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by jlees 17y ago
I find more and more recently I'm not just procrastinating in parallel but generally working in parallel. I'll switch from task to task and keep forgetting what I was doing, go back to a tab and realise I've left something half-done, walk t
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by jlees 17y ago
Some really interesting ideas that are close enough to what I already do that I might well try them. Working to no schedule would be brilliant if I could pull it off, but I worry that as a mix of coder and pointy haired suited type, my co
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by jlees 17y ago
There's some discussion of this in Starbucked , i.e. why Starbucks stores open across the road from each other. Part of it is if people are already going to that location for coffee, having an extra Starbucks and shorter lines will incite
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by jlees 17y ago
All they need to do is force the Mac users to use Windows for an hour. I had to do that last week and I'm still recovering.
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by jlees 17y ago
What's the point of Apple spitting on Windows 7? It's not as if that huge market of existing PC owners just wanting to upgrade their machines can go out and (legally) put OSX on there.
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by jlees 17y ago
I saw those Dixons ads when I was last in London. It amused me (as an ex-employee, of all things!) - I have gone to shops to see things in the flesh, then ordered from Amazon. But I've never had a nice chap talk me through the options, sp
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by jlees 17y ago
I was a program manager intern; compared to what I now know about product management, it was too far from actual code and too far from actual users to really be useful. However, as an internship it taught me a hell of a lot.
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by jlees 17y ago
Before you launch something, surely everyone in a startup is the product manager, to one degree or another? Even if said product is the startup itself, and the customers are angels/VCs/...
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by jlees 17y ago
You can't pay for goods with cheques in the UK but they're still reasonably common. I still handle them when: * my grandmother sends me Christmas money * I get an expense refund from the University * my flatmates refund me bills * I need
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by jlees 17y ago
Argh. I hate posts like this, lists of other how-to guides with very little value in the middle. Anyone else?
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by jlees 17y ago
I found the lifehacker article to be a rosy-eyed view of what people would use their idea of what Wave is for. Some of them just wouldn't fly with the current UI and so on. swombat's more on the button as to what Wave actually is .
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by jlees 17y ago
Especially since it features a fairly prolific member of the Pratchett Usenet (alt.fan.pratchett) community :)
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How to break up with someone in the digital age - add your geeky tips(arstechnica.com)
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by jlees 17y ago
Could be fun. We're planning a big tech event in Scotland for next year if anyone fancies coming over to reciprocate! ;)
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by jlees 17y ago
Rucola = arugula in the US, rocket in the UK. Mmm.
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by jlees 17y ago
The Guardian successfully challenged the ban: http://twitter.com/arusbridger/status/4833101511
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by jlees 17y ago
I'm almost imagining Disneyland for Entrepreneurs here. It could be awesome . And getting guest speakers etc in, both local and not-so-local, is a great way to get a profile and beat the isolation.
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by jlees 17y ago
If the work that has to be done has a deadline, and you find yourself procrastinating right up until the deadline, whereby you work frantically on the boring work for far too little time but still manage to get it done - I wouldn't worr
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by jlees 17y ago
I don't like the fact I have to allow Twitter access before I even know what the game is . My first guess is "Spymaster in space", but nothing on the page actually tells me if that's right or not... Clicking through to about and the blog t
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by jlees 17y ago
If I get into that sort of zero-to-negative flow state, I travel, go to a conference, do something to actually transplant myself away and rekindle ideas. On a more local level you can just change scenery. Go to starbucks. Whatever. I know
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Art made with dead flies(preliator1.com)
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by jlees 17y ago
To be honest, I don't think you've got it simple enough. There's still a buttload of jargon for someone to wade through. Think about the customers, what benefits they get, and push those. Although, talk to prospective customers and users (d
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by jlees 17y ago
These books are both ones I read as a kid and hold in lifelong regard as a result: The Fellowship of the Ring - long before the movies were a glint in Peter Jackson's eye, this was my introduction to fantasy, a genre I adore. The Way Thi
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by jlees 17y ago
interesting, I did improv with a group and then bought Johnstone's book, and couldn't stand it. I think because it was turning something I had been 'trained' to do instinctively into rules and analysis.
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by jlees 17y ago
Check the eyebrows too. We pluck them, and the contrast seems to cause that effect as well.
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by jlees 17y ago
I think one unraised question is: what do you do once you have a potential cofounder? Do you interview them? How do you figure out if this is going to work? Is it all on instinct? In my case it's been the latter, mostly, but I think it woul
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by jlees 17y ago
It depends on your working habits. Simply having someone else to report/share progress, ideas, etc to can make a huge difference, especially if, as recently discussed on HN, you're inclined towards the manic depressive. Having someone else
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by jlees 17y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions?
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by jlees 17y ago
This is one of the things I did years ago that, with hindsight, could have been so much more. I started up a website on the urging of some people from one of my Usenet hangouts nearly 10 years ago. It was specifically about demystifying uni
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by jlees 17y ago
Success attracts success. It's the herd mentality. "If they're doing well/have customers/have funding/have a boyfriend, they must be worth buying from/investing in/dating since someone else says so!"

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