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I’d prob pay $8/month for hacker news

Listen. If you really listen to peoples opinion you’ll see the truth in their conviction after a certain point. I will often stay silent while listening other than confirming words…

Classic IRL product scenario, not accounted for while building the happy path

> “I remember when Google was small and scrappy,” he said. “Fun didn’t always — we shouldn’t always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working startup and peop…

The fact that this sort of tracking is at all possible is what makes the internet so awesome…

This is a great story. I think there is something to listening to one’s voice vs reading letters

Great read. The pandemic forced my close friends to go from in person drinks to zooms but then quickly transitioned to async voice messages. The by product of this is everyone gets…

Andy Grove's response when John Doerr decided to leave intel for kleiner "Come on, don't you want to be a general manager and own a real P&L? I'll let you run Intel's software divi…

How is WhatsApp embedded in business?

Why hasn’t push to talk (ptt) taken off on smartphones?

What are Citrix and Tibco used for?

Lol. I wasn’t implying it was cool or revolutionary. Just pointing out that all day every day I’m meeting with people who I’ll probably never meet in real life to complete tasks wo…

My metaverse is work. Every morning I get up go to my office and spend 8 hours jumping from zoom call to zoom call from my gcal.

I wonder how the market would react if it was reported that Tesla was working on a laptop or smartphone.

I actually think VR and events could be magic. You put it on and for 2 hours do a combination of keynotes and chose your own adventure experiences. If it incorporates interesting e…

There is no mention of the elevator. Until they solve this the open/closed floor isn’t going to matter.

What if instead of text based chat you had to post voice responses. May make it more real?

It’s an $11 Billion dollar hardware business that’s double the size of the Mac. IMHO, the biggest innovation is that an enterprise can purchase one of these interest free for ~$20 …

Idea #2 is genius. In my experience early employees become a liability as you scale and exceed their experience skill level. This makes it a win for them and for the org. Nothing w…

This is awesome

What are your pronouns? What city? What age? I’m he/him, San Francisco, 39

Singularity does not happen Therefore… International banks moving off of Libor triggers loan re-evaluations causing a financial down-turn In response, US creates a trillion dollar …