Clay ✈️ 🎤 (ep 8/100)

Product Management consultant. Bootstrapped Healthcare Tech SaaS & ran for 25 years. Brought 17 products to market. 🎤 Podcast

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SUMMARY of my most interesting tweets

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@paulg When/where can we try this app out?

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@PaulJeffries @johnbarker @paulg How would we test that claim?

The replit AI may have seemed deterministic...until it deleted the production database.

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@plshelpmethanks @BecomingCritter Oh, yeah, I think I heard that Lincoln was gay.

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@JesterLaureate @BecomingCritter But didn't we "invent" math as a way of describing these phenomena?

Seems like it would not be surprising that we'd choose the most effective way to describe what we observed (i.e calculus from Newton)

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@brane_trix @BecomingCritter Do French crickets chirp in Celsius?

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@nurijanian This reminds me of the #JoelTest for software dev jobs.

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The ear is more persuasive than the tongue.

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If your life were a movie, what would advice would the audience be yelling?

Studies show that talking about yourself in the third person allows you to see past your personal biases and improve decision-making and emotional regulation.

https://t.co/tme1KPF8RZ via @nireyal

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@Tim_Denning @threadreaderapp unroll wisdom

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Visa, you can visit Portugal by train.

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The most powerful choice you can make when hunting is WHERE and WHAT you hunt.

#Startups are the same.

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@michael_nielsen AntiFragile - Basically, in protecting things from stress, we make them weaker:

Fee the pain of exercise or SUFFER pain of disuse.
Feel stupid as you ask questions or BE stupid forever.
Feel poor as you save for retirement or BE poor in retirement.

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@michael_nielsen #1 Elephant in Your Brain by @kevinsimler

It's a book about how we all lie to yourself. No one wants to hear that. (Almost no one :)

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His friend said "Practicing my game".

It can be tempting to think everything you do has to matter and be important. But there is enormous benefit to low stakes practice. 2/2

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LOW STAKES PRACTICE

Heard a story about a guy walking with his friend. The friend starts chatting up a random girl. Sees a book she's reading and chats her up. Ends up getting her phone number. The friend asks "why'd you do that? She's not your type". 1/2

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

The real story behind Windows outage 🤣

#Crowdstrike

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@BowTiedSalesGuy The sale happens in the mind of the prospect.

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Patients bring therapists their solutions, not their problems.

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@visakanv @FANswitchboard @introspectVV Many companies were side quests:
spinoffs of tools needed to build main product.

FogBugz is one. Internal bug tracker that out sold the product it was tracking bugs for.

Flickr is another.

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@visakanv George Lucas' original screenplay for Star wars covered the first three movies. He had to pair it back to just one.