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by csallen 9y ago
> The stock chart example is not arguing that calamity is likely. Its a skeptical argument to illustrate the limits of the type of empiricism that observes and extrapolates the path of a complex system without understanding it. You sho
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by csallen 9y ago
> Its like Pinker is looking at a stock chart in a bubble and believing it will always go up. Pinker has often explained that he's not doing this. He has never denied that there can or will be a next "disaster" and tha
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by csallen 9y ago
Congrats on the launch! What are your long-term goals for this? Is this a side project right now and, if so, do you hope to eventually go full time?
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by csallen 9y ago
Well damn.
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by csallen 9y ago
I have two ways of thinking about death that I've found helpful. The first is to sincerely imagine that I will die in 10 years. That's far enough away not to require drastic changes in my life — I still want to work hard on some
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by csallen 9y ago
I'm black, I did YC. I know quite a few women and non-white men who've gone through YC, too. I think if you made your point (which is an important one!) with less snark and hyperbole, it would be more effective.
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by csallen 9y ago
You should come on Indie Hackers and do an interview in a few months. I'm constantly telling friends to start newsletters. Would love to see how this works out and learn the details behind the scenes wrt to marketing and growth.
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by csallen 9y ago
There was a strange part of the video near the end where they show the car floating through space, and suddenly a background image pops in for a second: https://imgur.com/a/ZyVqK Any idea what that was? EDIT: I think i
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by csallen 9y ago
I was 9 in 1996, and I remember reading this article over and over again for years, and making attempts to build a forcefield of my own.
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by csallen 9y ago
This is somewhat covered in the "Industry Growth Rates" section: > At any given time, there are dozens of industries operating within new and underserved markets that are experiencing rapid growth… This almost always represe
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by csallen 9y ago
That's a possibility, yes, but I think Amazon's success is too extreme a case for an accident to be the most likely explanation. If it was merely a "decent" success or a "pretty good" success, then yeah, but it
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by csallen 9y ago
It just gives you another set, but it's so frustrating and annoying as a user that I can't believe they're doing this on purpose.
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by csallen 9y ago
I just finished reading The Everything Store a few weeks ago, an eye-opening book that deep dives into the history of both Amazon and Bezos. I don't think there's any chance that Bezos and crew haven't done the math on this
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by csallen 9y ago
Ember isn't gone or anything close to it.
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by csallen 9y ago
A lot of the simple advice needs further unpacking, too. I've seen founders interpret "Make something people want" in all sorts of ways, as belied by their behavior: - "Make something nobody wants, then keep adding featu
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by csallen 9y ago
Normal isn't defined by yourself alone. Rather, it's the average of other people. If you are significantly more creative than the average person, it should be fairly simple to demonstrate that that's the case.
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by csallen 9y ago
Would you say that your creativity was repressed beforehand, and removing the tumor brought it to normal levels? Or was it normal beforehand, and now it's even better? If the latter, care to share more details or examples?
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by csallen 9y ago
I was just talking to my girlfriend about this. I was brought up religious as a child. Going to college was my first experience around a diverse set of religious beliefs, including many non-believers. It only took a few months for me to los
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by csallen 9y ago
Still working on it post-sale, but with more resources at my disposal and a sturdy safety net to prevent abject failure due to lack of resources.
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by csallen 9y ago
Counterpoint: Blog posts like this one are useful, because the VC-funded companies you named are so successful at dominating our thoughts, conversations, and news feeds (HN included) that many founders never see any examples of people fol
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by csallen 9y ago
> even the typical line of cars parked along the side of the road - obscuring view of the sidewalk and giving pedestrians a false sense of security There are so many intersections in San Francisco where cars are allowed to park right
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by csallen 9y ago
I wonder if numbers like this are really a reliable indicator of what's going on. The world is big enough that you can be "niche" and still appeal to millions. I would also assume that fans of niche groups are more fanatical
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by csallen 9y ago
I've helped a few friends learn web development while in their 20s, a few of whom were highly intelligent MIT grads. I agree that the discipline and motivation are the biggest roadblocks, followed by discovering an efficient lesson pla
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by csallen 9y ago
The parent comment said HTML/CSS the right kind of programming to introduce to kids . Your disagreement is based around it not being the final end-all be-all representation of the complete set of features and challenges of programming
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by csallen 9y ago
> I mean isn't this the whole point of terrorism? To get you to do things you don't want to because hey 1 in a million potential threat? Is that really the point of terrorism? Is there even such a thing as a general "poi
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by csallen 9y ago
Not to be too defensive here, but one of my goals with Indie Hackers is to collect enough knowledge and stories that you can easily filter through to find examples of the type of approach that best works for you. Because you're right —
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by csallen 9y ago
Can't you just create an anonymous GitHub account or a throwaway email address?
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by csallen 9y ago
> If you want good advice, follow Jeff Atwood's post on the subject Ironically, the title of that post is the very click-baity "How To Achieve Ultimate Blog Success In One Easy Step". More to the point, that post was wri
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by csallen 9y ago
The point the author made was very clearly "titles are important" for anyone who understands hyperbole and reads him honestly. I can't believe any well-intentioned reader would believe that he spends literally 80% of his time

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