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Doing things that don't scale and grandparents

by LukeFitzpatrick on 6/1/16, 11:56 AM with 4 comments

  • by kecks on 6/1/16, 12:37 PM

    Key points:

    * Spoil your users like you're their grandparent.

    * Aim for getting powerusers who love you.

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    Wouldn't really recommend this article, read this article by PG instead: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html ("Do Things that Don't Scale"). The PG article is a lot longer and has more substance.

    I regret taking the time to unblock them in uBlock; had to unblock 3 domains just to get anything but a blank page, and usually it's just the one domain.

  • by tswartz on 6/1/16, 2:36 PM

    sidebar - Twitter really doesn't like that ' in the url. I'm having trouble posting this on twitter.