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Today, computers are more plentiful and most of the nice women I meet are already married or in long term relationships.
startup-wise: 1. working as employee #6 at a startup in boston instead of google in 2001. 2. working as employee #6 at a startup in SF instead of youtube in 2005. whoops!
1. Not majoring in computer science the first time I quit my physics major. If you like something, don't stay away from it for silly reasons (like thinking that school will make you un-like it). 2. Not knowing the difference between profitability and traction when I was looking at startups to work for. I spent 2 years at a relatively low-growth startup because I thought that its profits meant it was successful, when…
1. Not majoring in computer science the first time I quit my physics major. If you like something, don't stay away from it for silly reasons (like thinking that school will make you un-like it). 2. Not knowing the difference between profitability and traction when I was looking at startups to work for. I spent 2 years at a relatively low-growth startup because I thought that its profits meant it was successful, when…
You do realise that nowdothis has a better gui than yours, right? Given the two services, I'd pick theirs.
whatshallidonow changes the order. it has a "made progress" button. it would be nice if it had a button "skip - I don't want to do this one right now!". (tho you can achieve that effect by reloading, ctrl-r).
finally, the dothisnow guy gave a shoutout to our guy nostrademons here (and also to yetanothersimilarsite) http://nowdothis.tumblr.com/post/44066616/synchronicity
now they have all the momentum.
"Your greatest competitor is non-usage."
That quote is not just encouraging, it's also literally true (unless your market is >50% saturated). Plus, no two products are ever identical (whatshallidonow is a slightly different idea), and no two users are either: some like yours. However, I agree there are benefits to being first, #1, etc (and it's more exciting).
1) Granting people respect just because they are older than I am. 2) Not moving to San Francisco sooner.
* Competence
* Knowledge
* Experience
In that order. In fact, I only really respect the first one, but I've found that the other two can be very strong indicators of the first, and it's generally a bad bet to assume that someone who's clearly more experienced and/or knowledgeable than you on a topic is not also more competent (at least in some way).
startup-wise: 1. working as employee #6 at a startup in boston instead of google in 2001. 2. working as employee #6 at a startup in SF instead of youtube in 2005. whoops!
"When Filo asked Lent if he would like to join Yahoo! as employee No. 1, in order to keep the founders on their toes with his skepticism, he laughed. 'You couldn’t pay me enough money to work for a company called Yahoo!' he recalls saying at the time."
"In early 1996, Lent explains, “We all said, ’There will never be another Yahoo!’”"
But at least I came through - I had friends that time who are dead now (one overdosed on heroin, one crashed a stolen car while a fugitive from prison).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost every sport has a 100% injury rate where you eventually get hurt bad enough you can't play anymore. The trick is choosing a sport where the most common injuries prevent you from playing the sport but don't prevent you from walking. A good percentage of swimmers eventually develop shoulder injuries, but (AFAIK) that doesn't prevent you from doing anything except swimming.
maybe the 100% rate is true, but not 100% career-ending injuries. Most people quit playing a given sport seriously because they have to choose between that and making money. I swam for 4 years in college and I only know 1 person who had a career ending shoulder injury, and that one because it was misdiagnosed for a year. OTOH everyone I know who played football at any level has at least a minor nagging injury.
I suppose it is reflected in 'old timer beer leagues'. There are a few 50 year old guys on my team right now, and they can play fine they are just slower. Sames holds for baseball.
Even though football isn't that popular here - most of the guys I know that did play with hopes of making it big in the US college system ended up injured.