I used to play pool a fair amount and it reminds me of a quote an older player shared with me one time: "Every shot is a practice shot". His point was that every time you shot you were building up either good or bad habits, so every time you shoot you were to shoot the same way. Don't ever just "fuck around" because that contributes to bad habits or at least not building good habits.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle

This is one of my favorite quote and last year I learned it wasn’t actually Aristotle’s: https://medium.com/the-mission/my-favourite-quote-of-all-tim...

Pool should be mandatory part of Y Combinator. Really teaches you that ideas are worth jack all, and solid reliable execution wins the game every time

Pre-shot routines come into play to help with that I think. To take every shot with the same level of seriousness and preparation, whatever the position is.

For the last few years, I want to play pool more and more, but going to a club is such a drag for me. Especially when alone. A home with a pool table would be great.

A few frames of six-ball every few hours as a break from work...

> His point was that every time you shot you were building up either good or bad habits

This is a really key point about practice. "Practice" doesn't automatically mean improvement -- it can just as easily lock in the opposite.

You have to actively practice. That is, you have to analyze your performance and consciously practice changes that lead to improvement.

I saw this worded as "you play like you practice", many years ago: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3504-you-play-like-you-practi...

It mentions how people that took self-defense classes would hand a gun back to their assailant after disarming them, and that stuck with me.

Until it didn't.

Which is, of course, the only possible way to work.

Agreed. A regular frustration for me is clicking on a tweet that is a replay to a tween, and then I still have to scroll back to see the original tweet. I'm old and mostly use desktop, so I don't really know that's how it works on mobile.

Best info I can find is that they were only ever profitable in 2018 and 2019.

I worked for the govn't ~20 year ago - in IT - and even I hated our password policies. I just kept iterating the same password because we had to change it every 6 weeks.

I just tried it and it sounds nothing at all like me. shrug

Same here. It even mispronounced the basic french words, and inserted some background music similar to what you can hear on the CDs with exercises that come with those "foreign language for beginners" textbooks.

Wikipedia says based on true events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code

Agree. I just did a quick check and 60 Minutes averages around 10 million viewers. It's not like in 1977 when something 20%+ of the US population was watching that show.

It is pretty well available — and quickly — via piracy means, which I have always thought interesting for its somewhat esoteric content.

I don't know how all cab services work, but my local cabbies have told me they split the fare 50/50 with the company. The company owns and maintains the car and the driver pays gas. With Uber they seem to take pretty close to half get to push all the vehicle expenses on the driver. It just doesn't make sense to me.

> With Uber they seem to take pretty close to half get to push all the vehicle expenses on the driver.

This is only seems to be true, depending on definitions, when the fares are low. On a dollar basis, it seems, from my quick googling, that Uber is taking much less than 50%.

This is why the “self driving is ubers end game zealots” never made any sense to me. They’re currently exploiting people and can’t figure out how to make money doing it. And exploiting people has been a sure fire business model for the entirety of human history.

Really don’t see how robots are the answer here. They have an army of people working for peanuts already!

The idea being pushed is that you have more volume with Uber.

I think the idea is that they would only partially unload. Get enough weight off the bow to help move it out.