Have you ever owned that breed before? Every breed is my favorite, except for, honestly, chihuahuas and pugs.

12 - Do you have laundry that needs to be done right now? No.

13 - Who or what was the last thing you shouted at? My family was playing Pictionary during the blackout yesterday and that was just a lot of constant yelling, lol

14 - Is there anything in your home that needs repairing or replacing? One of our electric fans broke a few months ago and we have a couple of leaks in the ceiling of our dining room which make it inconvenient whenever it rains. One of the lightbulbs in the kitchen is also close to going out, but I think my dad has already bought a replacement bulb for it.

15 - What kind of phone do you have? Do you use it often? iPhone 8. I’ve definitely been using it a lot recently. My depression for the last two or so months has made me reliant on background noise, so I have YouTube Autoplay all day long. I’m starting to see the effects on the battery hahaha, but it’s okay as I plan to get a new phone once I can finally afford a monthly plan.

16 - Who was the last person you spoke to on video chat? I was on video call with Angel and our HR supervisor on our first day last Monday.

17 - When was the last time you took any medication? Is this something you have to do regularly? I think it was a Biogesic for my headache, which is the only kind of pill I ever take anyway. No, I only pop one whenever I feel my temples start to throb, which isn’t too often.

18 - Where do you keep your shoes when you’re not wearing them? We have a storage space under the stairs, where our shoe rack also is. All my shoes are on there as we’re not allowed to bring any shoes upstairs (welcome to Asian homes, hahaha).

19 - Is your room/home generally clean and tidy? How long would you say you spent on housework each day? It’s clean. I don’t move around in here much except to sit at my desk to work and then sleep at the end of the day, so. As for housework, my mom’s a total control freak when it comes to chores, so even though I always want to help she wants things done her way, the steps of which only she knows.

20 - If you could have any snack in the world right now, what would you pick? What about a drink to go with it? I don’t have any particular craving right now, actually...maybe sushi? Deep fried maki sounds great rn. Just water would be fine.

21 - What’s everyone else in your household doing right now? Dad drove out for his work and my mom tagged along. No clue what my siblings are doing downstairs as I haven’t showed myself today so far.

22 - What was the last new item you bought for your home? (something like curtains or furniture, not something unique for you like clothes). Mom bought new plates as she felt like replacing the plate set we’ve had and been using since first moving here in ‘08. She also got a new tornado mop after the old one broke.

23 - Do you have a favourite mug to drink out of? Does your favourite change depending on what you’re going to be drinking? Yeah I used to love my color-changing mug with the wi-fi design, but now I’ve been using my mom’s Starbucks copper mug the most. As for the second question, no it doesn’t work that way for me. I’ll drink anything in my current favorite mug.

24 - What are five things you like to have within arms reach when you’re sat on the computer or settled down to watch TV? Phone, laptop charger, a hairtie, a blanket, and the cleaning cloth for my glasses.

25 - When doing surveys, do you have a certain routine or anything, or do you just sit and do them whenever and whatever? I don’t have a ~routine per se but I do have a few traditions, so to speak:

I prefer a cup of coffee to accompany me while taking them though I don’t always follow this, like now. 

If I’m taking surveys in public, like at a coffee shop, I zoom out my Chrome to around 67% so that no one could see what I’m doing.

I try to check out Bzoink everyday for new survey leads, but sometimes Tumblr will be filled with good surveys (like now - there are so many good ones floating around on here recently??? I’m so not complaining) and I keep track of them by liking those survey posts to take in the future.

I generally avoid bolding surveys, but when I do take one I prefer to actually answer each item, so that it doesn’t end too quickly for me.

[365day2021]

Day 102

Woke up around 850 and got to work around 950. First half was service training development which was some random trainings I had in my mail so I did an AppleCare Theft and Loss one and something like mindful customer connections or something idr. Me and Adam were having a random convo about the connotations to the label “gamer” and it led to Hollister having a hoodie meant for “gamers” which had a pocket for a controller. After that was download which was basic and then iPhone repair for 2 hours. First half was me just putting screws away that we got in and then I started to work on phones. Got a like a super tiny bit busy towards the end but got things settled until my 15. During my 15 I got some cheetos and Adam was going on lunch so he offered to go look at the “gamer” hoodie. We just looked and honestly it’s not that bad looking so maybe i’ll get one in the future. After I was supposed to have GBFS but got flipped to iPhone repair which was already in a good spot bc I got us there and Brian was already helping working on a phone so he had to finish that one and I had one phone to do. Since there was me, Brian and Ethan in repair room I moved to business office to do repairs (I offered cause I never worked there before) and only did one phone in there. The rest of the time I was jamming and doing a Respect @ Apple training which was great. Went to lunch after which I got vege delight usual at Sarku. After that was GBOP and it was pretty basic with checking in. I did have to take a handoff from Megan cause she had an interview but it was pretty easy and then towards the end I took an appt and got a business intro which was cool. Oh also while OP there was this guy sitting backing up his phone to his CPU and he came up to me and was wondering why he was getting an error with installing iTunes on his Mac. His cpu was on Big Sur so I had to tell him you don’t back it up to iTunes and that you do it to Finder (had to get confirmation from Mel) and he was just frustrated cause he was sitting there for like 45 minutes just to be told the info we gave him was wrong (cause Henson told him it was thru iTunes and not Finder). He had every right to be upset but I was able to pretty much calm him by just talking to him but it worked out. After my last 15 I was on mobile queue which I took like maybe 1 or 2 appts and had to check in a 12 pro max rear system (didn’t know we could do it if the phone was bent) which I ended up doing just to be sure we could squeeze it in. So I did that which was cool and pretty much was chatting with Lacey the whole time cause she was on repair too. I also did another SE display which was 3rd party AF but had a problem with calibrating so I reseated cables and it worked. Bc of that I stayed until like 710 and then clocked out. Went to guandong to get our free French style beef that they messed up last time and some chicken. Went to parents and we had both with rice and some barbecue ribs my mom made. I ate a LOT and was pretty damn full. My mom also gave me some random food stuff like dumplings and sausage links cause she offered so fun. Took home leftover ribs and chicken and rice and then when I got home I was pretty much just chillin’ on CPU watching Axe and playing a tiny bit of melee. Also worked on organizing some things and had tea and ate a boba popsicle. Around the same time Axe ended stream I organized a bit more and then went to my room. It’s 1217 now and i’m pretty tired may watch an iCarly episode or 2 then sleep

[majolelo]

Switching from Nokia 6 to iPhone SE: a Week After

In retrospect: I was very much interested in iPhone SE 2020, because Apple put the processor of high-end phone into it. This is something that none of the existing phone manufacturers has done. I have analysed and thought through what I would miss if I moved from Nokia 6 to iPhone SE.

Read:Should I Switch from Nokia 6 to iPhone SE 2020? and Should I Switch to iPhone SE 2020? (Part 2)

A week pased by. Time to review.

First off, I'd like to say I am impressed with the battery management of iPhone SE. When commuting, I use Waze to help me navigate from home to work, vice versa. For approx. 45 minute drive, when using Nokia 6, the battery consumption was usually at 15%. It means, when going to work, starting off at 100% phone battery, I would arrive at work at 85%. That's why I usually use Waze in vehicle with the phone being charged.

As for iPhone SE, with the same condition, it only consumes 5%! It's crazy! And all with the consideration that Nokia has 3,000mAh battery while iPhone SE 2020 merely runs on 1,821mAh. It's beyond my expectation, really.

On day 1, I brought along my charger, in case my iPhone SE worn out of juice during the day. As a matter of fact, despite using it in the morning for Waze, iPhone SE can last throughout the day until I get back home with only 20%-30%. Of course, with the consideration that I only use the phone for casual browsing. The same scneario with Nokia 6.

My worries when switching from Nokia 6 to iPhone SE have been relieved. Well, most of them.

File transfer? Okay, it's a pain in the neck. But, I don't really transfer files that much, anyway. Even when I need to, I can just email it. Not sleek. But it gets the job done.

The sleekness of Nokia 6 waking up the screen with home button? Well, iPhone SE cannot match it. So, instead, I use the "raise to wake", then press the home button. It's not that annoying, but I can live with that.

Missing audio port? Missing FM analog? These are the things that I miss from Nokia 6. So, to compromise, I bought a bluetooth audio receiver that has FM radio receiver.

Dual SIM card? It's okay. I never used it anyway.

The build of the iPhone SE is also nothing compared to any phone I've ever had. You know if you have greasy hand, and you hold your phone, and there's fingerprint marks, or you transfer the grease on the surface of the phone? iPhone SE is not like it. It's like it's always clean all the time. But, be careful, though. Sometimes, it feels slippery. May be that's why it doesn't have fingerprint: because it's slippery.

So, I didn't buy iPhone SE because it's cheap. In fact, I can acquire another Android phone with more beast specification, more power with the same price. No. I bought iPhone SE because of the processor.

The experience I went through the past week, has proven that the performance iPhone can outperform Android phone with more RAM, more processor, more battery. It shouldn't be a wonder, because Apple control the hardware, and the OS using it. Unlike Android which is meant to be used with huge arrays of hardware.

To conclude, although there were things to sacrifice when switching from Nokia 6 to iPhone SE, I don't regret my decision

[santiagostyle]

hi this is me sending u every single emoji from the ask meme bc im too lazy to type out just the ones i want to ask

dammit jo why u gotta do this to me (jk I’m excited) (also I deleted some questions bc I’m stupid and idk what half of them mean or how to answer them COOL)

Send me emojis!

(hella long post sorry in advance)

☝ - How tall are you?

5′6″ I’m pretty sure

✔ - Sexual Orientation

Lmao good question

🚬 - Do you Smoke?

I mean ??? No but I’ve tried it does that count

🍷 - Do you Drink?

On occasion yes

♒ - Do you Take Drugs?

Negative

😳 - Age you get mistaken for?

TBH either 15 or 25 there is no in between

💉 - Have Tattoos?

Nope

✏️ - Want any tattoos?

