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An extremely eye-opening comment, thank you. I haven't played with the image generators for ages, and hadn't realized where the workflows had gotten to. Very interesting to see dif…

It's all about that value-per-word ;)

There are plenty of river ports/quays with power and water hookups. If you want to houseboat it, you really only need to move when you want to dump the septic tank (and in some are…

I do ~$15k/m in royalties from 3 nonfiction titles[1] which mostly sell via word of mouth (as opposed to hands-on marketing and/or author platform stuff). So it's definitely possib…

Any chance you've written more about the system design and incentives side of it somewhere (whether about medium in particular, a previous biz, or just the mechanisms in general)? …

I got into the fifth batch (s07) and remember my other startup friends staging an intervention to dissuade me from accepting because "the valuation is really bad." Interesting to s…

Aw, you're a star, Andrew. I really appreciate (and admire) the sentiment and thoughtfulness. (Although I still think that I dropped a bit of an unsalvageable mess on your lap!) As…

The mundane answer is that there's some stuff that I worry about optimizing and other stuff that I don't, and this little personal site is the latter ;). To a lesser extent, I also…

Exactly. Really opens up some beautiful coastal areas to explore where the tides are big. It's also quite nice to know that if you happen to run into an unmarked sandbank, you'll o…

Yeah, I looked at trailer sailers (although I wanted a cabin), but it wasn't really viable for the types of travel I wanted to do. Now that my life and location are slightly more p…

The user is always right ;). I'll keep working on it. Thanks again.

I don't have a proper answer (because it's a good and difficult question), but I sort of think of it as a context-dependant thing. E.g., During a customer interview where I'm tryin…

An important moment and transformation, well-described. Thanks for sharing it :)

Heya, thanks, it's a new site setup, so it's super helpful to hear about your experience with it -- I'll get that clarified. (I had nestled an about/bio link in the deep bottom-lef…

It was the difference between a wikipedia article vs. a biography (i.e., a collection of facts vs. those same facts, but arranged around a narrative). A specific example came up wh…

I tried a bit of everything, and I did it all at the same time, so it's hard to pin down causation. The only thing that had to happen was to shift my diet away from being primarily…

This is semi off-topic, but I normally write books, which I work pretty hard to edit down into the shortest versions of themselves. As a weird side-effect of that, I noticed myself…

It's far less dramatic than you'd hope. I left it moored up at a port along the canal for winter (when the canal gets too shallow to traverse), the folks who were supposed to be ke…

Westerley Centaur 1972 bilge keel, 7.9 meters, with interior layout A: https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/centaur-26-westerly Was the most popular British-made small boat of all tim…

Ya, we went in cold after just a quick email exchange, so you're spot on there. Still, I remember being quite struck by how authentically he was working to get to the heart of it a…

And I want you to get one ;) Sailing had always been on my "someday bucket list," but I kept putting it off since I could never make the time to take the week or two off to do the …

Hey mate, congrats! I hit financial independence in my early 30s (not flashy rich, but sufficient to never work again) and am now 37. Here's my take: People get directionless and d…