humor
The Devious Licks of Capitalism
Just made $600,000 off a family of four (View Tweet) corporate devious licks, or just mega fans of franchises
Bram Adams
writer, programmer
tv
Kaleidoscope Thoughts
IDK if anyone is actually taking advantage of the fact that the episodes of this show can be watched in any order. * too lazy, autoplay is why people watch NFLX * there are characters that get introduced in previous episodes, and that would cause confusion Peter Mark Kendall !== Jack Quaid they
The Paradox of Loss Aversion and Regret
“In the end, it’s not the things we did that we regret, it’s the things we didn’t do.” (Location 179) Regret for things not done is interesting when loss aversion is taken into account. Since daily life is spent avoiding pain, it seems paradoxical that at the
entrepreneurship
To Stoke the Flames Vs Burn Low and Slow
Early-stage companies are obsessively focused on growth,[1] usually at the expense of retention. That methodology is backwards, because retention should be the north-star metric of any early-stage product. If someone builds a great product that users keep coming back to, it will be easy to figure out how to
religion
Billionaire Bootlicking
There is a lot of bootlicking of billionaires on Twitter, but to be fair Elon Musk is a complex man and his accomplishments are awe-inspiring.
urban-planning
MFW People Develop a Habituation Towards Your Creation
If people are complaining about something, it means the product is good enough that they care about it. The real problem is when no one’s complaining. Is anybody complaining about your product? (Location 939) Bring back Four Lokos!! And change Facebook back to chronological!! OR WE RIOT!! One of
entrepreneurship
Customer Conversations for an Iterative Product
Perfect is the enemy of shipped. Creating the perfect feature indicates making lots of assumptions without gathering user feedback and data, and will take significantly more time. Are you continuing to work on features that are polished enough to put in front of a few customers now and get feedback?
vc-culture
Validating Your Idea Without Really Trying
Learn how to validate an idea with as little time and financial investment as possible. Do you have a plan to validate your ideas cheaply? (Location 439) This can come off as very tech bro circa 2019 speak where the idea is more about hype than actual delivering. The Silicon
biology
Cyanobacteria First Mover Advantage
#ExplosiveGrowthTip 4: First-mover advantage is useless if the timing isn’t right. Have you thought about ideas, products, or features that failed in the past—simply due to being too early—that may work now? (Location 365) If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product,
entrepreneurship
Dopamine Driven Software Development
#ExplosiveGrowthTip 1: Find something that people are doing inefficiently and create a solution that makes it substantially easier (ten times easier) to achieve the same result. Does your product accomplish this? (Location 260) Make software that automates the tedium, and highlights the dopamine and serotonin hits. The Joys of Micro
Shared Fictions From Birth
We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams. The outside dream has so many rules that when a new human is born, we hook the child’s attention and introduce these
philosophy
The Only Animal That Suffers
How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is thousands of times. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a