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@zackwurst

Possibilities

• li’l data - the teensy - $19, board with 32 bit ARM chip, tiny
• analogy with body - sensors interating with world, feeding data into cloud
• how to bridge the gap? (otherwise your app is a “brain in a tank”)
• eg bergcloud - small thermal printer that talks to cloud and prints your info for the day
• twilio - send information by SMS

demo

• chips - arduino, gsm modem, rfid reader
• connect to laptop using USB
• read rfid, send tag id over SMS
• go via twilio to django app
• django sends message to foursquare

personal development

• everyone thinks that they are “above average” (doning/kruger effect (mis spelt))
• confidence drops as you get better - “shit, there is so much to learn, I know nothing”
• “Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail. It’s the result of a negative prediction error in the nucleus accumbens. You effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure.” - Isaac Yonemoto

• gap between tutorials and reference material
• can hit the wall when getting to intermediate leveI
• learn how to help people past the middle level