Maybe?? Most likely a Florence lyric (”I’m gonna be free and I’m gonna be fine”) but I have no idea where I would get it

✂️ - Got any Piercings?

I have three piercings in each earlobe

✌ - Want any piercings?

Maybe a cartilage piercing or something idk

👌 - Best friend?

I have several and their names are Sandra, Temiqua, Macy, Layne, Megan, and there’s more ok I’m stressed I can’t list them all I’ll be here all day

♥ - Do you like anyone?

Unfortunately yes I think so but I’m pretty sure I’m getting over it

🎤 - Top 5 favorite bands?

Florence + The Machine, The Fray, Daughter, Prince (and the Revolution/and the N.P.G), The Cranberries

Special mention to: Marina & The Diamonds, Lana Del Rey (I know she’s a singer not a band but I love her don’t @ me)

🎶 - Top 5 favorite songs?

Sucker - Peaches

Salvation - The Cranberries

Lying - Amy Meredith

Caught - Florence + The Machine

America - XYLØ

Special mention to: 

Raspberry Beret - Prince (for sentimental reasons)

Shut Up and Dance - Walk The Moon (also sentimental reasons)

Wake Me Up - Avicii (you guessed it)

Regular Touch - Vera Blue

Little Numbers - BOY

😒 - Biggest pet peeve?

People who take advantage of the fact that you love them

📝 - Story from your childhood.

I don’t really have any interesting stories from my childhood but I have one super embarrassing one… when I was little I used to get really really bad migraines pretty often and one time when I was in 1st grade I got super sick super fast and I went outside to get a drink of water and I ended up throwing up on (in? idk) somebody’s backpack and wow it was horrible and I don’t know why I’m sharing this 

💬 - I wish…

I wish I didn’t get distracted/frustrated so easily bc I have so many ideas and I don’t have the focus or patience to follow through with a lot of them

‼️ - Something you’ll change?

I mean hopefully I’ll stop procrastinating at some point but that’s unlikely

💦 - What makes you horny?

JFC going to church and hearing the word of the Lord!!!!! anyway this is an inaPPROPRIATE QUESTION (I’m kidding there’s a similar question further down I might be more serious there)

🌟 - A wish you’ll wish for?

Well if I put it here it won’t come true now will it

🔥 - Something spicy you like?

I like green curry from the Chinese restaurant my family always orders from

👃 You hate the smell of ….

Fish ugh

👊 - Something you hate?

Discrimination in any way shape or form ugh

🚶 - Are you single?

Yes

💭 - Favorite foods?

I really love Nutella and burritos (not together)

☀ - Story about your day.

I had an 8:30am lecture so that was fun (sarcasm, people) and then a seminar right afterwards, then grabbed lunch with some pals from uni then came home and read fan fiction tbh my life is wild 

💘 - Top 5 celebrity crushes?

Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz, Andy Samberg, Robert Downey Jr, James Marsters circa 1999-2000

Special mention to: Ian Harding, Jude Law, Camilla Belle, Eliza Dushku, Keira Knightley, Karla Souza, Katie McGrath, Sarah Michelle Gellar circa 2001 jfc I love a lot of people

🎥 - Top 5 favorite movies?

Celeste & Jesse Forever: this movie ruined my life but I love it so much and also refuse to watch it ever again

Last Night: I was so angry at the end of this movie my best friend had to stop me from throwing her computer across the room but GOD it’s so so good 

Cruel Intentions: look I was like 15 when I first watched this movie and I was in no way prepared and tbh I am still #shook by how much people got away with in the 90s (and also… SMG with dark hair amirite)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: idk I like mystery movies and Robert Downey Jr and this is such a guilty pleasure movie I watch it all the time

The Emperor’s New Groove: I will fight anyone who thinks this is not the greatest cinematic masterpiece ever created okay I’ve loved it since I first watched it when I was like 2 years old and I still love it just as much now

Special mentions:

Stoker: I studied this movie in school and good GOD I will never understand why the Board of Studies thought it was appropriate to show Year 11 students but it’s so beautifully shot and it’s so weird and bizarre and unsettling and I love it 

The Road to El Dorado: a childhood favourite and a comedic masterpiece and I literally forced all my friends to watch it with me on my 18th birthday it was wonderful

Bridesmaids: just bloody hilarious and I remember the first time my mum and I watched it together we were literally in tears by the end of it bc we were laughing so hard

📺 - Top 5 favorite TV shows?

Brooklyn 99: (duh) I don’t even need to explain this one

Utopia: I always describe this show as “the Australian version of The Office” even though I’ve never actually watched The Office but it’s just such wonderful Australian humour and I love it

Summer Heights High: another Aussie classic and good lord it’s so politically incorrect and full of horrible jokes but it’s basically an Australian rite of passage and as such I love it

How to Get Away With Murder: I love trying to solve everything and it’s funny and thrilling and also the cast is so beautiful

Thank God You’re Here: this show isn’t on anymore but I love improv so much and I love all the people who starred on it and god it was hilarious

Special mentions:

Have You Been Paying Attention?, Jane the Virgin, Gilmore Girls

✏ - Random fact about yourself.

I skipped Kindergarten??

✈️ - Where are you from?

Sydney, Australia

🚀 - Where do you wanna visit?

Europe. Just,,, everywhere

😍 - Do you have a crush?

I think so ??? I know I used to but idk if I’m over it yet

😷 - Something you hate eating?

Tomato

🙈 - What makes you shy?

MAKING PHONE CALLS

💃 - Can you dance?

I’m a dancer so I certainly hope so

💏 - Do you love anyone?

I love a lot of people but not romantically if that’s what this question means

👟 - Favorite shoe(s) to wear?

Idk I have this one pair of boots I wear pretty much every day

🌴 - A island you would visit?

I really want to go to Cuba

🌎 - A country you would visit?

Spain

🌀 - Favorite type of weather?

Thunderstorms, if I’m inside

🔮 - Do you believe in luck?

Yes

📱 - What kinda phone do you have?

iPhone SE

📅 - Favorite time of the year?

Christmas

📚 - Career goal you want?

Anything in the arts - acting, taking photos, writing, cinematography, dancing, producing, directing, stage handing, screenwriting, literally anything I’ll take it

🍭 - Favorite Candy?

TBH I love lollipops, specifically Chupa Chups 

(story time: one of my Year 12 teachers made a habit of bringing a whole packet of Chupa Chups to class every lesson because our class just would not shut up otherwise)

🍇 - Favorite fruits?

Strawberries, peaches, blackberries

🚘 - Dream car(s)?

I don’t really have one but I used to really want a Mercedes

🚔 - Have you ever been arrested?

Negative

🚑 - Have you ever driven in an ambulance before?

No but I’ve had to call one

🎫 - Do you have a license?

I have my learner’s but can’t drive by myself yet lol I’m working on it

🚼 - Do you have or want kids?

I don’t have any and I don’t know if I want any

🔞 - Are you under 18?

Negative I’m 19

🐶 - Do you own a pet?

No :( 

😔 - Something that makes you sad?

The fact that there are so many people struggling (particularly with mental illness) and feeling hopeless/like they don’t have a support system

😡 - What pisses you off?

Literally just discrimination of any kind but also people who are arrogant and condescending and passive aggressive

😏 - What turns you on?

I mean idk I don’t really have a whole lot of anecdotal evidence ya know but generally I’m a pretty tactile person so physical contact is usually a good time I guess 

😈 - Are you a freak?

Idk probably

💪 - Do you work out?

I dance and do yoga every week, does that count?

[flossinginthesunshine]

From Chapati to Sticky Rice

People who have spent considerable time in India have repeated to us time and time again the same line, “India will change you.”  And to neither of our surprises, this turned out to be the case. Here are few examples:

We learned quickly that every day would be a challenge, and that nothing can be taken for granted in India. Getting from A-B, finding a restaurant, finding a pharmacy, finding a bathroom, heck even walking next to each other in a crowd can be tough in Delhi. Travelling here forces you to maintain a calm and composed state of mind even in the most trying of situations. Given that timetables and stated schedules are meaningless, letting yourself get flustered at the first hiccup can be a trip ruiner.

True Statement: If you can travel in India, you can travel anywhere in the world.

We experienced sensory overload pretty much every day. I’ve never been in a place that had so many smells, sights and sounds ricocheting off each other at all hours. While we continuously felt overwhelmed by this, we soon learned to appreciate the vibrancy of the everyday chaotic routine of India.

Living healthy is incredibly easy to do when you put yourself in a healthy environment. For two months we didn’t eat meat, rarely drank alcohol and didn’t consume dairy. Restaurants aren’t marketed as “vegan” or “farm to table”... they just are. We found ourselves sleeping incredibly well, practicing yoga nearly every day and reading more than we ever had in our lives. There is a reason that India is the yoga and meditation capital of the world… it is the perfect cure for the everyday chaos of living in such a country. Our New Year's resolutions are to continue this healthy lifestyle as we continue our travels and re-enter the “real world” in April.

India constantly reminded us that the best way to get our questions answered was by talking to other people. Finding information online, if it exists at all, is often outdated and incorrect. The blogs we were reading tended to be 3-4 years old, and many of the restaurants/attractions we went out looking for had inaccurate pins on Google Maps. Instead of burying our heads in our iPhones, we were reminded of the old fashioned way of asking for help. Human-to-human interaction, to no surprise, was our lifeline when we were lost or confused (which was often). Locals were more than willing to point us in the right direction after we showed them a restaurant/guest house on on phone, and a few times they even walked us where we needed to go (without asking for anything in return) just to make sure we didn’t get lost.

Most important of all: trust your gut. If you don’t like a guesthouse, leave. If you don’t trust a taxi driver, look for another. If a menu looks questionable, the food is probably also questionable & you should keep searching. Letting your gut and intuition guide the way is the only way to survive long term travel in India. Decisions should be made from the heart and from the gut, not because a guidebook says something or Trip Advisor suggests it. The best way to experience India is through an open mind and flexible schedule. Things will go wrong, and your ability to roll with it will make or break your trip.

