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by jmathai 4y ago
But don’t let the 1k number fool you. Getting even 1 true fan is incredibly difficult. That’s what is great about 1k. The degree to which you need to scale is reasonable if you find a large enough niche - and they number of niches where s
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by jmathai 4y ago
I think the 1k true fans approach means going deep instead of wide. And in order to do so you need to really understand what would make people fans of your work. A mistake many people make is that they mistake low intent interest as a proxy
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by jmathai 4y ago
The 1k true fans approach is the most suitable one for most people looking to build a business or income stream. It lets you hyper focus on a niche that may not be well served by more general purpose solutions. But don’t let the 1k number f
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by jmathai 4y ago
That’s a common counter argument. But if you listen enough then you understand that he (correctly) identifies that personal finance is more psychology than math. And the aggressive debt repayment he advocates makes the accrued interest triv
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by jmathai 4y ago
I didn’t read the article. If you want to become wealthy without learning a ton about finances then read the total money makeover by Dave Ramsey or spend a few months listening to his podcast (go back a couple years before some of the new p
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by jmathai 4y ago
I was explaining to my 12yo son when he wanted to play video games instead of hanging with the family that I only had 6 more Christmas eves while he lives at home.
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by jmathai 4y ago
The benefit Is true of all investments. The payoffs are down the road. In this case, the environment and health will reap the benefits once 3M brings alternatives to market that can compete with the current “bad” options.
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by jmathai 4y ago
Perhaps the difference is that I'm much less interested, perhaps not at all, in learning about a song's meaning as much as I am interested in connecting with others and learning more about myself through their experiences. There&#
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by jmathai 4y ago
I spent a lot of time in the early 2000s on discussion forums and songmeanings.net learning about and contributing to interpretations and meanings of songs. This is an interesting concept (AI lyric interpretation) and my comment is someth
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by jmathai 4y ago
Wow. A lot more interesting than Twitter's rules and policies is learning that archive.org supports diffing between versions. That's the real story here.
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by jmathai 4y ago
My first startup was in the early 2000s [1]. It was a photo sharing service and we hadn't even heard of Flickr though they were growing pretty quickly. They introduced some really cool features like tagging subjects in photos. Plus the
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by jmathai 4y ago
The cycle I've seen for people 30yo+ in the SFBA is this... 1. Take a job and move, start by renting 2. At 5-10 years, start thinking about buying 3. By year 10, either determine you can purchase a home or not If you can or cannot buy
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by jmathai 4y ago
Valid. I've accepted much larger risk by storing all of my other sensitive information in my password manager though. What crypto needs is a form of 2FA - turns out I don't care enough to have another factor that's only usefu
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by jmathai 4y ago
I have the ledger nano. Turns out that I don't have a compelling use case for it even though I own some crypto. If I wanted liquidity in my crypto (to transfer or buy stuff) then I would just store my keys in my password manager which
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by jmathai 4y ago
I get automated emails asking if I'm looking for funding for a startup I had 10 years ago.
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by jmathai 4y ago
I used to configure all of this manually on Apache following crappy instructions from online certificate providers. Copying .pem, .key, .csr files PRAYING Apache would start without complaining. I'm still old school but can set this up
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by jmathai 4y ago
Oddly, I ran into this yesterday. I wanted to cancel a flight and called only to be sent a text message with a link to the online chat. I started chatting with the agent but the response times were super flow. After about an hour, I had to
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by jmathai 4y ago
More shocking is that when I’m on my phone I will search for a video using Google on Safari. I expect to get to YouTube. I am just realizing this! I have the YouTube app installed and I still prefer the experience through the browser over o
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by jmathai 4y ago
We recently remodeled our 1.2k sqft house to a 2.1k sqft one. My wife and I have 4 kids and 2 dogs. Our kids are 12, 10 an d 2x 1.5 (twins). That gives some context. Before the remodel, we had 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. We made it work but
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by jmathai 4y ago
I've been putting more and more onto my Synology by using the existing packages that are provided. I used to lean very heavily on SaaS services but the pendulum swung and the cost and bloat have pushed me to just have some basic capabi
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by jmathai 4y ago
Evernote has been in business (albiet, not growing) for 22 years! I think we need to fast forward 10 more years to see how Notion is doing to make the comparison.
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by jmathai 4y ago
I have some rudimentary knowledge of crypto. I think better than most. I don't understand some of the more complicated concepts like DeFi and flash loans. I mean I could explain some of it but I didn't actually understand it. Th
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by jmathai 4y ago
If people applied that logic of “my time is worth more” across everything in their lives - they would be beyond broke.
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by jmathai 4y ago
Greed drives all of us to do things we normally wouldn’t. Given the nature of crypto, unless there’s a good reason to have the FTX app (say as opposed to using their website), then uninstalling it seems like very sound advice.
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by jmathai 4y ago
You would be surprised how easy it is for people to get sucked into a crypto bubble vortex that makes you feel like you're missing out big time by not being invested in crypto. I was pretty heavily involved in the personal finance comm
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by jmathai 4y ago
Doesn't seem like this is the type of decision tree Elon uses. Parent comment seems more like what I'd expect Elon to optimize for.
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by jmathai 4y ago
Crypto is a cesspool for scammers and a lot of regular people have lost lots of money. This is coming from someone who genuinely hopes there will be real benefits coming from crypto.
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by jmathai 4y ago
FTA: this is the TL;DR and there's a lot of truth in it. Given the cost of maintaining everything we build, it would literally be better for us to do 10% the work and sit around doing nothing for the rest of our time, if we c
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by jmathai 4y ago
I think going back to forums is an apt description. I'm in a different stage of life so I can't comment on if Discord or Reddit solve that use case. I think Discord comes closest.
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by jmathai 4y ago
I think the opportunity is to foster a new kind of social interaction and smaller niche groups seems like a really interesting angle that centralized services gravitate away from. I haven't used Mastadon but I could see this being a

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