I understand this apparently awesome application is only intended for Mac OS X, but it would be wonderful if the web presence marketing it wasn't totally unusable on a mobile device.
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"It's 'homepage' not 'browser window'... unless you're 80"
Actually all these figures, except the number of days, seem to vary from source to source. It'd be nice if there's someone who has experience who knows... and where 4G LTE access is still intact in these dispersed camping territories.
If anything, "America" needs to consolidate its sport habit and just not dissipate so much, because by doing that it gets diluted and has a hard time competing with the rest of the world. Other subcultures "master" a sport with more depth across the group, versus being so spread out across so many specializations and being an inch deep and a mile wide.
And by compete I don't mean "be better than" or "best" them, I mean "adhere" to the well balanced state of play and acuity mixed together, along with the deep immersion in one of the best schools teaching "human nature" in a way one can actually learn from and do something with, versus behavioral sciences which are theoretical or abstract and usually lead to political or pharmaceutical work. Sport and "street smarts" go together, but on a total scale -- one can "grok" an entire nation by assessing its sport programs, provided the population is well enough represented in that program... complete with laying bare the governmental and artistic, even religious underpinnings of a subculture of this planet/lifeform we all find ourselves being.
To have the talents and capabilities of the digital world, able to immerse in any culture, be all but completely self-contained without any geodependency and without any real reason to be built on presuppositions of the world we naturally replace/displace... is a perspective and place of objectivity we really cannot afford to let pass by en masse. Not to tangent on this part: but we talk about cryptocurrencies, but most of the time that's just being converted into a pre-existing form of exchange and with it, continuation of a pre-determined end-result context. The world isn't going to change because we never step out of it completely... we still fit within most of the trappings somewhere along the way.
True, some roles need brick & mortar, but how many of us sit behind a desk when we could just as easily be out in a field or sitting in the very center of whatever our focus is: on site with the very people we're developing for, or operating on behalf of, etc...
There is a "participatory anthropology" piece here, definitely an agile methodology multiplier by exposure to the domain... both with removal of insulation and a closing of the gap between the environment we actually do exist in, and our otherwise parallel universe of artificial ( and for that reason highly precarious and/or compromising ) contexts?
This is a very long conversation, I only said the above so saying "why not" wouldn't be interpreted as curt or flippant... but really, "why not"? How easy is it to loose touch with the real plot from within our silos? Are the water-tight ( or only semi-permeable ) compartments between various people and communities worth it, or are they mostly a liability? Why not be mostly self-determinate by default, able to do whatever we want to do on our own steam... and then receive and carry out a task. So often the task comes in first, then on the way to our "end" the "means" is just bolted on from not precedent but assumption and norm, which is the very thing we most disrupt by introducing digital systems and thought into an already moving organic world, not to mention one with history already in progress, and disproportionate clumping together of people purely because that's where electricity, sewer, water, and now internet access and creature comforts are already setup. We can even keep most of the amenities! I'm just saying, how are people currently carrying out this digital nomad way of living while still remaining completely on the edge of their field, meaning: completely equipped, not lacking anything we had in our cubicles and office complexes... except dependency, pre-determination of what the "form" of our organizations and products and cultures will be, even a little bit.
http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...
http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/NRA-W...
I would prefer this all not be fact, and I wish it were not true, but I put this out there because I hope it isn't but it seems like it definitely is real and effectual. This is the biggest difficulty I've hit myself.
If not legally, in practice. With the nomadic piece, you have a certain amount of momentum that makes it hard to pinpoint your origin, so you might be giving up freedoms by putting a flag in the ground when you don't need to.
Unless someone has a way to prove that wrong?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8939426
Right now I'm in the United States and I'm forming a Nevada Series Limited Liability Company. I needed a Registered Agent to do that, but the question came up for me: how long do I need to be somewhere, and what kind of mailing address do I need, to not even need a Registered Agent?
Nevada has no State tax, but there's still Federal. I'll be watching this with interest on the tax piece... otherwise to me, in this country, it seems like Nevada is the way to go.
Assess the situations my wife might have gotten into while I was sleeping and do triage, or wake up gracefully.
Determine which emails and phone calls need a response and reply as briefly as possible.
If we're going somewhere else, prepare the mobile lab for departure and get under way. Otherwise enjoy wherever it is we are.
Connect with business partners and make any outstanding decisions required for that time.
Connect with F/OSS collaborators and audit any outstanding bug reports or feature requests.
Scout around the area with my wife, figuring out what about where we're currently staying is worth coming back for.
Eat something in the local area or come back to the mobile base and make something.
Assess situation of deliverables and code on most mission critical pieces due soonest.
Unravel some visionary pieces coming in the mid/long term and discuss future scenarios with advisors and agents.
Take on a large piece of code that needs to be written, or a large bug that needs to be weeded out.
Make a campfire, have a beer... maybe cook something on the fire.
Watch a few episodes of something on Netflix with my wife... assuming 4G access or WiFi in the location is stable enough.
Either turn in for the night/day or continue with more of whatever large coding project I took on.
