> "In an era where fear of public scrutiny is very tangible, people are afraid of archiving things for eternity. As a result, people choose not to archive at all, effectively erasing that history forever."
Really? I don't get that feeling at all. I use Evernote to archive anything I consider worth keeping. I wonder where such "fear of archiving" comes from.
A lot of people are retreating off public free-for-all platforms like Twitter to more siloed spaces like Discord, for many reasons, not just fear of archiving.
It all has the same effect of making it harder to archive though.
Dune Chronicles, the 8 books, as I consider them one single long story told in +4000 pages. The God Emperor of Dune (4th book) I consider to be the apex of the story.
I'm kind of shocked that anyone would recommend anything after book 4. (Book 4 is the last one I would recommend. As far as I'm concerned you can get everything you need from summaries for everything after that.)
I would like to see Evernote's AI evolve to a point where it would process my ~4500 item knowledge base (KB) of personal notes, clipping and documents, and then allow me to ask questions that would be answered based on that volume of information.
What you're asking for is more or less already a solved problem with a number of different AI tools. Whether it will work with minimal effort on an Evernote account, I'm not sure.
The last time I tried to use Sendy with SES I received a NNN from AWS after I stating I would be using it for email marketing (MailChimp alternative). It seems that my "self-hosting" idea was cancelled by a 3rd party.
Most likely you did not answer the questions that are most important to them.
- How will you make sure that only subscribed recipients will get your emails
- How will you handle bounces and complaints
- How will you monitor your sending
Don't beat around the bush and you will be approved in less than 1 day.
If you are native speaker of any language different from English, the greatest educational life hack is to learn English at the earliest time. It opens one's mind and allows access to content and communication at a global level.
And if you’re a non-English parent but speak English consider talking to your child in English from the very beginning. There are many different ways to approach this, one relatively simple way is to have one parent speak their native language while the other speaks English (called “one parent one language”). Even if your pronunciation isn’t perfect it will still yield very good results.
Source: I’m a parent of a 3yo who now understands speaks both English and Polish. Me and my wife are Polish and only I speak English. Apart from speaking we also use English audio in all TV content she watches and buy books that contains both English and Polish text.
Edit: as pointed out below I should’ve clarified that this applies when you live in a non-English country where your child does not have any other way to learn English (over here you can’t really learn English in schools - not enough hours, plus it starts way too late anyways).
> And if you’re a non-English parent but speak English consider talking to your child in English from the very beginning.
If you are living in a place where people don't speak your mother tongue but English is spoken everywhere and is the main medium of education, don't do this. The kids will pick-up English anyway because they will be exposed to it for 8 hours daily at school but if you don't speak with them in your mother tongue, they will never pick it up. The older they get, the harder it is. First hand experience.
They need English at home too, a lot happens in those early years where there's no schooling and it'd be way better to know English well going into school (what ever level that happens to be at) too.
My daycare has a lot of non-native people who do not speak the local, native language with their child, at all. Still, all children (age 3, they're usually in daycare since age 1) speak the local language fluidly, thanks to how much they they spend in daycare.
No, it’s not necessary to speak X at home if you live in an X speaking country, and it may even be harmful: often children will not pick up language Y if only one parent speaks it and the other parent speaks X.
Bilingual children whose parents don’t speak the language of the community at home may learn languages slightly slower but they quickly catch up once they make friends who only speak X.
Not really. The tv content alone is all in English, the books you buy are in English, the people you talk to are speaking English. In a way or another, they get English (I have two children and we speak Italian at home, they both know English).
By the way, something nobody mentioned, once your kid learns English in an English speaking country, your English gets better (assuming you are non-native). My daughter started correcting my pronunciation and it's getting way better
I would say the opposite; talk to your child only in your native language. Kids will learn English by themselves in school anyway, and if they don't learn your language from you, they for sure won't learn it elsewhere.
Source: as a kid I was in that situation, at first my parent spoke only in English with me and I started to forget Portuguese. After my parents realized that they pivoted to speaking Portuguese. I learned English fine at school and never had problems with either languages. Now I'm a parent of a 2yo and 1yo and am speaking Portuguese with both.
> Kids will learn English by themselves in school anyway
If you live in an English speaking country then sure. Over here it’s almost impossible to learn English in school, you only get a few hours per week of English classes.
It depends on the kid and on the type of “immersion” (for lack of a better word). I grew up in Romania in the ‘90s, when we had 2 hours of English per week starting with the 5th grade. I turned up fine when it comes to speaking/writing/reading the language, of course that I’ll always carry an accent when speaking it but I don’t care.
