willhinsa

i always enjoy the in person experience at B&N

they need to get a better distro -> store pipeline

and they need amazon-like lockers in their store to order online and pickup in store 24/7

i'd never use amazon again!!

AND

de facto sanctioned by India and USA by not enforcing the law and busting the scammers

Congress is asleep at the wheel.

The spice must flow

The coffers leaking doesn't matter when lobbyists fill them back up every night

No.

Why do female chimpanzees prefer to play with human dolls more than male chimpanzees if it's not a DEEP GENETIC DRIVE?

news at 11

I left them last year. I'm so ready for these silicon dinosaurs to get hit by an asteroid!

"... Surprising no one without an active ad revenue addiction"

You only need 1 true fan if it's the right fan!

There was a (uploaded to TikTok) video I saw where this guy had 18 followers on YouTube, and just was not getting any kind of traction at all. I mean some traction but not much -- only 18 followers! Was about to quit. Then all of a sudden he got contacted by Oprah Winfrey's people about hosting a TV show about the ideas that he talked about in his videos.

It turns out that one of the 18 followers he had on YouTube was Oprah Winfrey's hair stylist, and Oprah was talking to her about this project she was trying to get started, and the stylist mentioned this one YouTube account she loved who was all about that topic, and the rest is history.

Every single person who watches your video is a unique human individual, and magic can happen from just one spark, from just one person!

the PROPORTION of content is getting worse

but GREAT content on an absolute numbers level is rising every single year

excepting the death of good content through attrition and entropy good content only goes up unless we're all dead

it's just discovering good new content is difficult, especially when you're a sclerotic barnacle tied to legacy interests of all stripes!

If a search engine cannot recognize what content is good and which is bad, it's not a good search engine.

If there was a sea of garbage with some beautiful healthy fish still in it, it doesn't mean I'm going to start catching garbage and passing it off as halibut.

But the model of constant growth required and advertising to cross purposes of your users means that they're selling garbage by the pound and calling it fish!

I have no interest in agreeing that the emperor's new clothes exist.

By reading and writing

Read "bad quality" works too. And know that you're going to write a lot of "bad quality" works too, before people to start to get what you're trying to say.

Start with small talk! It's so valuable in establishing a baseline of "we're two humans in the same condition at heart, and the first thing I'm offering is a universally shared experience, and not talking crazy to you or starting a fight (physical or political or otherwise)"

A lot of people think it's just useless filler but it actually is so important and a valuable tool when meeting people!

Talk about the weather! I'm serious! And drop any kind of internal pretension about being too good for such an inane topic (if that applies to you). Embrace it as if you're meeting someone from a distant tribe, and you are both wary of each other, and you want to start things off on a good foot. Talking about things you know you both deal with and think about is literally perfect!

"Tradeoffs" that consumers don't get a say in. They don't deserve good faith discussions when they treat us like children and throw away the key when that infantilization destroys stuff in _our_ lives.

Just like the goals of our tech titans!