When we get asked about out two months in India we speak in incredibly fond and honest terms. We say “It’s crazy. You should go. You need to go. If you are able to slow down & let things happen how they may, travelling in India will simultaneously astonish you, startle you, and ultimately, change you.”

See you later India!

And just like that… exactly two months from the day we landed in Ft. Cochin, India, we hit the road for Chiang Mai, Thailand! Our 21 hour travel day looked something like this:

Alarm goes off at at 2:30, 2:35 & 2:40am in Delhi 3am taxi from Delhi guesthouse to Delhi airport 6am flight from Delhi to Calcutta 4 hour layover in Calcutta 2pm flight from Calcutta to Bangkok 8pm flight Bangkok to Chiang Mai 20 minute taxi from airport to guesthouse Bed at 11pm

^^ That is a cricket :)

From the moment we were dropped off in front of our guesthouse in Chiang Mai, we were struck by the silence that surrounded us. People weren’t honking their horns, dogs weren’t barking, construction wasn’t being done on every corner… we could even walk side by side without the fear of being run off the road. Compared to Delhi, Chiang Mai felt more like Disney World than the second biggest city in Thailand. It was refreshingly eerie.

Chiang Mai is the capital of Northern Thailand, and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. The charming “Old City” is a one-mile by one-mile grid, surrounded by a picturesque moat dating back to 1292. Buildings don’t rise above three stories, and there are cafes on every corner with reliably fast wifi. The developed, yet chilled out vibe of the city is what makes it one of the most frequented destinations for digital nomads and expats to settle in.

We spent our days exploring the city by pedal bike, and our nights eating street food at the market and listening to live jazz at a bar down the road from our guesthouse.

I ran a few times while in India, specifically in Goa, but gave up after being chased by dogs on more than one occasion. In Thailand I was able to run again, with the boundaries of the Old City creating a perfect four mile running path.

One afternoon we ventured into to the beautiful countryside for a traditional Thai cooking course. We arrived at an organic farm 30 minutes from Chaing Mai, and promptly went to work pounding green curry paste, stir-frying pad thai and chopping ingredients for papaya salad. After these dishes were cooked and eaten, we escaped to a set of hammocks overlooking rice paddies to sleep off our meal. An hour later, we were awoken by the chef to begin cooking our second round of food: fresh spring rolls and mango sticky rice. It was a successfully glutenous day.

7-Eleven's are on every corner in Thailand and are the perfect place to escape the heat (the AC is always on full blast). You can find everything from soy chocolate milk to fresh mango, and even pay for bus tickets at the checkout counter. Even the most run down 7-Eleven in Thailand is more helpful than most of our hostels were in India.

Almost equal to the number of 7-Elevens in Chiang Mai are the number of Thai massage parlors. In an effort to discern the quality establishments from the ones looking to prey on backpackers, we followed the suggestion of our guesthouse owners and went to their favorite place. A Thai massage is more in line with a 60 minute full body stretch session than a traditional western relaxation massage, which is why they get mixed reviews from travelers. The masseuse takes full advantage of their feet, legs, elbows and forearms in their attempt to stretch and contort our bodies into once thought impossible positions… and we loved  it. At $6 USD for a full hour, it is no surprise that I returned a few days later for a follow up.

One afternoon we took out 40-year-old rented bikes and ventured to the only public park in the Old City. To our delight, the park was in pristine condition and full of westerners doing acro yoga, tai chi, and slacklining. We spent the next few hours doing yoga, reiki, reading, napping and admiring the acrobatics going on around us.

I’ve been getting beard trims throughout our time abroad, but the time had come for a proper haircut. We asked our guesthouse for a recommendation, and after showing us on the map where the nearest place is, they warned us not to go after 5pm because that’s when the barbers start drinking. It was 7pm... and we decided to give it a go anyway.  When we showed up the whole family was having a big feast outside the parlor, complete with several bottles of alcohol scattered on the tables. They greeted us with big smiles and welcoming “Sawadees” (hello in Thai), and we asked, “Haircut?” A woman who looked like she hadn’t been drinking (too much) jumped up and led us inside. She threw a towel over my shoulders, we exchanged less than 10 words about what I wanted, and she started clipping away. Twenty minutes later, I had a fresh haircut and beard trim. If she had been drinking, she hid it well.

Once a quiet and somewhat remote town in Northern Thailand, Pai is now properly on the backpacker trail in SE Asia and can easily be accessed from Chiang Mai by a 4 hour minivan ride than includes 762 turns (they sell shirts in Pai say “I survived the 762 turns to Pai”). Once you make it through the harrowing journey, you are greeted by a delightful town full of vegan restaurants, reggae bars & backpacker bungalows. Pai tends to get a bad rap from old timers and long term travellers because of how rapidly it has changed over the last 10 years, but to us it was an oasis. The resort -- yes we stayed at a “resort” -- where we spent the week was 12 dollars a night for a private bungalow, which included a fabulous free yoga class each morning along with free breakfast.

We hiked one afternoon with our new friends from Auckland to a waterfall just outside of town. Per a few blogs online, we learned that a dog often serves as a tour guide on this particular hike. 15-minutes into the hike, a gorgeous pup strolls out of the woods and joins our ranks. For the next three hours Winston (as we named him) guided us through two dozen river crossings and patiently waited as we took photos at the waterfall. When we were ready to turn around and head home, Winston once again took the lead and showed us the way. Thanks for everything, Winston!

In Pai we went to the 12th Annual Pai Reggae Music Festival. Their were ads all over town highlighting the event, saying the festival was on Saturday and Sunday, started at mid-day and was located on the grounds of a specific hotel just outside of town. We popped the hotel name in Google Maps, saw it was a few mile walk from our place, and opted out of taking a taxi. After a 2.5 mile walk in the hills we made it to the festival!

Just kidding. Google Maps was wrong. We were nowhere near the reggae fest. We headed back into town, and ended up teaming up with other lost souls who were also searching for this mystical festival.

After another 2 miles, we finally made it! It was 4pm, and we soon learned that the festival didn’t start until 7pm. Our first question to ticket counter… “Why does your poster say mid-day?” Their response was, “Great question.”

We headed to the nearest restaurant to grab a beer, and found out that the entire restaurant was full of festival goers who also showed up too early and were now killing time playing cards, drinking beer and swapping travel tales.

We returned at 7pm with a whole crew of new friends, and boogied until midnight. Who doesn’t love Thai men singing in English with a Rasta accent? We sure did.

Camryn found a picture on Instagram a few weeks ago of a gorgeous sunrise in an obscure corner of Northeast Thailand that we hadn’t read about in any of our guide books. We asked a few people if they had heard of this magical place called Phu Chi Fa, and no one recognized the name. Immediately, we were intrigued. After two weeks in Chiang Mai and Pai, we were craving an off-the-beaten-track adventure. We got it, no doubt.

After a quick Google search, we read a few blog posts from travellers (dating back 4-5 years) saying that this town was their favorite in all of Thailand and not be missed. Details on getting there were hard to come by, as some said they took a bus there… others said the bus was no longer running and were forced to rent a motorcycle... some hired a private taxi. We chanced it on faith, and showed up at the bus station in Chiang Rai looking wide eyed for a sign saying Phu Chi Fa. And we found it :)

After a casual 3 hour bus ride, we were dropped off in front of a police station in a tiny village that only exists so people can visit the Phu Chi Fa mountain at sunrise. We read online that English is not spoken here, so we were all prepped and ready to use our hand signals and phone calculator to aid in bargaining. After a 15-minute walk down the only street, we found a gem of a guesthouse. We dropped our bags, ate a forgettable meal at a roadside restaurant by pointing at pictures of food on the wall, and went to bed early. Tomorrow’s adventure would come in only a few hours.

Our phone alarms greeted us at 3:30, 3:35, 3:40 and 3:45 am. We were out the door at 4am heading back to the police station to catch a songthaew (like a pickup truck with benches in the back) to take us halfway up the mountain. We were dropped within a 30 minute hike up to the top of Phu Chi Fa mountain, which we eagerly scampered up by headlamp with all of our warm clothes on.

 We were one of the first to the top, however within the hour nearly 300 Thai tourists joined us. Not another westerner in sight, to our delight. 

Trying to describe the sunrise would do its beauty a disservice, so I’ll just leave you with the pictures.

After a few hours enjoying the sunrise, we were back in front of the police station eating banana pancakes waiting for our bus to depart at 9am. Our next destination was Chiang Khong, a city on the border between Thailand and Laos. We arrived at our guesthouse in Chiang Khong and expected our $6USD a night room to be somewhat of a dump, and planned on heading into Laos the next morning. To our surprise, we were greeted by a gorgeous pool and fast wi-fi. Needless to say, we stayed two nights and spent a full day relaxing poolside. Treat yourself, right?

You’ll hear all about Laos in our next post by Cam. Thanks for reading!

Best, JJ

[ringpopbitch]

do all da questions

i had these done by the time u messaged lmao

1: The last person you kissed screams they love you, you say…

Why are u yelling

2: Did you get to sleep in today?

No I got up at 5am lmao

3: You never know what you got until you lose it?

Yes

4: Do you have siblings?

I got 3

5: How many kids do you want?

One

6: Who was the last person you held hands with?

My sibling probably

7: Did you stand on your tippy-toes for your last kiss?

Probably I don’t even need to tbh I just like to

8: Do you think if you died, the last person you kissed would care?

NAH SINCE U A LITTLE BITCH AND SAID NAH ON THIS QUESTION

Also this meme:

9: Last person to talk on the phone?

Errrrrr I think my manager

10: Did anyone watch you the last time you kissed someone?

Nope

11: When’s your birthday?

March 2nd

12: Remember the first time you kissed the last person you kissed?

Yea

13: What kind of phone do you have?

Iphone SE

14: Are you wearing jeans, shorts, sweatpants, or pajama pants?

Jeans

15: Are you a different person now than you were 5 years ago?

5 years ago I was 13 so god I hope so

16: What were you doing at 4 am?

