1 year later and @Dropbox continues pestering me to upgrade from my paid plan. Really should upgrade my @synology which I love and ditch Dropbox altogether.
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There's a term for this: empathy. Perhaps the execs he's talking about lack it.
As a retired Amazon VP who experienced a 9082% increase in Amazon stock during my time, I am out of touch with many common life struggles. The SVPs and CEOs above me are often more so. Talking about wealth and it's impacts is a taboo subject most executives avoid. I'm going to try to address one small piece today.
It would be hypocritical to talk about "executives" in general without owning my own situation first. For brevity, here are four examples:
1) No mortgage
2) A maid service cleans every two weeks
3) Someone else mows the grass
4) I retired at age 50
The average family, even the average tech or knowledge worker, does not have these benefits.
In the level above me, I have seen much more:
1) Multiple staffed vacation homes, with caretakers
2) Private jets (PJs in the lingo)
3) Personal assistants. Never pay a bill, get groceries, or pick up a kid when you are busy. The PA handles it all.
4) Drivers (security and efficiency)
5) Breathtakingly expensive and exclusive private schools for their kids
6) They live wherever they want. Cost is not an obstacle
Let's look at one example of how disconnection from the daily experiences of employees can lead to very different priorities: return to work.
The disconnect here really starts with differing priorities. Executive wealth then supports the different choices.
Most executives place work and career success very highly in their lives. If they do not, they rarely become top executives. Most of them (myself included) then use our pay to free up time. Most time goes to work, some to family.
If work is the main focus of your life, then returning to the office might seem like a natural priority.
Now imagine:
No need to commute, your driver takes you door to door while you work in the back
No need to hurry home to pick up the kids, the PA does it
No need to shop, clean, or cook, the staff does it all
No need to help with homework, the amazing school provides tutoring
With these circumstances, returning to the office feels very "worth it."
This is not a screed against executive wealth. After all, I paid with 25 years of my life and I got some of the wealth. Instead, it is an explanation so that you can understand the disconnect.
If you need to influence an executive where their experiences may be out of touch with your reality, help them see the impact through stories, videos, and data.
Remember, they live literally in another world. This doesn't necessarily make them evil, just disconnected. I do not want to be "out of touch" but it is important to acknowledge that this does happen over time.
I always encourage people to have a bias towards action. The fear of failure or judgement keeps too many great ideas inside people's head.
Even not-yet-ready action acts as an accelerant and will absolutely force your idea to take shape.
trywireshark.com/post/how-wi…
I asked @XiaoxiaoXu74316 to roast my landing page and she really nailed it with a bunch of improvements!
Proudly to share another design roast🥰. Reply below or DM me to get a free roast from me.
✨ Before: Lengthy hard-to-read hero text, lacking brand consistency
🎯 After: Gradient blue for a softer vibe, concise hero message, consistent branding, app preview + helpful FAQs.
Takeaways:
✅ Consistent brand colors
✅ Clear visual hierarchy
✅ User-friendly touchpoints
Good design = clarity & function
Hope you like it @jmathai
Here is a Twitter-like site I created using Lattice (zero coding, just chatting).
Now when you create an app on Lattice you get the option of starting with a polished app like this or starting from scratch.
You can use it here: lattice-llry5xr86jp93-4gzxls…
Want to build an app? Can't code?
I'm sending out another batch of invites to Lattice. Request an invite and ping me if you want to try it out and I'll make sure you're in that batch. withlattice.com
Offering free web development in exchange for product feedback.
I'm building a web app to create...web apps and looking for real ideas. Tell me about your app idea and if it's a good fit - let's build it. You get to do what you want with the app, I get feedback. Win-win :).
No nextjs, no react, no docker, no kubernetes, no serverless.
Didn’t even use jquery which I LOVE.
This was my fastest "idea to first user" project. 10 days. withlattice.com
Hoping to go from "idea to first dollar" in 30 days.
This was my fastest "idea to first user" project. 10 days. withlattice.com
Hoping to go from "idea to first dollar" in 30 days.
Not true for long. I haven’t coded for 10 years and prototyped an idea including many concepts I had no experience with using ChatGPT + Jupyter notebook.
I can take it to production b/cI previously launched software products for 20+ years.
The gap is narrowing very quickly.
Simplicity scales.
The CPU % on my VPS server even went down not up since @lexfridman podcast and @elonmusk tweet
While traffic more than tripled and revenue doubled
Not serverless, not edge, not kubernetes, not auto scaling
Just 1 simple VPS for all my sites
Thx to @DanielLockyer my DevOps guy
Jaisen retweeted
If more developers ran Linux on their desktop, maybe they wouldn't be so petrified of running a server by themselves. We are unlearning the basics of the Internet at an alarming rate.
A $6/mo @digitalocean droplet will take you a lot further than you think.
I write code periodically now. And ChatGPT has completely replaced Stack Overflow or Google when I have questions.
If I did this full time I’d use it way more frequently.
Gave @trywireshark a proper product website. trywireshark.com
I preach ghetto testing and this is how I've done it for a physical product that I've validated works as expected but haven't manufactured at any scale.
Still using vim and imagemagick. Definitely could have done this faster using Photoshop - but Preview was crashing so I went straight to the terminal.
for f in $(ls *.NEF) ; do convert ${f} -resize 1980x1980 -auto-orient jpegs/${f%.*}.jpeg; done
Invested ≈20 hours and $300 for a professional photographer on an idea I pitched to my wife. The goal is to establish her as the go-to expert in interior design for local high end historic homes as we launch a firm.
Curious how it will turn out. Stay tuned :)
Rolled out automatically for all sites on the free plan. Paid plans are opt-in. That’s a great way to apply this patch.
Tens of millions of websites (4% of the web) uses Polyfill(.)io. Extremely concerning malware has been discovered impacting any site using Polyfill. Cloudflare is stepping in with a secure clone and a service to automatically replace Polyfill on pages. blog.cloudflare.com/automati…















