highly recommend focusing on just tiktoks/reels rather than stories that expire every 24 hours. They will pick up more views beyond your audience, especially if you "warm up" your account by engaging with content just on your niche. Look forward to the next experiment!
Ultimately he mentions that being CEO is a rare opportunity to play a more infinite game and practice the craft of getting really good at something that doesn't have an end
Love this. A big miss teams have are with affiliate/refer a friend urls. Like if you think of your Uber referral code being 5 characters instead of a general 16 character hash. Shorter makes it easier for people to remember and share their code.
Really good article! I like how it framed simplicity and complexity of apps, and how users want to stay in a certain zone.
I know the example was trite but future UIs will just allow the user to type or speak what they're trying to do. For example coloring in the circle/triangle will literally require you to say just that.
Whenever I see how people are cropping, masking, and adjusting an image, it already feels so outdated with what AI feels like it will be able to do based on text/voice input.
Some combination of users interactions with the endless output might create a decent enough opportunity. For example, Spotify discover combined with auto generated music (of a certain level) maybe is a possibility for this in that genre?
There's no UI, I think humans need a bit of affordance and are bad at keeping things in memory. So while it may be good in answers/understanding, the applications where it can be leveraged are more limited
Mexican food! I've spent the past 3 years learning to recreate good tortillas. I live abroad in Amsterdam and miss it so much after living in California for decades. I even worked in the best Mexican restaurant in Amsterdam for a month just to learn some of the subtle techniques.
I'm finally at a place where I can make tacos much better than what I would get here and even back in California. I'm currently working on burritos as the next project.
What's the deal with corn tortillas outside of the US and Mexico?
I've found quite good flour tortillas in Central Europe and also in Thailand. But in 25 years of searching I have yet to find a decent, "proper" soft corn tortilla like I can buy in just about any non-fancy grocery store in California.
I keep telling myself there must be a shop in Madrid or Barcelona considering the size of the Mexican expat communities, but even there I have not found any so far.
Mostly trouble sourcing the corn from Mexico I believe. https://taiyari.nl/ serves most Mexican places in The Netherlands. It's still not as soft as you'd get from a really freshly made one, although they sell the raw masa as well. The best hack I've found is actually cooking the corn tortillas in a bit of oil to soften them up quite a bit. Works great even with older/frozen tortillas.
I haven't found good flour tortillas, curious what your source is here!
If you’re in Europe, I would vouch for Nuevo Progresso from Czech Republic but their web site is… not helpful. Don’t think they produce much but you can get their flour tortillas in Budapest at Ázsia Bt. You want the simple, white-label ones.
In Thailand, Danitas. Don’t know if they export but they should. They also make tortilla chips that are basically crack, but their corn tortillas are the same dry catastrophe as elsewhere.
For corn, I usually wait until I can bring a hundred back from the US every six months or so.
Awesome, appreciate these tips, will be checking those out as I visit those areas :). I learned how to make flour tortillas from scratch since I missed it so much, corn is def harder to come across. Wrote about it here with full recipe and all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786287#22792647
The most helpful things I've seen in quick summary are journaling around work:
1. What gives you energy
2. What feels like work/takes away energy
Use that list to double check against any opportunity you're deciding to pursue, aiming for things that primarily give you energy.
To figure out what you may want to pursue, another helpful exercise is listing 3 people you'd like to be like, and 3 companies/roles you'd like to do for work.
Lastly the Ikigai framework can be used as well to double check your decision.
With the combination of these, I think that's one of the fastest ways to discovery (for your current abilities), since it will help you find what you like and what is sustainable which usually leads to inevitable mastery
Highly recommend checking out the Wheel of Life[1], to help you understand the different areas that contribute to happiness, it's never just one thing. Writing down what you think will get an area to a 10, envisioning it, then seeing if you feel that would feel like a 10 is a great way to uncover where you may be overthinking what gets you there before doing all that work.