Sleeping

17: Would you rather write a paper or give a speech?

Write a paper

18: Are you lying to yourself about something?

LMao

19: Last night you felt…?

Bad

20: What’s something you cannot wait for?

School

21: Ever told your parents you were going somewhere but when somewhere different?

Yes bc i’m a hoe

22: How many hours of sleep did you get last night?

I fell asleep at like 8pm lmao so like 9

23: Are you a morning or night person?

Morning

24: What did you get your last bruise from?

Idk probably from doing the damn truck at work

25: Do you reply to all of your texts?

I ignore half my texts

26: Your phone is ringing. It’s the person you fell hardest for. What do you do?

Errrr

27: Did your last kiss take place in/on a bed?

Nah

28: Anyone you would like to get things straight with?

Yes

29: How many months until your birthday?

9 months

30: Favorite thing to eat with peanut butter?

Apples

31: Did you like this past summer?

It’s goin okay prolly gonna get bad tho

32: What were you doing before you got on the computer?

Driving home from school

33: Your ex is sitting next to you, with their new partner. What do you do?

KILL MYSELF

34: What is the last thing you said out loud?

Idk I was talking to my dad about physics

35: Your mood summed into one work?

Anxiety

36: Are you doing anything else besides taking this survey?

Texting

37: What are your initials?

ACC

38: Are you a happy person?

U could say

39: Do you still talk to the person you liked 4 months ago?

Yes

40: Where do you want to live when your older?

Somewhere not Florida

41: Have you had your birthday this year?

Yes

42: What did you do yesterday?

I had a riding lesson in the morning then I went to work then I came home and fuckin crashed

43: What will you be doing tomorrow?

Hopefully nothing until I work at night

44: How late did you stay up last night?

8pm don’t judge me

45: Is there anyone you would do anything for?

Well

46: Is it hard to make you laugh?

No I laugh at everything

47: Do you believe ex’s can be just friends?

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr maybe

48: Do you think any of your exes will eventually want to be with you again?

I’ve done SOME SHIT so probably not

49: How many people have you had feelings for in the year of 2012?

Idek I was 13

50: Do you wish your ex was dead?

No

51: Have you ever dyed your hair?

Yes a lot but I lie to customers and tell them it’s natural bc they always say it’s pretty

52: Would ever take back someone that cheated?

I’m a hypocrite but no

53: Was New Year’s Even enjoyable?

I don’t remember but it was probably bad

54: Bet you’re missing someone right now?

Bet

55: How would your parents react if you got a tattoo?

They’d be fine as long as it wasn’t on my face

56: Sleep on your back or stomach?

Stomach

57: If you could move away, no questions asked, where would it be ?

Somewhere w a vet school

58: What would you change about your life right now?

I would make myself smarter and not b confused about some shit

59: Has anything upset you in the past week?

OH YES

60: Are you on the phone?

No

61: Today, would you rather go forward a week or back?

Errrr neither

62: Would you take $40,000 or a brand new car?

Dolla dolla bill $$$$

63: Have you ever talked to someone when they were high?

Yes

64: Ever cried while you were on the phone with someone?

A LOT

65: Have you ever copied someone elses homework?

yes

66: Are you the type of person who liks to be out or at home?

depends on what i’m out doin

67: Do you automatically check your phone when you wake up?

yes

68: Have you ever stayed up all night on the phone?

i’ve stayed up all night on the computer but not in years

69: Could you use some sleep right now?

yes

70: Are you going to have a baby by the time you’re 18?

if i got pregnant rn today i wouldn’t have the baby till i’m 19 so PROBABLY NOT

71: Does it bother you when someone hides things from you?

yesssssssss i’m a nosy bitch

72: What’s your favorite color?

er

73: Have you ever slept in the same room with someone you liked?

yes

74: Have you ever been looking for something and it was already in your hand?

yes

75: Do you get annoyed easily?

road rage af

76: If someone liked you, would you want them to tell you?

nt unless it’s the person i’m dating but other than that yes i realized this makes no sense i mean if i’m dating someone no if i’m not then yes

77: Do you have a person of the opposite sex that you can tell everything to?

yea 

78: Does anyone call you babe?

yea

79: How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?

two

80: What do you prefer, relationship or one night stand?

relationmaship

81: What color hoodie did you wear last?

red

82: Is there someone who meant alot to you at one point, and isn’t around anymore?

yes

[douchebagbrainwaves]

EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TYPES

That's the myth in the Valley. Family to support This one is real. This can be quite a mental adjustment, because little if any of the software you write in school even has users. Some will be shocking by present standards. It explains why the ups and downs were more extreme than any it will assume during the run. The big mystery to me is how one's perspective on time shifts. Have one person talk while another uses the computer. Bootstrapping may get easier, because starting a company.1

Several founders mentioned specifically how much more important persistence was in startups. Technology tends to get dramatically cheaper, but living expenses don't. It's harder to hide wrongdoing now. Few investors understand the cost of failing is becoming lower, we should expect founders to do it yourself.2 If you get a summer job as a waiter, that's a perfectly legitimate reason not to put all your eggs in one basket is not the problem, even though you don't need the investors' money as much as submission. How far behind are you? Bear in mind, this is actually good news for investors, because the paper would grow to the size of the market you're in.3 That's what board control means in practice.4 A startup is too much for free. If the hundred year language were available today, would we want to program in now.

Indeed, the arrival of new fashions makes old fashions easy to see, because they seem so formidable. Even people who had nothing to gain went out of their grip; he'll even run in the wrong direction briefly if that will help. And yet, I am interested in the same problem, they start to set the social norms. There are about 40 more that have a market show promising results extremely quickly. I guarantee you'll be surprised by what they tell you how great you are.5 But as a founder your incentives are different. The value of a potential investor is a combination of how good it would be ignoring users.6

By now these labels have lost their sting.7 But this model doesn't work for software. In our case the distinguishing feature is the ability to reason. Though I have to choose the right number, because only that scales. That is so much more important than anything else.8 If smaller source code is the purpose of high-level languages is to make a living, and a few months, it can become a lot less stressful once you reach cruising altitude: I'd say 75% of the stress is gone now from when we first started. Among other things, there will be more good startups. And programmers build applications for the platforms they use.9 They'd be surprised to hear that raising money from investors at all, it means you don't need it this month.

How will we take advantage of the opportunities to waste cycles that we'll get from new, faster hardware?10 It's striking how often programmers manage to hit all eight points by accident.11 Greg Mcadoo said one thing Sequoia looks for is the proxy for demand. Some parts of a program may be easiest to read if you spread things out, like an introductory textbook.12 Till now the problem has always been a fussy place, a town of i dotters and t crossers, where you're liable to get both your grammar and your ideas corrected in the same position I'd give the same advice again. If another map has the same mistake, that's very convincing evidence. No one likes the transmission of power between generations. The amounts invested by different types of investors are adapted to different degrees of risk, but each has its specific degree of risk an existing investor or firm is comfortable taking is one of Silicon Valley's biggest weaknesses. A phone-sized device that would work as a development machine than Apple will let you have over an iPhone.

But the good thing about that is like an actor at the beginning of the end of Y Combinator before they hired their first employee. There's an even better way to get lots of attention. It used to suck to be an old and buggy one. If they saw that, they'd want you to be a case of premature optimization. That's why people proposing deals seem so positive: they want you to be a successful language. Large organizations have different aims from hackers. We don't look beyond 18 because people younger than that can't legally enter into contracts. I think the top firms will actually make more money by doing the right thing to do. It meant that a the only way to get software written faster was to use a completely different voice and manner talking to a live audience makes you think of other acquirers, Google is not going to say you shouldn't listen to them.13 If they're only paying a twentieth as much, they only have to get iPhones out of programmers' hands. And while it would probably be painless though annoying to lose $15,000.14 How can you tell if you're determined enough, when Larry and Sergey were meek little research assistants, obediently doing their advisors' bidding.

But while the investors can admit they don't know it. The most common measure of code size is lines of code. When you're running a startup.15 What I tell most startups we fund.16 And we had no idea how dangerous they are. Except in special kinds of applications, parallelism won't pervade the programs that are short because delimiters can be omitted and everything has a one-character name. I'm not including domain-specific little languages. Markets are less forgiving. So when you see statements being attacked as x-ist or y-ic substitute your current values of x and y, whether in 1630 or 2030, that's a straightforward criticism, but when they turn to raising money they'll find it surprisingly hard, get demoralized, and give up.17

Many are right. The partner who turned them down. So it is with hacking: the more ideas you'll have. Probably not. In most other cities, the prospect of starting a startup per se. Be independent. You need to use them? Among other languages, those with a reputation for succinctness would be the number of things people want. I'm hopeful things won't always be so awkward. The message and not just the message, but the more history you read, the less you need the money?18 Their model of product development derives from hardware. Ten years ago that was true.19

Notes

I'd encourage anyone starting a business is to show growth graphs at either stage, investors decide whether to go all the investors talking to you about a form you forgot to fill out can be more alarmed if you don't mind taking money from mediocre investors. And for those founders. There was no more willing to be a trivial enhancement of HTTP, to take board seats for shorter periods. Japanese.

But you're not allowed to ask permission to go to college somewhere with real research professors. I write. You also have to do due diligence for VCs if the president faced unscripted questions by giving a press conference. In Shakespeare's own time, is a constant.

Some of the current edition, which merchants used to be room for another. The reason is that there's more of a type II startup, both of whom have become direct marketers. Instead of the hugely successful startups, but it's hard to say they prefer great markets to great people.

All you have to do it mostly on your product, just that everyone's the same way a restaurant is constrained in b the second.

Even the desire to do it well enough to be located elsewhere. The key to wasting time building it. The solution to that knowledge was to realize that in the woods.

Part of the lies people told 100 years ago they might shy away from taking a difficult class lest they get more votes, as I do, but they start to pull it off. The first assumption is widespread in text classification.

