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St. John is on the list, but I'd recommend Caneel Bay Resort vs. their recc to this audience if you want to unplug while on vacation - no TVs nor phones in the rooms, and it's amazingly tranquil.
But Frost didn't invent that phrase. I hadn't read the poem since school, so I didn't consider it before. But looking at it again now I notice that the phrase is presented in an ironic way. So I turned to the power of the internet and found that, indeed, "good fences make good neighbors" predates "The Mending Wall" by about 30 years.
Guilty of using this phrase, even aware of the poem's meaning. I use it because it's an instantly recognized American phrase, and I do believe that good fences make good neighbors in many situations (e.g. File permissioning).
In Newark, past the TSA checkpoints, the Tel Aviv gate has its own secondary screening with barricades, wands & pat-downs for everyone. I suspect that is because of actual threats and a desire for real security.
The key to reading the Economist is to go into it not planning to read the whole thing.
My approach: Read all the short blurbs in the first couple of pages, then most of the 1/2 page articles that follow, note any that seem interesting, then seek out the longer versions deeper in the issue. As you work through the issue, skip or lightly skim the rest that don't spark interest.
Your "reading" it still, what is this 2005?? The audio edition is amazing! After three years of listening to every issue I think I may be picking up a British accent in my day to day life.
I listen to it during my commute to work. Plus I get the issue on Thursday evening, as oppose to the physical copy that arrives Monday or Tuesday the following week.
How does that help with time? Nearly everyone reading it is most certainly capable of reading far, far faster than listening, no? I suppose if you have an unfortunate, long commute, it might work, but otherwise?
When you're doing physical tasks while not having to co-operate with someone else, you can listen to the audio version while continuing to execute on the physical task.
You can also listen while moving your person about from place to place, which can be quite hard or inefficient to do while reading.
I certainly spend a lot of time moving from one place to another. I also assume there are plenty of people who do the same.
It's quite hard to read while making lunch, cleaning, running, cycling etc. It's also quite hard to concentrate on anything cerebral after a day of work, doing any number of these things and tending to the needs of small kids.
Audio books, OTOH, make housework a joy since I can tune out of the horror of cooking and cleaning and concentrate on accumulating knowledge from one source or another.
Also, much more motivation to run since simlarly, I can just observe my pulse meter occasionally and otherwise concentrate on the book.
I'm the admin for one of the rare instance of Stack behind a corporate firewall, which doesn't have votering detection - I've noticed this happening among a few co-located sprint teams. I created a d3.js Sankey Diagram to show the volume of people voting for other people and posted it on the site to let the community discuss it and it died down.
Popping back in the thread to say "thank you" to everyone who contributed so far - this has given me a lot to research and think about.
From a product management perspective, Laravel is tempting - I certainly get that it could seem bloated, but some of that seems quite useful for getting to MVP quickly - the user auth and billing especially.
I'm considering Postgres / Laravel / Bootstrap (already have a clickable HTML prototype underway) to be replaced by Angular post-MVP, but I'll probably noodle on that last bit some more when the time comes to make that call.
