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it seems the bar should be that high as that is what the hype has told us we would be getting. I'm OK with it being as good as the hype ...and when it isn't the companies that writ…

hmm... so, yeah, nothing about 1000 true fans theory points to it being an easy path. Making a living as some sort of creator is hard . The platforms & "the internet (tm)" just pro…

disagree with some points here. I watch many youtube channels with 100Ks of subscribers. Those creators are not out there spending resources getting an audience and those audiences…

this is very 2600 - nooice.

so, I've been near sea lions on the Oregon coast - the males can be large and many 100s of pounds (bigger than actual Lions!) and rather intimidating. This picture of the whale's m…

I've read the cliff-notes version of first break all the rules. (its floating around the web). It has the list - and also interesting discussion of talent and having employees in p…

I have two Australian shepherds - One of them was a puppy when I read the book about Chaser. So I decide to try to sort-of reproduce some of the author's experiments with my dog - …

I'm really glad this is coming back - I've bought it several times over the years and really enjoyed flying it. In more recent versions using the ATC and trying to make it as reali…

From the article: >"If we could get more of them doing it, it would be great," he joked. >Karisoke's Vecellio, though, said actively instructing the apes would be against the cente…

Hmm - here's how I did the back of napkin math: 1,000,000 gross in a peak year. say business is open 290 days of the year. avg per day = 3448 euro if average customer order spend i…

I'm guessing this comment is tongue in cheek. I've heard it before from folks who were putting themselves in the #1 category, and also, it appeared, exhibiting Dunning–Kruger effec…

Two things I've learned about deadlines #1 - never get into a fight with a superior about a deadline - think of the princess bride quote about land wars in asia. Which brings us to…

different problems here - if the production and scale are already well known and understood - there are, arguably only design choices to be made that fit into the existing tooling.…

> These languages are very powerful, but they don’t scale. The problem, it seems to me is that software developers often think: "what programming language do we really like && can …

that's really cool. We do "nose work" with our dogs just as a game for them. Its super fun to watch them find treats and toys we hide for them. What I was most surprised about when…

i have two Aussies - they're great and super smart. after reading the book "chaser" - I trained one of them to distinguish several toys by name similar to what he had done in the b…

this a great response to so many situations. avoiding sugar coating turds and fubaridness is key to being a good boss. Acknowledge the fubar situation - let the team chime in - the…

Corollary (to the whole article): act/do the way you expect others to act/do in a small set of areas that are very important to you. I've often seen leaders/managers get upset abou…

for that case - rather than resort to the debugger - I've always went through the code, come up with a theory of operation and then and instrumented it with either print statements…

interesting to see "low end disruption" in action a la Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma.

I used to provide several options with background and rationale to my boss. One day, he said, with a slightly frustrated tone, something along the lines of : "Andy: you're providin…

"I watched this YouTube video on X, it was interesting because..." "talked to my buddy who works for X they did this thing _____ ...big mistake" "I've been collecting articles abou…

Here's my strategy whenever I have 1:1's or hallway "walking conversations" with execs/GMs that are at least 2 levels above me: 1) try to teach them something new or interesting th…