Playing guitar while doing drugs. And reading.

Usually only if I want to reduce the risk of things being stolen out of my luggage.

Probably happening in the US as well.

This doesn’t seem like a good idea.

I play music. I sit silently and think. I read. I watch and listen to things.

Maybe I should have dumbed it down a little more.

Most likely a designer built these forms intentionally from requirements that tell him what elements need to be on each screen. It would be very simple to add an extra ‘opt out’ next to the opt in. The reasons the opt out option isn’t there are numerous. Most are not intentionally deceptive but some are. I’ve found that a legal requirement for something to be in place is a strong incentive for business to make it happen.

That’s great. But I think you’re dealing with analysis paralysis here. You’ve already got more than enough things to choose from. Just start doing some of them.

You need to work on your social skills. It’s not that hard.

Entrepreneurs.

“I’m delighted to be wrong” is not something I want to hear from someone who has such an outsized impact on my perception of reality.

You really need to work on getting comfortable with sitting in silence because being alone with your thoughts is where wisdom comes from.

Oh man, let me introduce you to Christopher Hitchens. Unfortunately dead now, he was an intellectual powerhouse who could cut down any argument for religion like a hot knife through butter. Start by searching Instagram for him. He’s also funny as shit. Incorporate some of his arguments against god in your conversations with people who insist that god has anything at all to do with your accomplishments and you should shut them up pretty quickly.

Big business is the enemy.

Well, Zuckerberg was so successful with his pivot to the metaverse so why not?