I’m all for tiny habit changes…except becoming vegan and doing pushups! ;)

This sounds very cool and a great tool for the quantified self movement! Good for you. Just keep us posted please.

I have been trying some similar practices. For me, the best breakfast is a supergreen smoothie…it really ups my energy level throughout the day. A few minutes of meditation makes a HUGE difference in my entire day as well.

Seriously that ambitious, yet disorganized description really hits home with me. Can’t wait to see what you guys have got inside that elevator.

Oh, I totally dig what @kathy is saying…from one horse girl to another :)

The big challenge with tiny habits is not getting them to work, but getting people to believe that they work. Are they macho enough? We’re fighting a lot of years of culture there.

The best reinforcement we can get is not a *million points, you rock* from our friends, but the rich reward of having actually made progress toward something. As you said, once you realize that you can change X, the idea of changing Y starts to look more promising. I am excited to see where Lift goes.

(As you know, I have been doing experiments with my horses, and my latest just happened to also be nano-habits… I’ll tell you about that one next time we talk :)

(My default seems to be technologist with a hint of utilitarian. Need to refocus on the big goals.)

I believe the regulation you are referencing was the Glass-Steagal act, that later got repealed (under Clinton I think). I suspect that less than 5% of the protesters there know what it is. At the same time if you told them I’m sure at least 90% would agree that it should be brought back (I would). Still, would the 90% go home after it got changed? Would you still support them if it did?

OWS looks like a rorschach test to me. We look at it and see what we want to see.

I remember going to an anti-war protest when I was in the Marine Corps during the first gulf war. I didn’t wear my uniform or do anything to indicate that I was a member of the military. I just walked with people because I agreed with them that the war was bad idea. I wish that OWS had a similarly clear and supportable goal.

Also, thanks for the blog post. It has been great to have a semi-public space to work out what OWS means to me.

Granted the opinion poll I linked to does superficially read like a request for handouts, that’s not my interest, or what I think the interest of most startup people I know should be.

I don’t want a share of their winnings, what I want is to not have a share of their losses.

I’d probably be satisfied if commercial banks and investment banks were split again. But that’s getting into an area, the solution, which I don’t really understand.

I was unswayed by tea party members and I don’t think much of OWS.

Greedy bankers inflated and then shorted the American dream, and made a mockery of the idea of home ownership. At the time public employee unions have robbed the next generation of decent public service in the name of gold plated pensions, so you wouldn’t want a home is most areas anyway.

My sense is that as a nation we have grown greedy and entitled, and perhaps we always were, but now the pie is shrinking everyone is just looking out for themselves and their tribe.

We’ve squandered a trillion dollars and precious lives in pointless wars. We’ve been tricked and bamboozled and robbed, but it was our greed that let it happen. Our problems are acute and getting worse, and the biggest problem is that their isn’t a bad guy. We’ve done it to ourselves, and now we look out with blame. I think people should occupy less and organize more.

Thanks for coming by and commenting. That made writing this post worthwhile.

Your summary is right on. What’s going on right now is bad for everybody.

I do not necessarily agree or disagree with the student debt forgiveness concept, I though I could shed some light on the rationale behind it. The concept is that we have, and will likely continue to, spent an absurd amount of money attempting to stimulate the economy. All of that money is going directly to corporations to try to establish a trickle-down effect. However, the corporate greed is preventing that money from trickling downwards. So, we know that in this day college grads make up a very large percentage of the working force. So, by forgiving student loans, the idea is that this would produce economic stimulus. The funds currently being diverted to lonas would allow somebody like me to consider purchasing a home. I have been out of school for 5 years and still am paying large portion of my salary towards my debt. This makes is incredibly unlikely that I will be able to purchase a home or invest my money. Additionally, the middle class will actually spend the money, which will increase the amount of jobs in the lower class and benefit the corporate entities, though in a less direct manner.

However, the groups gathering are diverse, the uniting ideal is simply that rampant corporate greed and collusion between the government and corporate America is bad for everybody who isn’t the CEO of a major corporation or a high-level politician.