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Pay particular attention to things that chafe you. The advantage of taking the status quo for granted is not just that it makes life (locally) more efficient, but also that it makes life more tolerable. If you knew about all the things we’ll get in the next 50 years but don’t have yet, you’d find present day life pretty constraining, just as someone from the present would if they were sent back 50 years in a time machine. When something annoys you, it could be because you’re living in the future.
How to Get Startup Ideas - Paul Graham

(Source: paulgraham.com)

Evernote clearly is gonna teach me something

It was the best of times, It was the worst of times.

Evernote just announced a “distraction free reading experience” (I paraphrase), this will clear the clutter from the article your reading, so that you can read it free of ads and navigation. Also included is a functionality to save the webpage for reading later

Yeah, they’re pissing on instapaper’s parade. Will I stop using instapaper? Hard to tell as I use evernote regularly. Will instapaper survive? Are their core users like me, also regular users of evernote? (Instapaper’s functionality allows you to save the article to evernote if you “like” it, suggesting it was a requested feature).

However competition is good. Competition forces change, and a better user experience for the customer. I’m only addressing this as a question I get alot when I pose a new idea is “how do you protect yourself from the big players copying you”.

My answer has always been: “you can’t”.

Let’s see what instapaper do. I wanna learn.