Redoubtable

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by Redoubtable 9y ago
Ah the faulty algorithm.
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by Redoubtable 10y ago
Right because the first thing I think as a founder is oh definitely I'd love to have my work judged by the insane neckbeard posse that is Hacker News Commentariat. That's totallllllly something I'd love and will likely to end
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by Redoubtable 11y ago
But let’s remember that computing used to be a hobby for most people and largely the domain of professional computer scientists. It was also a highly profitable, multi-billion dollar industry even back in the day. But once it became easy en
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How minimum viable product could save your New Year’s resolutions(pando.com)
3 points by Redoubtable 13y ago|0 comments
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by Redoubtable 13y ago
Now that is fascinating. It explains a lot of the really depressing studies about how we perceive shows like The Biggest Loser and how it makes us both less sympathetic to overweight people as well as makes us perceive that exercise and hea
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by Redoubtable 13y ago
Thanks. Hmm. So you are saying that the Baumeister study doesn't apply because if we believe we power through we can? I feel awfully tinker bell about the issue now :-) Quoting a comment found in the post you linked that led me to Wire
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by Redoubtable 13y ago
I'm not coming up with much when I search for cognitive overload being debunked or being a myth. Do you remember the name of the study? I agree that willpower and motivation are separate issues but I'd be curious to see further re
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by Redoubtable 13y ago
Dick asks if you ever approached fitness resolutions with a “just do it” attitude only to be disappointed that you summoned up all of the willpower that you could muster and still failed. A further discussion is happening on Lifehacker on t
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Why Willpower Doesn't Work(get.minimumviablefitness.com)
5 points by Redoubtable 13y ago|9 comments
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Thanks for this! The fact that I got wrapped up in constructing the identity of a company (thank god not the actual product or how we related to our clients) to be appealing to someone that wasn't its core client was definitely my problem a
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
I'm sure I do or I wouldn't have felt the need to exorcise it in public. But I do definitely care that my business makes money and that what it costs us to make our product is less than what what we get paid for it. That is just running a b
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Heh well yes. Logical win :-)
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
You got it. :-) Though I admit I wasn't quite expecting a personal Tumblr post to make it to Hacker News.
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Heh. Thanks. Glad someone thinks it is cool!
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Heh well you know actually I do have PMS! I'm due to start maybe tomorrow or Tuesday. Wow and to think my epiphany was just hormones. Man those things are useful!
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Indeed! We've rarely had a confused customer thankfully.
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Thanks!
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Well now that I've just managed to out myself to the entire world (well the world here, wasn't expecting that). We probably will! No VC we've talked to has ever wanted to hear we make marketing software for brands. But if I'm not caring any
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Indeed it is what says! Which is kind of the lost point I should make in all of this in that we've in the past positioned the company to appeal to certain things we thought the industry would find appealing not necessarily our customers. Wh
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Heh I'm stoked someone called us an API for social games. Usually people call us wildly less accurate things. YAY! We are technically a suite of tools (which you know depending on your executional ability is an API, or a set of SDKs, or us
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Unburden myself from otherwise useless and unproductive emo feelings? I sure hope so.
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
You would think I would take that too but apparently I'm an idiot and got caught up in useless crap. We make marketing software for big brands so all our "users" are monetized because well ummm that is our business model. Enterprise is gre
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Apparently it is my mysterious drivel! I have no idea how it got to the front page and this is Brian Van: http://brianvan.tumblr.com/
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
Could not agree with you more. Part of the reason I wrote this was so I could mentally reset myself to get back to work. Frankly I'm embarrassed I got caught in the trap and spent valuable emotional energy on it caring about it in the first
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by Redoubtable 14y ago
I will upvote my own ramble!
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by Redoubtable 15y ago
Curious to see the pitches! And not just because my start up is one of them.