Year: 2024

Misc

Panzoto – a mind sharing tool with minimal effort

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Introducing Panzoto, a personal assistant that records and summarizes your daily life, and automatically shares it with the people you trust. Do you remember that time your wife forgot to tell you that she invited a coworker for thanksgiving? Or that time your boyfriend forgot to tell you his friends are coming on the weekend? They didn’t do it intentionally, but you end up scrambling to deal with the situation. What about that time you promised your team you are going to make a presentation, but completely forgot to do it? Wouldn’t you love to get reminded about the promise you made? Panzoto is your solution!

Panzoto monitors your daily life based on your commands and determines when an important piece of information is generated relating to a future decision. You can choose the people you trust to share that info with them and they can decide whether to accept that information feed. This way information is shared all the time and full transparency is achieved! You can even set the level of trust you place on the people in your life. And Panzoto will categorize your information based on work, life, and trust level. You can even do test runs first, to see if the right info reaches the right people.

This put the people in two camps. People who believe in complete transparency to achieve the most efficient communication. And the people who believe in privacy and secrets. This product is not for everybody. The mistrust is only increasing these days because we are only sharing part of the information and not giving the full reason behind it.

If you believe in complete transparency in your life and looking to maximize efficiency, please send me a message and will get back to you. It will be the beginning of a whole new life.

Decision Stories, Misc

Find your perfect house

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I have made several previous attempts to make an app that help people to find their perfect house. In fact, my first data science project was to find a home that fit people’s needs. My first attempt was to find an apartment in New York City. There were so many people doing that. My top worry was about crime. As I moved out of NYC and into the suburbs of other states, school district became a more important factor. Doesn’t matter how I approach the problem, nothing beats seeing the pictures and actually visit the house. So here is my latest attempt to do that. Just a few simple filters to knock the choices down to a few. If you happen to use the app, drop a comment on how it worked for you.

Here is the link: http://house-panzoto.ddnsfree.com/

Misc

Cry early, or cry later

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Recently, I’m starting to send my son to day care. Inevitably, it takes a while for him to adjust and he cries when leaving the house. Just like my older son, he is smart enough to know that if he leave home at that time and with me, he is going to daycare.

And then I started to ask a question. Would he cry as much if he was sleep trained? In another words, is the total amount of crying the same for a child? Would being sleep trained harden him, and make this transition easier? I don’t know the answer to this question. And I cannot test it either since I can’t go back in time. Even if I can go back in time, my wife would never let me know sleep train because she needs to hear the crying. We are only okay with this because he will be in the car with me during drop off, and I’m the only one that will here him cry.

On a happier thought, I think it give a bonding moment because I have to go through this life changing event with him. And from what I heard, people bond during tough experiences, e.g. school, military, etc. I went through this with my older son. He wasn’t attached to me much when he was little, but as an older child, he is more attached to me than his mother. If this continue to hold, there is at least a purpose for me to go through this event with my younger son. Because I know we will bond over this. My purpose as a parent in life, is to make sure he can be on his own when he grows up. And I believe I’m taking the first step towards that.