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organicdude
7y ago
I think sea otters also play another critical role in California's ecosystem. Sea urchins eat kelp forests. Sea otters eat sea urchins. Abalone live in kelp forests. So I think that when sea otters are alive, then there are more kelp f
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organicdude
7y ago
How do you use a small set of scientific studies to prove one is better? Studies are reductionist, which is a very powerful and useful perspective...but not as useful when you have to measure a dynamic living system that can be optimized al
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organicdude
7y ago
They are saying corn is toxic because it has round-up chemicals in it - and they can't be washed off. So growing food in your backyard, assuming you don't spray it or have heavy metals in your soil that are ingested by the crop, a
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organicdude
8y ago
BS Physics - I help bring non-drug health building approaches to the masses. I get my information from scientific articles and approaches from clinicians in the field even if you can't prove everything 1-to-1. This approach gives me lo
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organicdude
8y ago
What a great insight. Thank you for sharing.
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organicdude
8y ago
Well put. Simple labels to complex problems don't work most of the time. To be fair, it's hard and time intensive to look at all problems this way. But it will probably lead to success more of the time...though sometimes a complex
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8y ago
#1 strongest correlation with lifetime earnings is IQ #2 strongest correlation with lifetime earnings is conscientiousness (which is roughly half orderliness, and half industriousness --- also contains traits of dependability, my word is my
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8y ago
This makes me incredibly happy for some reason. I lived in Taiwan for a year after I graduated college and I found their jungles to be difficult to navigate because of the mountainous terrain. It doesn't surprise me that they have been
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organicdude
8y ago
I don't like Russians interfering with USA elections. But when we do stuff like this to another country, I guess what goes around comes around.
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organicdude
8y ago
You need to find something or a set of things that are meaningful to you. Those things will change, so you need to keep chasing things that are meaningful. Otherwise, the bullshit of life will be too much...but doing meaningful things seems
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organicdude
8y ago
This is realistic within a an internal team of designers. It doesn't seem to fly with clients and non-sophisticated internal shareholders.
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organicdude
8y ago
This was a really good read. Thank you.
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organicdude
8y ago
Perhaps. If customers are really doing their research and there is no other way to differentiate, sure. In a perfectly rational world for sure. But there is a real cost of offering a money back guarantee: it may be distracting you from othe
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organicdude
8y ago
Every marketing tool has it's place. A guarantee is only useful if: 1. You need to lower perceived risk of using your product. 2. You need to demonstrate confidence in your product. There are dozens of other conversion problems that wo
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organicdude
8y ago
Well you just partner with someone who lives in the USA. Have that person localize ads and strategies, figure out local fulfillment (there's always FBA in the USA). Test out products doing well in the UK and see if they'll work in
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organicdude
12y ago
using a contact form