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I freelanced through college and continued doing that after I graduated. Since I was working from home, I was used to taking afternoon naps.

When I finally did join an office, I was surprised that afternoon napping wasn't a thing.

My 20-30 minute naps completely re-energize me and drastically improve my focus. And for some reason, I have extremely vivid dreams during these naps.

The Economist had a good piece on how this consolidation is impacting prices and fueling corporate profits.

A perfect example of getting rich from selling shovels in a gold rush

There is a reason minimalism exploded in popularity at the same time as youth poverty did.

In fact, whenever I've browsed the minimalism-inspired subreddits, I've always made a game of it: minimalism or poverty?

I've seen far more mileage in maintaining an active presence on niche-specific platforms.

A company that actively creates and shares interesting content on HN will have a much better brand image than one that does the same on Twitter. HN's smaller, self-selected audience will also land you better quality leads with less noise as compared to a large social platform

I wouldn't dismiss Facebook for the simple fact that it plays to something deeply human: to connect with other people.

But while it does that, it also plays to something even more deeply human: to watch other people from afar, and to replace complex, anxiety-ridden face-to-face interactions with easier, gentler text-based communication.

Google Glass and all the other hyped techs never struck at anything deeply human. VR is nice and all as a tech, but it's not something we've always done.

Chatbots were the next big thing before VR was the next big thing before 3D printing was the next big thing before...

You get the point.

Crypto is the next big thing right now and like all these "big things", it's going to fall flat on its face as well

Rand, this new business sounds EXACTLY like something I would want. Right now, it takes hours to figure out which blogs/bloggers to target in my niche.

My only concern would be: is this a one-off use product?

Perhaps if there was a sort of simple CRM to track relationships with influencers, it would make me come back more

I work with B2B companies and I can confidently say that outside of LinkedIn, there is little to no value in maintaining an active presence on Twitter/Facebook/Pinterest/Instagram in most B2B segments

I'm yet to find a single AMP page that I didn't hate. Don't know why Google keeps pushing it on me. At least in my country, data is ridiculously cheap - I can't spend a few MBs on a page if I want to read it

It's incredibly hard from a recruitment point of view. A degree in the US, even from a mediocre university, at least means that the student is capable of some amount of hard work and application.

But in India, colleges simply don't fail kids. Some others inflate their grades just for bragging rights ("our students had an average score of 80%).

So every time I see an application from a college that I haven't heard of (which is pretty much every college apart from the top ones), I would be skeptical: can this kid actually work hard or am I just wasting my time?

Indians are fixated on certifications. My friends still can't believe that I make the kind of money I make without a CS degree (I studied literature). And when I tried to hire someone when I tried building an agency, the only thing candidates kept emphasizing was their degree and certificates, not their skills.

Solid analysis as always.

As a Windows user, I'm finding it increasingly harder to justify using the OS. Pretty much every single software I use to get my work done works in my browser.

The only software that runs natively is Ableton, which works perhaps even better on Mac. If I haven't switched, it's simply because of laziness: it would be too much of a hassle to copy all my samples to another device and reinstall all my plugins

I definitely wouldn't mind buying small items (gum, a can of diet coke) and magazines from my Uber drivers.

Am I an idiot for not understanding blockchain and ICO sales at all? Like, I get them somewhat in theory, but not understanding how they would actually be used?

I wonder how many small businesses will be affected simply because every person right now has about 30 emails in their inboxes asking for GDPR permission

I deleted most of them, even though ere might be a few businesses in there whose work I genuinely appreciate

I'm lactose intolerant and I've tried nearly every alternative.

None of them match up to regular cow's milk.

I've basically given up milk altogether.

I'm an amateur musician and YouTube is my first stop whenever I'm trying to learn a new technique in Ableton or find music in a specific genre

I don't know how it works for others, but my migraines are closely linked to my diet. Certain types of foods, especially anything related to dairy or fermented things, somehow seems to trigger day-long migraines.

Simply eliminating these from my diet has helped cut down migraines from 2-3/month to 1 in 3 months

Same. It's interesting but the people scammed themselves say that they don't care about the money - they're all multi-millionaires. Does't inspire pity or anger on the readers part.

As someone who has almost completely abandoned offline shopping, Amazon is my go to store because it usually has really obscure products.

Like today, I ordered a downrod for a ceiling fan. I don't even know if Flipkart stocks it.

Amazon has got the long tail of retail right at least

That's a wrong metric as well because average order size and lifetime customer value will vary a lot in India.

From anecdotal evidence, Amazon seems to be more popular among younger crowds in big cities who are likely to spend more and often

> So humans are born squatters; some of us lose it when we stop trying

A friend had a daughter recently and it always surprised me to see her squat casually by herself. It's a very natural motion for human beings

I made nearly 100k flipping domain names when I was 19. My seed capital was my college tuition money for a semester (I delayed paying the fees and bought a domain name instead). So it's entirely possible

If energy is basically free, how will it impact crypto prices?

What will be realized first: affordable graphene production, nuclear fusion, or general artificial intelligence?