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Great podcast! I feel like this podcast really fills in that gap between non-technical and technical.

The increased switching cost isn't by force, though. Customers are less likely to switch because of convenience -- you're paying for the conveniene which, I think, means that Amazon is providing a service that consumers want.

They probably send a message to you for every team you're on.

$9.99/month for Dropbox 100gb plan.

Maybe pixels are placed in the emails?

I've been looking for something like this! Downloaded.

I've heard and like the term "leveraged income" more.

Again, it's not about semantics. Replace small business with whatever term you want. The point is that the blog writer built a certain type of business then tried to take it onto a different track that put pressure on faster growth and got in over his/her head.

I don't think he's arguing about semantics of startup vs. small business. I believe he's trying to explain that new businesses fall into a path where they think they are a "startup" thus must take VC funding. He's trying to explain that there's also the "small business" route where you just bootstrap and fund your business from customer revenue.

You could have made the same point without saying "Stupid title".

Who's benefiting from not releasing contact information until a certain threshold is met?

Good point. Instagram's killer feature was that it made amateur photographer's photos look better, but the answer for video can't be just apply filters again, right? Could it be transitions (like how Vine has hard cuts in and out now)?

I would argue that the premium you are paying for the wedding photos is attributed to the service rather than the content. You are paying several thousand dollars to a professional photographer rather than a hundred bucks to your nephew so that they do not mess up your special day. While I'm sure the photos are exquisite, no one else would pay several thousand dollars for the exact same photos you received.

Is this the same as plugging in headphones?

I'm not an instagram or facebook photos or flickr power user by any standards, so take this with a grain of salt: I didn't know I couldn't trust photo sharing apps.

Currently reading the book and when I came across that part a lightbulb went off in my head, too - I never thought about it that way prior.

Can I set reminders for all the checkboxes that I'm creating inside each note? I would much rather prefer that. Having a new note for each todo seems like overkill.

Interesting that this was PayPal's original plan - to allow people to send money over email.

Is there a way to 'push' your new apps to customers or do you just have to wait for them to discover it themselves (pull)?

That's probably a good thing, no? You probably feel discontent because your mind is telling you that you should do something about the situation. Either correct the injustice if it is an injustice or invest in yourself more to put yourself in a situation where you can be earning more. If you are a company where the workforce is in high demand and you are not paying your employees enough to stop them from thinking about these situations then you are going to start slowly but surely swapping out top talent for mediocre talent.

Cool idea and agreed with needing the word "country" in the title. I didn't know what the site was for when I first came in. I had to click on a book in your "Try these" list to understand. Maybe include a sub-title that says "Not all books are priced the same on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, etc. Search to find which Amazon country-specific website has the cheapest price to buy your books."

I wrote a blog post about why exercise is important to mental health and I think the title sums up how I feel about why exercise is so necessary: "The Body is a Distraction for the Mind" - http://felixthea.com/the-body-is-a-distraction-for-the-mind

I think Apple's stance has always been that they don't want to get involved in device retrieval unfortunately.

Whoops yeah I mean War of Art.

This idea combined with the learnings from the Art of War are a great way to get things done. The key to the Art of War is that it teaches you to recognize "Resistance" which often manifests itself in the form of procrastination, but not just any procrastination, procrastination that makes you think you are actually making progress.

I've done this once and I think it's a pretty good idea especially if you work a 9 to 5 and are moonlighting. The most productive hours of the day (the hours that you have the most energy because you just woke up) are yours and then the hours that you are more tired are for your 9 to 5.

I get the point of the infographic - "carpe diem" - but I don't agree that time doing things like sleeping, studying, working, eating are not times that you own.

I hope that was sarcasm because it sounded very narcissistic.