barrysaunders

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by barrysaunders 1mo ago
oh, is that all?
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by barrysaunders 8mo ago
Any truly popular art relies on finding an emotional hook that’s specific enough to identify with strongly but broad enough that most people can see themselves in it. Everyone’s felt their boss is an asshole and their underlings are idiots,
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by barrysaunders 9mo ago
Devs age 6 years every year
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by barrysaunders 1y ago
This kind of just-so story is easy to write after the fact. It's harder to see the future at the time. How many people read a version of the same story and pivoted their company to focus on SecondLife, NFTs, blockchain or whatever else
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by barrysaunders 2y ago
Dear Mr President, there are too many apps nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.
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by barrysaunders 3y ago
it can handle part of it, it doesn't solve for a lot of things around compliance and risk. They might help you understand local compliance, but the business still needs to be actually compliant. Just look at the mess Twitter got into t
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by barrysaunders 3y ago
Tax, work rights, compliance, labor protections and entitlements all get pretty complicated. Some countries have high levels of public holidays, rules around dismissal that get legally complicated in the case of downsizing. It's not si
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by barrysaunders 4y ago
The writing's been on the wall for Australian neobanks for several years. 86400 got bought for its tech, Xinja went bust, Up is mostly a front end for Adelaide / Bendigo bank, a bunch of smaller players blew up on the launchpad. T
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by barrysaunders 5y ago
Jaycar still does a lot of this! The one in Central Park Sydney still does a lot of workshops, they have a maker hub, sell a lot of the class electronic components and things like that. Nothing like it used to be with Dick Smith and Radio S
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by barrysaunders 5y ago
Do a detailed post-mortem, ensure you can learn from it. Remember that the correctness of a decision is about whether you made the right choice with the information you had at the time, not whether the project succeeded. Many projects succe
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by barrysaunders 5y ago
You are 23. You are not a failure. You have a passion, and a talent, and dedication. You have simply identified an area of your life that you'd like to improve. You might feel like life has passed you by, it has not. 23 is incredibly y
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by barrysaunders 5y ago
third option is to go and work somewhere that builds software that helps people make product decisions - think a Dovetail, Figma, Atlassian etc. Your perspective will make you an effective engineering leader!
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by barrysaunders 5y ago
Does she want to use her COBOL experience? There's a lot of COBOL consulting work with government and banking clients, and it's common for those consultants to be older. Her military experience will help here. I've know some
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by barrysaunders 6y ago
Jobs to be done is helpful to get a baseline understanding of what problem you want to solve. However personas and more detailed design work will help you understand your audience and their motivations. This helps you figure out if you’re b
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by barrysaunders 14y ago
Yeah, the problem is that users don't do it of their own volition. Social media buttons do change user behaviour. It might not sway you, but if you track social media activity on your site with analytics, you'll see a large difference. htt