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I’d prob pay $8/month for hacker news

Listen. If you really listen to peoples opinion you’ll see the truth in their conviction after a certain point. I will often stay silent while listening other than confirming words to indicate I’m listening for uncomfortably long. People break awkward silence by continuing to talk. They longer they go on, the stronger or weaker their opinion point of view becomes.

Reflect. Revisit opinions you or others had in the past now. Are they still true. In my experience most opinions from the past end up being misguided. On this reflection I’m more skeptical while listening.

Write. Writing is thinking. Don’t start a newsletter or blog. Buy a cheap notebook and pen and write daily. That’s how you develop opinions.

Classic IRL product scenario, not accounted for while building the happy path

> “I remember when Google was small and scrappy,” he said. “Fun didn’t always — we shouldn’t always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working startup and people may be having fun and it shouldn’t always equate to money.”

Google is not small. Is too regulated to be scrappy. And is NOT a startup

It’s an ads monopoly. Working there is all about making money.

The fact that this sort of tracking is at all possible is what makes the internet so awesome…

This is a great story. I think there is something to listening to one’s voice vs reading letters

Great read. The pandemic forced my close friends to go from in person drinks to zooms but then quickly transitioned to async voice messages. The by product of this is everyone gets a chance to be a giver and taker without having take the spotlight immediately. Sometimes our conversations last weeks as someone comes in and reignites debate after bringing a new point. It’s all async. Curious is anyone else has found similar success with voice messaging as a medium.

Andy Grove's response when John Doerr decided to leave intel for kleiner

"Come on, don't you want to be a general manager and own a real P&L? I'll let you run Intel's software division. John, venture capital, that's not a real job. It's like being a real estate agent."

How is WhatsApp embedded in business?

Why hasn’t push to talk (ptt) taken off on smartphones?

What are Citrix and Tibco used for?

Lol. I wasn’t implying it was cool or revolutionary. Just pointing out that all day every day I’m meeting with people who I’ll probably never meet in real life to complete tasks work.

My metaverse is work. Every morning I get up go to my office and spend 8 hours jumping from zoom call to zoom call from my gcal.

I wonder how the market would react if it was reported that Tesla was working on a laptop or smartphone.