Looking back at it, after 3 decades, what helped me learn the language was that immersion I mentioned, i.e. I was watching English TV programs (Cartoon Network, Eurosport, MTV Europe) for a big part of the day, without that I wouldn’t have been able to pick it up so easily.
My experience is that it’s very easy to expose kids to English in a non-English country - just let them consume all their entertainment (Netflix, games, books) in English right from the start. You don’t need to do anything special other than that.
Do be mindful of the kid though. One of my wife's coworkers wanted to teach their kid multiple languages, I think the final count was 4 total (they wanted both the parent's native tongues, German which is where they were going to live after their visas expired in the US and of course English), while living in the US and it just made the kid confused and angry. Granted that's way more than just doing two but it could still back fire with the kid if it's too much.
I would clarify this is for parents residing in non-English speaking countries. Because over here in the States folks are doing the opposite: spending thousands a month to send their children to language immersion schools to not speak English.
As a non-native English speaker, this. Native English speakers are reluctant to give this advice, but it's the lingua franca of any field that matters. Not being able to communicate effectively will definitely be a blocker.
Someday, when the global language is no longer English but some other language, the new global language will still be full of fossilized English phrases, just as English today is full of fossilized French and Latin phrases.
There is absolutely nothing going on in the world to suggest that happen in the foreseeable future though. There is no competition, and it's inherently hard to change like any standard due to chicken-and-egg, so it tends to only happen when the entire world system is completely upheaved, to the point of the old world being a small part of the new world, and to a degree far greater than the possibilities of today. The stuff going on in the world today is mild comparatively.
In particular, politcal falls of the sponsoring empire don't directly lead to much change here, actually. Latin kept being the language used throughout Europe centuries after the Roman state was gone and buried in the west. Scholars were still writing in Latin in the 1600s. Within my parents' lifetime, Catholic mass was still said in Latin.
The world you are imagining could just as easily be one where Chinese and Arabs dominate, the US and UK are a joke, and yet the dominant coalition paradoxically speaks English at least for elite communication anyway.
Did you know the original Latin language came from a tribe called the Latins that were vanquished by the Romans?
Reading the history of English after the Norman Conquest might be instructive too. For centuries the common people spoke the language that had been spoken locally, while the elites spoke the language of the old conquerers.
Fundamentally, you underestimate the chicken and egg effects involved, and they happen on a time scale of generations because that's the time scale upon which people learn languages.
Another reason to learn English ASAP is because the orthography is pants-on-head stupid. Your young self will not have a reference system for just how pants-on-head stupid it is and happily accept it without giving it a second thought.
If you are learning English later in life, you will struggle.
I'd argue some pants-on-head stupid declinations and arbitrary genders for every noun is a much more compelling reason to learn a language early than orthography.
English is probably one of the dead simplest languages of use to learn later in life.
It helps that since English is the lingua franca, people tend to be kind of used to interacting with those who don't speak it perfectly. Plus even those who don't functionally speak it likely know enough words to convey things in a pinch through either loan words or osmosis through media.
Idk. Native speakers are biased. I would trust someone who learned BOTH the languages they are comparing as a second language most. Even then they may have different views depending on what languages they already knew prior (eg, portuguese is a lot easier for a spanish speaker than a mandarin speaker)
My dad (who learned English as a second language after his native Spanish, and also learned Portuguese and Latin, don't recall if he knew any others) used to claim English was one of the easiest languages. I don't recall his reasoning but I think it might have been because the rules (other than spelling lol) were simple and forgiving.
Don't get me wrong, the grammar is definitely easy to understand, but IMHO that's just another point for the 'learn early in life, or struggle' opinion. Adults have a much easier time with more complicated grammatical rules (hi, German!) or even rules with lots of exceptions (hello, Russian!). But having to remember how to spell and pronounce every other word is akin to hell for an adult. (I'm already struggling with it while learning Russian.)
Still doesn't hold a candle to Mandarin or Japanese, of course. These guys are just on a level of their own. :)
Heck no, I'd rather protect my (future) kids from a lot of ideas spreading in the English speaking sphere until they reached some given age. There's enough cultural, scientific and entertainment content in French and Chinese to fill one's mind until adolescence.
All of our fixed costs are shared in a way to promote an equal amount per month per person. For example, I pay my daughter school's tuition and my wife pays of my son's. I pay Netflix, she pays Prime Video, so on and so forth.
For market and groceries, we have a credit card account with two cards. This was a game changer for our home expenses management. I have the total spent per month on a spreadsheet and can see how things are going, especially in regards to inflation, currently at 19%/y where I live.
Everything else like going out with friends, small indulgencies, fuel etc. each one of us would cover his/her own expenses.
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