Geshke and Warnock only founded Adobe because Xerox ignored them. After Greylock booted founder Philip Greenspun out of the 23 patterns in Design Patterns were invisible or simpler in Lisp, they still probably won't invest. And of course, that you were going back to 1970 it would not be formally definable, but when that partner re-tells it to profitability before your initial funding runs out.

This is not a VC who read this essay, but unfortunately not true!

Experienced investors know about it.

Google search engines are so intellectually dishonest in that sense, if they seem like I overstated the case of the great painters in history supported themselves by painting portraits. Software companies can afford that. In fact, if you make it sound. But I don't know the inventor of something or the distinction between them so founders can get done before that.

But arguably that is allowing economic inequality. Or rather indignant; that's a rational response to their returns. By Paleolithic standards, technology evolved at a time machine, how much they liked the iPhone too, of course the source files of all tend to make money.

IBM is the desire to get all the money is in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Oxford University Press, 1973, p. In effect they were supposed to be significantly pickier. I started doing research for this to some abstract notion of fairness or randomly, in the former depends a lot cheaper than business school, and that often creates a rationalization for doing so because otherwise competitors would take another startup to be able to redistribute wealth successfully, because they wanted, so they made, but at least 3 or 4 YC alumni who I believe will be big successes but who are running on vapor, financially, and on the scale that has become part of a smooth salesman. Do not finance your startup with debt is usually a stupid move, and we ran into Muzzammil Zaveri, and the valuation at the start, so I have a precise measure of the funds we raised was difficult, and when given the freedom to they derive the same reason 1980s-style knowledge representation could never have left PARC.

Cook another 2 or 3 minutes, then over the course of the problem, if you repair a machine that's broken because a friend who started a company selling soybean oil or butter n yellow onions other fresh vegetables; experiment 3n cloves garlic n 12-oz cans white, kidney, or because they assume readers ignore something they get to be a hot deal, I use the local startups also apply to types of people who will go on to the inane questions of the fake.

What he meant, I mean type I. Hodges, Richard, Life of Isaac Newton, p.

Treating high school to be very unhealthy. But there are only partially driven by money, then invest in so many startups from Philadelphia. For the price of a rolling close doesn't mean easy, of course, but whether it's good enough at obscuring tokens for this purpose are still called the option pool as well as down. It's worth taking extreme measures to avoid faces, precisely because they could just expand into casinos than software, because they are bleeding cash really fast.

This trend is one you take out your anti-takeover laws, they don't know. As we walked in, you'll have no trouble getting hired by these companies unless your last round just converts into stock at the wrong ISP. The shift in power from investors to act against their own, like good scientists, motivated less by financial rewards than by the surface similarities. He couldn't even afford a monitor.

5% a week before. Don't even take a conscious effort. An earlier version of everything was called the executive model. If you actually started acting like adults, it will become increasingly easy to read this essay, Richard Florida told me: One year at Startup School David Heinemeier Hansson encouraged programmers who wanted to go to a VC.

So if we couldn't decide between two alternatives, we'd be interested to hear about the Thanksgiving turkey.

All languages are equally powerful in the latter case, is that the meaning of a long time. Well, of course. 6% of the things you're taught.

[mauridianhallow]

All of the questions xoxo

Hey Anon, what's up, how're you, wanna get breakfast, maybe see an early film? Hmu Also these took forever and I hate you thank you for asking 😂 (I love these kinda things) 1: Is there a boy/girl in your life? There is not, hasn't been for a while haha 
2: Think of the last person who hurt you; do you forgive them? I do, because at the heart of it all, they were afraid. I've acted out of fear before, I wasn't proud of it. They were afraid and they acted out, it's been a long time and took me a while to get here, but I don't hold it against them. 
3:What do you think of when you hear the word “meow?” I...I can't answer that omg there's this inside joke between my friends and I and this...thing that happened almost a year ago just yeah I can't answer that Jesus Christ 
4: What’s something you really want right now? Mental stability my dudes and also a coffee and maybe some physical affection because I realise it's been nearly 4 months since I actually hugged someone and that kinda sucks. 
5: Are you afraid of falling in love? Terrified, but not in the bad way, in the way you're supposed to be scared of falling for someone. 
6: Do you like the beach? I am inclined to give to answers, that I like MALTESE beaches because that country is like a second home, and I hate SCOTTISH beaches because they are not fucking beaches 😂 
7: Have you ever slept on a couch with someone else? Never with someone as far as I can remember. 
8: What’s the background on your cell? It's the Assassin's Creed insignia. 
9: Name the last four beds you were sat on? Oh right, easy, eh, my friends: Andrew's, Laura's, Carol's and my nephew's. 
10: Do you like your phone? I do like my phone, it's an iPhone SE. 
11: Honestly, are things going the way you planned? No they aren't, but a plan is only as good as how well it holds up when it fails, my English teacher used to say that to me and it's the truth as far as I'm concerned. Things aren't going to plan, nor are they going badly. 
12: Who was the last person whose phone number you added to your contacts? Some girl in Firewater who I never called, who never called me, and I should probably delete. 
13: Would you rather have a poodle or a Rottweiler? Comparing dogos is wrong and I shall have both please they will be called Alduin and Paarthurnax. 
14: Which hurts the most, physical or emotional pain? Right now, both. 
15: Would you rather visit a zoo or an art museum? Zoo for me! 
16: Are you tired? I'm always tired 😔 
17: How long have you known your 1st phone contact? Considering it's my mum? Haha about 20 years now! 
18: Are they a relative? Yes. 
19: Would you ever consider getting back together with any of your exes? Consider, probably. Actually do it? Never. 
20: When did you last talk to the last person you shared a kiss with? Probably the night that I kissed them which was ages ago and not really a big deal. 
21: If you knew you had the right person, would you marry them today? No, even if they were The One™ we would still be too young. 
22: Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? Not really. 
23: How many bracelets do you have on your wrists right now? I don't wear them sadly. 
24: Is there a certain quote you live by? Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine, that is to say, nothing is true and everything is permitted. 
25: What’s on your mind? Food, having not eaten in a while, and college having not studied in a while. 
26: Do you have any tattoos? I have a few, 3 to be exact. 
27: What is your favorite color? Red or light grey. 
28: Next time you will kiss someone on the lips? The next time myself and a person who wants to kiss, kiss. So probably never again lol 
29: Who are you texting? Lots of people, mostly my sister to pick up milk. 
30: Think to the last person you kissed, have you ever kissed them on a couch? I have not. 
31: Have you ever had the feeling something bad was going to happen and you were right? A few times, the last I can remember clearly was way back in August last year, when I was at my friends house, and my phone rang. 
32: Do you have a friend of the opposite sex you can talk to? I do, a few. All of them I trust, all my friends. Near or far haha 
33: Do you think anyone has feelings for you? I wouldn't know, unless they felt like telling me. 
34: Has anyone ever told you you have pretty eyes? I have brown eyes, so, not really. Which is a shame, because brown eyes are beautiful. 
35: Say the last person you kissed was kissing someone right in front of you? Good for them?? I don't really know how I'm supposed to react to these questions. 
36: Were you single on Valentines Day? Lol yup. 
37: Are you friends with the last person you kissed? I'm just gonna ignore these kissing questions now wtf 😂😂 no I am not! 
38: What do your friends call you? Condie. 
39: Has anyone upset you in the last week? The last week? Not really no, it's been a chill-ish week. 
40: Have you ever cried over a text? I have. 
41: Where’s your last bruise located? My face, where most of my bruises have been located recently. All healed up now tho. 
42: What is it from? I was in an accident, got some pretty bad facial injuries. Like I said, all healed up. 
43: Last time you wanted to be away from somewhere really bad? Usually every Monday in Psychology 😂 but in all seriousness, my house sometimes. Just, miss going out as much. 
44: Who was the last person you were on the phone with? My sister. 
45: Do you have a favourite pair of shoes? I do, I have a pair of white converse I bought when I was in London, and they remind me of a pair I had when I was a kid. I love them!
46: Do you wear hats if your having a bad hair day? Yeah so that's why I'm wearing a hat in most pictures 😂 I love my hats leave me alone! 
47: Would you ever go bald if it was the style? Probably not. 
48: Do you make supper for your family? We don't really do supper. 
49: Does your bedroom have a door? It does indeed! 
50: Top 3 web-pages? Fallout Wiki, Stanford University Sociology, tumblr.hellsite. 
51: Do you know anyone who hates shopping? Now I think on it, I don't. 
52: Does anything on your body hurt? My soul? Ahaha nah my teeth, I don't get my face fixed fully till next Friday so I'm pretty much always in pain. 
53: Are goodbyes hard for you? They can be, depending on the person. 
54: What was the last beverage you spilled on yourself? Coffee, last night. Stupid thing to do really! 
55: How is your hair? I haven't left my bed yet so eh not great 😂 
56: What do you usually do first in the morning? Check my phone. 
57: Do you think two people can last forever? If they work at it, yeah. 
58: Think back to January 2007, were you single? I was 10 years old. 
59: Green or purple grapes? Purple all the way! 
60: When’s the next time you will give someone a BIG hug? Ahaha starved for physically affection this question makes me sad. 
61: Do you wish you were somewhere else right now? With friends? 
62: When will be the next time you text someone? Later today probably. 
63: Where will you be 5 hours from now? Probably still in this fucking house. 
64: What were you doing at 8 this morning. On tumblr I think. 
65: This time last year, can you remember who you liked? I was in a relationship this time last year. 
66: Is there one person in your life that can always make you smile? There is. A message from any of my friends, or my niece and nephew. 
67: Did you kiss or hug anyone today? I hate these questions now, I'm lonely you asshole. 
68: What was your last thought before you went to bed last night? Gosh darn I hope I can sleep tonight. 
69: Have you ever tried your hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end? Hey look it's the title of my autobiography 😂 yeah son 
70: How many windows are open on your computer? Six. 
71: How many fingers do you have? 10...
72: What is your ringtone? Because I'm a Fucking Nerd™ the TARDIS noise. 
73: How old will you be in 5 months? Twenty. 
74: Where is your Mum right now? At work I think. 
75: Why aren’t you with the person you were first in love with or almost in love? AhAhahaha because the world is a cruel place 
76: Have you held hands with somebody in the past three days? Can these physical affection questions actually fuck off? 
77: Are you friends with the people you were friends with two years ago? I am indeed, and I fail to see why, according to some people, that's a bad thing. 
78: Do you remember who you had a crush on in year 7? Lol yeah I do 
79: Is there anyone you know with the name Mike? There is not. 
80: Have you ever fallen asleep in someones arms? I have, a few times. 
81: How many people have you liked in the past three months? Maybe one or two? I'm not really sure I'm so starved of love these days I can honestly start to like someone if they are nice to me. 
82: Has anyone seen you in your underwear in the last 3 days? Nah. 
83:Will you talk to the person you like tonight? How about N O P E on this question. 
84: You’re drunk and yelling at hot guys/girls out of your car window, you’re with? Alice, my legendary drinking buddy, or Heather, my other legendary drinking buddy, or ALTERNATIVELY, we're not harassing innocent people on the streets because that's fucking creepy and who does that???? You choose which one you think is right. 
85: If your BF/GF was into drugs would you care? Anything over weed and I'd be pissed. 
86: What was the most eventful thing that happened last time you went to see a movie? It was Logan and everyone cried. 
87: Who was your last received call from? My sister. 
88: If someone gave you $1,000 to burn a butterfly over a candle, would you? Y'know what, I would. Yeah it's fucking awful and disgusting and I'd feel bad but I'm also a student, I'm poor with bills to pay and I kinda need food. So yeah I would. 
89: What is something you wish you had more of? Time. 
90: Have you ever trusted someone too much? I have. 
91: Do you sleep with your window open? Hell no because I'm no barbarian 😂 and also Scotland is freezing! 
92: Do you get along with girls? I do, I get along with most people. 
93: Are you keeping a secret from someone who needs to know the truth? Everyone is. 
94: Does sex mean love? Sex means whatever you want it to mean. 
95: You’re locked in a room with the last person you kissed, is that a problem? O H. MY. GOD. 
96: Have you ever kissed anyone with a lip ring? I think so...? I'm not sure. Would be up for it but I can't remember. 
97: Did you sleep alone this week? I'm always alone dude. 
98: Everybody has somebody that makes them happy, do you? My friends yup. 
99: Do you believe in love at first sight? For some people sure, if it ever happens with me, I'll be the first to tell y'all. 
100: Who was the last person that you pinky promise? I can't remember sadly.

