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by mijustin 12y ago
At https://sprint.ly we use Buffer to manage outgoing posts. It's worked really well; especially now that they have the new scheduler: http://cl.ly/image/1I2g153e3c31 . We publish fairly regularly on ou
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by mijustin 12y ago
Thanks! I agree, there's a handful of these issues I'd planned on talking about in future posts; but your list adds a bunch more I hadn't thought of. Lack of training is a tricky one, isn't it? If you give the wrong kind
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Yes! I think this section of the post could definitely be expanded on: It’s important to have developer buy-in. Their passion for a feature can be a huge driver for velocity. This is why I also appreciate PM tools that incorporate discuss
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by mijustin 12y ago
Joe Stump told a story on his podcast about this: the VP of Engineering would always tell the business side, “Everything always takes 60 days.” He had a high confidence that most tasks take 60 days. Here's the link to the audio: https
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by mijustin 12y ago
The study's authors make a few references to age: "While wealth is getting older on aggregate, in the top 0.1% of the distribution wealth is getting younger: the share of top 0.1% wealth held by elderly households is lower in 201
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I agree: right now the biggest competitor to PayPal isn't Apple Pay (or Amazon Payments, or Google Wallet)... it's Stripe. Another advantage Stripe has right now is what the developer community is building. 3rd party tools like h
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by mijustin 12y ago
This really resonated with me: There is no achievable perfect balance point of schedule. Many things that appear to be "balanced" are actually in constant motion in order to maintain the illusion of balance. I've found this
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by mijustin 12y ago
I know Sacha is still working on it, yup! His recent post on the $5 logo got a lot of traction: http://blog.folyo.me/the-5-dollar-logo/
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What type of pain are you solving?(justinjackson.ca)
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Why your team needs a week of hustle(quickleft.com)
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There's definitely a reoccurring theme here. What do you think the best solution is?
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Can you explain a bit more? I've heard some team leads say their teams need more communication.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't your team ship?
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Yup: it also shows the advantage of starting small. Think about how much easier it is to "wake up 5 minutes earlier" than "wake up 2 hours earlier"
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When you can't win(justinjackson.ca)
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For the Canadian startup scene, this is rather sad news. GoInstant was started by Jevon MacDonald. Before starting the company, he ran a popular Canadian blog called Startup North. The team, I believe, was still based in Halifax, Nova Scoti
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Daily routine of a 4 hour programmer(jayonsoftware.com)
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The Buffer Deal: A Week Later(baremetrics.io)
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by mijustin 13y ago
JTBD really helped me understand that customers don't just "buy" a product. They're "hiring" it to do a job (or jobs). For example, we don't buy a cup of coffee just because we're thirsty. There'
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by mijustin 13y ago
The maintenance aspect is huge. I've been able to observe how fancy, complex systems fare over a long period of time (as opposed to simple systems): in almost every case the "cool" complex system required way more maintenance
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by mijustin 13y ago
OP here: I definitely don't prefer paper. ;) I actually sold all of my physical books before my last move. I think authors moving to self-publishing is a good thing. And when the author sells directly to the reader (and not on Amazon),
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by mijustin 13y ago
OP here. I think having forums, where a book is discussed chapter by chapter, could help. You could pick whatever book is already being discussed, and join the discussion after you'd read that chapter. There might also be the opportuni
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The problem with self-published books(startupreader.net)
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I like this idea of getting people to questions the labels they use to describe themselves: think about what "tribes" you're in, and why. It also gets to a deeper issue that OP starts exploring at the end: ultimately, what re
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by mijustin 13y ago
I agree - I vastly preferred Zite to anything else. I have Flipboard, Inside, Prismatic installed, but I use Zite 90% of the time. http://glui.me/?i=j6drkkursw1qwn9/2014-03-05_10.45.58.png/ I found the Zite learni
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Author here - I like that approach too. ;)
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Cool, thanks. I appreciate your honesty.
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Hey, original author here. I appreciate your perspective. Which CTA, specifically did you find awkward? (As a side-note: I've had other posts with similar traffic and same landing URL. This one outperformed them by quite a bit. The lau
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by mijustin 13y ago
Original author here - this is really well said. > "Being considerate about intrusions doesn't hurt either, though being annoying isn't always the same as being unethical." I'd also say that anytime you put o
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by mijustin 13y ago
To me that still feels too general: "seasoned and experienced authors" could be a 45 year-old erotica writer who sells books on Amazon, or it could be a 23 year-old tech news blogger who's been posting since age 15. For examp

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