anguswithgusto

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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
Spotify (by a large margin), then YouTube (for discovery) and /mu/ (for community). I still used What.cd for music I wanted offline access to (for running, flights, etc.) as well as the occasional leak or obscurity. But before I g
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
A real tragedy. More than a torrent tracker, What.cd was a beautiful, vibrant, and positive community. Knowing someone in real-life who was a fellow What.cd'er was enough to form an immediate friendship. (Knowing someone who'd giv
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
I read a great piece recently that explains why these big tech-cum-delivery companies treat their drivers so poorly. Worth checking out: https://medium.com/@review/the-food-delivery-death-star-85f9...
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin on Thiel: “He bets contrarian not when he knows he’ll win, but when he knows that his odds of winning are much better than most people think.” Makes you wonder with all of Palantir's massive data-mining if
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
crazy is relative ;)
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
Haven't been to the other cities on your lists but Valencia is AMAZING!
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
Unlike SF, we have great public transit! Most startups are a 5 minute walk from a subway stop, and it's cleaner/less crowded. Few people own cars here. (But granted, the snow is no joke!)
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
Montreal startups hiring: -Transit (transitapp.com) -Unsplash (unsplash.com) -Hopper (hopper.com) -Breather (breather.com) -Sonder (sonder.com) -Busbud (busbud.com) -AmpMe (ampme.com) -Fuzzy AI (fuzzy.ai) -Frank & Oak (frankandoak.com)
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
I was running social media for a startup and learned that one of the bosses was paying a freelance copywriter $90/hr. I quit my job the next day.
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
Took a lot of effort to build up the portfolio. I basically tried to avoid content mills and focused my effort on clients I knew I could write a reliably successful piece for (between 2k - 50k hits). As you allude to though, the back-and-fo
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
$100/hr, albeit writing about/for software, not writing the software itself. Copywriting is a super great gig.
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VCs still give billions to food delivery startups. But what’s their endgame?(medium.com)
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
If you RT something from a banned/deleted account it stays in your "tweets sent" but isn't visible in your feed. Source: ran a very popular (and later, banned) Twitter account
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
It doesn't surprise me that Andreessen takes such an interest in Hollywood considering that VCs are today's talent agents. Betting on future stars, dealing with big egos, building businesses which promise their customers similar t
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Who needs convertible slippers?(theatlantic.com)
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by anguswithgusto 10y ago
Found the best summary of today's events so far... [0] "SEATTLE — In a last-ditch attempt to connect with consumers, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced on Monday that he had purchased LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in an all-cash d
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Why Scientists Need to Fail Better(nautil.us)
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What I learned from interviewing 50 marketers(medium.com)
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Why a perpetual learner will beat a fancy CV anyday(blog.crew.co)
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The Real Story Behind the Viral College Snapchat Love Story(nymag.com)
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Crew 2.0(medium.com)
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The great big awesome amazing unmissable Medium lifehack review(medium.com)
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by anguswithgusto 11y ago
Absolutely, astoundingly hilarious. "Filial contractor"... oh boy. Nice and subtle.
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New Employee Granted 0.01% Equity for 100% of Life(medium.com)
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A New Map of the Arctic?(newyorker.com)
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Unsplash 4.0(medium.com)
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The road not taken(theverge.com)
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The Promise of Integrated Schools(theatlantic.com)
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by anguswithgusto 11y ago
Lots of "major problems" that are problem the wrong problems. Curing cancer, reconciling quantum physics and general relativity, the "hard problem" of consciousness. We'll probably see these questions answered event
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Paul Bloom: The Lure of Luxury(bostonreview.net)
1 points by anguswithgusto 11y ago|0 comments

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