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by lesinski 5y ago
I will try this out! Currently the gold standard for this kind of FI simulation is OnTrajectory. There’s a learning curve but it’s so much more comprehensive than any spreadsheet you could build. I consult it every time I make a big decisio
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by lesinski 6y ago
Totally agree. I had to bail on it years ago because of how nervous I would get every time I built a new campaign. Every button-press you're walking on egg shells.
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by lesinski 6y ago
So many "trend" type presentations like this one take for granted that streaming will eat TV. Sure, cord-cutting is a trend. But Covid-19 isn't necessarily accelerating it. A huge contingent of the population, especially inte
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by lesinski 6y ago
Mischief has saved my mental health. Think of some creative things that WFH uniquely enables and do them. Here are examples of things I've done: 1. Planned a 1-hour prank on a coworker over Zoom 2. Left work early to play golf all afte
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by lesinski 6y ago
Here’s why Wirecutter can make an entire business out of credibly reviewing products
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How Disney's legacy business is holding back Disney+(ft.com)
2 points by lesinski 6y ago|0 comments
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by lesinski 6y ago
Part of the point of the Montessori method is that there aren't instructions. If you played with these items for hours (like a child) you would start to understand the fundamentals of addition, multiplication and even calculus without
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by lesinski 6y ago
During transcription, Siri frequently thinks that "exclamation point" -- the common punctuation -- is me trying to add the phrase "excavation point," a phrase nobody ever says.
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by lesinski 7y ago
Netflix has reshaped the whole industry for the better. Netflix by itself at $13 per month is nearly as much content as you'd get in a small cable package in the "old days of TV." Of course, in the future, if you actually tri
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by lesinski 7y ago
Facebook bought Instagram for $1B. About a year later, Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1B.
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by lesinski 13y ago
In order to pack coffee into air-tight pods like Nespresso does, the coffee must first completely degas and become stale. What fine restaurant would serve a stale dish? Regardless of consistency, taste, automation, etc?
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by lesinski 13y ago
Bingo!
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by lesinski 13y ago
OP here. Thanks for the analogy! To answer your PS: 1) rapidly playtesting over email and remotely with folks I'd never met 2) finding a supplier who could do the whole game quickly in the US -- though I had to pay a premium for that a
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Show HN: The Physical, Manufactured Party Game I Made In Only 12 Weeks(indiegogo.com)
16 points by lesinski 13y ago|14 comments
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by lesinski 13y ago
Ha! Great point. One perspective might be that you'll get more bang out of your Kickstarter if you show the backers that you've done some work first. I'm more likely to contribute when I see prototypes than vague ideas.
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by lesinski 13y ago
Hm... I like that tactic because Apple probably tested tablet sizes like crazy, so they can expect their size to be comfortable. Why does it matter what people will be carrying it with and how many of their notebook-loving customers really
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by lesinski 13y ago
Woah now... How about trying to communicate with senior management to change these things first?
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by lesinski 13y ago
How is Mummify going to get around the copyright implications of ripping off the now removed piece of content which they don't own? Also wondering: what happens if the publisher redirects the old URL to a new place -- maybe an "up
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by lesinski 13y ago
It baffles me how few people have disability insurance. What would you do if injured your hands and could never type again? What would your family do? Everyone should have disability insurance -- it should be a fundamental part of your fina
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by lesinski 13y ago
Does anyone know if there's science to back this up? The brain is a malleable organ. Every time you do an activity, or have a thought, you are changing a piece of yourself into something slightly different than it was before. Every hour yo
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by lesinski 13y ago
Totally agree with you -- this guy needs to COLD CALL!
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by lesinski 13y ago
Bravo to the team who put this together.
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by lesinski 14y ago
This is an outrageously superficial analysis of sharing... It's natural to want to share experiences. This is what we do socially every time someone at work asks "how are you?" or when a friend comes over for a beer. Calling it "robotic" is
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by lesinski 14y ago
If you're just a dude or a small start-up then sure, avoid analysis paralysis. But if you work at a bigger company, you have to test and bring in data to make changes -- otherwise, your stuff will lose out to other priorities.
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by lesinski 14y ago
I wonder if this would suit the criterion for defamation. That would be a really interesting case to see.
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by lesinski 14y ago
I don't know a ton about crowdfunding... but what could be the downside of using Kickstarter? Seems to me that it comes with free audience and offers some security for the backers.
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by lesinski 14y ago
Actually, that's what's great about Facebook: they probably already know who those 10-50 friends are based on your activity on the site, your location, your photos. They know your best friends based on your actions versus who you might list