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How to spot natural design talent(medium.com)
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by sampl 8y ago
It’s better than saying “you can build a nuclear bomb if you just wish it hard enough”. > a bad idea can fall apart with millions of VC ran by MIT grads and an amazing idea can come to life with a few hundred bucks with a high school kid
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by sampl 8y ago
Is it all that different from the original votes map? The Delta, Black Belt, and southern Texas trends are pretty clear there too. Not trying to be difficult, just curious what you see.
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by sampl 8y ago
I think it's fair to say "taking steps". As you say, admitting the problem is literally the first step in 12-step programs like AA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program
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by sampl 8y ago
> Given any talented team, they an take any concept and evolve it to fit the market. I’ve come to view great teams as “necessary but not sufficient”. That is: without a great team you will fail, but even with one you still need to build
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by sampl 8y ago
Think of it more like dating--it's normal to have 50 "failed" dates before you tie the knot. You don't commit until you find a great match. In business, this means the market actually cares about what you're making.
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by sampl 8y ago
These are mostly failed consumber businesses until Baremetrics, which had $100k in recurring revenue last month. https://demo.baremetrics.com/
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by sampl 8y ago
Me too. One possible option: no accelerator at all. YC doesn’t fund you that much, and you don’t need a demo day to pitch investors. The network and advice can come others ways too: from working for startups, and increasingly online (see
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by sampl 8y ago
Short plug: your local library has thousands of books, all free to borrow. Many libraries let you listen to unlimited free audiobooks using the Libby app (honestly a life-changer for me).
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by sampl 8y ago
Love this, cheers! For some reason, the design of this is very sweetly nostalgic to me--reminds me of the web from 10y ago (in a good way!). Web fonts and accessibility concerns with small font size have made good ol 13px Helvetica with blu
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by sampl 8y ago
I tried this for http://wanderkind.org/ and IMO it ended up being more than helpful. Affiliation only seems worth it if you have a lot of traffic. Even then, maybe not--unless you're making serious money, I'd rath
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by sampl 8y ago
Does YC have any moral guidelines for the companies they fund? I was assuming there’d at least be a hand-waving “make the world a better place” or something, but I’m not seeing anything on their principles page: http://www.ycombi
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by sampl 8y ago
I’m assuming a giant bowl of pasta and cheese is incredibly unhealthy, even with some brocolli sprinkled on top. Do you have any moral concerns with this company? We’re a massively obese nation...
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by sampl 8y ago
I’m close with someone who actively keeps her address from public records to keep an old stalker from finding her. The psychological effect of having someone treat you like an object, repeatedly hunt you down after moves, and gaslight you&#
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by sampl 8y ago
Body shops? Does that mean staffing agencies?
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by sampl 8y ago
Looking forward to it! Just to be clear though - I think your current design already does a good job at this :)
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by sampl 8y ago
Actually planning on a major update soon—lmk if you end up using it!
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by sampl 8y ago
FWIW I think the screenshots look great. If someone’s going to use this tool every day, you want to emphasize the videos and faces that change every day—not the buttons and links.
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by sampl 8y ago
We maintain this list of startups in Ann Arbor :) http://madeina2.com/
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by sampl 8y ago
I describe myself as a Product Designer, which is both. I think there's a good trend in the industry to combine the roles under that name (with specialists still getting hired on larger teams), but it's far from being the norm sti
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by sampl 8y ago
I love the HCI field (and have my degree in it)... but its academic practitioners are usually evaluative with surprisingly little generative design skill—which makes them good at finding problems in others’ work but poor at making their own
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by sampl 8y ago
Very cool! For folks with iPads, Procreate just released a similar feature (radial symmetry drawing)
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by sampl 8y ago
I built a boilerplate for React+Firebase (including search, auth, and Stripe): http://getfirefly.org/
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by sampl 8y ago
https://culturedcode.com/things/
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by sampl 8y ago
In product management this is often described as problem space vs solution space. One of my biggest lessons in “managing up”: agree on the problem, and take any suggestions for a solution seriously. Then work to make the solution you presen
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by sampl 8y ago
If you’re on the receiving end of a system that, systematically, hurts/kills you, your family, your community, and culture, storming the bastille or marching on washington or whatever for equality probably will suddenly make a lot of s
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by sampl 8y ago
Gotta plug my favorite book of all time here: “A Pattern Language”, by this speaker, Christopher Alexander et al. Tons of small, progressive, human-centered hand-drawn architecture patterns in a hard-bound brick of bible-thin pages. The boo
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by sampl 8y ago
Interesting point, and well put--thanks. Maybe there's a distinction to be drawn between "inherent part of the human condition" and the "default state", as you have described it. Attempting to change something &quot
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by sampl 8y ago
Funny, I was just reading that same example of his in his book “basic economics”, and it makes sense. Still, couldn’t you say the same for a feudal structure? That nature has power imbalances, and the role of king only conveys that inequali
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by sampl 8y ago
> Pattern 5: Give a coping strategy > Context: You are calling some other code, but you aren’t sure if the happy path will succeed. I’d love to see some good examples of this if-less code in React. I find myself writing conditionals i

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