Dear Lovely Simplerista,

I'm in downtown San Francisco for the Wisdom 2.0 conference starting tomorrow. Last night I met up with an old friend, and it turns out he created Android Wear. Welcome to San Francisco!

I really like creating the exact outcomes I want deliberately. It's such a fun process.

I got here yesterday, and I didn't have a hotel booked for the night. I like to take my chances with the Hotel Tonight app and see what kind of deal I can get, and what kinds of cool hotels are available. 

I always look for rooms at the W. Last time I was in town, a room at the W cost $1000 per night. This time, they were going for $379. Still more than I wanted to pay. When I tuned in, I knew I wanted a room at the W, and I wanted it for about $200/night. So I picked up a Lyft from the airport, and had him take me to the W. I asked the receptionist what his lowest rate was. Still $379. Had some food at the bar. Called the Mariott, asked if I could get out of my reservation with them. I could.

Went back out to the reception. What if I stay four nights. What can you make the rate then? She punched some things in the computer and came back with a number: $231 per night. Perfect! Just what the doctor ordered. A few minutes later I was in the bathtub in my room.

It's so easy to forgot to take the time to find out what exactly we want our outcome to be. We fall into the habit of just sleep-walking through life. It takes effort to tune in and ask ourselves what we really want. Not a lot of effort. Especially with practice. But enough that we frequently don't do it. But it always pays to find out.

I think there are also other factors to it. I believe self-love has helped. I believe numerology has made a big difference (I have a court date to change my name again on Tuesday!). Whatever it is, I definitely like the feeling of things working out the way I want them to.

New Features in Simplero

The big change is that I reworked the navigation in Simplero, so that instead of the left navigation menu "magically" being replaced with local navigation for a product or a list, the left side now stays always, and the product or list navigation is added separately and to the right of it. I think that's going to help with orientation a lot.

As part of that change, I always cleaned up and simplified the subnavigation for lists and products, so it should be much more intuitive and easy to find your way around.

Smaller changes:

• Automatically show the EU VAT number field on checkout form when required for VAT compliance.
• Automatically follow a post you wrote or commented on in a space
• We now highlight some potential problems with purchases and payments for your account. See the button under Purchases.
• Editing charges is now much safer, easier, clearer, less error-prone
• Payments can now be edited as long as they haven't been fully applied to charges. This helps if you accidentally entered the wrong amount when you registered a payment.
• You can now choose the color for your header and subhead on landing pages
• We're now passing customer name and address to Stripe which helps both with fraud protection (helps avoid both false positives and false negatives), as well as making it easier to understand the information you see in the Stripe interface
• Spanish language translation is no longer considered experimental
• It's now possible to undelete an accidentally deleted product yourself
• You can now remove the option on the checkout form that asks if the participant is a different person from the billing contact
• Triggers that post to a webhook URL will now continue posting until we get a successful "200" response back
• When passing in name and email parameters to a checkout form, you can now also pass a 'lock' parameter, and we'll hide those fields from the from
• Fixed a bug with triggers sometimes not firing if there had previously been an error during trigger firing
• Triggers firing are now recorded to the activity log - and if they fail, that's logged too, so you can investigate

I guess all the little things do add up, huh?

Random Links from around the Interwebs

I love my friend Morten's creativity. Combining RVs with self-driving capabilities bring up so many possibilities. You don't even need a home anymore. Your car can just drive around all night while you sleep. Kind of like what many parents do with their kids to get them to fall asleep at night.

You should flip your burgers every 15 seconds.

The reason the rich and famous commit suicide. Don't let it happen to you.

Fred Wilson on the importance of finding your passion.

Have an amazing week. If you're at Wisdom 2.0, come and say hi.

With love,
-Calvin