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Three points:

(1) I don't think this is the reason it did not work. There are lots of things that make you look like a dork -- PCs, airpods etc -- but they took off like rocketships (speaking as someone who adopted these dork items whole heartedly).

(2) I agree it is a mystery why Segways didn't work, but I think it remains an unsolved mystery.

(3) We have more information now that we have lime and other similar items available. (*)

(*) This is actually a point in PG's favor because the lime's are skateboard inspired. But they're not undorky.

Is there a tl;dr for the sum knowledge?

This is not a criticism of Blitz which looks fine. From what I can see, it is better than fine.

However, this reminds me of the early Rails (or even Rails 4.0) demos that I saw where they build a blog in 5 minutes.

Here is the thing: The fastest way to get a skeletal app running -- even if it is written in C -- is to

> git clone already_written_archetype.lang

And then you can modify it.

So you can put that archetype into the framework. So I always wonder if the right example is not build a blog or to-do-list or twitter clone. The right example might be:

take a blog and change it into a twitter clone

Because you can always download the archetype if you need to but the framework should demonstrate how nimble it is. (Again, I don't claim Blitz is not nimble and I would have to play with it to know.)

If he or she were dead, but their writing and code is extant, presumably they could still be identified.

Not directly relevant but it got me thinking:

Has anyone tried to use the source code and white paper to figure out who Satoshi Nakamoto might be?

If you can figure it out from binaries, surely there is a lot more info. And you have the github and the blogosphere to compare.

Zen Koan:

Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone.

When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone.

Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone.

-- Source: my buddy in college

I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always in some sense loading up what you need for the next month or three. At least this time you knew to look for the man su command, and remind yourself of the work you did, that you shared with all these other people.

The issue isn't the tool to get your blog up, but hosting it.

The real solution will be a super easy app that lets you push the blog out to:

- git* pages

- digital ocean/vultr/aws/wherever

- netlify/forestry as an advanced feature

- move it easily from one to the other

(You have to set up an account on the target and provide the app with credentials/tokens or whatever).

Setting up markdown-> html+css themes is what everyone focuses on

The point is, this was not meant to be advice! This was anti-advice.

You can't use the criterion: if it is insightful it has to be actionable on an insight that says "I have no actions for you".

The difference is, it is not trying to trick you.

Note: you had to be kind and nice enough for the former boss to care enough to:

- ask you to email

- read it and understand what you do

- follow up and spend the company's money

edit: simplicity

The things that you think are going to take a long time will take a short time and the things you think will take a short time will take long.

So, for instance, if you have 4 hours scheduled to implement some neural network to optimize X, it may take 30 minutes to type in the algorithm and get it working, but it will take 3 hours to get the environment set up, the version of Tensorflow or whatever up and running, and much longer to type up your results.

So, hopefully, if you expect this, you won't crumple in despair when you find your self 1.5 hours into the time and you haven't even got the right language working with your IDE for that hello world to come up. No, you're right on track, and just keep going.

This looks great so far. Eager to hear from all the people who are going to point out the other platforms that are similar so I can learn about them too.

You’re right.

So you’re saying it great practice! Do a study on the survival rate of the average AngelList offer.

I didn’t say penny stocks. You can try names you know and like: SMAR, SSTI, PS, etc