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It depends on how the Trust wants to focus its funds. Similar to how a VC fund might focus on enterprise software or B2C. For a reference of Self-Storage REITs, this is a good start(1).

Different markets are definitely hotter than others. Houston, Miami, Austin, Los Angeles are some of the more lucrative markets, but even small markets have strong players. Self-storage is fairly democratic in the markets served. I've visited facilities in rural town that are wildly successful for the owners, as well as small facilities outside of Manhattan Beach.

(1) https://www.reit.com/what-reit/reit-sectors/self-storage-rei...

It's actually the opposite, it's more akin to a SaaS company. I've worked with Owner-Operators of facilities and the ones who do it right are printing money.

The smart ones optimize towards revenue per square foot and can pull in upwards of $30,000+ of profit per month. And that can be on a single facility. Typically the smart ones own 2-3 facilities. They buy an underperforming facility and optimize its functions and reap the rewards.

How do they do it? One method (of a few) is by constantly pushing the rates up and churning customers that have lower rates. Once their occupancy hits a certain threshold (typically above 85%) they start really trying to push customers out with higher rates. If the occupancy starts to dip below their target, they start to offer deals. That way they can keep the monthly recurring revenue flowing while still optimizing towards revenue per square foot.

Edit: This is why there are specific REITs that focus on self-storage.

> “The most rewarding things were the yawns,” said Krafcik.

For me, this is the best line in the article. Moving from excitement to normal in a single trip. The "user experience" can only improve from this point.

Small question, but is it normal to leave the numbers blank when it comes to share-percentage or number of shares rewarded to the founders in the Risks section[0]?

[0]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517...

Case in point, they have seven in the role "Director of Engineering"

To me, Keegan misses out on the art of photography and is focusing more on the "rules" of photography.

That being said, it's fun to see where photos fall in its grading system, even if I personally disagree with it.

For example, this portrait by Vivian Maier gets a 4.2 https://keegan.regaind.io/p/9VJdlageRTusSf7Z2qDQPA

I'll bite on the Twitter 2.0 comment.

In some sense, I see the descriptions he made in Snapchat. The ability to consume content from where ever I choose, but my ability to reach out and converse with people who create content is limited by their desire to create a 1:1 connection with me. I wasn't a big fan of Snapchat when it first came out, but over time it has interested me with some of the decisions that they have made to really make the product about consuming moments that are personal to me, as well as interesting to me.

Another +1 to YNAB here. You can get the 30 trial and extend it another 30 days if you ask. Additionally, Steam will put it on sale during the holidays so it can be bought for a reduced price through that platform.

What I like most about YNAB is the flexibility. It can be hard at times to follow the rules they set, but that is one of the rules! 'Roll with the punches'.

When I was in university one of my favorite professors encouraged his students to browse through the tech transfer catalog every so often as a source of idea generation. I found it helps tremendously as a mental exercise to go through their technologies and brainstorm ways to commercialize.

One of the things about idea generation is that it is a muscle that needs exercise.

I'm glad to see the tech transfer program starting something new(ish).

Not entirely related, but I'm guessing you would enjoy reading Atomic Robo[1]. It's a comic (that has all 9 volumes for free online and the 10th is being released a page at a time daily) that follows an atomic powered robot built by Nikola Tesla.

Steven Hawking is a nemesis of Robo, Carl Sagan helped our hero get to Mars with Voyager, and there is a talking Dr. Dinosaur who claims that he time traveled to our time using crystals.

I recommend starting at the beginning.

[1]http://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/v1ch1-cover

Outlier here too. I start in the bottom left and move to the upper right. So essentially my 8's are all upside down.

I've also been using the bullet journal format for the better part of a year. It's a phenomenal way to stay organized and keep information at hand. It makes quick capture easy and I don't have to worry about losing where I put it later.

If you think in lists or bullet points and have had success with mindmaps then give the bullet journal a try.

My personal system for Days is S M T W R F Y.

(S)unday for the start of the week. Thu(R)sday since the R is pronounced with a strong "urr". Saturda(Y) since it's the last day of the week.

It still a bit ambiguous, but it has helped me over the years.

In my opinion Instagram worked because it was at the right place at the right time.

Radar was a photo sharing app that I loved using in 2008-2009. You took photos of what you were doing, edit them very simply, and shared them with your community of friends. The problem with Radar is that it went quietly in to the night. I don't recall the exact reason it shuttered, but I think they made some poor choices in features that killed it.

I always find it interesting to read posts about the start of Instagram and never to find references to Radar.

For Reference: http://readwrite.com/2009/01/27/radars_photo_sharing_app_com...

If you have never read The Monk and The Riddle, I would highly suggest it. The experiences that are shared and the story that is woven lends some really good perspective on our lack of an ability to focus on what is important now versus what will be important later.

It's a short read and worth every page.

A company I really like has this problem. [1] When I think of getting a new film pack, I find myself doing a "mouse dance" where I look at the photos and then they disappear followed by moving the mouse over another photo.

[1] http://vsco.co/film

That always stood out to me in Ender's Game. Especially when Ender had to learn the lesson to not be so flippant with the units under his command.

This [1] is from their user guide for the notebook.

Device Support

Page Camera is currently available only on iOS (iPhone / iPad), but will be added to Android and other mobile platforms in the future. iPhone 3Gs, iPad 2, and earlier models are not optimal for Page Camera due to absence of flash and low camera resolution.

EDIT: Formatting.

[1]: http://evernote.com/getting_started/moleskine/#5

It's worth it to me (#623). I use Evernote pretty heavily, but there are times where paper wins out (i.e. dead batteries and meetings where being on a phone/tablet could be frowned upon).

What I also enjoy about this idea is that it is like a physical version of Paper By 53. Although now instead of emailing Evernote my sketches via paper I can now snap a picture from Evernote itself. Seems like an interesting product tie-in that has me wanting it more than I want money.

Got these all loaded onto the Kindle Fire. They work beautifully. I was meaning to post this about an hour ago but Osmos absorbed my attention.

Keep in mind that last year was the 25th anniversary of the original Mario Bros. This year is the 25th for Legend of Zelda, and next year the 25th for Metroid.

While it does seem that they are rehashing old IP (and I agree that they are) they also have a slight incentive to push out permutations of their successful franchises here in the next few years.

It is because they hope to create a crowd-sourced game later down the road. The idea is that by releasing the source they can hold contests to create levels and bosses and music and therefore create a finished product with minimum effort.

source: http://frozenbyte.com/blog/?p=176

It is a great place to start! Additionally Make magazine has good articles and a slew of projects for the Arduino.

1)Arduino Issue: http://makezine.com/25/

2)Arduino Projects: http://makeprojects.com/Topic/Arduino