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TaylorGood

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AI Quant / Humanitarian

co-founder/COO entropyindex.com chairman tgoodfoundation.com

IG+X: @taylorgood

TG @ Taylor Good . com

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TaylorGood··on Bitfinex just spent $23.7M in fees to make a single Ethereum transaction
How did you confirm miner identity??
TaylorGood··on Ask HN: What are your thoughts on bitclout?
Hearing about it on CH right now.
TaylorGood··on Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet
I've become fully immersed. It started with seeing tweets about six weeks ago and lately CH rooms nonstop. NFT's are having a moment. From generative projects, to to NBA Top Shot, CryptoPunks, Beeple, b.20 my mind is blown. I've been painting token-related paintings for a couple years, and digitized my artist persona this past week via OpenSea.

Beeple's Christies auction will be very interesting.

TaylorGood··on Digital Artist Sells $582,000 of Crypto Art in 5 Minutes
Kind of wild how little coverage NFT's receive on HN. I'm super long on this new metaverse, and dipping my toes as an artist. Feel free to follow along on Twitter: http://twitter.com/WARHODL
TaylorGood··on Ask HN: Consultants and freelancers, how do you handle invoicing?
In my past I've used Bonsai; all in one proposal, contract, invoicing and payments dashboard.
TaylorGood··on Homicide victim found in burnt-out SUV ID'd as man behind spam-email empire
What makes the AirBNB guys bad people?
TaylorGood··on Idea Validation:Content, Graphic and SEO service at a fixed monthly plan of $499
4+ years is seemingly low irrespective of the monthly ask. In other words, one can still be very green in that short amount of time. I want a service like this, however based on that proof would be the ticket.
TaylorGood··on Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
I have a theory that GoDaddy also sells domain search quieries to HugeDomains. After the third domain I finally learned. Basically would mash two words together that were brandable, low letter count and all three times, within 24 hours HugeDomains purchased and put up a landing page selling said domain for $1.5k-$3k. Wtf, but doesn't surprise me if so. GoDaddy is the king of funnels.
TaylorGood··on Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi
I just bought a PiBookPro (1) that I discovered on Twitter. It’s a laptop shell for RPi at $80. Kind of a wild backstory but hard to beat that $

1) Http://pibookpro.com

TaylorGood··on Uber loses $2.9B, offloads bike and scooter business
I read that same headline yesterday: Uber leads $170 million investment in scooter company Lime. Wtf?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/uber-leads-170-million-inves...

TaylorGood··on Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education
I once interviewed for a CD role at a private, vocational certificate college. They do have some IRL locations but primarily online. The director shared that their revenue was about $500m. I didn't take the role, and I was left scarred knowing their revenue is someone elses debt and based on hope.
TaylorGood··on Juul is reportedly laying off 800 to 950 employees
From what I've seen lately, the JUUL crowd has moved to disposables, one brand called PUFF.
TaylorGood··on South Korea reports recovered Covid-19 patients testing positive again
Logic says this too.

Deadly, contagious virus with no vaccine, which takes roughly 18 months. There aren't too many options. I've heard chatter that big co's started telling their employees they're planning 18 months WFH.

TaylorGood··on Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists
Is there somewhere on the website to express interest in becoming a featured artist?
TaylorGood··on Show HN: Get a Hand LA
It would be nice to see a layer deeper on the “focus areas” as the role/skills of a digital marketer can be casted pretty wide :)
TaylorGood··on Show HN: Get a Hand LA
So good - submitted mine :)

Really cool that you all are doing this. This will immensely help bootstrapped startups.

TaylorGood··on Ask HN: What are you learning?
How to run a DTC business. Everything that has tried to stop this has, but I keep pushing forward.
TaylorGood··on Ask HN: What are you working on in lockdown?
Personal care DTC; handsyhealth.com - wipes are next :)

Beneath the surface, it was a personal challenge to conceptualize, create, launch a brand, configure Shopify, get sales all in under two weeks. So far so good.

TaylorGood··on UK's gov. believes China could have 40 times more Covid-19 cases than it claims
Wonder if this overlaps with 21 million Chinese dropping their cell phone service.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-23/china-s-m...

TaylorGood··on The death toll for Covid-19 in Nembro, Italy
I know of deaths at the local hospital ER with overlapping symptoms but not being officially counted as the deceased were never tested. On a county level there’s maybe one or two recorded. This testing debacle is hurting everybody in more ways than one.
TaylorGood··on Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call
Restaurants still have the hurdle of fear - is everybody in the kitchen wearing gloves, are they all non-COVID, etc.. There are enough touchpoints in the process to get take out delivered I'm avoidng it.
TaylorGood··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
I've launched a Hand Sanitizer DTC. http://handsyhealth.com
TaylorGood··on 2009 flu pandemic in the United States
Agreed! Thanks to Twitter I caught the severity of this "early" and about two weeks ago had my WTF moment. Felt like I was in the middle of an eartquake for a good hour. A switch flipped. For business and personal life I knew that I had to change up just about everything in order to address and ride through this as best as possible.

Here is something I posted a week ago about the social landscape that still holds true unfortunately:

Twitter: oh shit

Instagram: what virus

Facebook: you’re overreacting

In person: toilet paper!!!!

TaylorGood··on YC W20 Online Demo Day moved up due to investor interest
Ancillary to this health wave being an exception. Here is what I posted on Twitter earlier: "Business owners with unaligned or rigid products or services unable to adapt are actively sinking. I’ve halted most everything and have never felt so much pressure to iterate for something and the coming months of shifting consumer priorities."
TaylorGood··on Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread
This is what I posted last night on my Instagram: “Opinions aside, this is affecting everything indefinitely”

Unless you have real property, reserves or a salary to ride, the only option is to try and adapt.

TaylorGood··on Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?
Sounds like that guy is Mr. Spreadshirt.
TaylorGood··on Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?
But the "fear" bit they instill is that it may prevent you from ever logging back into the apps/sites in question.
TaylorGood··on The Bizarre, Boozy World of a Junior VC in Silicon Valley
Nice to see this on HN as it has been discussed on Twitter with amuse.
TaylorGood··on Amazon Employee in Seattle Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Also announced a USPS package sorting worker in Seattle has been infected. Feels like there is a massive shoe about to drop in US akin to South Korea / Italy spread.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/01/usps-worker-tests-positive-for...

TaylorGood··on Hidden Champions: Successful but little-known businesses
Definitely an A-Ha in my life was visiting a friends family business many years ago in a nondescript industrial park on the way out to the desert. They're in the Pet supplement space. Family owned for over twenty years old. Legacy customers. Millions a year in revenue with a healthy margin. Barely any signage amongst two dozen units yet luxury cars lined the parking lot. The A-Ha was the idea of "unglamorous businesses" having all the benefits of success without having to maintain the shine. At the time, I only saw the opposite; chase buzz, etc. so this was a paradigm shift on the nature of how businesses operate.
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