[Sponsor] Digit
Everyone feels like they should be saving more money. However saving money is hard and stressful. That’s why we built Digit. Digit automatically saves money for you, so you don’t have to think about it. Our hope is, with Digit, we can remove some of the money stress from our lives. So far Digit has saved over $700,000 for our members.
Today we’re sharing more invites to Digit.
Anyone who uses this link, not only will be able to sign up for Digit today. But will also get jump started with a free $5 in their Digit savings.
Note from Jared: Digit looks seriously cool. Even cooler that all that great tech sits atop an FDIC-insured savings account. If you’re anything like my wife and I, then you have trouble sticking to a budget. Watch their Sandwich video to learn more. I love the playful, off-kilter animations.
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Anthony Bourdain on Showing Up on Time
This, seven ways from Sunday, emphatically this:
Q: What’s the best advice you ever received from anyone? Who gave it? And when?
A: Show up on time. I learned this from the mentor who I call Bigfoot in Kitchen Confidential. If you didn’t show up 15 minutes exactly before your shift — if you were 13 minutes early — you lost the shift, you were sent home. The second time you were fired. It is the basis of everything. I make all my major decisions on other people based on that. Give the people you work with or deal with or have relationships with the respect to show up at the time you said you were going to. And by that I mean, every day, always and forever. Always be on time. It is a simple demonstration of discipline, good work habits, and most importantly respect for other people. As an employee, it was a hugely important expression of respect, and as an employer, I quickly came to understand that there are two types of people in this world: There are the type of people who are going to live up to what they said they were going to do yesterday, and then there are people who are full of shit. And that’s all you really need to know. If you can’t be bothered to show up, why should anybody show up? It’s just the end of the fucking world.
Excerpted from this Men’s Journal interview.
[Sponsor] PagerDuty
PagerDuty is an operations performance platform that sits at the heart of your systems and helps you resolve incidents faster. Easily integrate all your monitoring tools for complete visibility across operations, and create on-call schedules to assign the right people to be alerted when something breaks. You can respond to alerts from anywhere, get automatic incident escalations, and ultimately shorten your response time to solve problems faster.
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All These App Rejection Stories in One Headline “No One Dares to Build WatchKit Apps that Matter”
In a tweet so ludicrous it bears quoting in full, Greg Pierce announces that Apple has yet again rejected the Drafts.app Today Widget:
Last week’s rejection? Your Today widget does too much.
This week’s? Your Today widget doesn’t do enough.
Seriously.
— Greg Pierce (@agiletortoise) December 9, 2014Every time one of these iOS 8 Extension rejection stories tears across my Twitter and Bloglovin feeds, my mind goes straight to one thing: Apple Watch.
If you’re not already aware, the first round of third-party apps for Apple Watch will be built using APIs similar to those used to make Today Widget extensions. The Watch apps will bear one other crucial similarity to Today Widgets: they’re brand new.
I fear that Watch apps will be subject to the same capricious rejections and inscrutable policies that are already spoiling what should be a renaissance of fresh ideas. Between the lack of sustainable productivity app pricing (subscriptions, trials, paid upgrades) and the unpredictable threat of an App Review rejection, I personally can’t summon any excitement whatsoever about WatchKit. Why should I give a shit about sassy new hardware if the only apps worth building either can’t make money or might get rejected?
Unless something changes at Apple, I predict that we’ll mostly see two kinds of Watch apps next year: hobby apps by curious solo developers, and play-it-safe, free apps for business like Twitter or eBay. And it will be a shame, because the Apple Watch will deserve better.
[Sponsor]: PagerDuty
PagerDuty is an operations performance platform that sits at the heart of your systems and helps you resolve incidents faster. Easily integrate all your monitoring tools for complete visibility across operations, and create on-call schedules to assign the right people to be alerted when something breaks. You can respond to alerts from anywhere, get automatic incident escalations, and ultimately shorten your response time to solve problems faster.
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