We upload the address book to our servers in order to help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and efficiently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path. Nothing more.
Note, this is done without explicit user permission.
This is the equivalent of that geriatric Walmart greeter grabbing your purse, or trapper keeper, or briefcase, and scurrying off to make a copy, so that when you’re buying socks, everyone in your professional and personal lives is kept abreast of the development. For your convenience. And then declaring, as Path’s CEO did, that “This is currently the industry best practice.”
Path can line up all the pretty pixels they want, but they clearly don’t understand customer experience. They’d be well served shutting down, going to a mom and pop store of old, or finding a trusty barkeep, or a barista, and learning at their feet.
The test for great customer experience is simple. “Is this something I would do to a customer in real life?”
-Shlok
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Got several requests for this, so I threw them together and up. Two versions. Make your own, I’d love to see them.
-Shlok
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Here’s something I put together with SketchUp about six months ago. It’s a home that can be built and expanded over time as a family grows, prospers, has kids, has parents move in, gets old and ultimately hands it off.
Key design considerations:
- Modular. In lieu of a starter home, You can build just the bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom, and closet first. A modern “cabin” for two telecommuters. That expands to include more bedrooms, office space, amenities (pool, garden, garage etc) as necessary for children. More for additional families or parents that come live with you.
- View centric. Partly given this is a thought exercise/goal, the entire house is designed to maximize view points for a large lake or ocean. Ideally this would be placed on a couple dozen acres of your own.
- Out(in)doors. Blur the line. Life’s too short for walls alienating you from your land.
- Multifamily living. This could be multigenerational. Parents as they retire come live. As the economy blows up, kids who can’t find work, or even those who stick around by choice. Shared functions are great, but take privacy not account.
Use case:
- Invest $150,000 in what’s basically a vacation home and land. You live, work, build your career elsewhere. Visit when you can. Send a set of keys to everyone you love to do the same.
- Invest in $50,000 increments to add bedrooms, offices, extra bathrooms, amenities, productive infrastructure (energy, food, water, protection). Gradually spend more time here until paying rent doesn’t make financial sense.
- Do as much of the work yourself as possible. What you can’t, purchase prefabbed. Know how everything works, and how to fix it.
- Live. Permaculture your land, hydro/aero-ponics inside, aquaponics your pool. Have friends and family live with you for extended periods. Help them build their own homes in your enclave. Continue to work on a global scale, but embrace you and yours.
-Shlok
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As I work on MiiU, I am thinking visually on a variety of problems. All share the goal of building stuff in a cheap, locally produceable, DIY way.
In particular, I’m trying to marry this to the modern aesthetic I find inspiring (through the use of discipline). Also, a modern aesthetic is great for those interested in resilient production, because clean lines are easier for amateurs to execute.
In this case I consider the chair. This is a simple metal frame any self respecting welder can put together, along with a simple foam cushion, wrapped in stitched blue fabric. Cost? Maybe $50. Depends on the availability of the right metal parts.
Note: This can be dressed with a rich wood arm rest on each arm.
-Shlok
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