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Seriously! Quantity data is not a substitute for quality data. Give an engineer a qualitative data point and they'll find a way to invalidate it. But give them a million invalid da…

> Although you may have been unsatisfied with iMovie, it is in fact the free tier of Final Cut Pro, much as GarageBand is the free tier of Logic. Are they though? I think of a free…

This is a great example of good strategy coming from better understanding and not a better template. Thanks for sharing!

Speaking as someone who blends marketing/design/technical work I have a few thoughts on this. First, there's pressure on a lot of marketers to sell more this month or this quarter.…

Me too. I think we'll get there in the next 20 years. The limiting factor is building codes in the USA. But there are some really cool things all around the world in the building s…

Building codes. What you described is rational but unconventional and building codes are designed to require following convention. Also, the cost of connectors goes up quickly, but…

Do you know of a tool to visualize csv file changes using git history? Example use case: 1) csv file stores weather readings 2) csv file gets updated daily and committed using git …

I'm not the person you asked, but the most relevant advice I got was to pay half the commission after month 1 and half after month 12. It helps weed out the less honest people, ali…

Thank you, I'm glad I asked.

I like the intro bit "we build real businesses for real customers who pay us real money" from the video you linked. The term master mind has been a bit off-putting to me, but it se…

Out of curiosity, why was the company started?

I think the same applies to careers, at least for me. The worst outcome is a moderately good job. A bad job you can quit, a great job you can retire from, but a moderately good job…

Would I be simplifying too much to say the cause of failure was, in all cases, "a failure to economically supply demand"?

Sorry, the title was vague. More specifically the question is "what were the specific, direct causes of failure?" "My car broke down" vs. "the alternator went out so my battery die…

> serial entrepreneurs That is who I'm looking for. If the odds of success are less than 10%, then it would seem to follow that the thoughts on success by single or several failure…

The analogy comes from aircraft surviving combat, as opposed to general aviation, although I'm not sure that's enough to overcome the flaw you've pointed out. One thing I disagree …

Thank you for sharing this. It sounded a bit too familiar. I've spent the past 3 months developing daily fitness habits but I've got nothing and no ideas on social habits. As for w…

Wow, thanks for sharing your experiences. Anecdotally, I've experienced the small business/enterprise dilemma from the inside. Working for some companies perpetually struggling to …

Thanks for sharing your experience! How much time do you think you would be willing to invest in a POC before getting your first customer? Yesterday I was thinking about the idea o…

The recent PG essay on thinking received a lot of comments about survivor bias. It seems the value of survivor bias awareness is realizing the need to compare crashed planes to the…

The second part of that whole "finding people willing and able to pay..." bit of business strategy seems to get ignored frequently.

> It's like Tony Robin's adapted for lifestyle startup founders. I...uh...just remembered somewhere I'm supposed to be...

> A common theme in technological optimists seems to be a total dismissal of global warming. It seems like the biggest impact a person has on the world is the way they treat people…

Redefining problems is good when flaws in the original definitions are found. AI has perhaps, maybe passed human intelligence in 0.005% of applications. It's 2020 and we still have…

There are several projects in the low cost, user maintainable, appropriate technology space that I'm currently estimating the feasibility of starting. I'm biased towards fascinatio…