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What's strange to me is why they thought that email address would work -- after all it's not their address. I've got years of emails from France for the same reason. You can set up…

A good sign is when people are trying to do something using a complex workaround because they need it that badly, and you can implement a change to make it easier. If they haven't …

We have to remember that beach volleyball is clearly an essential part of the training for fighter pilots!

Simple idea that can't be repeated enough times: you don't convince customers to want your product. You show them how it solves a problem that they care about. The simplest form of…

I used to struggle with this. It seemed like the first few steps of anything I could do would never measure up to these accomplishments that I saw from others. Then I realized that…

There may not be a test of writing abilities in a job interview itself, but applying for the job is a test of writing abilities.

I think that's his point? If he drew like that but had no interesting content, no one would read the comics. If he wrote jokes but couldn't illustrate them at even a basic level, t…

When I was first starting out, one of my goals was to manage a team. I thought no one would hire me for that role since I didn't have the background for it. Instead I started freel…

Spending a lot of time building something is a great way to put off the painful realization that people don't want to pay for it. Asking for sales up front means you have to face t…

Not only that -- a lot of people pursue "innovative" technologies and try to build something all new, when existing ideas have only reached 1% of the market that need them because …

All the time! I'll try to email one or two lines to myself to remember it later. I've found this is the quickest way to give myself confidence that I'm not "losing" the idea if I s…

Reminds me of a Wordpress site that ended up having a bunch of files uploaded to the uploads directory with the extension .php -- and the webserver allowed them to be executed. Unf…

I've found the same. When you have things to done you get them done. When you don't, you can sit around browsing the internet all day. It tends to be when things pile up that you a…