@malcomgreaves I'm not sure you caught the intended target of @cle's comment. I believe he was talking about your comment being the thing he thought may be intentionally ironic, not PG's essay.
One of the main points in the essay: "The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so"
And your comment is a classic example of that behavior.
I try to get around with just an apple watch. The most frustrating part is needing (or worrying I'll need) to take an uber or a lyft (my main modes of transport). They discontinued their watch apps and their api's are very locked down.
I've tried this several times too and still do phone less days quite often thanks to the watch, but my big obstacle has been the lack of Uber/Lyft which I use instead of having a car. They used to have those apps on the watch but unfortunately they don't.
If I could use Uber/Lyft on the watch I would mostly leave my phone on the charger.
Perhaps more importantly than a mental model for thinking about this you might need the right mental state. You're tired and not seeing a path forward. That leads to burnout fast and isn't a great space to make big decisions from.
I'd talk to your co-founder and start by taking some time off. I bet for the past 3 years of grinding on the startup you haven't done a good job with vacations. If you went and fully unplugged for a month (or more) you might be in a place for a better perspective.
You might feel like you can't get away - that you're too essential to some work right now - but in my experience a top role of co-founders is to keep the passion and vision strong. Where you sound like you're at mentally you may be doing more team harm than good and your co-founder may be surprisingly supportive of you taking some time to get rest.
I've attended one of those at the Zen Center! My partner took me to one as a birthday present last year. She ended up being kinda frustrated with the process, but I found it soothing and relaxing, and left happy and contented.
The guy running the workshop had us use epoxy and not urushi powder (not surprising; I'm sure all of us would have ended up with severe skin irritation otherwise). The article mentions concerns about food safety; IIRC we were told that the epoxy we were using in the workshop was not food safe, but that it's easy to acquire food-safe versions of it.
We also didn't do this in anywhere near as many steps, with as many different treatments for different sizes/shapes of damage. Ultimately we fully repaired a piece in a couple hours, not the several months that the article author took to do it right. (And the extra care and use of the proper materials shows; the final repaired alligator mug from the article looks orders of magnitude better than my work.)
I wish I could offer something more useful, but in this case her birthday was fast approaching and I remembered her bringing up Kintsugi in a conversation. I did a search for "kintsugi toronto" and found that teacher's site on the first results page. Back in the day I would have browsed craigslist, but unfortunately it's not as popular here anymore.
The article really focused on doing this in Yellowstone, and all the problems we'd have there. I noticed the second hottest spot on the map is Southern California - which has the benefits of being a desert and close to major population that'd use the power.
+1. Historically we’ve had to really bring order to nature in order to efficiently make food. In the future there’s an opportunity (with drones, ai, robots, etc) to instead harvest from the wild. It’d never be near as efficient but would definitely keep a balance.
This is a great group already doing this with bison, and he’s got a great book as well
This is how every herbivore lives in the wild: they do their thing until they are eventually murdered for their meat by predatory death machines. It's just that most of the predatory death machines are falcons or owls or wolves or lions or tigers or bears (oh my!)
But it's a reoccuring theme in so many science fiction, no matter if print, comic, movie etc. since that genre exists.
Masses of people living in walled cities, while the wild outsides are forbidden for the commoner, with variations like only the elites are allowed to go/hunt there, or more recently that autonomous robot gardener/harvester/hunter/killer thing.
One of the main points in the essay: "The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so"
And your comment is a classic example of that behavior.