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by gwbrooks 5y ago
I've taught this for something like 20 years; happy to send you a deck with some notes that would offer a broad overview of things to think about. Not trying to sell anything; just trying to help. gwb@gwb.one
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
After seeing Chamaileon drop their free tier earlier this year for charges that begin at $150/mo, your pricing model is a breath of sanity. Cheers to your success!
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For me, No. 1 with a bullet is a mechanical keyboard. I type endlessly and I type fast -- without mechanical keys, I'm replacing the keyboard (or even the whole laptop) every 18 months. This irritatingly leaves me stuck with gigantic g
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
The whole point of federalism is that no single "captain visionary" has enough power to really enforce his/her will.
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It's not as pervasive, but a good deal of consulting work is priced, at least partially, by the size of the problem you're solving rather than the labor required to solve it. That can lead to price discrepancies similar to (althou
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
If it's unethical, then some of the largest news organizations in the world are guilty of it. AI-written copy has been part of the mix at the Associated Press since 2014. They create automated text stories from structured sets of data
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Is bounce/unsub handling on the roadmap?
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It meets the tests of a tax: You can't opt out and the payee has a legal right to use the threat of violence against you in pursuit of payment.
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The Fairness Doctrine never covered print -- only radio and TV, which were using "public" airwaves. It would be a big -- and likely unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds -- stretch to bring the doctrine back and expand it to
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
+1 for Wallabag, which cut my open-tab problem in half. I found it a persnickety installation and eventually went with the Docker image, which was fast and painless.
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No matter what you think about climate change, that subhead is a rookie mistake and a false dichotomy: The private companies are taxpayers.
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
As others have said, just dive in. If there's no legacy tool in place, getting started is easy -- spin up a docker image of Wiki.js, an instance of MK docs or whatnot, set up a backup methodology and you're off to the races. The c
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Five years as a journalist, 30 years in PR and this article is, at the broad brush strokes, spot on. At the strategy and budget levels, PR is being eaten by marketing. We also have a quality problem -- there's virtually no barrier to m
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Since they're very up front about referring to them as Accessory Dwelling units, the primary market is likely people who want to quickly put an ADU in place alongside a traditional single-family home for extra living space or rental in
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
If you can afford it: Sandler sales training. They're not the only solution, but they're very good and (at least in the past) part of your fee includes lifetime access to go back and retake the training, freshen up your skills, et
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Speaking of Wordpress: This would be an amazing tool for someone managing a lot of Wordpress sites -- I can picture it allowing for global changes across multiple sites, bulk content uploads, etc. Almost certainly not your primary use case,
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
I'm adding one of these to the if-I-win-the-lottery list. Nifty home media server AND it'll probably keep the house warm during the winter.
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Re: Charging enough. New solo practices should establish an hourly rate that allows them to spend 50% of their time on business development. Nearly everyone thinks they can get by with less, and they can -- for a while. You don't devel
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
This is an elegant solution that gives me what I like about Outline (the editor) without the parts I dislike (mandatory third-party auth for login. A good start on what will hopefully become a robust offering.
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
There's no society on earth taking climate change as seriously as warranted if the worst projections are to be believed. And there's no precedent for the level of global cooperation -- which would have to transcend nation-level po
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Amtrak receives well more than $1 billion a year in federal subsidies and still loses millions of dollars per year. It is private only in the broadest sense of the word.
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by gwbrooks 6y ago
The federal and state constitutions still apply in these new areas, should they form, and the state and federal criminal codes still apply as well. So on criminal matters, we're talking about enforcement more than the law itself. Given
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by gwbrooks 6y ago
It's questionable whether the Fairness Doctrine was ever an issue. It was originally established because the government owned the airwaves and leased them to broadcasters -- like a landlord, they could have standards. But the doctrine
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by gwbrooks 6y ago
Traditionally, the repercussion for lying was loss of reputation/business/relationships. It didn't always work that way, of course, but it was a moderately effective dynamic overall. What's new now is that everyone'
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by gwbrooks 6y ago
You're right; I was being too broad in my critique. Intellectually, I don't like domain DNS on the same box; practically speaking? It works and works well -- so well that it's often easier to disable per-domain DNS where my s
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by gwbrooks 6y ago
I love MIAB, but their insistence that the mail server is also the primary DNS server for any hosted domains is beyond irritating.
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I don't know about fixing it in other countries, but in the U.S. the First Amendment doesn't allow for a regulatory fix. Doesn't mean it's unfixable, but it means that any fix would have to come from the private sector a
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by gwbrooks 6y ago
We've had good luck with MailWizz. PHP-based, but has a good plugin system and does some pre-processing prior to sending in a way that improves deliverability. It's not a speed demon out of the box with default settings, but there
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by gwbrooks 6y ago
Take it a step further: In journalism, the single largest bias on display at any publication -- from the New York Times down to some hyperlocal startup -- isn't in the content; it's in what they choose not to cover. Lack of covera
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by gwbrooks 6y ago
A couple of reasons. Economic one first: Capital investment in publicly owned utilities lags that of private-sector utilities because the former are typically local/regional monopolies. That can lead to moderate problems when the utili

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