lorthemar

I'm really happy for Josh, I loved the blog posts. Always so honest and straight forward. Sadly, many SaaS companies hit a brick wall after initial investments and the first growth streak. Especially, analytics companies.

I've worked with a mobile analytics company in the past and it was pretty much the same story. Only, they weren't as transparent and couldn't walk away with a profitable exit.

So this really looks like the best way he could exit without burning himself out.

While I don't have any data on it. I think that retention tactics that drag out the process might be more harmful in the future. Especially in terms of brand image. I might be cancelling the service for a short while or I might be switching companies/priorities. If the cancellation process is tedious, I won't feel like returning to that service.

In terms of the argument here, it feels like Proton Mail is trying to mirror Spotify's argument. The only problem is that, Spotify was a direct competitor to Apple Music. This is entirely different. Apple is providing a marketplace for apps, and many companies like Proton Mail are actually exploiting the system.

The only fault here is Apple's approach to the issue. But in this specific case, I don't think there's any mafia action going on unlike the whole Spotify drama.

True, true. I didn't think it that way.

One other big reason for failure is overseeing luck. Especially if you are new to something and without the judgement of past endeavors you somehow manage success with either sheer luck or with luck having a great role in it, you don't exactly how you achieved success. This results in overlooking potential risks or simply ignoring them. Very good read overall.

>Pay for ad time slots, not user impressions.

This is probably the worst thing you can do to online advertising. It's probably one of the only good things about the online ad industry. If you book time slots, only the biggest players will be able to compete for that slot. Essentially killing the entire selling point of online ads, which is giving a chance to smaller players a chance at the game. I don't want to, ever, see online ads transform into TV ads. Targeting would be okay if it was done properly. In its current state, it's unethical and probably should be illegeal. Advertisers shouldn't know what I like, they should only know that a certain device with a certain ID likes X,Y topics.

I'm really glad to hear this. Morhaime, Bowder, and all deserve to create games that they feel attached to. Just grab Samwise and Metzen so we can go back to the 2000s :)

This is similar to how yoga affects your body. The first step of mending something is awareness. If you know what's broken you can fix it. Many people who start doing yoga start feeling worse at the start, they realize what's wrong with their body, but if they push on, it gets better. Perhaps something similar can be said for meditating. Also, just blindly trying to meditate or other online ways are not actually meditation, but that's another discussion.

I have a similar approach too. Not shapes or colors, simply I imagine a cat that is sleeping and try to see things from a cats perspective. It's weird but gets me to sleep almost instantly. Obviously it can be anything but I picked cats because they are the best sleepers I know of :P

I normally have a really difficult time focusing on things, especially work related, this is mainly due to the noise and movement in an office setting. I've been working from home for quite some time now and I used to get most done during the night just like you. It's quiet and it's dark. I think the dark helps as much as the noise as well. There's less things that catch my attention. But I realized that, my sleep schedule was the main culprit behind me being unproductive during the day. I've tried various techniques, but it didn't help too much (I've been meditating regularly for over a decade now). The best way is to tire yourself, brisk walking etc. and also finding what makes you disconnect from your daily life.

Interesting paper, it's really weird that even night owls are writing in the morning. I write try to write fiction and the best time to do is after an afternoon nap. You get the sleep-creativity juice going. I'm normally a night-owl, I finish my other writing and works at night but when I write for myself it's in the late afternoon.

Well, good for them. I hope they'll hire more moderators now. Their auto-moderation sucks. It lets spam run free and punished people who give actual answers.