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Comment · 7 years ago
It depends.

The odds against an eBook store:

0. Undefensible business model - little/no barrier to entry, few patents, anyone can start such a store

1. Getting advertising and distribution at scale

On the plus side:

2. It might work at a tiny scale for niche categories/communities/local businesses.

Otherwise, I wouldn't waste too much time on it. I would something that's more difficult to copy or emulate.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Anomie and omni/suicidal destruction are only a self-fulfilling prophecy only if you subscribe to, and reinforce, learned helplessness as you appear to with a chicken-little "let's do nothing because it doesn't matter" or "it's someone else's problem" argument.
Comment · 7 years ago
Folks, regardless of the merits of one particular story or another, you know wag-the-dog FUD propaganda has the net effect of increasing us-vs-them nationalism ("See, this country, and therefore its people, are really horrible" stories) in various countries almost inevitably leads to situations like another World War, right?
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Push it hard on social media for 2-3 years.. Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, etc. Lots of useful, practical demos showing solving read-world realistic use-cases. Any time there's a release or press mention, add a hand-crafted Tweet that brings some infotainment value (just like any good public presentation).

If after that time, traction isn't happening: adjust prices or make the offering clearer. If that doesn't work, then pivot/try something else. When/if it gets to $1-2k+/month, then it's probably worth selling to someone for $20-25k and not just apoptosisizing it. It can take as long as 10 years or never for something really good and ahead of its time to catch on with insufficient hustling. HUSTLE! :)

And for heaven's sake, don't throw away a good team if it vibes and flows just because one project doesn't work out immediately.

Comment · 7 years ago
It's uncertain if microdosing a particular ligand has any scientifically-proven evidence of efficacy without studying it. In many instances, it maybe a shared delusion placebo effect and/or socially-reinforced fad.
Comment · 7 years ago
No, that's unknowable conjecture without a safe-as-possible double-blind placebo of the relevant, individual ligands under hospital supervision.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thank for your work, dang. Long-form personal opinions seem to be better suited on Medium, Twitter, other social media.

TGIF! :D

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Disclaimer: I'm apolitical because right/left is divide-and-conquer, divided-we-fall noise.

Climate change shouldn't be political or some far-off hypothetical.. no propaganda, rationalization or BS can deny the mountain of evidence that it's an immediate, existential threat that demands immediate, decisive action on the decatrillion-dollar moonshot scale (roughly the total, multi-decade cost of Iraq & Afghanistan).

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