Becoming another individual’s whole world changes your own, for better or worse.
I was a “such is life” type of person when experiencing tragedy, and fairly ho-hum during joyous moments. With kids, something changed, or “rewired”. I tear up at Bluey episodes and lose sleep due to irrational fears of an early death and not witnessing moments in my kids’ lives.
Right there with you on unexpected tear-stream moments, fears, but also all those happy moments you can't anticipate.
In past year I've watched my older (8) start competing on a cheerleading team. Immense tear-streaming joy watching her light up in front of a crowd and build confidence. I was immediately overcome the first time and always feel a strong swell of emotion.
I tried to use Wave to collaborate on a blog post with friends, rather than emailing each other critiques.
They thought it seemed to complicated and stuck with email.
I’m haphazarding a guess that maybe Google didn’t stick with it because, if I recall, most if not all of their services were free and this one probably cost a lot to run without a clear monetization strategy. If it didn’t increase the size of a captive audience, and they weren’t willing to show ads in the product itself, and they weren’t going to get better data from users to inform their ad services elsewhere…why run it?
I thought it was used as a vehicle to have users agree to a much more “we can do whatever we want with your data” tos. From that standpoint i guess it was successful, everyone signed up.
The “just tell me what to build, I don’t need to understand why” trope exists for a reason.
I’ve worked with a range of engineers in terms of their curiosity. In my experience, the ones who cared enough to ask or push back on decisions were exceptions, not the rule.
This doesn’t mean they weren’t curious people. It just means they weren’t curious about The BusinessTM or The MarketTM.
> “just tell me what to build, I don’t need to understand why”
I suspect that insofar as this exists, it's because when junior engineers question the utility of the requirements or user stories, they are told specifically to stfu because nerds don't understand business. Over time, the message get received?
That said, I've very rarely seen an engineer like this. In fact, I frequently encounter the opposite: the sterotypical asperger's who doesn't know when they're being rude with their probing.
Surely you’re not a US resident, because “covered by insurance” is definitely not a good enough reason on its own to not consider this here. 30 days of CGM device coverage from our insurance costs more than this.
That said, one actually legitimate reason a T1D may be better off with their prescribed device is if Dexcom doesn’t readily replace the OTC versions the way they do for prescriptions.
This happens way more often than I imagine most who are unfamiliar would think. Anecdotal from an internet stranger, but just last night, we had a third G7 in a row fail well before the 10 day timeline. And speaking of insurance..they wouldn’t cover the early refill we tried to get a week ago when we hadn’t yet received replacements from Dexcom.
Each insurance is different, of course, and it depends on the patient. It also varies if you’re type 1 or 2, and if you’re prescribed insulin. I’m not either, so I don’t know for sure. The American healthcare system (which I am part of) is pretty opaque.
That said, I’ve heard people quote an insurance price of about $100/mo for a g7 (which is the same as this), and Medicare should cover it outright. I’ve seen companies sells the G7 for ~$200/mo if you don’t have insurance, but without a prescription I’ve never actually gone and bought one so I don’t know if I’m missing something.
> If you have T1d, you've been able to get the prescription-variant of this product for years with insurance, so there really is no reason to get this unless you're un-insured.
is dishonest at face value.
The OOP cost can wildly vary per insurer. As important is whether or not the insurance company covers it when you need it.
Typically insurance only covers 30 days at a time. That means on day 29, insurance will refuse to cover the cost at the pharmacy.
Real world schedules, flukey tech and devices, fluctuating pharmacy inventory, and occasionally needing an endo to confirm that you still aren’t the first person in human history to reverse Type 1 diabetes, etc. make “this was covered by prescription insurance” a flimsy-at-best argument against T1Ds considering this.
"You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where can I sell it."
I think this Jobs' quote is more applicable now than ever. Not to mention Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 was spearheaded by Jobs himself. He'd likely have plenty of opinions about today's AI advancements and user-friendly ways to integrate it.
> "You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where can I sell it."
You always end up somewhere in the middle.
Otherwise, you'll be selling flying cars that don't actually fly.
There isn't supposed to be, but you have reminded me that I'm noticing signs of the iCloud Private Relay running even though that's supposed to be a paid feature and I'm on a free account.