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Q&A with former Apple CEO John Sculley on the Newton, the iPhone 7, and starting a business today

The legendary John Sculley ran Apple for 10 years and Pepsi-Cola for six years before that. Back in 1983, Steve Jobs pitched John Sculley to join Apple with the following now-legendary line: “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?” The result was some of Apple’s most groundbreaking and tumultuous years. They included the development of the hugely consequential (if ultimately ill-fated) Newton MessagePad; it was Sculley who coined the phrase “personal digital assistant.” And a popular myth about Sculley and Steve Jobs — that Sculley had a direct hand in firing Jobs in 1985 — isn’t true. Since then, Sculley has launched many successful business ventures, and he shows no signs of slowing down. We had a chance to talk to Sculley by phone and ask him about his time at Apple, his thoughts on the iPhone 7, and his latest book Moonshot. The following interview is edited for length and clarity. ExtremeTech: Thank you for taking the time to talk with us. Can you tell us a little bit about your time with Steve Jobs? John Sculley: Steve Jobs — he’s an American treasure. He’s a genius. He always was. Steve and I, there’s probably no one on the planet who closer to Steve Jobs for the few years that we worked together than me. The experiences we had together were incredibly valuable for me to learn. At the same time, I was there when Steve was creating a lot of the things which weren’t technically possible back in the early ’80s.  Moore’s Law, you just couldn’t do it. It wasn’t until that Steve came back a much more mature Steve Jobs 2.0 that he was actually able to implement it. We were talking about phones and talking about a lot of the very cool stuff that Steve ended up doing later in life. ET: I remember going into Manhattan to see the Mac II for the first time in 1987, I think it was. JS: Really? Wow. Yeah. That was the Mac SE. That was a great product. I loved that. ET: Yeah, the Mac SE was fantastic. We also think people don’t realize how much of a connection ARM has from the Newton to today, to the iPhones today. JS: A lot of people think that Newton was a failure and it’s absolutely true. When we launched it, the handwriting was terrible. Recognition just didn’t work and people made fun of it. The thing that a lot of people don’t know is that when Walt Mossberg left The Wall Street Journal, he listed the most important innovations he’d ever seen in the 20 years he was there, and Newton was right up there on the list. The reason was it was the first personal digital assistant, way before Siri, Cortana…

ET: Even Palm. JS: …the things we have today, but the technology was just pretty early in those days, obviously. The other interesting thing was was that there was no low-powered microprocessor, and we needed one that could render graphics. We had an object-based operating system that we created for Newton, and the small processors for handheld products could only do integer arithmetic. They couldn’t do graphics. They didn’t last very long. It took too much battery power. We created a company together with Hermann Hauser out of Cambridge University. He was the founder of Acorn and it was all Hermann’s invention, but it was all architected to the requirements of Newton. We had a Newton team up at 1 Kendall Square next to IBM in Boston. They developed the operating system, which was a derivative of Schema and a little bit of Smalltalk operating systems that had been created back in the ’70s. Again, they couldn’t run fast in those days. Out of that came ARM, and Apple owned 43% of ARM. I was pushed out of Apple in 1993 because I refused to license the Mac software. I thought it would bankrupt the company. Apple did license the Mac software, and almost did bankrupt the company. JS: It wasn’t until Gil Amelio, who was the second CEO to follow me, sold the 43% of the ARM technology that Apple owned for $800 million. That kept the doors open at Apple from going bankrupt. But it also gave them the ability to go and buy Steve Jobs’s NeXT, and you know the rest of the story. In hindsight, Newton actually not only helped co-develop the microprocessor that’s in 7 or 8 billion mobile devices today, and that just got acquired for $32 billion by SoftBank. It also helped define the whole idea of what personal digital assistants were, and screens that you could do gestures on — all that stuff which we later saw commercialized 15 years later. ET: Everyone I’ve spoken to over the years who’s had a Newton thought it was fantastic, aside from the handwriting part – who understood what it was for thought it was great. JS: Yeah. The funny thing is it was our mistake. We actually went through a very talented guy Stepan Pachikov, who was a Russian scientist. He was out on the leading edge of stuff and he thought that the handwriting would work better than it did, and it didn’t. He went on to be successful at other things, and actually moved to Silicon Valley. We never needed the handwriting recognition. It’s a shame we ever put it in the release of the product because it was so ancillary. It had a digital assistant. You could’ve done it without any handwriting recognition. You may remember, about a year after Newton, there was a product called PalmPilot and they did something much smarter than we did. They came out with this Graffiti language, which was a better way to do it. They said, instead of trying to have the computer recognize your handwriting, we’ll just create an alphabet of symbols and it worked perfectly. ET: I was pretty good at , but not great. JS: Yeah. Anyway, now you can do all that with speech recognition. You don’t need handwriting recognition anymore.

ET: Apple’s in the news a lot right now. I mean, it’s always in the news for one reason or another, but especially now for the iPhone 7. JS: I’m a big Apple fan. I own an iPhone. I love it. My favorite product is the iPad Pro. On the iPhone 7, I think they’re really laying the groundwork for 2017, which will be the 10th anniversary of when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. The most significant set of components, I think, that they’ve sort of teased about, is the AirPods. I have no inside information, just to be clear, but the speculation is is that the AirPods will play a bigger role in the future. As you add more and more Siri capability into an iPhone, that there are a lot of things that the AirPods should enable you to do as both a microphone and a speaker. Think of Alexa and how cool that is. Siri is obviously getting better and better over time, too. I think, from my vantage point, I’m really excited and looking forward to 2017 when the 10th anniversary iPhone, I would expect, is going to be amazing. ET: That brings to mind tapping the one AirPod and thinking of Star Trek and saying, “Computer.” Like you do that same kind of motion that you see in science fiction with that device. JS: Yeah. I suspect it will be really cool. I can’t wait to have one. I mean, that’s a product, the one in 2017, I’d probably stand in line to get one like  does. Woz usually stands in line. He’ll go there and wait for seven hours to be one of the first. ET: Tell us about your latest book Moonshot. JS: Sure. Moonshot is not an autobiography. It’s really about lessons learned by successful entrepreneurs, including myself — all about what do you have to do to take advantage of the exceptional time we’re at now, with this exponential growing technology to be able to build multi-billion dollar businesses… The entrepreneurs were comfortable talking to me because they knew I wasn’t trying to write a sensational story. I was trying to get their ‘lessons learned’ as well. They talked candidly about what went well and what doesn’t go well. Obviously, when you’re taking high risks, you make mistakes, and the mistakes you really learn more from than the successes. That was the motivation for Moonshot. 

The real insight is something that is already happened: There’s been a market power shift. Remember, my background is marketing. The power shift in the marketplace has been that in every industry, no matter what the vertical sector may be, that the power has shifted to the customers. The customers now have more transparency, and they have more access to opinions and other customers unfiltered. They’re paying more attention to the opinions of other customers than they are to the reputations of the large incumbents. A simple example would be in June: No one had ever heard of Pokémon Go. By the middle of July on one day, more people were in Pokémon Go than Twitter. You get word of mouth. That was the motivation, this power shift of customers in control. What it led to is, what do you do with this information? A good example I talk about forget about the business plan. The business plan is just a budgeting exercise and sure, you got to have it, and you have to have a budget, too. But what you really want, if you’re going to build a disruptive business, is you start with a big customer problem that needs a solution that probably has a big pain point for customers, so they’re aware of it. Then you build a customer plan. ET: We know at least two of your latest companies, PeopleTicker and Zeta Interactive; can you tell us a little bit about what you’re working on now? JS: With Zeta Interactive, we are very profitable and growing very fast; we have about 1,300 people in the company. We manage the whole life cycle of the customer, from engagement through retention and monetization. We sell to about 500 of the Fortune 1,000. We have one of the largest databases on people, I think, since we’re in markets besides the US. We have about 370 million profiled names in our database. We use machine learning technology. We are able to provide some services to big verticals like insurance, wireless operators, and financial services. PeopleTicker is a company — I co-founded Zeta, I didn’t co-found PeopleTicker, but I’m an investor in it and a chairman of it. What PeopleTicker does is it says, we’re in the era of urgency. It’s all shifting to project-based work, where people are being recruited on project teams that may come from your organization, but may also come from independent contractors, partners, and customer people. These project teams have all kinds of new technology tools. A good example would be Slack. People use Slack channels to be able to communicate with different people and different project needs. The result is that all of the job growth in the US — not some of it, but all of it — is coming from independent contractors. They work for themselves, but they hire out on a part-time basis, a project basis, whatever they need. They’re the on-demand workforce.

