Aaron Parecki

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"The recipe, too, calls for an enormous supply of patience: The process takes 48 hours, followed by bottling and storing the solution in a dark, cool place for at least eight days."

"I've already made some progress; so far my iOS application shares the state of my phone battery at https://dri.es/status. This is what it looks like:


This was inspired by Aaron Parecki, who not only tracks his phone battery but also tracks his sleep, his health patterns and his diet. Talk about owning your own data and liking tacos!"

I’d say the single most important lesson to take away here, for a technology project at least, is that interoperability is key.

• Assume that no matter how amazing your new tech is, people are going to adopt it slowly.
• Give your early adopters every chance you can to use your offering together with the existing tools that they will continue to need in order to work with people who haven’t caught up yet.
• And if you’re building a communication tool, make it as simple as possible for others to build compatible tools, because they will expand the network of people your users can communicate with to populations you haven’t thought of and probably don’t understand.