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Reboot: Change Your Operating System With Derek Sivers(foolishadventure.com)
1 points by rjb 14y ago|0 comments
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by rjb 14y ago
>There would be an aesthetic difference. This is my point. People have value systems and brands and styles can be a part of that. An inability to identify with someone buying overpriced goods does not make the judgement process any diff
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by rjb 14y ago
Wouldn't the opposite be just as bewildering then? There really is no difference between buying a Hermes dress and buying Dickies overalls, right? Each item makes a statement and each person is well aware of the statement it makes. Both can
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In Search of Energy Miracles(nytimes.com)
3 points by rjb 14y ago|0 comments
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by rjb 14y ago
I think under the circumstances it may actually put a smile on peoples faces. They are probably already in a good mood and the right mindset for something like this. This was a relatively common tactic in Chicago a few years ago, done by re
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by rjb 14y ago
I have been wanting an app that does this for a VERY long time. Ever since reading Letters From a Stoic and The Happiness Hypothesis, my life's resolution has been to be happier than I was yesterday. I, similar to codegeek, always envisione
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Working on Multiple Teams at the Same Time: Positive or Negative?(michael-roberto.blogspot.com)
1 points by rjb 14y ago|0 comments
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by rjb 14y ago
I remember in 2000 or 2001 a company in Chicago negotiated with Ameritech to put hotspots on the top of telephone poles around the city for something like $3/mo. The deal ended up falling through... I think too many parties had to get invol
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by rjb 14y ago
The video is too professional and very dry. Show the app being used with some really clever use cases, people having a good time passing their creations around. Sell the emotional side of it, not the utility. One suggestion, your examples p
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by rjb 14y ago
I caught myself doing just that and to force my mind to snap out of an endless train of thought.
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If Money Doesn't Make You Happy, Consider Time(gsb.stanford.edu)
137 points by rjb 14y ago|45 comments
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by rjb 14y ago
In the U.S. teachers are responsible for compiling 5-8 lesson plans a day. Multiply that number by the number of school days. Each lesson plan then needs to meet specific requirements that varies between state. It goes without saying seaso
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John Sculley: the future of our health is in the cloud(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by rjb 14y ago|0 comments
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by rjb 14y ago
Yes. Investors believe Facebook's value perception will catch up with its reality, since they are currently out of whack. They believe the current imbalance is in their favor. It's the only way to make money investing.
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by rjb 14y ago
I completely agree. The more competitors, the more fragmentation, the better for Dropbox. Something primitive in me starts to kick in when this occurs. I start to question the trustworthiness, validity, and longevity of "other services", wh
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by rjb 14y ago
People sign contracts in their daily lives and in a variety of situations. Particularly hackers who are likely to work on a contract basis. The valuable lesson here is that one should not feel shy about calling attention to the contents of
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by rjb 14y ago
Seriously brilliant. And the video is spot on in answering questions/concerns that anyone would have.
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by rjb 14y ago
Decide seems fine for new items, specifically electronics and appliances which is probably why the service highlights their price drop alerts. Priceonomics really impressed me when it was able to price a Leica M4P and a set of P90 pickups.
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Larry Page hates e-mail, but still has 'geek street cred' - CNET News(news.cnet.com)
5 points by rjb 15y ago|2 comments
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by rjb 15y ago
The problem is that the focus is on the Download and social sharing buttons. I would just remove all that completely.
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Skimming vs. Reading(online.wsj.com)
2 points by rjb 15y ago|1 comments
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by rjb 15y ago
They are just "captcha like". I believe the idea is to to make ads bidirectional. Instead of just clicking a banner ad, a user would enter, say, a coupon code for example.
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by rjb 15y ago
Great design and the app looks dead simple, i.e. it is not scary looking, but I need a bit more information. "Radio Silence lets you block internet access from any applications you would rather keep silent." My applications have/need intern
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by rjb 15y ago
I think both bookstores and record stores have a chance to go back to what they once were. Small and independently run, selling things their customers actually want, not everything under the sun.
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by rjb 15y ago
I too like the feature, but the language, "How much time do you have?", confused me until I actually had saved a few videos. Something along the lines of "Show me videos longer than.." would better reveal the feature's purpose.
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by rjb 16y ago
This is literally one of two ideas we have been flipping between. What we found was that all the current mobile gifting services lacked local businesses, were mostly SMS based and, the surprising problem, were partnering with the merchant.
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by rjb 16y ago
You should feel very lucky for having such struggles. It is a rare and wonderful condition. I stopped looking for and setting goals, milestones, or anything else that was quantitive in measuring my progress a long time ago. Now I just liste
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by rjb 16y ago
Dharmesh Shah touched on this at Startup Bootcamp last year and expands on what petervandijck discusses. Effectively, there is a financial benefit (based on longevity) and financial cost (acquisition) to pricing, and the goal is to make the
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The real reason why consumers won't pay online(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
2 points by rjb 16y ago|0 comments
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by rjb 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_settlement and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viatical_settlement

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