Maybe when presented with such an unfortunate design you may be able to search the items for a nonsensical search term, resulting 0 items in the list. Then, the footer should be visible.
Credit to Jason Fung (author of The Obesity Code) for the tips!
And I can very much relate to not being able to stop once I start eating something. I find this especially hard with processed/refined carbs, which I believe play some tricks on our hunger related hormones so our body can't detect when we've had enough food. If I stick to mostly more protein/fat and unprocessed carbs I find it much easier to control how much I eat.
It's interesting to hear your success with an extended fast. I haven't ventured beyond the 16:8 but am intrigued to experiment with something a bit longer this year.
Has anybody ever used stack ranking to power book recommendations? Instead of rating books on a scale of 1-5 star you instead rate each book relative to every other book you’ve ever read.
Some other factors that I think could be used to create a high quality book recommendation engine on top of stack ranking: number of books read (the top 5 books from someone who has read 200+ books is a stronger signal than someone who has read 10 books) and release date (give extra weight to older books to reduce recency bias).
What do you think? Am I onto something or just spewing some sat night nonsense?
Are all books comparable linearly like this though? I could see separate stack ranks for different genres (practical books, sci-fi, relationships, whatever), attributes (readability, teachability if applicable, subject matter interest), or more.
I also can't help but think in graphs, so I could also see horizontal-ish linkages between the stacks as well. Each book, then, could have a number of attributes that get an independent stack ranking for each one, leaving you with a constellation score as well as a focused look at what the book is good at or focused on. I could see it getting unwieldy though.
Thinking through this, maybe genre stacks based on some collapse of attribute ranking scores.
I think this could work, although perhaps in combination, not replacement, with the traditional ranking system. The book on the bottom of somebody’s list isn’t necessarily a bad one.
To play devil's advocate, I think there is a relatively small overlap of 1) very successful people in finance/tech/etc and 2) people that dedicate enough time to effectively communicate ideas in a book/blog
There are exceptions, Ray Dalio being a recent good example. But I think he is more the exception, not the rule.
Below is a related passage from Essentialism that touches upon this dynamic:
"Jim Collins, the author of the business classic Good to Great, was once told by Peter Drucker that he could either build a great company or build great ideas but not both. Jim chose ideas. As a result of this trade-off there are still only three full-time employees in his company, yet his ideas have reached tens of millions of people through his writing."
Huge Wagon fan. Very sad to see it go. I loved both the sharing functionality (shared folders + being able to easily share a link) and graphing capabilities. If I had to pick one over the other I'd probably pick the graphing capabilities.
Would love for you to replicate Wagon :)
I'd be happy to pay $5-10 / month to continue to use Wagon past October
