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lucidlife··on Bitcoin Is Civilization
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Why do they keep feeling the need to defend and evangelize bitcoin?

If it's useful, people who find it useful will use it and their lives will improve... people who don't find it useful won't use it and their lives will be unaffected.

If the deviation between these two groups gets too wide, you will recruit users because the facts on the ground will make the benefits obvious.

Nobody went around shilling for Amazon in the late 90s. Nobody went around shilling for Google in the early 2000's.

Go build something useful and shut up until it's done.

lucidlife··on Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain (2017)
Try my podcast. It’s as balanced as I could make it. Start from the bottom. Thanks!

https://pointbite.podbean.com/

lucidlife··on My pitch just got massacred on This Week in Startups. Very embarrassing. AMA
I personally get bored by names that accurately describe the main feature of the company. It seems entirely too technical and non-creative, my instinctual reaction is "how can people with no imagination create a product I will love?".
lucidlife··on My pitch just got massacred on This Week in Startups. Very embarrassing. AMA
This is the core of what makes our app unique and we plan to spend a lot of time making it smart. It's still a work in progress, I typically compare it to google's search engine in that 15 years later they are still making it better. I suspect the same for our thought analysis engine, it will never be perfect. But it does work.
lucidlife··on My pitch just got massacred on This Week in Startups. Very embarrassing. AMA
I have never met Tyler. I said hi to Jason once but never had a conversation with him. I have exchanged a few emails but I doubt that's the problem. I hope not anyway, it never crossed my mind.
lucidlife··on My pitch just got massacred on This Week in Startups. Very embarrassing. AMA
We almost called the app WeLiveNow which is along the lines of what he suggested. But honestly I'm still leaning in favor of LucidLife, for the reasons I discussed in the video. It really grabs people's attention and holds their interest.

Thank you for saying I shouldn't be embarrassed but I still am haha. I guess life as an entrepreneur is filled with failure so I should get used to this feeling. Probably will be good for me in the long run.

lucidlife··on My pitch just got massacred on This Week in Startups. Very embarrassing. AMA
I'll be back to answer any questions in an hour.
lucidlife··on Chrome overtake Firefox in Marketshare
My initial reaction was surprise that so many people still use IE, then I remembered that my dad still uses it. I'll blame him.