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I periodically do video tutorials for the various applications that we package at JumpBox. The idea is to not just make the software easier to work with, but also to provide the instruction and motivation to help you get over the hump of doing something productive with it. With the one I did this …
keywords jumpbox, motivation, open source, tutorials, video tutorials
Here’s an interesting debate we had this morning in our office: Would you consider this Twitter account SPAM?
Or the deeper question here: how do you define SPAM? By a certain practice used to reach people?
By any unsolicited message with commercial-serving intent?
By a shotgun-style …
keywords extent, nerd, ponderings, recipient, relevancy
Here’s an interesting debate we had this morning in our office: Would you consider this Twitter account SPAM?
Or the deeper question here: how do you define SPAM? By a certain practice used to reach people?
By any unsolicited message with commercial-serving intent?
By a shotgun-style …
keywords extent, nerd, ponderings, recipient, relevancy
I have no idea if this story is true or not but it’s a neat parable on the value of preparation:
A large top-tier law firm in New York was hiring a new attorney. They had taken hundreds of applications from recent law school graduates and had narrowed the search to three candidates, all of …
keywords anecdote, parable, ponderings
I have no idea if this story is true or not but it’s a neat parable on the value of preparation:
A large top-tier law firm in New York was hiring a new attorney. They had taken hundreds of applications from recent law school graduates and had narrowed the search to three candidates, all of …
keywords anecdote, ponderings
Here’s a proposal: why not institute a tax on fast food to discourage its consumption and offset the medical expenses of obesity, high cholesterol, heart disease, etc. in the same way we currently tax tobacco products?
Normally I believe LESS government is a good thing. We’re better …
keywords activism, consumption, fast food, obesity, ponderings, proposal
Here’s a proposal: why not institute a tax on fast food to discourage its consumption and offset the medical expenses of obesity, high cholesterol, heart disease, etc. in the same way we currently tax tobacco products?
Normally I believe LESS government is a good thing. We’re better …
Here’s an idea for a service I would use if it existed. First let me give the backstory. I’m about 1/3rd of the way through a book on improving conversions through landing page optimization. So far it’s been focused on demonstrating the importance of this practice by showing how …
Here’s an idea for a service I would use if it existed. First let me give the backstory. I’m about 1/3rd of the way through a book on improving conversions through landing page optimization. So far it’s been focused on demonstrating the importance of this practice by showing how …
keywords backstory, conversion, conversions, entrepreneur, minor improvements
HNSort.com is an app I threw together this weekend that allows readers to sort the stories on Hacker News by various criteria (rank, points, comments, title, domain, submitter, and age). This mini project spawned from two frustrations: 1) my dissatisfaction with the interface for reading the site …
keywords desire, dissatisfaction, frustrations, interface, lifehacks, nerd
