dustin

Thanks Andrew

30% might work in software, but it's is a very deep discount for most physical retailers.

If the product has a 50% margin (sells for $100, costs $50 to source) then your retailer makes $100 for 5 orders instead of $50 for 1 order.

Except they're probably keeping their own inventory, so they now have to keep $250 of inventory for that $100 in profit, rather than $100. This is problematic because a lot of online retailers are limited by their working capital.

This is a drastically simplified example, but the bottom line is that physical retailers think very differently than software sellers.

Great idea for an app either way. I wish you the best of luck with it as you learn the territory. For something similar in the Amazon space (a platform that lends itself much less to split testing) check out splitly.com

This! +1 for not letting yourself be pressured by the queue.

Republicans?

The front page is also broken on Safari (7.1.5). The video won't run and when I right click it my browser crashes.

Also - read the "War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. Excellent book about resistance to hitting our goals. Indecision is simply resistance against what you know you should be doing - flipping is easier than persevering. Get a routine, make a habit of it (eg: commit to study at least 20 mins at the start of each day and continue if you get in a flow), etc.

Create a study group or get yourself an accountability buddy or coach who you check in with on a weekly basis. Could even be a friend who's not involved but whom you commit to emailing every week with an update and a goal for next week (maybe give him $100 that he'll only return if you follow through emailing every week). You can also do this via a public study log - blog, forum, etc that you update weekly or daily. Nothing is as useful as a little external social pressure and support. This seems particularly relevant in your case since you say you've tried doing this on your own before. Then, I'd combine that with actually having your schedule for those 4 months worked out, know what has to be done by when. Best of luck.

To be fair, monkeys eating a bunch of processed lab grade crap is probably a better approximation for the modern human than an optimal diet.

Agreed. This is just empty PR.

If the guy was that concerned about privacy he wouldn't sell to the company with one of the worst reputations for privacy.

He made the choice and that's fine, but this communication is effectively meaningless. Actions speak louder than words.

This!

"...given the contract’s length and its role in the film... a lesser studio or artist might have been tempted to go with several pages of lorum ipsum"

So he's basically praising pointless lawyering! :)

Or a more charitable reading: he's geeking out as we might about the terminal commands in a 'hacker' movie.