Periodically communicate with partners, collaborators, or clients passed to me by agents managing contacts.
Those situations tend to be infinitely recursive, but would be priceless to map visually.
There seem to be very sparse examples of how to deploy the library properly, only to implement it.
Visually great. Cool how there's the ability to catch responses and work in the same modal further.
- an alert box pops up with "undefined, " then nothing loads - after refresh, the landing shows, with the Login box covering the welcome text that lets me know what this is
Didn't sign up, for those two reasons.
Isn't this a "Show HN" post?
Not only does the co-founder need to share your vision, they need to tolerate/accept/embrace you personally, and you them. You will go through tough times together.
If you prefer to call the shots and carry the burden of founding, then don't get a co-founder: just retain and pay a contractor, as many others have said here. It's good advice.
The illusion of a co-founder is debilitating for startups. Every founder must be putting in devoted work. It's a gunny-sack race they're in, not a baton-race, not a solo-marathon/sprint.
So find someone close to you who appreciates you personally, otherwise, hire an expert.
The "vast spectrum of human misery" exists unless or until someone's mind-churn waking them up at night results in viable solutions and real growth.
It's not one or the other, both are linked situations. There is a seriousness about all the "preoccupation" ... it's even natural and organic in the sense that it is how one hand washes the other in the grand scheme of it all.
Since I began this thread, after I invited Ries to weigh in, I wrote this on Medium to expand further on where Beard's ideals lead me, as I think through The Lean Brand. I'd really appreciate it if you could weigh in on that also ( here or there is fine ) when you have another moment:
https://medium.com/@DonovanKeme/brand-as-relationship-vs-inf...
In the meantime, since you and Gardner both obviously spent a small eternity each on thinking through a definition or contemporary usage of the word Brand, it seems like that comes through most of all in your reply. As someone who appreciates etymology deeply, which I always keep in mind -- I'll continue searching for a framework and language for Brand, thinking out loud about your definition, for you to respond on also. I feel very fortunate to have an author of one of the two books who seem to be vying for the term itself here!
http://etymonline.com/index.php?search=brand
Circa 1400, the word, used as a verb, included the meaning of 'to stigmatize' and by 1600 included the meaning of 'mark property' and 'mark criminals' both as verbs; then as a noun, before the 1550's its meaning included being a piece of burning word, then 'mark made by hot iron' which expanded to 'a particular make of goods' ( which coincides to what I read in The Lean Brand, taking about the Golden Spike in 1869, where Gardner claimed the current use of the word Brand is still at that point, which you seem to sustain? ). Only in 1992 did it include the meaning "brand name" which is itself a sustainer of the 1869 usage also.
My point is, words change dramatically in meaning, especially considering circa 1400 the verb usage was the exact opposite of what we mean now, like many other English words have done over time. So in searching for a language and framework as a standard, the existing definition, or the loudest shouted definition doesn't necessarily answer what I need. If this were 1868 and we had never seen a train traveling across the continent, we wouldn't even need the existing definitions you listed -- so as we stand at 2014 at the threshold of Alibaba vs. Amazon, and The United States Digital Services, plenty of totally free services such as this one, Hacker News and Twitter where you joined from, there is quite possibly an entirely different context for the word now.
I didn't anticipate so much depth coming to my question so fast, otherwise I'd have mentioned that my personal situation as an innovator is the development of transmedia technologies, meaning that ( for perspective ) I come from a world where hackers in high school at the same time with me, are now 10 years later creating global organizations whose brands involve literal billions of individuals, and are valued at literal billions, whether created in their garage or in a skyscraper or bunker underground. There is another context for the word brand now, and if one or a few people began from the premise of influence as Beard seems to say, and as you seem to sustain, there would be a problem I feel, in my approach to the question: why would I need to persuade the entire world of something? Why would I want to? Wouldn't I want to work within a sub-set of that world, and invite that sub-set into my offering? I cannot and would not want to scale to the size of accommodating the planet, unless my brand itself is to provide something intangible or automatic. Even then, the relationship rather than the influence would be my focus, because as we see over and over with the Google complaints and a litany of others regarding privacy, influence is the exact thing being purged from the groundswell definition and usage of Brand. For me, until I read The Lean Brand, the word Brand was heading back to 'to stigmatize' in my feelings about it.
So with all that said, I am very curious to hear your reply to my musing on Medium linked above.
And from what I gather, Gardner is out of the country, and from what I've heard, his book is being released October 8th, so he probably will be hard to get, but Brant Cooper seems to be in the United States and might be available. I hope one or both of them can come address your thoughts and mine. Like Beard and Wilkins said, this is an extremely important topic, and I am so glad for your time.
https://medium.com/@DonovanKeme/brand-as-relationship-vs-inf...