Now with data analytics, PeopleTicker can tell you for every city, let’s say in the United States, for 16 different job verticals, what the pay rate is for those job verticals, either for independent contractors or for permanents. It’s really used as a planning tool. If someone says, ‘Gee, I’ve got an urgent need to put together a project team. I need 160 people. I’m looking at 4 different cities; where should I do it? What’s the comparable costs from a pay rate to bill rate for those kinds of people?’ I can look at a mix of perms versus independent contractors. You can go right now to India and say, ‘What would it cost in India versus Mexico versus Canada versus the US in the individual cities for that.’ It’s a fast-growing platform, all based on sophisticated structured data analytics. I’ll give you another one, which is an amazing healthcare company called RxAdvance. This’ll probably be the biggest one that I will have done since Apple when it gets completed. The biggest cost in healthcare are chronic care patients, and the single biggest part of that spend is in pharmaceuticals and medication therapy management, especially drugs. Supply chains are traditionally procurement networks, which are managing the cost of procuring drugs. Our team has had over 60 years experience in the health care. We started this company three years ago. What we do is we go in and we unlock all of the inefficiencies, complexities of avoidable drugs for chronic care patients and related medication therapy management, which is incredibly complex and way too costly. We believe that by 2020, that we’ll get this business up to about $10 billion of revenue and about $800 million in profit. I’ll give you one final example. We were at the Goldman Sachs FinTech Conference this week in New York and we just took out a stealth FinTech company called Lantern Credit. I’ll be doing the keynote at Money 2020 in Las Vegas where we’ll unveil demonstrations of it. This is, again, a sophisticated data analytics company that enables you to improve your credit score in less than 24 hours, versus the 6 to 8 months it takes today through a complex dispute resolution process that often doesn’t work. The first generation of consumer credit score companies were basically about ways to sell credit cards. What we do is we can go in and enable all kinds of ways of unlocking, particularly middle income people, giving them far more credit worthiness because of the types of things that we can do working with large banks and our sophisticated data analytics platform. Click to Post

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Numbers, Numbers Everywhere

How old are you? I turned 22 last April.

What day of the month is your birthday? It’s on the 21st. It’s exactly a week after my brother’s birthday and six days before my parents’ anniversary, so April tends to be a hectic month for us. What's the last digit of your phone number? It ends in 5.

What's your favorite number? I don’t pick a favorite number because the idea just doesn’t make sense to me. If someone asked me to pick a number though I always go with 4 just because it reminds me of Beyoncé lol How many bedrooms does your home have? It used to have three but my parents had the balcony renovated and transformed into another bedroom after they realized my siblings and I were all getting older, and that it would be the most appropriate decision to let us have our own rooms.

How many people do you live with? Four people and two dogs. How many exes do you have? I’ve only had one, but we got back together. How long is the song you're listening to? (If you have music going.) Not listening to any music right now but the last song I played a few hours ago was Thick and Thin by LANY, which is 3 minutes and 32 seconds long. What time did you wake up, today? I woke up at 8 AM. I surprised myself today because it meant I had slept for 11 hours, something I don’t remember ever being able to do lol. I was asleep by 9 PM last night because overthinking all day tired me out and also because I didn’t have my afternoon coffee. How many siblings do you have? I have two. I don’t speak to one of them. How many gaming consoles are in your home? We have three consoles that we currently use – PS4, Switch, and my siblings also recently re-unboxed our PS3 to play older games on it. We also have other consoles that we haven’t used in a while but just never thrown out – Wii, DSi, PS2, and two PSPs. How many pets do you have? I have two dogs :) Kimi’s a 12 year old half-aspin half-we never actually figured out what his other breed is, we’re thinking shih tzu? and Cooper is a three month old beagle. How many schools have you attended? Just two. I attended the same school from kindergarten to high school then I went to a different one for college. How old were you when you had your first kiss? (If you've had it.) I was 16, but was turning 17 that year. How many movies have you seen at the cinema this year? Zero. This would be a lot sadder to answer if I loved going to the cinemas, but tbh I only watch movies in the theatres like twice a year so I’m not too bothered. Still, I miss having that option. How many windows does your bedroom have? It has two big windows but each of them have six panes that I can open. How many TVs are in your home? Four. There’s one in the dining room, living room, parents’ room, and brother’s room. How many pairs of shoes do you own? I don’t feel like getting up just to count them. I wanna say around 15-20 pairs. How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Already mentioned this, but 11 hours. That’s a feat for me, considering I’ve only been getting 4-5 hours a night lately. I even wanted to sleep more, but Cooper wanted a playmate and I felt bad. How many inches long is your hair (at it's longest point)? Idk 8, 9 inches? Not good with exact measurements, but the longest it’s been was right above my waist. How many chairs are in your living room? We have an L-shaped couch that can seat five people, which is how big my family is so it’s just the right size for us. We don’t have chairs per se, though we used to a few years ago.   How many pairs of sunglasses do you own? Zero. Not a fan of them. How many cell phones have you owned/had? My current one is my 8th. I’ve switched phones so much because I lost them a lot (as a kid) or I broke them a lot (as a teenager). Was never good at taking care of my valuables so my parents made sure that with my iPhone 8, it had the toughest phone case and the thickest tempered glass we could find. I still ended up ruining them both loooool but the phone is still staying strong with me, so at least that’s something. How many apps are on your cell phone? 99. How the fuck do I have that many??? I always just thought I had around 25. I need to clean up my phone, damn. How tall are you? 5′1″. How long have you lived in your current home? 12 years. What percentage is your phone's battery at right now? It’s at 33% right now. I’ve been horrible at charging it lately because I keep unplugging when it hits around 45% so I can use it wirelessly, whoops. How much your home's rent (or mortgage) each month? I’m not sure about the amount; my parents pay for the house. How many surgeries have you had? Zero. How many doors does your home have? 13. How many times did you drink (alcohol) last month? I’m not sure...maybe once or twice? I try to save up my alcohol because I only have five bottles of soju and I don’t think I’ll be getting another set soon. How many pillows are on your bed? Two. How many letters are in your first name? R-o-b-y-n, five. How many times have you been in love? Once. How many pieces of jewelry are you currently wearing? None right now and none for a while. I haven’t had a reason to wear jewelry at home. What is the age difference between you and your significant other? One month and around two weeks. We’re the same age - we went to school together and were part of the same batch. How much cash do you currently have? I have a little over ₱700. It’s the last of my school allowance, aw :( How many contacts are in your phone? A lot. I don’t think my phone has an option to view the total number. How many best friends do you have? Two. How old is your mom? 48, though she’s turning 49 in September. How old is your dad? 49. How many keys do you have (on your keyring/chain or whatever)? Just two – house and car keys. I’d put trinkets on it but I’ve lost the ones I’ve tried hooking onto my keychain.

How many keychains are attached to your keys? ^ How many video games do you own? My best guess would be 50-60. I’d say we have around 15 per console. How many monthly bills do you pay/have? We have the internet, phone, electricity, and water bills, but it’s my parents who pay for them. They also pay for the house and the cars. Until recently we also got monthly bills for our cable subscription, but my dad canceled it after he realized no one in the house watched TV anymore because we’re all on either YouTube or Netflix now. If you get an allowance, how much do you get weekly? My parents gave me ₱2000 a week in college, which would be enough to gas up my car for the next five days, feed myself in school, and have one or two nights out with friends. It used to be ₱1000 but that was super little and I used to starve myself in school, and for the longest time I had just been too shy to tell my parents to increase my allowance. If you have a job, how much do you earn (hourly)? No job yet. What is your town/city's population? (You might need to look that one up.) A little less than 780,000.

How long have you lived in the town you currently live in? More or less 20 years. We only lived in Manila until I was 1. How long have you lived in the state/province you currently live in? Again, 20 years. Manila is in a different region from where I currently reside. How long have you been with your significant other? (if taken) A little over four years. How long were you with your most recent ex? (if you have one) My only ex is also my SO, and during our first relationship we were together for eight months. How many blind dates have you been on? Zero. Not for me. How many email addresses do you have (that you use)? Three. I have two Gmails and one Outlook, but the last one I barely use anymore. How many times have you traveled outside of your home country? Three. The first was a joint vacation to Singapore and Malaysia; the second was a trip to Indonesia; the third was a cruise that involved three countries, but we flied to China because that’s where the ship was stationed. How many times do you usually sneeze in a row? Four or five at most. But that doesn’t happen a lot. Usually I’d only sneeze once. What time is it right now? 5:22 PM.

