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by zachware 6y ago
This reminds me of when I sent a friend a case of Topo Chico from Jet. He'd never had it. The package (of heavy bottles of water) shipped next day and each bottle was meticulously wrapped in mesh paper. You could have stuffed a mattres
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by zachware 6y ago
One thing I always find frustrating about posts like this is that they identify a problem but make no attempt to help articulate a path to a solution. It's reasonable to suggest standups and other meetings be async. What would be bette
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by zachware 6y ago
One of the more insidious elements of ReCAPTCHA is its propensity to challenge users who have robust cookie blocking in place. So as we encourage people to be more privacy-aware, the web gets harder and harder to use. We've seen ReCAPT
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by zachware 7y ago
I believe NextDNS also blocks this.
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by zachware 7y ago
What sets financial services apart when they fail is the extreme legibility of the losses. One can argue that if say Reddit is down, they have losses, but measuring the impact in terms of dollars lost is difficult. It's a lot easier wi
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by zachware 7y ago
Why does this wave of coverage speak about OpenAI as if a postmortem? Maybe it’s just me but companies are not public benefit enterprises, even if structured in some way as a not for profit. This wave of coverage and the dialog around it se
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by zachware 7y ago
Honestly, not many. It's a marketplace problem. There is always demand somewhere for a product that fits X taxonomy (eg. not perfect or at a lower cost due to market flucutations). The issue is that the market is so gummed up with mi
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by zachware 7y ago
USDA: "60% of imperfect produce’s products are sourced from traditional wholesale channels rather than farms."
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by zachware 7y ago
Imperfect created a market for a good that already had a market and generally purchase from post-producer sellers. They aren't large enough to make a dent in the producers' waste. Theoretically it (or something like it) could crea
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by zachware 7y ago
I've been working on this problem for a few years now. The problem is systemic. You can solve the retail/consumer level issues but the big problems are market-level. Here are a few facts often overlooked because they aren't s
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by zachware 7y ago
Not to ignore the democracy problem but solely on the localized health issue, if you can afford a Berkey Water Filter, get one.
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by zachware 7y ago
What's so structurally fascinating, in a very morbid way, is the difference between the balance sheets of the most heavily-funded late stage companies. I have an opinion but regardless of it, if a no-asset/no-liability company is
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by zachware 7y ago
Legally they are liabilities that don’t as much disappear as they become claims. Deposit holders become creditors. It’s seventh in the priority list behind other secured priority creditors. It’s messy. 11 U.S.C. § 507(a)(7) provides the pri
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by zachware 7y ago
Theoretically if a creator exists, they could be found. The unique issue to news is that the mass perceived value is zero. Either a market doesn't exist b/c of the perceived value or a marketplace doesn't exist to facilitate
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by zachware 7y ago
I agree. My point is that the bundling balanced the ROI equation in a way that unbundled things don't. Theoretically this isn't an issue if the market has some sense of value for the unbundled thing...think HBO which is a mid-flig
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by zachware 7y ago
This is fundamentally a distribution problem. It's not dissimilar to retail or other industries with the design-produce-distribute-market chain. A journalist (creator), produces a product (manufacturer), a newspaper/magazine distr
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by zachware 8y ago
I think this is already happening. Mid-size city demographics are shifting significantly, especially those within an hour band of a reasonable larger city (700k+). Texas Monthly did a good piece on this recently. https://www.tex
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by zachware 11y ago
I once ordered 100 Model S's at one time (Google it) then later took delivery of 12 Model S's at one time. Here's what I can tell you. Tesla's system for selling one new car to one person at one time is very, very good.
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by zachware 11y ago
A friend likes to say TED and others like it are the 1% telling the 1% how amazing they are. The opportunity lies not in distributing the content to the 99% (easy...video) but rather in studying the source of what makes people inspiring and
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by zachware 16y ago
Perhaps this is a late comment but as a new Zappos hire I can attest that Zappos still makes this offer (and now it's $3,000 and is valid for 3 weeks after training). The reason is two fold. First, Zappos wants to retain employees that wan
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by zachware 16y ago
Are the product features 100% curated by humans/brands or is it pulling data feeds from Froogle (or whatever it's called now) and building outfits that way? Can't figure out the data?
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by zachware 16y ago
The conflict was inevitable but as we often see in business, old players use regulation, unions and back room deals to protect their markets. Look at the RIAA, TV and movie industries. The technology is available to bring content to any dev
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by zachware 16y ago
Depends. Not with mission critical processes like checkout IMHO. What this piece points to is a flaw in design processes. As designers and developers we see things through a logical lens of our own making. What we don't realize is that the
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by zachware 16y ago
It should be said that the UX of this app is less friendly than a gas station pump. Navigating is nearly impossible. It remains to be see whether an iPad wine list is better because of the list or because people want to play with an iPad. T
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by zachware 16y ago
Echoing, in a way, the comments of others, the most important thing you can do organizationally is explain the why . It's not enough to know and sure, it sucks to have to explain your reasoning when you feel you shouldn't (you're the exp
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On scarcity and frustration. Apple's logistics. (zgware.com)
2 points by zachware 16y ago|0 comments
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by zachware 16y ago
Excellent piece. I think the main challenge for UX architects is breaking the hiearchical model that users are used to. Tags are the ideal solution for organizing like items but few have mastered the UI. Sure, it's easy to to build the refr
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by zachware 17y ago
I'm with you. I'm in SF now but Chicago was home for a long time just a year ago. What's changed? It was on-par with Dallas with rents and overall cost of living. That is with the glaring exception that Dallas has no income tax but a high s
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by zachware 17y ago
First, let's be honest, you set yourself up for this by referring to Shankman and HARO. That was a mistake. This is typical in a marketplace where people run out of innovative ideas (or never had them in the first place.) I've been around t
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A Week with Google Chrome(zgware.com)
1 points by zachware 17y ago|0 comments

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