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How well is “if you build it, they will come” working for anyone else?

With many of these solutions, there's already a there there. Middle market and larger companies are seeing dramatic efficiency improvements year 1. Making this tech so accessible, …

Have you seen the Citizen hybrid watches? Analog hands + eink, 17+ days of battery life.

Saw Sarah Parcak speak on this at her book launch @ The Explorer's Club ( https://www.amazon.com/Archaeology-Space-Future-Shapes-Past/... ). The current, viable remote observation …

I run forwardapp.co for this reason - I bought it from the previous developer when they wanted to shut it down. I've used it every day since it was Jot in the early 2010s. At ~60 u…

Things that made year 1 tolerable: - Understanding your time horizon just went from weeks/months to "today" for all definitions of "today" for awhile - Boot Camp for New Dads ( htt…

all credit goes to valley schwag for the original concept - they went on to better things (getsatisfaction.com) - but as a subscriber to that service, I inadvertently received a cc…

"founder" of startupschwag here ( https://techcrunch.com/2007/09/03/return-of-the-schwag/ ) - passed the torch to a guy about 10 years ago - would be happy to talk about how to bri…

Text file + Forward (forwardapp.co) - bought the source for an app called Jot before it shut down and brought it back online as Forward. Totally biased and I love it, all credit to…

Forward: http://ForwardApp.co Quickly send yourself notes now. tomorrow. next week. Has about 50 happy users and I'll keep it alive forever b/c I use it every day for time shifting…

Hadn't heard of this type of vehicle before - this was helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x22nVFTd8nI

- Time spent working on myself (exercise, personal development) seems to improve my business - Adding value for others is the best way I've found to achieve greater success - (and …

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Where do I take the SuperGLUE test?

Getting ~5h for awhile now. Coffee ftw.

Experienced this at LAX - another driver called my driver, commenting "It's at 3.5!!" - well played, I don't fault them for this at all.

Great! Let's add another MSFT browser to the regression tests!

There's a prescription discount plan - takes that $2k/mo cost down to $5.00/mo on good insurance plans.

Make sure sales compensation is very closely tied to performance, i.e. don't put salespeople on a vesting schedule tied only to time passing.

The Dark Forest (Three Body Problem) explores this

APEC - Assert thesis, Present evidence, Explain relevance, Conclude. Should include the counterargument in the explanation paragraph. Source: my tyrant of an English professor. Add…

Mirsky's Worst of the Web, because Gabocorp and FuckedCompany were already mentioned =)

http://forwardapp.co/ - we bought the app 'Jot', rebranded it and brought it back for this purpose

Make sure they're commission incentivized. I learned this the hard, expensive way. If there's a way to structure equity grants around sales performance, do it. At the very least, m…