sfrjay

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   by sfrjay 13y ago

   A similar thing happened to me in college (compounded by the bank charging me another $35 every day until I had money again) and I was lucky I had a paid-for place to live and a paid-for meal plan to scrape through till payday. Pew has a ni
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   The Real Reason The Poor Go Without Bank Accounts(theatlanticcities.com)

   279 points by sfrjay 13y ago|224 comments
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   by sfrjay 13y ago

   Usability testing is hard to get right. If you have 2 bad ideas, all it will show you is which is the least bad. They probably A/B tested this two-step layout with a text-only prompt and it did better.
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   by sfrjay 13y ago

   Certainly the business case is important to lay out, especially in the case you describe. Many decks don't do that though - they don't stand alone without a verbal pitch. They lack context and sometimes even topic headings. I&#x
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   by sfrjay 13y ago

   The problem with the 'quantified self' is that more information doesn't necessarily lead to better outcomes. Even in cases where the stakes are high and information seems essential, like pregnancy and childbirth, more monito
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   by sfrjay 13y ago

   Unsurprisingly, excellent advice phrased as succinctly as it could be for such an enormous topic. I'm glad Paul Graham think that decks are on the way out, because they're a ludicrous (or at least inefficient) way of understanding