Gratitude should also help with each area that you feel is fulfilled, otherwise you just never have enough
And that last statement is where all the magic is happening. Currently your statement is true, but in the future that's what changes.
My money that is stored in some bank's DB is not on my local computer, but I sure hope it's mine. In some countries they aren't so lucky and it's exactly as you say, the money doesn't belong to them.
> My money that is stored in some bank's DB is not on my local computer, but I sure hope it's mine.
You have a contract with your bank which says that they owe you a certain amount of money based on your past interactions. That contractual claim against the bank is what you actually own. The number in their database is just a summary of those interactions. Just see what happens when the bank messes up and enters a larger number in their database than what the contract says they owe you: The DB is not authoritative; the contract is.
Physical possession is not, of course, a requirement of ownership, though it certainly helps.
There is also a difference between owning specific property, such as the contents of a safe deposit box, and an entitlement to be paid according to the terms of a contract. In a very real sense, until you make that demand for a withdrawal in accordance with the contract the actual money belongs to the bank, and as a depositor you are merely one of the bank's creditors, just as you do in fact own your home even while it's serving a collateral for a mortgage and could be claimed by the bank if you fail to keep up with the payments.
>> Currently your statement is true, but in the future that's what changes.
You can chose to let others do your computing for you, but don't be surprised when they want to charge you for it.
>> My money that is stored in some bank's DB is not on my local computer, but I sure hope it's mine.
I trust my bank to hold my money because there are legal protections in place to protect against bad behavior. I can sue them if they violate the laws that protect me.
What can be done if someone steals your cryptocurrecy?
> You can chose to let others do your computing for you, but don’t be surprised when they want to charge you for it
Computing for yourself isn’t free either, you just paid the bulk of the costs up front.
One of the areas of decentralized computing that’s actually interesting to me - and I mean this in the idealized version, not whatever cloudflare’s thing is - is the idea of being able to “burst” compute when I need additional power. The fixed cost of having a personal machine capable of anything I might want (note: I might want - I’m an outlier, I know most people’s needs are met by the most rudimentary toaster available) is remarkably high compared to the cost of my average compute needs - being able to “rent” the excess could be both cheaper and less wasteful on the mean.
>> Computing for yourself isn’t free either, you just paid the bulk of the costs up front.
True, but I control the computers in question. The decentralized web is more a question of who controls what and what they can do. Cost does definitely come into play, but to a lesser extent.
>> the idea of being able to “burst” compute when I need additional power.
>> The fixed cost of having a personal machine capable of anything I might want is remarkably high compared to the cost of my average compute needs - being able to “rent” the excess could be both cheaper and less wasteful on the mean.
Again, the larger part of the argument is control and decentralization. I completely agree that cloud computing is useful, especially when you have computing needs that change elastically and you are aware of the limitations of renting storage space or computing time on someone else's computers.
My concern about Web3 computing is where my local computing capabilities are reduced and I would need to rely on hundreds of computers owned and controlled by other people to get capabilities that are not worth the opportunity cost to me.
>>What can be done if someone steals your cryptocurrecy?
Not much, but at least you don't have to:
* ask a bank's permission, or
* divulge trade secrets, including private investment strategies, to a bank's employees, to meet the bank's AML "source of income" disclosure requirement
To gain access to banking services. Truly owning your own assets, with no dependence on others, has its benefits.
> I trust my bank to hold my money because there are legal protections in place to protect against bad behavior. I can sue them if they violate the laws that protect me.
I don't think it would be that easy in third-world country or dictatorial government or country in wars
Money is a really bad example, in that its utility/value is defined by consensus of people who are not you. If the market for $currency crashes, your money is not worth anything, regardless of where it is. If no one wants to do business with you, your money is worthless even if you hold it.
The concept of "mine" is not well defined in money. Perhaps the proof of having a debt can be in your hands, but the debt itself (=money) is a contract between parties, and owned as much by you as the society.
So I'm not really sure what point your example illustrates.
