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by scott_meade 14y ago
Glad the post ends with "time and metrics will tell". It doesn't really matter what readers of the blog post think. All that really matters is what do customers think (as demonstrated by their actions - signups? retention? support requests?
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by scott_meade 14y ago
The federal government disability program pulls the rug out from under people the moment they start making progress? I read the whole thing but missed that part of the reporting. Maybe I read it wrong. Where is it?
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by scott_meade 14y ago
And so continues the attitude of "why should I take care to keep myself healthy when the federal government will give me checks to be unhealthy"? Nevermind that it's a sure path to continuing the cycle of poverty for one's family and their
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Love how the acronym for human intervention is "Hi".
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Passive public shaming could be the future with Google Glass and like tech. Your behavior won't need to be actively "reported". If it happens within range of someone wearing Glass, what you say and do could simply be recorded, indexed, and
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Aspen cocaine trafficker sentenced to 53 months in prison(denverpost.com)
1 points by scott_meade 14y ago|1 comments
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by scott_meade 14y ago
I'll admit, I fell for the title. I read it because I was intrigued to find out how an independent author would have gotten $0 for having sold > 1 book. When I got to the "$12,000" I immediately felt tricked. Sure, it is in one sense po
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by scott_meade 14y ago
I was surprised to see the phrase "Uber Drivers". As I thought I understood it: Uber has no drivers and drivers haver their own companies, simply using Uber as a source of leads for customers. It's like OpenTable for cars, right?
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by scott_meade 14y ago
An interesting tidbit from the abstract of the study: "Many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the result of intense practice extended for a minimum of 10 yrs."
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by scott_meade 14y ago
On isolation of work from leisure: "The average players, they discovered, spread their work throughout the day. The elite players, by contrast, consolidated their work into two well-defined periods." "This isolation of work from leisure had
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If you're busy, you're doing something wrong(calnewport.com)
131 points by scott_meade 14y ago|48 comments
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Reminds me of a rich-guy I knew who liked to travel light. For some trips he wouldn't pack stuff. Instead he'd obtain new clothes at his destination, wear them while there, and then simply leave them behind. No muss. No fuss. No clutter.
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Good point. So, more accurately, don't let the fear that their just might be undiscovered small bugs prevent you from launching.
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Launch with bugs(scottmeade.wordpress.com)
16 points by scott_meade 14y ago|16 comments
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Good article. In fact, I'd go a step further and say that any percent is a fallacy. Most business plans and pitch decks include the requisite section on market size, but who cares? The only thing that matters is how many customers are yo
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by scott_meade 14y ago
This is a good deck. Thanks for sharing. I'd be really surprised though if really no one had told you at least some of these tips before you had to discover them for yourself.
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"[The attorney who set up this site] has spoken with one customer, who has since backed off. “That being said, I am in the process of drafting a complaint, in case their feet warm up,” he told us."
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Because 123ship.it is a software blog, I think the post is intended in context of software development, not widget stamping.
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Anyone say "Beanie Babies"?
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Apple Retail, The Kids Get It(gocomics.com)
1 points by scott_meade 14y ago|0 comments
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler responds. Backers are signing up to participate in the development process, including all of its obstacles and setbacks. "If you want a watch, you can go buy a watch," Strickler says. I don't know th
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by scott_meade 14y ago
No one should ever expect that an investment will provide any specific return. Especially when it's not SEC regulated, audited, or otherwise credentialed at all. And extra-especially when the platform on which the funding is made explicitly
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by scott_meade 14y ago
My point was what exactly sucks about it? That it's not as pretty? Even the article says "It’s not like visible pixels in any way diminish the functional experience... Text is still readable at that size, and the touchscreen isn’t any more
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"even though the screen sucks" reminds me of Lewis C.K.'s "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy". How soon we feel anything less than retina sucks. Really? We're spoiled people when we look at a piece of technology like the iPad mini a
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Lucky for me a life created by happenstance has, so far, turned out to be rather great. I know I've gotten lucky and am grateful for it most every day.
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by scott_meade 14y ago
To turn this off in Mail.app: Preferences | Composing | Responding | "When quoting text in replies"... "Include all the original message text"
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Weighs 6.66kb (2.8kb gzipped) whereas jQuery UI datepicker is 42kb minified (or 30kb (11kb gzipped) via the Closure Compiler).
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by scott_meade 14y ago
And yet to get signed up with Hubspot seems to require phone calls?
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by scott_meade 14y ago
How could he not think you're talking about VC funded entrepreneurs only. Some selections: "we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund...now you know why I’ve had many nights away, many airports and much time on the road." "Raise money.
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"He'd told me earlier in the day that he'd never experienced stress until the Obama campaign, and I believe him." So many people get stressed out about the dumbest things that don't matter. Especially in IT, people like to tell war stories

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