During times like this I tend to reserve commenting on social media. As NB puts it, "some days there were no words".
Planned Basic Income For All in Finland
In its final version, the basic income would replace other benefits people currently receive, and would therefore be rather high, as indicated by Kela’s Research Department Director Olli Kangas. It is considered that all Finnish citizens would be paid an untaxed benefit sum free of charge by the government, 800 euros a month in the final version, 550 euros monthly in the model’s pilot phase.
— Basic income: how Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide project in the EU by Finland Politics
It will be very interesting to follow if this is a success.
Fixie Friday - RAW Santafixie Team
via FGGT
Catching up with some podcasts on @OvercastFM this morning. Great to so many of the features in the iOS app also in the web app.
Read a few articles about people being able to switch to iPad Pro from their current laptop. Think it might be a while before I can do that.
I’m using an MBP just now but I reckon I could move down to a new MacBook. iPad Pro as a main dev machine might be a stretch though.
I still wonder if the ultimate goal of Apple is to bring iOS and OS X together somehow.
I do wish @slack’s formatting just used @gruber’s Markdown as a starting point.
Twitter is far from perfect but the it’s gradually getting there. It is improving.
Spoiled for Choice
There are too many easy choices.
I've noticed that retail stores and their vast volume of products seem to be on the rise. Every shopping trip turns into a "who buys all this?" while looking at the mountains of stock available. This isn't just about the products we can easily buy though. It seems now that we're even spoiled for choice in the experiences that we can have in life.
On Sunday I read a story about a silent fireworks display that was intended for babies and toddlers. After the show was finished parents complained that the fireworks were too loud. Hardly surprising given that fireworks by nature are loud.
The bugbear for me isn't the flawed logic of silent fireworks show, it's the availability of choice. We tend to do these things simply because we have the choice too. I'm sure most of us would consider taking our youngest children to a fireworks display but is there any benefit other than the fact that you can?
We're spoiled for choice and the element of resistance in that choice is being eroded away. Just because the decision to do something is easy, it doesn't mean that we should.