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Ah the faulty algorithm.

Right because the first thing I think as a founder is oh definitely I'd love to have my work judged by the insane neckbeard posse that is Hacker News Commentariat. That's totalllll…

But let’s remember that computing used to be a hobby for most people and largely the domain of professional computer scientists. It was also a highly profitable, multi-billion doll…

Now that is fascinating. It explains a lot of the really depressing studies about how we perceive shows like The Biggest Loser and how it makes us both less sympathetic to overweig…

Thanks. Hmm. So you are saying that the Baumeister study doesn't apply because if we believe we power through we can? I feel awfully tinker bell about the issue now :-) Quoting a c…

I'm not coming up with much when I search for cognitive overload being debunked or being a myth. Do you remember the name of the study? I agree that willpower and motivation are se…

Dick asks if you ever approached fitness resolutions with a “just do it” attitude only to be disappointed that you summoned up all of the willpower that you could muster and still …

Have you ever approached fitness resolutions with a “just do it” attitude? Were you disappointed that you summoned up all of the willpower that you could muster in January only to …

Thanks for this! The fact that I got wrapped up in constructing the identity of a company (thank god not the actual product or how we related to our clients) to be appealing to som…

I'm sure I do or I wouldn't have felt the need to exorcise it in public. But I do definitely care that my business makes money and that what it costs us to make our product is less…

Heh well yes. Logical win :-)

You got it. :-) Though I admit I wasn't quite expecting a personal Tumblr post to make it to Hacker News.

Heh. Thanks. Glad someone thinks it is cool!

Heh well you know actually I do have PMS! I'm due to start maybe tomorrow or Tuesday. Wow and to think my epiphany was just hormones. Man those things are useful!

Indeed! We've rarely had a confused customer thankfully.

Thanks!

Well now that I've just managed to out myself to the entire world (well the world here, wasn't expecting that). We probably will! No VC we've talked to has ever wanted to hear we m…

Indeed it is what says! Which is kind of the lost point I should make in all of this in that we've in the past positioned the company to appeal to certain things we thought the ind…

Heh I'm stoked someone called us an API for social games. Usually people call us wildly less accurate things. YAY! We are technically a suite of tools (which you know depending on …

Unburden myself from otherwise useless and unproductive emo feelings? I sure hope so.

You would think I would take that too but apparently I'm an idiot and got caught up in useless crap. We make marketing software for big brands so all our "users" are monetized beca…

Apparently it is my mysterious drivel! I have no idea how it got to the front page and this is Brian Van: http://brianvan.tumblr.com/

Could not agree with you more. Part of the reason I wrote this was so I could mentally reset myself to get back to work. Frankly I'm embarrassed I got caught in the trap and spent …

I will upvote my own ramble!