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Hi brother - just know you have intrinsic worth beyond what the world sees (or what you think the world sees). You have overcome lots of challenges in life to even get to your 40's…

I appreciate the thoughtfulness and introspection in your question. I have found that different types of activities bring me joy/energy/fulfillment, and others do not. Identifying …

Huge Zapier fan and user here. In fact I wrote an article on LinkedIn a while back about how many heads I think their product is saving us. And we have our own developers - there a…

Helped form these at my former company, so I'm biased. But the memorability and thoughtful definitions really helped these stick (to this day): https://www.entrata.com/company/valu…

Just want to say your Connect product is INCREDIBLE. Our company couldn't function (at least not well and at scale) without it!

I've had a similar approach for the past few months, but with some changes: - I have my wife manage restrictions; only she knows the passcode - I have Safari set to only a whitelis…

I'm a former healthcare administrator and just want to point out that many many administrators work much more than the 9-5. I'm also working at a healthcare tech startup aimed at r…

The risk is if someone publishes a tutorial with the secrets on the web.

Don't forget taxes will take a large chunk of any payout away. Sometimes as much as 50% when you factor in state taxes.

"The Advantage" by Patrick Lencioni is also a great read on this topic of Organizational Health and how much it matters.

I hope you got paid $150mm to create that.

46% of apartment traffic is now mobile as well. I work for a company that hosts 10,000+ apartment websites and pulled the google Analytics that we aggregate across all of them.

I lived in Mongolia for two years as a missionary and taught ESL at schools every day. The schools systems there are what you would expect from a 3rd world country but it never cea…

Ready Player One! - If you haven't read this, I highly recommend it.

I lived in Sukhbaatar in Mongolia for a year and though the summers were great. Winter, on the other hand, freezes the condensation on your eye lashes so that when you blink you ca…

A wonderful book that is similar in concept to this post is "Leadership and Self-Deception". I think the first part of the book: "Self-deception and the Box" is what Derek is descr…

Be aware that you will burn some customers and lose them. Customer feedback is a scarce resource that you can burn up before converting it to an asset.

Glad someone posted this. The comments on this post should probably get turned off though as the results in and of themselves are what is really compelling here. Commets will just …

Process is not a replacement for thinking. It's a tool to be used as enabling repetitive tasks to be higher quality and allowing the doer to focus on higher thought.

This smells like a resume to apple from someone wanting to be hired. I can't fault that, but using link bait initially to score high on HN, getting on Apple's radar makes me feel u…

This comes from misunderstanding The Lean Startup.

This looks like a good solution if you have limited wallet space like in the twelve-south book book case for iPhone.

Is Apple's Passbook a competitor?

Why the references to legislation? The free market can fix this IF the Craigslist experience really is bad. You might not be able to grow organically like Craigslist did but it is …

I cannot up vote this enough. Value creation is key. One new theory I've been exploring lately is that, while people can value good and bad things (moral and immoral, sustaining an…