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Ask questions. Something I learned from being around a few outgoing friends over the years, the easiest way to start a conversation is to ask questions. Even if you already know th…

It kind of feels like Anthropic needs to IPO before OpenAI. If OpenAI IPO's first, it'd be huge. Then Anthropic does, but AI IPO hype has sailed. If Anthropic IPO's first, they get…

I've been using Screen Time this year so far and it's been working pretty well. For me Twitter, FB, and Reddit were the go to dopamine hits. I have separate 5 min daily limits for …

I notice an interesting adaption to this in the metalcore scene. Bands release shorter EP's (5-6 song mini albums) more frequently. In some cases 2 separate EP's are re-released af…

Speed derived from managing scope is the real value IMO. It's not about working faster, but rather minimizing scope constantly to ship faster and collect feedback.

Your solution may be the better product, but info on receipt has 100% user adoption compared to the extreme minority that will put in the extra work to download the app, scan the r…

This is obviously frustrating, but do not focus on it. They were wrong and lazy to blatantly copy, but would it really make a difference if they spent an extra couple hours with a …

A shift in consumer habits require orders of magnitude in improvement over previous solutions to achieve mass adoption and become the new true "normal". The reality is bitcoin and …

FB is charging a premium for accessing an economy of scale (audience). As a content creator that charges $25/mth, would you rather: 1. Patreon - 500 subs 25x500x.95=$12,500 rev 2. …

Drift https://www.drift.com

Seems very similar to BigQuery. I wonder how the architectures compare.

This is gold

Twitter has some good points on the problem with paging and uses a "max_id" & "since_id" instead. https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/timelines

Open Sans

Been pondering this the past few days.. I use Mailbox everyday and the alternatives just don't do it for me. Would love to create something that I actually use everyday. However I …

I'm looking to build something similar. What did you use as a hopper?

I find this to be more of a PR stunt that says "Google tries to care about privacy..." With every change they make to Google search, they put more value on a site's user experience…

Airmail is pretty good...

Yea I agree. It's not that much more effort to clean things up and it will save you time later. Not sure why the author thinks writing clean code is some form of premature optimiza…

Growthhackers.com, inbound.org and producthunt are the biggest I know of. The key is cultivating a community within them.

"Would love to create my own software and start selling it, but everything's been done already" You need to get this idea out of your head. Maybe a lot of "obvious" ideas have been…