zashapiro

There's a point you make in the article that I think will get overlooked: Thanking people.

I'm fascinated with the human psychological flaw looking at short term vs. long term. We tend to optimize for short term without giving much thought to the long term.

You're most likely going to want people to help out again so thanking them for their time and effort, no matter how minimal, has never gone unnoticed.

Great question.

Just off the top of my head, I can think of two for me:

- Color (taught us to lead with your product, not your fundraise or domain name price)

- Eventvue (a TechStars 2007 company that taught me the importance of A/B testing and talking to your customers)

Can someone build a version of this that prints snarky descriptions of certain pictures? Give it a libertarian political slant and a vegan diet. Only good things can come of this.

I really love this story. It's so incredibly hard to see the forest for the trees when you're that age.

I love PG's notion that some kids are playing the popularity game and others are playing an entirely different game, because they're being individuals and are learning or pursuing something they want, regardless of popularity.

That's pretty nifty