A thing I hear about podcasts which I don't hear to nearly the same degree about blog posts: "Thanks for [a conversation with someone you recorded N years ago]. It was lifechanging for me." Given the relative ease of producing them I should really do more.
-
Show this thread
-
My prior expectation is that a wide-ranging conversation with a smart friend is of not much higher utility than just having a conversation with a smart friend. And yet, I've been at points in life where I had no smart friends to talk to (about particular subjects).
2 replies 1 retweet 24 likesShow this thread -
And I've also been at points on the experience curve where the most boring fact available about a field was totally revelatory to me. I really have to try to remember that more often.
1 reply 0 retweets 28 likesShow this thread -
If I can give a shoutout to Brian Plexico (this guy: http://brianplexico.com/about-me/ ): the most important blog post I've ever read was about skeet shooting scoring software. Specifically, that an individual person could write and sell $2,000 of skeet shooting scoring software.
3 replies 1 retweet 23 likesShow this thread -
And the most important part of that blog post was convincing little ol' can-barely-knock-a-Java-UI-together has-never-taken-a-class-in-business me that a) there was a non-zero intersection in apps I could write and apps worth a dollar and b) it was not literally illegal to do so.
1 reply 0 retweets 16 likesShow this thread -
A huge portion of the value of the Internet is how much value is locked up in tiny little bits of knowledge that have, for most of human history, been locked up in the care of a very specialized collector of tiny bits of knowledge Far Away From You.
1 reply 8 retweets 45 likesShow this thread -
Is "It is not illegal to sell software for money" even worth being called knowledge? Well, I had a college degree, and that was a thing that I was legitimately in a state of doubt about, and my best (unachievable) route to definitely answering it was "Pay a software law oracle."
2 replies 3 retweets 11 likesShow this thread -
Another bit of knowledge that is barely worth being called knowledge: "Your software is underpriced." I swear I am blessed and/or cursed to live out the XKCD comic where there are X,000 new entrepreneurs every day who have never thought about software pricing before.
3 replies 1 retweet 32 likesShow this thread -
And the work will not be done until I figure out a repeatable, scalable, reliable way to tell all of them "Charge more!" before they publish a pricing grid.
3 replies 2 retweets 29 likesShow this thread -
My personal mission statement would probably be "Maximize the number of technologists who succeed in sustainably creating value." I reserve the right to tweak it a bit as I get more information on the confluence of ability, drive, and market opportunity.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.