willart4food

Secret to writing: 200 crappy words per day.

It was the year 1999, remember that? I was working at a startup and we were preparing to IPO. I got a cold call from a - I kid you not - "Color Consultant"; I don't know why but I listened to her instead of hanging up, her spiel was:

"Do you know [Inser name of recent IPO]? Well they hired me and I changed the color of their corporate identity from Black on Green to Green on Black; well 4 months later they IPO's raising $250 million at a $1+ billion-dollar valuation".

WUT?

Her implication was that she was taking credit for the successful IPO.

So, there it is.

I am not saying that April's contribution was not useful, but... everything in a long process is useful, but not 1 single contribution is responsible for the entire (or majority) of success. Except for grit!

#RAD #MVP

Good idea, even better implementation.

I grew up in the outskirts of Portland OR. I've lived in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, London, Paris, Milano and NYC.

NYC is my place to be.

This is an issued that existed before COVID-19, more so now.

Here's the thing: what prevents someone from moving after taking a job that allows for "remote work"? And - more importantly - what would be the repercussions should someone be found out?

My guess is that the risk is worth the money.

#RAD

This and similar mission are not NASA missions but USSF's missions (United States Space Force), and USFF is part of the United States Armed Forces, different budget:

Sources:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#Operational_histor...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force

r/entrapment

You need to lower your standards, lowering the bar is key to happines.

1/2 joking

> "Imagine, for Thanksgiving, you go to your parents' for dinner and after a nice dinner they say, 'That's going to be $10 per person,' " Simonsohn says. "You would be upset."

LOL, my first ex-wife's mother would charge $40/person for hosting the mandatory Thanksgiving dinner, after people also contributed in the way of co-ordinated sides, fixings, beverages.

By the way, $40/person in the 90's.

And no she was not poor, and nobody in the family was flush with cash.

Without revealing toomuch:

What industry are you in?

Are you concentrated in 1 geo location or... across USA / across 1 county / global?

Have the lawyers been paid?

Depends where you are, more specifically the condition of the lines. I used to live in Boston's suburbia and had Comcast/Xfinity as the only provider. Lines were old and very far away from their CO, so .. many issues. I opted for renting they $5 then $7 then $10 then $12/month cable modem so when I call for tech support they would not blame the problem on CPE.

Now I am in NYC and Spectum/TWC works great in my building (orders of magnitudes better than Comcast), I have the free cable modem but I opted out of the $5/month wi-fi and got myself a $55 ASUS AC1900 router (refurbished) and it worked just great!

> "...Thank you for letting us know how we can do better. We will update our marketing materials, as well as provide more information about SMR technology, including benchmarks and ideal use cases."

I'd love to see the CEO read that with a straight face.

TL;DR: Always hang up, look up, and call back.

> Almost everything in my to do list these days can be executed in under 10 minutes.

That's pure genius!

> Barr says he cannot even explain why the material must stay secret without putting national security at risk.

LOL, of course!

OK, so now you have version 1.0 of a product.

Read about MVP (Minimum Viable Product) the Wikipedia entry is fine, then the decision tree is as follows:

Do you want to try to make a MVP out of this? YES / NO

IF YES: establish a budget, a timeline, and tangible metrics and go for it

IF NO, new decisions tree: Pivot existing product OR scratch it and start a new one (using the knowledge acquired building this and the MVP knowledge)

So what? The times were right and the opted for a stock buyback with excess cash.

I don't own airlines stocks, but when a company where I am a shareholders does a stock-buyback with excess cash I am v=so very happy.

I am OK with banning stock buyback during the period between bailout and full repayment of the loan, but what happened before of after the loan should not be part of the argument for the bailout.

There are no bad politicians, only bad voter.

Check out the book "Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries"

In a way it's the concept of MVP but really from the point of view of picking up projects.

It's a nice thought, unfortunately the human ego factor will get in the way. We live in a world where we cannot standardize on which side of a car the gas tank opening is.

So, I went here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper

which then lead me here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium

So, how do I know if I am one of those asymptomatic cases?

"Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after will seem inadequate." - Michael Leavitt, former HHS Secretary under President George W. Bussh

And here all along I thought that she was already out.

Bad for me for being out of touch.

Awful for the Justice system for this clusterfuck!

I know what you're thinking . . .

The police wanted all the data, so my guess is "including search and browsing data"

oh oh... time to switch to Firefox.

To be noted: real bad actors will start shutting their phones off before their actions.

If you want to see the future of Social Networks, look no further than Reddit. Reddit is the Future of Social Networks.

The Next Social network, the one what will eat Facebook's lunch, just like Facebook ate MySpace's lunch, will not be people-to-people based, but it will be People-to-topic and topic-to-topic based; media-rich and mobile-friendly.

And no, it won't be Reddit, too much Legacy crap with Reddit and not enough novelty.

Clayton Christensen would agree.

Once the deal goes through someone from the ISOC will be getting a high-paying job at Ethos. Wait for it . . .