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by masona 7y ago
Thanks for the note! I'm hoping to do a larger run at some point in the future if I can get distribution but I'm not in a hurry. Card quality is super important to me so I would rather stick to printing with USPCC, which is more e
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by masona 7y ago
I’ve found that quick games are way more popular with my kids - easy to set up and take down. Games like Coup, Love Letter, and Exploding Kittens only take a moment to get ready so you can get in a few rounds before dinner.
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by masona 7y ago
Garfield, and M:tG in general, has been a huge inspiration for me over the years. Magic is such a creative system of constraints, story, card complexity, competitive ecosystems, strategy and metagaming. It also allows a really personal appr
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by masona 7y ago
Whenever I see these kinds of stories about ridiculous mass trends, I think ‘This is the kind of stuff my kids will rebel against.’ That gives me comfort.
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by masona 7y ago
Reminds me of the story in Invisible Cities - a young man dreams of the perfect city that contains all of his favorite things. By the time he arrives at the city of his dreams, he is an old man and sits off to the side with the other old me
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by masona 7y ago
I’ve been rereading that book over the last couple of weeks and recently did some consulting in the ag space - so I’m really intrigued by what you’re writing! Hope to see it up here one day.
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by masona 7y ago
Another major shift that the article neglects to mention is global arbitrage. The advancement of camera + software quality and accessibility means people can make great pictures anywhere. These days there are a lot of studios in the stock h
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by masona 7y ago
Lately I've been imagining what it would take to create an AI-generated food image. It's super hard! Just the rights management issue of the training set is a tough question. Then you have to account for quality, direction and dim
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by masona 7y ago
Anything free is going to ding your search ranking - just reverse image-search any image from Unsplash and you'll find thousands of content-farm clickbait adware using the same image. If your revenue is dependent on search ranking, tha
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by masona 7y ago
There are a ton of two-sided marketplaces out there that try to do this. It's a messy challenge involving rights management (no good photographer will agree to the contracts these companies offer), production workflows (all companies d
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by masona 7y ago
Wawa was a grocery chain long before they were a gas station, and I know they are imagining a future without the ICE. It's one of the ways they'll crush the BPs and Exxon that are first and foremost gas stations.
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by masona 7y ago
I grew up thinking that roots brought nutrients to trees, but the more we learn about fungi the more I wonder if trees are just the mechanism of fungi farming their own nutrients out of thin air. Maybe the entire tree, both above and below
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by masona 9y ago
The project was a special kind of restaurant. Here’s a funny story about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/7t5bdm/tifu_by_getti...
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by masona 9y ago
In 2014 my friends and I made up something similar, and it went viral. Only the NYT and the Guardian called to fact-check, and when they couldn’t verify the story, didn’t run anything. Everyone else ran it without even contacting us, even t
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by masona 9y ago
It's an interesting point that he thinks the site would not take off if he launched it today, compared to when it started in 1998. Similar to the early adopters of Instagram who built huge followings simply because they were there firs