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Its getting cold and some days ago, I wanted to get warm fast. So instead of turning on the heater, I did some push ups. After I did 12, I felt quite ok with the room temperature. This lead me to an experiment for this winter:

No heater. Only excercises!

So I have been doing a lot of push ups, dumbbell curls, pull ups and all kind of shit for a week now. The temperature is a constant reminder and it kicks my butt to get up from the computer and train a bit. There is a good bit of motivation, because I get instant gratification: Feeling warm again!

Some sites put follow buttons on their pages so people can easily follow the Twitter/FB accounts of the site owner. Some sites put share buttons up, so people can easily recommend the content to their followers. What do you think is better?

How to win friends and influence people is 70 years old now. Shouldn't there be some updates on this topic meanwhile? Have any other books on the topic been released that are highly popular?

Thinking about privacy, today it ocurred to me, that this concept might get completely abandoned in the future. What would happen, if we all become one big brain, where everybody has full access to everybody elses information? Apart from feeling weird at first, would there be any serious downsides?

Wikipedia points out, that at the peak of the dot com bubble, "America's 371 publicly traded Internet companies have grown to the point that they are collectively valued at $1.3 trillion".

Thats about as much as the combined value of Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook today. So the internet did hold up to its promise.

Even if we only look at companies that already existed during the "bubble" - there is a lot of value. Amazon is worth 143 billion. Ebay 64 billion. If we add up all the value of the survivors, maybe we come to the conclusion that there was no bubble?