Your structure/formula is really valuable, I appreciate you sharing your personal way: Hypothesis, Audience Testing, Data Sources, Iteration / Perpetually Refined Core Statement. That seems to share a lot with The Lean Brand. Where that book goes further though, is into an Ecosystem of integrated aspects of organizations: Culture, Product, and Brand. Culture keeps together the Product and Brand inside the Organization, Product keeps the Culture and Brand ( externalized Organization ) relevant to the Audience, and Brand is the Organization and Audience relationship itself ( interestingly, including Vendors, Competitors, Employees, etc ). I'd be interested in your comments on The Lean Brand once it comes out, so I'd extend to you the same offer I made Bill -- if you'll do a write-up for HN, I'll gladly buy you the book to hear your opinions and learn from your experience.
Your formula/structure sounds very tried and true, but so far the only "standard" of any kind I've found has been The Lean Brand, including all aspects of internal and external thought, action, feelings, etc -- Let me know on Twitter, and I'll follow up with you on this.
By the way, impressive track record!
Your experience sounds relevant to my situation, so again, thanks for going down this road on HN for the good of Brand and us visionary types who need to really understand this.
I'm excited to hear your opinions, probably even have a video conversation once you've read The Lean Brand, because to me it seems like semantic gaps are extremely unfortunate for not only businesses, but non-profit organizations that need this muddy water cleared to be able to aggregate their values.
On your points so far, having my copy of the book already, Jeremiah differentiates between Brand and Branding. Yes, there is the influence piece, but I wonder if there isn't a deeper priority difference and not only semantic. If you're in a relationship, don't you want the best for the other? And if your product is the best, don't you want your relationships to benefit from that? Seems more natural than "sales" or getting a customer to a desired state. In my view of influence, versus manipulation, there is a leadership aspect which is interested in the best of another, versus merely having an agenda.
So depending on your idea of relationship, or your priorities, I see the semantic gap not existing. Does that make sense for you? If your idea is creating value, emotional and functional, and you are passionate about sharing the best you know with everyone you know, influence falls away and branding remains. The Lean Brand as a framework has ways of diagnosing passion and amplifying it, which is what I was looking for. As an entrepreneur I want organic connections that deepen, and to create awareness, but not create connections per se. If people share my values, we're connected. And if I listen, like we do in relationships, I will know the values of my audience and might need to learn to value the same thing or just exile myself from that audience. If I don't meet the need naturally, I should axe my product and choose another problem to solve, not work harder to get my customer into a certain emotion about me.
I am excited to think more about this with you. Brand seems to be where so much is decided in the success of organizations. Seeing even the possibility of a FRAMEWORK for this nightmarish world of Brand changed my life as a visionary beyond any other change I've experienced literally in decades.
I stumbled onto http://theleanbrand.com during it's crowd publishing pre-sale, which made the pre-order on Amazon possible. I was desperate to clarify Brand for my self, so I bought it. But it has turned everything on its head for me, like the Pivot you mention.
I was like a mole coming out of its hole into sunlight, hence this broader question on HN. I appreciate your insight into not only concepts but people in Brand. Your Agency Model comments and p/m/b fit comments read like sections of The Lean Brand, hence my curiosity on whether we can make a wider HN question of who is right between Laura and Jeremiah, since I am so new to this.
On Twitter I'll ask if you and Bill would do a comparison of The Lean Branding and Lean Branding for us on HN, if I bought you both the eBook to go through. Bill seems closer to Jeremiah than to Laura, but without a standard to offer beyond great observations.
After reading through what I have in The Lean Brand, specifically the Early Adopter copy and early-release of a Chapter before that, I can't understand how the issue of a standard for Brand, or even a sane way of using the word hasn't come around until now. I am wondering how people like you and Bill would approach it, with The Lean Brand in mind, since you seem to know about Lean Branding already ( at least enough to recommend it ) ... I'd value your perspective since I am 50/50 Coder & Entrepreneur myself.
The only one I've found myself so far is: http://leanbrandbook.com/
That is also in the pre-order stage right now, so I ordered that since it does claim to have a framework and language.
Since you've spoken on Lean UX, I'm curious to know your impression of what Lean Branding could have over The Lean Brand.
Have you read an advanced reading copy of either book?
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I wish your talk was available by video, yeah. I've gone through it though. Well done!
It seems like Lean Branding ( the book ) and your talk on Lean Branding seem to have a different definition of Brand than The Lean Brand and Bill Beard do ( only lightly reading through Beard so far ) ... the difference being Brand as Relationship and Brand as Identity.
But as I go through your talk, you seem to use a lot of the same terminology as The Lean Brand, and have the same core focus, compared to Lean Branding.
"Three so amazing Bulgarian tech startups to try even today"
Great idea: for X reason! Or, you are so wrong: for X reason. But why don't you pitch this some more on #hackernews on freenode?
If you're actually looking for HN people, why don't we just participate on #hackernews on freenode.
In the recent post on Wired with Snowden's recording [1] about why he leaked information, there is a call that seems to be answerable by things like GitHub repository activity. It at least feels like the public and government are finding a way to leverage technology as a means of cooperating on development of our social structure.
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/playbook
There is a lot of activity, to the point where one begins to feel that government activity is actually just another use of git like any other task. Illusion or not, it is starting to feel like the government is interactive.