Back in the day (and in poor countries with no pension funds) people knew that they had to have children because otherwise nobody would support them when they were old and they'd die. Right now people are confident that they will get a pension when they are old, so there is no reason for them to have kids.

They consider children as an inconvenience, miss out on the marvel of parenthood, and basically make the nation die off gradually.

Plus of course - lowering wages and women having to work, thus making having a child a huge problem.

The average or median worker in the United States cannot depend on a pension, it is impractical for the vast majority of Americans to consider what we commonly think of as retirement and stopping work. http://time.com/money/4258451/retirement-savings-survey/

To single out this law, which appears to be an overwhelmingly a good idea, as the "bad" one, seem a bit nonsensical.

If your against all regulation of building, then that might be a stand that you could try argue for. But to pick out this one new law seems weird.

Given that one of America's political parties has rejected the scientific evidence behind anthropogenic climate change and more or less equates taxation with theft, I don't foresee a carbon tax in the US any time soon. Compelling people to buy solar panels isn't a good law, but it might be the closest we can get in the current environment.

City councils have had guidelines for building appearance and colour schemes for I don't know how long.

And anyhow, the democratic process itself led to this ordinance.

tangentially: book recommendation: "The Wake" by Paul Kingsnorth. fictional account of life in England following the Norman invasion of 1066, written in a unique form of english. Here's the part I am reminded of - the narrator is enraged when the local official comes to his land to collect tax for the conquering foreign king:

> well i wolde not gif them geld no i wolde not gif naht to this ingenga bastard for what he done. i had naht to gif after all the wars and the fyr what had cum from him and these cyngs all feohtan ofer the right to play with small folc lic sum fuccan game and this is what i telt the fuccan weosul when he cum to me for geld

on another hand, now i slowly appreciate the "tragedy of the commons". oh to live in a world where nothing i did impacted anyone else, and nothing they did impacted me. how simple and independent and free we could all be. but the world is not like this, and becomes even less like this as time passes.

- stop eating sugar and flour (and limit rice, potatoes, pasta) - this way you cut excessive weight quickly and become healthier overall

- do basic back exercises at least twice per week - or even better do crossfit

- stretch your legs and calfs often - tension from your legs translates to your lower back and causes spine issues

With these 3 you're good forever :)

I'm 36, started in tech 20 years ago. And the only things I regret was working for someone too long, focusing on the wrong startups for too long (and yes, you can tell which ones are the bad ideas - mainly if they're too big and not focused).

The main driver of building your own stuff is necessity, pressure. And the main fuel is time to strategise and think. So by quitting your job you basically have all the needed tools.

And then you just need to get involved with things to find the right idea - talk to people, do things, try this, try that, until you find something that works and validate it. Watch different industries, see where tech could reinvent things. Take your time until you find something worthwhile, make sure it can be profitable in a short amount of time. And consult with people who've done it.

thanks for the extensive writeup. We do have time tracking exactly in the sense which you mentioned - while someone works on a task, or when he completes it - he gets a bubble asking 'how long did it take you and what were you doing?' - then he just inputs the time taken and optionally a comment - and BAM! you can see the history of work in his profile. Plus you can see the total time/cost of each project, plus estimated time of completion for each task and project.

We do have a kanban-like board where you can specify in what exact order an employee should work on tasks.

The reporting part is not fully fleshed out yet but we will work on it as soon as we launch.

Regarding CRM - it's the first big item on our TODO list once we launch, and stabilise the system. And it will base on our internal task/discussion engine so we won't have that much work to do.

We share your opinion about the need to fully onboard users and collaborate with their existing tools. Right now we are finishing up desktop file synchro, and mobile contacts/calendars synchro. The stuff you mentioned will come next. We have a really small but very talented team and it's about time to launch at last after so many years - so we can't have everything in version 1. But we already have enough to interest people and it's comprehensive enough to satisfy all their basic needs (except CRM :).

Please sign up on our beta site and please contact me directly via contact at dynado.com if you have any additional questions. I will be very grateful for your ideas now and feedback once we launch. If you are not worried about bugs and would like to look the product sooner than we launch - please let me know.

Will do! I'm intrigued....

If you are not worried about bugs

I am torn. If I was on my own, I would in an instant. What can we look at and learn from without having to move major parts of the business over, i.e., we want to leave email and calendar where they are, can we do that and still using e.g., the time tracking and project reporting?

Vibrant, I just tried a few times, but clicking on "get notified" didn't seem to do anything. My email address is in my profile, perhaps you could check your logs to see if you see it there.

I don't see your email in your profile :/ Please just email me at contact at dynado.com.

A product which is so complex and aimed at businesses can't be 'bootstrapped' in 3 months and launched. The result would be that nobody would care about it because it would be incomplete and wouldn't cater to their needs. There are a lot of such products and nobody remembers about them. I hope our effort will pay off, and that's what our current testers are telling me :)

So all the advanced features are hidden behind a simple interface.

And an example of integration between the calendar and tasks: if one of your support consultants goes on vacations, the workflow managing support tasks automatically stops assigning tasks to him so that they don't pile up while he is away.

Plus everyone will be able to cooperate with external contractors for free - you can add as many of them as you want and their accounts will be fully functional but with a few limitations.

For example instaed of sending an email to someone - you can send a task (the form is nearly the same), automatically creating a free account for that target user. This way you can keep track of the request and ping him if he forgets, store it in your project hierarchy, etc. And the recipient gets it through email and can reply only via email without even registering.

But otherwise this site looks great. Captured my email.