olivertaylor

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by olivertaylor 4y ago
Don’t forget creating great works of art!
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
> Yeah they were the most desirable piece of tech back then, plus, the marketing and advertising 3dfx had at the time was wild as hell.[1] Haha. Amazing commercials. I don’t remember those at all, but they’re 100% on brand for the times.
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
I see the logic of this argument. This would presumably increase the raw number of previously used devices in circulation. It would allow Apple to capture more of the resale market while also growing it as a whole. Right?
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
Otherwise known as a lease, right?
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
Looks great, congrats.
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
No, many more times than that. Maybe 6 months or a year of reaching out. I try to be very generous in this regard. Often times it takes many "investments" for the tactic to pay off.
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
Interview your customers and ask them what their biggest problems are, and why they like you. Find and interview people who aren’t YET your customers and ask them why they aren’t.
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
I use a much simpler system, I have recurring reminders setup and when they trigger I just reach out to that person. I try to keep things light, like a text message, photo, link, etc. the great thing is that you can use the same message&#x2
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
This is the reason I left the whole app ecosystem. Apps are cool, and sometimes really great, but there’s no sense of permanence, no guarantee that your data will survive for long, that the app will be maintained, or that future devices wil
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
Emacs is worth it from a “creating an ideal environment” perspective, but it is a nightmare from a “stay focused” one. Tweaking your editor becomes very easy and very distracting.
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
One of my favorites.
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
I almost entirely use Apple Maps. I live in a large city so the data is very accurate. And I only really use it for driving, so I can't compare transit, hiking trails, etc. When I travel to less populated parts of the country Google Ma
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
Neat project!
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by olivertaylor 5y ago
Haha. I work at a VFX studio and it used to be that the AE rendering machine was the same as the online/finishing machine (the one we'd watch for final approval with clients). Anyway, it was very normal for clients to come in, wat
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by olivertaylor 6y ago
> they emphasize the creative aspect far more relative to tech since they're competing over form not function Yes and no. There are a lot of "make it fit in the box" requirements when making a movie. The unions mandate a c
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by olivertaylor 6y ago
There are, of course, lots of ways to define success, but if you're talking about running a business then your Dad's experience largely matches what I've seen in my professional life (small business). The interesting thing to
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by olivertaylor 6y ago
Well put! But I do think there are people who are uniquely skilled at seeing things align around them and using it to their advantage, and that can take place is any context, not just professional success.
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by olivertaylor 6y ago
Amen! I've found that 9 times out of 10 successful people follow the same advice and believe the same things as unsuccessful people (at least they SAY they do). So it's really useful to look at people who failed yet followed the s
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by olivertaylor 6y ago
True. The world worked without all this for a very long time.
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by olivertaylor 6y ago
I disagree. It is the business owners who are requiring their customers to use social media, not the social media companies. That same business would just as easily only accept cash and not have any website or social media at all.
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by olivertaylor 6y ago
The problem with opting out of these things is just how much our modern society relies on them, in very practical ways. There's a local business (great croissants) that closes on random days (the owner is French) and the only place the
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by olivertaylor 6y ago
The solution for me is to keep an index in the front or back of the notebook. Each time I write something of significance I put it in the index.