Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Design Theory" channel.

  1. 25:21 "You cannot solve problems outside your current geography with solutions built in your current geography." Mentally this is why diversity is powerful in organizations more often than not -- how you were identified and treated growing up affects how you think and approach life, including the observations and solutions you come up with towards a work problem.
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  2. Yup, just ask anyone wearing any uniform, where subtle alterations and accoutrements become the only permitted way to express individuality.
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  3. Dell is pretty good at keeping their laptops repairable. The one I bought from them last year I shopped partially by reading through their service manuals prior to ordering.
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  4. By then did it taste like you'd imagine eating a crowbar would be?
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  5. I have a fairly plain branded notepad that I got from my one first class flight on an Emirates A380, a fairly long leg returning from Taipei that I snagged for unusually cheap on a last-minute upgrade offer. Still not sure what if anything I want to write in it, especially since they only go for like $20 on eBay.
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  6. Might include the cost of drilling and piping the well, which itself is a substantial expense regardless of what's lifting the water out
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  7. I own at least car value's worth of commercial-grade IT equipment and associated materials (mostly power cables from around the world). It's very much overkill for the residences I maintain them at, but they are in production and I'm basically learning SMB-size network engineering through them. The like $2000 I've spent on airline business and first class amenity kits and pajamas though, I don't have such a logical explanation for. Over half of them come from hard products I never experienced myself, or were an older or alternate version of the ones I did. I've so far only worn one of the pajama sets at all. Maybe I have wanderlust working at the back of an office that isn't sending me out as often as I'd like? For me the bags themselves are the most attractive (usually don't care so much for the actual amenities), and I use a few of them as overly luxurious packing cubes for various combinations of chargers and cables.
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  8. Teaching the teachers was a huge issue too. Many of them needed to be trained on what they could get the internet as well, and then how they could incorporate the access into their lesson plans.
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  9. 16:00 Does this mean that those of us power users who enjoy construction and demand fine customization are societally neurodivergent?
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  10. 17:58 In terms of value, what files you have on that Macbook often has a copy elsewhere, unless the work originated there and you failed to make backups like you ought to. Personally-valued items are often a single unique physical object that's not so easily transported to and from safekeeping offsite.
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  11. I'd probably redesign the mosquito nets so that they somehow disintegrate when immersed. Probably make the netting out of biodegradable fibers. Yeah it would increase the cost but it's not like they were being used as intended anyway (other than as a tax writeoff).
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  12. I think much of the outrage comes from how they got so much disposable wealth, which is less and less by the middle class grind most of us are limited to and still getting replaced from, and more like inheritances, lucky speculations, and insider tradings. The outrage comes from a rising sentiment that we can't adult our way into those elite networks, instead the path to ludicrous wealth gets set for us well before we graduate high school.
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  13. ​ @svr5423 For disseminating information through books when we have the internet perhaps. But libraries can still be a useful node of knowledge in being a dedicated environment for research with commercial-grade WiFi as well as free access to otherwise premium magazine and news outlet subscriptions, all not limited to formal enrollment into an academic calendar.
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