A few years ago, I got a little put off by the wasps-fig thing, then, after some research, I found that wasps have nothing to do with the species of figs that are consumed by humans
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1) I feel the growth in the number of users (and rooms) has overwhelmed their notifications-based system;
2) the “enjoy the live conversation or nothing” approach they have works great for content creators (which is key), and for people that enjoy serendipity (which is great), but makes it hard to use for many users that may just want to enjoy the content and are not in creator mode at all times.
A lot of the great stuff that happens on CH just happens at the wrong time of the day.
Adding DMs was a great way to help translate participation in rooms into something more valuable and that continues to bring value beyond (outside) CH.
I suspect next steps are going to be in the direction of:
1) supporting the many people that would be willing to trade interactivity in a room for greater flexibility to listen to it passively but at any time;
2) introducing a content recommendation system that allows users to discover the right content that is not live;
3) bring on a user rating system that relies on more than just the number of followers.
Perhaps it’s me, but it almost feels like the author perceives that managing a company is the same as making a stack of decisions, and the piece covers well how the CEO relates to other employees in the decision-making process.
While making decisions is certainly an important part of what a CEO does, managing a company also involves managing how decision making happens within the organization: that often means helping decision making happen with less and less direct involvement of the CEO.
Indeed, as an organization grows, the number of decisions to be taken grows too, and so an important aspect of any framework for effective decision making involves managing people, and designing the organization, in such a way that decisions are moved away from the CEO.
In this sense, it would have been interesting to read more about when and how a CEO should let others take over the process for certain decisions, how a CEO should pick which decisions to be involved in and which should be delegated, or how a CEO should evaluate the performance of the organization’s decision making capabilities.
This is great. Does anyone have any idea on how the actual mechanics of data transmission and storage can play on the legal side of things to enable use by under 13?
There is no constraint that one has to use only one number. Perhaps, in 2021, CPUs are complex enough to deserve more than one number to give a useful representation of utilization, as it works with all sorts of factories/plants. Also, who would love to see in the metrics reported CPU usage per core?
If they could have made this video a 200 years ago, the population on earth would have been 800mm people, instead of 7.7bn people. Same humans, same planet, but ~10x difference in what our existence implies about population of other forms of life existing out there
Full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/business/talc-asbestos-po...
From the article:
> Experts believe the individuals lived in different time periods. Some bones could be as old as 50,000 to 68,000 years, whereas the most ancient remains are believed to be 100,000 years old.
I understand how you feel now, but (I am sure) very many people out there would rather trust their data to (a future) you given how careful you have been, how much you have cared, and how much you have learned from this.
On the yearly subscription, do you charge for the entire year upfront? If not, you are eliminating reason 2) above to go for monthly
How is the distribution of vintages of your user base? Depending on your growth (and churn) rate, the distribution of old (>1 year old) vs. new (<1 year) users might drive more yearly subscriptions: the slower you grow, the more old users you will have in your mix of paying users. Old users already know they like your product and are much more willing to take the commitment of the yearly subscription to get the financial savings.
...so that might explain why you have a majority of annual plans. It’s always a good idea to experiment with your prices and segment the market, it’s almost always a good idea to do it without disrupting (too much) your existing user base.
1) make sure the manufacturer you are talking to is already manufacturing comparable products - efforts to make them manufacture a type of product they are not already familiar with are likely to fail;
2) make sure the manufacturer you are talking to is already manufacturing at a level of quality that is in line with the quality you want - efforts to make them manufacture at a higher level of quality than the manufacturer is accustomed to are likely to fail;
3) familiarize yourself with regulations for the manufacturing, import/export, and sale of the product you want to develop before you talk to the manufacturer - regulations will always eventually catch-up with you and you risk wasting effort, money and time not covering them in advance.
Make them feel like each failure is an opportunity to learn that they need to put to good use for the next deployment.
Build a process that turns your team into an effective team
“He was born in Fossombrone. Around 1490 he went to Venice to learn the art of printing. [...] Petrucci's later work was extraordinary for the complexity of his white mensural notation and the smallness of his font, and he did in fact print the first book of polyphony using movable type.“
GREAT work.
Two (small) comments: - Perhaps the review of the re-forestation option could mention that this has a number of positive side effects (outside of carbon capture), for example on rainfall and wildlife.
- as there is a time constraint on co2 capture (e.g. 2050), and as the various co2 capture solutions are not all at the same stage of maturity, it could be useful to have a table/chart that summarizes which co2 capture options are deployable now vs. at some stage in the future
Your learning comes from the experiences of your life. Reading a good book is like learning someone else’s life.
...That’s why a truly great fiction book may be worth 100x a truly great non-fiction book.
Also, internet service providers usually provided their own portal, to support less-experienced users.
As a company/site, you depended on - adding yourself - to the lists on these portals to be discovered by customers.
As a user, you depended on the listings on these portals/search engines to discover sites/companies you were interested in.
1x Raspberry Pi 3 to teach the kids how to code in Python and do math games.