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I’d prob pay $8/month for hacker news

Listen. If you really listen to peoples opinion you’ll see the truth in their conviction after a certain point. I will often stay silent while listening other than confirming words to indicate I’m listening for uncomfortably long. People break awkward silence by continuing to talk. They longer they go on, the stronger or weaker their opinion point of view becomes.

Reflect. Revisit opinions you or others had in the past now. Are they still true. In my experience most opinions from the past end up being misguided. On this reflection I’m more skeptical while listening.

Write. Writing is thinking. Don’t start a newsletter or blog. Buy a cheap notebook and pen and write daily. That’s how you develop opinions.

Classic IRL product scenario, not accounted for while building the happy path

> “I remember when Google was small and scrappy,” he said. “Fun didn’t always — we shouldn’t always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working startup and people may be having fun and it shouldn’t always equate to money.”

Google is not small. Is too regulated to be scrappy. And is NOT a startup

It’s an ads monopoly. Working there is all about making money.

The fact that this sort of tracking is at all possible is what makes the internet so awesome…

This is a great story. I think there is something to listening to one’s voice vs reading letters

Great read. The pandemic forced my close friends to go from in person drinks to zooms but then quickly transitioned to async voice messages. The by product of this is everyone gets a chance to be a giver and taker without having take the spotlight immediately. Sometimes our conversations last weeks as someone comes in and reignites debate after bringing a new point. It’s all async. Curious is anyone else has found similar success with voice messaging as a medium.

Andy Grove's response when John Doerr decided to leave intel for kleiner

"Come on, don't you want to be a general manager and own a real P&L? I'll let you run Intel's software division. John, venture capital, that's not a real job. It's like being a real estate agent."

How is WhatsApp embedded in business?

Why hasn’t push to talk (ptt) taken off on smartphones?

What are Citrix and Tibco used for?

Lol. I wasn’t implying it was cool or revolutionary. Just pointing out that all day every day I’m meeting with people who I’ll probably never meet in real life to complete tasks work.

My metaverse is work. Every morning I get up go to my office and spend 8 hours jumping from zoom call to zoom call from my gcal.

I wonder how the market would react if it was reported that Tesla was working on a laptop or smartphone.

I actually think VR and events could be magic. You put it on and for 2 hours do a combination of keynotes and chose your own adventure experiences. If it incorporates interesting enough visuals with content I’d much prefer this to going somewhere in person for the week or sitting in front of a “online conference console” with streaming video and a chat window.

There is no mention of the elevator. Until they solve this the open/closed floor isn’t going to matter.

What if instead of text based chat you had to post voice responses. May make it more real?

It’s an $11 Billion dollar hardware business that’s double the size of the Mac.

IMHO, the biggest innovation is that an enterprise can purchase one of these interest free for ~$20 / month (no interest) and get a brand new one in 3 years through Apple’s enterprise sales.

Hardware sold as a service. $11B.

I think the focus on multitasking misses the real innovation.

Idea #2 is genius. In my experience early employees become a liability as you scale and exceed their experience skill level. This makes it a win for them and for the org. Nothing worse than an early employee who is hanging on to a high level role when everyone knows they aren’t cutting it. What are some possible downsides of this?

This is awesome

Singularity does not happen

Therefore…

International banks moving off of Libor triggers loan re-evaluations causing a financial down-turn

In response, US creates a trillion dollar infrastructure bill that gives power to states and cities to invest in infrastructure

China introduces state sponsored crypto currency uses it in trade with Africa and Asian trade partners (starts moving world off the dollar)

Russia replaces Putin, goes into irrelevancy as population ages

Amazon becomes major brick and mortar retailer (buys Best Buy)

Microsoft is first company to hit $2T valuation on backs of azure + developer tools and enterprise productivity.

Apple does not have another major consumer hit, has to make major cloud company acquisition to keep services business relevant

Google keeps search ad monopoly and continues to win TV video ads revenue through YouTube

Facebook + Netflix start dancing. Mobile specific content is released

Tesla is #1 car company globally. Existing companies are forced to license their tech (VW leads)

That makes sense. This is a century old problem. Are there no viable technical solutions?

How does routing work in these power lines? Is it similar to a network where you can route around problematic hubs? So if there is a line going through 4 miles of trees, you can just turn that part off... not the whole county?

This was my thought as well. Nothing like a crisis to spur invention. I did the math on a power wall. It’s too expensive to be feasible. Two units with installation cost $20K. That doesn’t include the solar panels required to keep it charged. You can get a gas generator with similar capacity for $5K. Not to mention gas is typically readily available.

I’m going to build a prototype. DM if interested.

Interesting. I’ve found myself using the new iOS 13 task app in a similar format to how Nareen uses Asana. Going kanban is a good idea. Though admittedly I run out of tasks fairly often and it not easy coming up with new stuff always.

Anyone ever seen a repository of tasks? I’m imagining finding something I’m interested in and subscribing to the daily tasks for that topic?

Interpreter booths!

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I’m interested in buying one and doing a hack project. Anyone interested in brainstorming with me?

An unbelievably great series.

No. Your user base won’t (at first). You need to understand if users will open your app over fb. If you don’t have fb, you won’t know your users well enough to win them.