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Q&A with former Apple CEO John Sculley on the Newton, the iPhone 7, and starting a business today

The legendary John Sculley ran Apple for 10 years and Pepsi-Cola for six years before that. Back in 1983, Steve Jobs pitched John Sculley to join Apple with the following now-legendary line: “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?” The result was some of Apple’s most groundbreaking and tumultuous years. They included the development of the hugely consequential (if ultimately ill-fated) Newton MessagePad; it was Sculley who coined the phrase “personal digital assistant.” And a popular myth about Sculley and Steve Jobs — that Sculley had a direct hand in firing Jobs in 1985 — isn’t true. Since then, Sculley has launched many successful business ventures, and he shows no signs of slowing down. We had a chance to talk to Sculley by phone and ask him about his time at Apple, his thoughts on the iPhone 7, and his latest book Moonshot. The following interview is edited for length and clarity. ExtremeTech: Thank you for taking the time to talk with us. Can you tell us a little bit about your time with Steve Jobs? John Sculley: Steve Jobs — he’s an American treasure. He’s a genius. He always was. Steve and I, there’s probably no one on the planet who closer to Steve Jobs for the few years that we worked together than me. The experiences we had together were incredibly valuable for me to learn. At the same time, I was there when Steve was creating a lot of the things which weren’t technically possible back in the early ’80s.  Moore’s Law, you just couldn’t do it. It wasn’t until that Steve came back a much more mature Steve Jobs 2.0 that he was actually able to implement it. We were talking about phones and talking about a lot of the very cool stuff that Steve ended up doing later in life. ET: I remember going into Manhattan to see the Mac II for the first time in 1987, I think it was. JS: Really? Wow. Yeah. That was the Mac SE. That was a great product. I loved that. ET: Yeah, the Mac SE was fantastic. We also think people don’t realize how much of a connection ARM has from the Newton to today, to the iPhones today. JS: A lot of people think that Newton was a failure and it’s absolutely true. When we launched it, the handwriting was terrible. Recognition just didn’t work and people made fun of it. The thing that a lot of people don’t know is that when Walt Mossberg left The Wall Street Journal, he listed the most important innovations he’d ever seen in the 20 years he was there, and Newton was right up there on the list. The reason was it was the first personal digital assistant, way before Siri, Cortana…

ET: Even Palm. JS: …the things we have today, but the technology was just pretty early in those days, obviously. The other interesting thing was was that there was no low-powered microprocessor, and we needed one that could render graphics. We had an object-based operating system that we created for Newton, and the small processors for handheld products could only do integer arithmetic. They couldn’t do graphics. They didn’t last very long. It took too much battery power. We created a company together with Hermann Hauser out of Cambridge University. He was the founder of Acorn and it was all Hermann’s invention, but it was all architected to the requirements of Newton. We had a Newton team up at 1 Kendall Square next to IBM in Boston. They developed the operating system, which was a derivative of Schema and a little bit of Smalltalk operating systems that had been created back in the ’70s. Again, they couldn’t run fast in those days. Out of that came ARM, and Apple owned 43% of ARM. I was pushed out of Apple in 1993 because I refused to license the Mac software. I thought it would bankrupt the company. Apple did license the Mac software, and almost did bankrupt the company. JS: It wasn’t until Gil Amelio, who was the second CEO to follow me, sold the 43% of the ARM technology that Apple owned for $800 million. That kept the doors open at Apple from going bankrupt. But it also gave them the ability to go and buy Steve Jobs’s NeXT, and you know the rest of the story. In hindsight, Newton actually not only helped co-develop the microprocessor that’s in 7 or 8 billion mobile devices today, and that just got acquired for $32 billion by SoftBank. It also helped define the whole idea of what personal digital assistants were, and screens that you could do gestures on — all that stuff which we later saw commercialized 15 years later. ET: Everyone I’ve spoken to over the years who’s had a Newton thought it was fantastic, aside from the handwriting part – who understood what it was for thought it was great. JS: Yeah. The funny thing is it was our mistake. We actually went through a very talented guy Stepan Pachikov, who was a Russian scientist. He was out on the leading edge of stuff and he thought that the handwriting would work better than it did, and it didn’t. He went on to be successful at other things, and actually moved to Silicon Valley. We never needed the handwriting recognition. It’s a shame we ever put it in the release of the product because it was so ancillary. It had a digital assistant. You could’ve done it without any handwriting recognition. You may remember, about a year after Newton, there was a product called PalmPilot and they did something much smarter than we did. They came out with this Graffiti language, which was a better way to do it. They said, instead of trying to have the computer recognize your handwriting, we’ll just create an alphabet of symbols and it worked perfectly. ET: I was pretty good at , but not great. JS: Yeah. Anyway, now you can do all that with speech recognition. You don’t need handwriting recognition anymore.

ET: Apple’s in the news a lot right now. I mean, it’s always in the news for one reason or another, but especially now for the iPhone 7. JS: I’m a big Apple fan. I own an iPhone. I love it. My favorite product is the iPad Pro. On the iPhone 7, I think they’re really laying the groundwork for 2017, which will be the 10th anniversary of when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. The most significant set of components, I think, that they’ve sort of teased about, is the AirPods. I have no inside information, just to be clear, but the speculation is is that the AirPods will play a bigger role in the future. As you add more and more Siri capability into an iPhone, that there are a lot of things that the AirPods should enable you to do as both a microphone and a speaker. Think of Alexa and how cool that is. Siri is obviously getting better and better over time, too. I think, from my vantage point, I’m really excited and looking forward to 2017 when the 10th anniversary iPhone, I would expect, is going to be amazing. ET: That brings to mind tapping the one AirPod and thinking of Star Trek and saying, “Computer.” Like you do that same kind of motion that you see in science fiction with that device. JS: Yeah. I suspect it will be really cool. I can’t wait to have one. I mean, that’s a product, the one in 2017, I’d probably stand in line to get one like  does. Woz usually stands in line. He’ll go there and wait for seven hours to be one of the first. ET: Tell us about your latest book Moonshot. JS: Sure. Moonshot is not an autobiography. It’s really about lessons learned by successful entrepreneurs, including myself — all about what do you have to do to take advantage of the exceptional time we’re at now, with this exponential growing technology to be able to build multi-billion dollar businesses… The entrepreneurs were comfortable talking to me because they knew I wasn’t trying to write a sensational story. I was trying to get their ‘lessons learned’ as well. They talked candidly about what went well and what doesn’t go well. Obviously, when you’re taking high risks, you make mistakes, and the mistakes you really learn more from than the successes. That was the motivation for Moonshot. 

The real insight is something that is already happened: There’s been a market power shift. Remember, my background is marketing. The power shift in the marketplace has been that in every industry, no matter what the vertical sector may be, that the power has shifted to the customers. The customers now have more transparency, and they have more access to opinions and other customers unfiltered. They’re paying more attention to the opinions of other customers than they are to the reputations of the large incumbents. A simple example would be in June: No one had ever heard of Pokémon Go. By the middle of July on one day, more people were in Pokémon Go than Twitter. You get word of mouth. That was the motivation, this power shift of customers in control. What it led to is, what do you do with this information? A good example I talk about forget about the business plan. The business plan is just a budgeting exercise and sure, you got to have it, and you have to have a budget, too. But what you really want, if you’re going to build a disruptive business, is you start with a big customer problem that needs a solution that probably has a big pain point for customers, so they’re aware of it. Then you build a customer plan. ET: We know at least two of your latest companies, PeopleTicker and Zeta Interactive; can you tell us a little bit about what you’re working on now? JS: With Zeta Interactive, we are very profitable and growing very fast; we have about 1,300 people in the company. We manage the whole life cycle of the customer, from engagement through retention and monetization. We sell to about 500 of the Fortune 1,000. We have one of the largest databases on people, I think, since we’re in markets besides the US. We have about 370 million profiled names in our database. We use machine learning technology. We are able to provide some services to big verticals like insurance, wireless operators, and financial services. PeopleTicker is a company — I co-founded Zeta, I didn’t co-found PeopleTicker, but I’m an investor in it and a chairman of it. What PeopleTicker does is it says, we’re in the era of urgency. It’s all shifting to project-based work, where people are being recruited on project teams that may come from your organization, but may also come from independent contractors, partners, and customer people. These project teams have all kinds of new technology tools. A good example would be Slack. People use Slack channels to be able to communicate with different people and different project needs. The result is that all of the job growth in the US — not some of it, but all of it — is coming from independent contractors. They work for themselves, but they hire out on a part-time basis, a project basis, whatever they need. They’re the on-demand workforce.

Now with data analytics, PeopleTicker can tell you for every city, let’s say in the United States, for 16 different job verticals, what the pay rate is for those job verticals, either for independent contractors or for permanents. It’s really used as a planning tool. If someone says, ‘Gee, I’ve got an urgent need to put together a project team. I need 160 people. I’m looking at 4 different cities; where should I do it? What’s the comparable costs from a pay rate to bill rate for those kinds of people?’ I can look at a mix of perms versus independent contractors. You can go right now to India and say, ‘What would it cost in India versus Mexico versus Canada versus the US in the individual cities for that.’ It’s a fast-growing platform, all based on sophisticated structured data analytics. I’ll give you another one, which is an amazing healthcare company called RxAdvance. This’ll probably be the biggest one that I will have done since Apple when it gets completed. The biggest cost in healthcare are chronic care patients, and the single biggest part of that spend is in pharmaceuticals and medication therapy management, especially drugs. Supply chains are traditionally procurement networks, which are managing the cost of procuring drugs. Our team has had over 60 years experience in the health care. We started this company three years ago. What we do is we go in and we unlock all of the inefficiencies, complexities of avoidable drugs for chronic care patients and related medication therapy management, which is incredibly complex and way too costly. We believe that by 2020, that we’ll get this business up to about $10 billion of revenue and about $800 million in profit. I’ll give you one final example. We were at the Goldman Sachs FinTech Conference this week in New York and we just took out a stealth FinTech company called Lantern Credit. I’ll be doing the keynote at Money 2020 in Las Vegas where we’ll unveil demonstrations of it. This is, again, a sophisticated data analytics company that enables you to improve your credit score in less than 24 hours, versus the 6 to 8 months it takes today through a complex dispute resolution process that often doesn’t work. The first generation of consumer credit score companies were basically about ways to sell credit cards. What we do is we can go in and enable all kinds of ways of unlocking, particularly middle income people, giving them far more credit worthiness because of the types of things that we can do working with large banks and our sophisticated data analytics platform. Click to Post