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by robfitz 1y ago
An extremely eye-opening comment, thank you. I haven't played with the image generators for ages, and hadn't realized where the workflows had gotten to. Very interesting to see differences between the "mature" AI coding
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by robfitz 2y ago
It's all about that value-per-word ;)
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by robfitz 3y ago
There are plenty of river ports/quays with power and water hookups. If you want to houseboat it, you really only need to move when you want to dump the septic tank (and in some areas, not even that). The "good" spots are high
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by robfitz 4y ago
I do ~$15k/m in royalties from 3 nonfiction titles[1] which mostly sell via word of mouth (as opposed to hands-on marketing and/or author platform stuff). So it's definitely possible, if you approach it properly. It's tr
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by robfitz 4y ago
Any chance you've written more about the system design and incentives side of it somewhere (whether about medium in particular, a previous biz, or just the mechanisms in general)? If so, I'd absolutely love to dig in... It's
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by robfitz 5y ago
I got into the fifth batch (s07) and remember my other startup friends staging an intervention to dissuade me from accepting because "the valuation is really bad." Interesting to see how long even the industry insiders failed to
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by robfitz 5y ago
Aw, you're a star, Andrew. I really appreciate (and admire) the sentiment and thoughtfulness. (Although I still think that I dropped a bit of an unsalvageable mess on your lap!) As a side note since you're here, I'm super psy
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by robfitz 5y ago
The mundane answer is that there's some stuff that I worry about optimizing and other stuff that I don't, and this little personal site is the latter ;). To a lesser extent, I also didn't exactly expect this to hit frontpage,
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by robfitz 5y ago
Exactly. Really opens up some beautiful coastal areas to explore where the tides are big. It's also quite nice to know that if you happen to run into an unmarked sandbank, you'll only have to sit there, and not sit there sideways
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by robfitz 5y ago
Yeah, I looked at trailer sailers (although I wanted a cabin), but it wasn't really viable for the types of travel I wanted to do. Now that my life and location are slightly more predictable, a 7m with a small cabin that could go on a
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by robfitz 5y ago
The user is always right ;). I'll keep working on it. Thanks again.
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by robfitz 5y ago
I don't have a proper answer (because it's a good and difficult question), but I sort of think of it as a context-dependant thing. E.g., During a customer interview where I'm trying to understand what they've done (and p
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by robfitz 5y ago
An important moment and transformation, well-described. Thanks for sharing it :)
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by robfitz 5y ago
Heya, thanks, it's a new site setup, so it's super helpful to hear about your experience with it -- I'll get that clarified. (I had nestled an about/bio link in the deep bottom-left sidenav, but it's admittedly very
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by robfitz 5y ago
It was the difference between a wikipedia article vs. a biography (i.e., a collection of facts vs. those same facts, but arranged around a narrative). A specific example came up while trying to explain my first company's pivots through
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by robfitz 5y ago
I tried a bit of everything, and I did it all at the same time, so it's hard to pin down causation. The only thing that had to happen was to shift my diet away from being primarily composed of alcohol, coffee, and tabasco. Apart from
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by robfitz 5y ago
This is semi off-topic, but I normally write books, which I work pretty hard to edit down into the shortest versions of themselves. As a weird side-effect of that, I noticed myself starting to hold all of my writing to that same standard,
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by robfitz 5y ago
It's far less dramatic than you'd hope. I left it moored up at a port along the canal for winter (when the canal gets too shallow to traverse), the folks who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it didn't, uncharacteristic w
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by robfitz 5y ago
Westerley Centaur 1972 bilge keel, 7.9 meters, with interior layout A: https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/centaur-26-westerly Was the most popular British-made small boat of all time, and some of them have successfully
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by robfitz 5y ago
Ya, we went in cold after just a quick email exchange, so you're spot on there. Still, I remember being quite struck by how authentically he was working to get to the heart of it and tease out some value from the mess I was making. It
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by robfitz 5y ago
And I want you to get one ;) Sailing had always been on my "someday bucket list," but I kept putting it off since I could never make the time to take the week or two off to do the course. But once I started learning, it was so muc
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I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it(robfitz.com)
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by robfitz 5y ago
Hey mate, congrats! I hit financial independence in my early 30s (not flashy rich, but sufficient to never work again) and am now 37. Here's my take: People get directionless and depressed after winning the lottery. It's a common
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by robfitz 5y ago
It's a positive thing, just written weirdly. E.g., an early employee takes a moderate salary plus X% equity. Normally that person is stuck waiting until a liquidity event (like an acquisition, IPO, or late-round funding where some priv
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by robfitz 5y ago
I had been wondering why/how so many startups had suddenly "figured out" the transcript-first editing interface, and it seems that Gentle was the answer. Such a transformational piece of invention that has enabled a whole wav
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by robfitz 5y ago
Haha oh man, when did I even publicly mention that? I doubt I'll ever release it as a book (since it needs a full rewrite and my enthusiasm for it was very tied to that moment in my life), but maybe a couple of the ideas will slip out
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by robfitz 5y ago
A few of the ideas, yes, but not the whole thing. But you could probably get those ideas just as easily from the linked summary. In particular, stuff like digging beneath requirements & feature requests to understand the root cause and
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by robfitz 5y ago
If the problem is well-defined, you can get a fairly strong signal on intent-to-purchase by asking for commitments (i.e., time, reputation, money, or secrets about an enterprise buying process). You start with the smallest ones (weakest sig
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by robfitz 5y ago
I think it depends very much on your goals. For me, after going through YC with my first company and having a difficult four years chasing scale, I realized that I was oriented more toward lifestyle/reliability/freedom, and I&#x27
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by robfitz 5y ago
I always love summaries that are publicly posted (like this one, no matter how detailed), and I only dislike the (relatively rare) ones that are repackaged as "new" books on Amazon and then resold at a profit (it feels bad in gene

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