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by skmurphy 3y ago
This is less and less true.
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by skmurphy 3y ago
Gutenberg encodes semantics in comments and inhibits migration and interoperability as much as any of the other proprietary plugins you are complaining about.
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by skmurphy 3y ago
One suggestion: reframe "We Create Content for DevTools" to "We generate leads for DevTools."
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by skmurphy 3y ago
It's a shame they have gone off the rails so badly with Gutenberg.
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by skmurphy 3y ago
I had a really good conversation with Mark Tweddle on Imposter Syndrome that covered a number of useful points: + "Imposter syndrome is when your inside does not match your outside" + Some good things happen when we have a little
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A Conversation with Mark Tweddle on Imposter Syndreom(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 3y ago
26 interviews (small sample size with risk of selection bias); breakdown of usage from Table II page 5: 21 Prescription Stimulants (e.g., Adderall, Ritalin) 14 Cannabis (e.g., Marijuana, Weed) 13 Alcohol (e.g., Beer, Wine) 11 Mood Disorder
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by skmurphy 3y ago
First sentence second paragraph of https://dooce.com/2017/11/06/on-the-power-of-a-congregation-... "My friend Ashley was in charge of organizing the event and asked if I’d speak knowing that I had my nam
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by skmurphy 3y ago
We offer online events for bootstrappers including Bootstrappers Breakfast and Lean Culture. There are also in-person Bootstrapper Breakfast meetings in Ft. Worth, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. These events are for “entrepre
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Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in May 2023(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
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by skmurphy 3y ago
Your presumption is that it will be immediately obvious to engineers and product managers at larger and more established firms that your approach is superior to their current implementation and whatever was in the roadmap they have presente
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by skmurphy 3y ago
Mark offers a balanced view: "My sense is that the significance of the failure of SVB (and Signature Bank) is less that it portends additional bank failures and more that it may amplify preexisting wariness among investors and lenders,
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Lessons from Silicon Valley Bank(oaktreecapital.com)
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by skmurphy 4y ago
Key graf: The theory goes: Vacant commercial towers in San Francisco will likely never again reach capacity, but they could be converted to student housing by public universities, which are exempt from much of the red tape that otherwise st
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Breaking the SF Doom Loop – convert empty office buildings to student housing(sfstandard.com)
3 points by skmurphy 4y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 4y ago
I think self-awareness, self-control through better habits and peer support, and some changes to tool configurations can make significant differences. I think you have control over what you pay attention to--certainly what you interact with
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by skmurphy 4y ago
key graf: Why, despite multiple reports[1] from Silicon Valley whistleblowers revealing that technology companies are using manipulative designs to prolong our time online, do we feel personally responsible? Why do we still blame ourselves
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Technology Addiction Has Created a Self-Help Trap(wired.com)
2 points by skmurphy 4y ago|3 comments
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from https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/maintain-short-posi... When an investor has a short position in a company that gets delisted and declares bankruptcy the investor never has to pay back anyone because
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by skmurphy 4y ago
Regulators took over SVB: trading was halted. It's unlikely stockholders will get more than a few cents per share so it's a 99.9% drop. The story was interesting because they explained how the bank got into such a bad situation th
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by skmurphy 4y ago
key grafs As of Dec. 2021, SVB’s interest expense on its deposits was $62 million. By Dec. 2022, it was $862 million. By the end of this year, Wettlaufer was projecting it to be nearly $4 billion. When Silicon Valley Bank posted its annual
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A SVB short seller explains red flags he saw months ago(fortune.com)
255 points by skmurphy 4y ago|181 comments
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by skmurphy 4y ago
We offer online events in three time zones for bootstrappers including Bootstrappers Breakfast and Lean Culture. There are also in-person Bootstrapper Breakfast meetings in Ft. Worth, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. These eve
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Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in March 2023(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
1 points by skmurphy 4y ago|1 comments
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Some observations missing from the piece: Good writing requires refining and editing as much as developing an outline and a first draft. Reading the piece aloud will trigger a natural editing and refinement process and is useful for importa
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by skmurphy 4y ago
It's a mature market; Capterra lists 53 solutions and has pricing on many of them. https://www.capterra.com/text-to-speech-software/ What is your budget? It's likely a situation of "if you have to ask, y
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by skmurphy 4y ago
tl;dr: Startup teams have to cultivate an ongoing intense curiosity in every team member on how the product creates value for the customer and how to remove anything that limits the value customers will get from the product.
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Customer Care Starts with Curiosity and Empathy(skmurphy.com)
1 points by skmurphy 4y ago|1 comments
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Their mistake was in framing it as collective bargaining. What if they put the owner in the group with them and brainstormed ways to allow everyone to prosper. Casting it as a zero sum interaction--we want more from you and unfortunately yo
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by skmurphy 4y ago
We offer online Bootstrappers Breakfasts® events in three time zones and host in-person events as well. These events are for “entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast.”® We have twelve events this month to help you move your business fo

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