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It is an expression from poker. A "tell" is a revealing signal that a player may give (inadvertently) that they have good or bad cards. "His tell is that he is holding his cards close to his chest."

In other contexts it means a revealing signal.

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I can't believe this is still going

I resonate with this. I think some folks will object to the word "illusion" and it's connotations but I think it is resolved with:

1. Consciousness is a material thing (that we haven't found yet)

2. Consciousness is not a material thing (and therefore we cannot "find" it, and thus cannot be "known")

2 is the weirder proposition of course. It asserts a category of things that can't be conceived, but of course it feels like we are talking about it because we are using words to contain it. But of course, the words have no direct referent. That's the illusion.

Hey, I feel you on rejection - it stings. Just remember that, like any company, that place is just a collection of humans making imperfect decisions with limited information. Trust me. Your worth isn't defined by one hiring decision.

> I find it extremely hard to believe that most consumers have a strong enough moral compass to go out of their way to buy something they already have access to.

This is zero-sum thinking. Do you oppose libraries on the same principle?

Sometimes making a thing accessible can increase the overall market for the good, because it trains the behavior. The market for books requires readers, and readers are created by people reading.

> If you can't judge that funding war criminals is a wrong action

Yandex does not equal Russia though.

The United States gov't has participated in what many consider illegal acts of aggression (i.e., war crimes) and do so using tools like PowerPoint. Is it moral to accept Microsoft as a client?

I'm not saying I know the right answer here, but the purity test you're proposing seems quite stringent.

You are well within your rights to use the handicapped stall. It’s an accommodation not a reservation.

I've been using Blot for years (for two websites), and I can't say enough good things about it. Happy to see it featured here!

Yeah, this is confusing. Does this mean idling your car is bad for the engine?

This URL didn't work for me, but I found this: https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/weather-verif...

How to read a book by Mortimer Adler. It sounds meta, but it did change the way I approached reading and knowledge in general.

Recovering marketer from the productivity space here. Your product looks great. Here's my two cents on the "positioning" dicussion happening: the copy on your "Our story" page reads like like most other productivity apps out there. Sorry to be so blunt, but it's generic, buzzwordy, and you can swap your company name out for any other company.

> That's why we decided to build XXXXX — an all-in-one work management software that is simple to learn and easy to use.

What's missing IMHO is this: why did you undertake the drudge of building this? All software creation is motivated by a disatisfaction with what's already out there, so what is the _unique point or view_ that motivated you and... it is hoped, will motivate an audience who shares that point of view. It's not why you are better, cheaper, faster (those are terrible vectors for positioning btw) it's what makes you different.

Are you anal-retentive about detail and hyper-connectedness (JIRA)? Are you psychedelic burners who want to bend a spartan UX into infinite directions (Asana)? Are you cutesy but robust (Trello)? Are you so hyper-opinionated about product management to the point of pedantry (Basecamp)? All these are perfectly cromulent points of view by the way. Marketing positioning is about articulating YOUR point of view, in order to activate the tribe that shares it.

For more on this see Simon Sinek or Chris Lochead. This is my favorite topic in the world. Good luck with your product!

Yes, please! Looks great.

Feels very dated. They don't even have Figma in their tools section and are still referencing things like Flinto and Skitch(!)-- a nice throwback to when I first entered tech 10 years ago.

I used this app for a while, interesting concept but didn't quite do it for me.

One thing worth mentioning: it's a bit tricky to uninstall. Still appears as a camera in your system after uninstall. Had to go in manually and delete a bunch of preferences.

The author here seems to be using "paraphrase" to mean mean both "mirroring" (repeat back using speaker's words) and "paraphrasing" (repeat back using listener's words). I think there are contexts when each is appropriate.

For example, if I (speaker) am giving you (listener) instructions, it's good for you to paraphrase. That shows me how you are interpreting my language and that allows me to clarify. Mirroring doesn't allow for this because no new information is provided:

- Speaker: Could you sort all the files and destroy duplicates?

- Listener: You want me to put the files in alphabetical order and throw them out.

- Speaker: Yes, but by destroy I meant shred.

But there are cases where it's more important for the speaker to be understood. Perhaps they are feeling hard emotions and need to be heard, or (and I think this is the real use case for mirroring) when the speaker is still working through their feelings or thoughts on a subject. They are using speech, in a sense, to think.

- Speaker: I think it's bizarre that the PM wants to push this along so quickly.

- Listener: You think it's bizarre that the PM wants to push this along so quickly?

- Speaker: Well... not bizarre. It's just surprising because there is no external deadline for this work.

Here mirroring gives the speaker an opportunity to see how their words sound coming back to them and it gives them an opportunity to clarify and add.