halcyondaze

You're assuming he's optimizing his life for $

This is a case of should be this way, but never will be. People have and always will respond to personal incentives, which is why framing this way is doing well.

If people are incentivized to get solar roofs for personal benefits and it happens to also help the "Life Economy," this is good. Especially because more people will get them when they're framed in terms of what an individual gains from installing it, not what Humanity gains.

So a more serious Y2K?

As a layman here, can someone explain this what the significance of the year 2038 is to me?

Right but randomly posting in a link to Veblen good on Wikipedia because it's one example of when raising prices doesn't lower demand doesn't mean it's in any way relevant to this discussion. Almost no one would argue that this kind of travel is a Veblen good.

Appreciate you sharing this, I wrote this years ago and am glad to see it's still getting traction :)

Yes, I am expanding offline as well because I want to explore it as much as possible. Still fun for me, and what isn't I try to outsource to others.

~$2k/mo from an informational hobby-related website I run and monetize with affiliate sales. Growing, too!

It didn't do that after I googled a few images

RIP to a true boss.

It will never cease to amaze me how negative the overall comments are on HN.

There's this, Anova, Joule, etc. Why are there >3 high tech sous vide companies right now, I honestly don't understand.

Yeah it has. Peter Lik.

Fair points!

Restaurant pizza:

- Atmosphere

- Service

- No effort

Supermarket:

- Convenience

- Have to cook and serve yourself

- Independent of time, have it whenever you want

Delivery

- Service without moving location

Awesome, will take a look at your story as well. Thanks for the info :)

For #2 - where to look to troubleshoot those issues?

Maybe not have a complete opposite that could also be valid, but at least state some sort of preference or be able to be used to make a real decision.

He goes on to say that he wants to push decision making ability down in the company, but if you're looking at those 3 values, it seems hard to make clear decisions based on them.

What did you find well written about the culture? Genuinely curious, because I have the exact opposite view. The culture section is blatantly obvious and the new values don't seem to provide any guiding force. Pushing down decision making in the company (a point of his which I agree with) only works if the values you're pushing actually inform action. Which these don't.

What's with these new values?

Effective immediately, this company’s values are:

#1 Operate with integrity.

#2 Put the customer first.

#3 Make this a great place to work for employees.

Did these not exist prior to Conrad stepping down? If they did, and this still happened, they're clearly bad values to hold.

For one, they're unspecific and don't have a clear opposite. No one is going to take the opposite on these, meaning they can't really be values.

No one will proudly state that

#1 Don't operate with integrity.

#2 Put ourselves first.

#3 Make Zenefits at least a mediocre place to work.

Are good values, so the values the new CEO espoused aren't really actionable or value-able in any way.

Anyone have a different take that I might be missing?

Exponentially more difficult than starting a startup? No shit, all you have to do to start a startup is say you started one and give a vague semblance of the idea.

Read Traction Book to install a better framework of 'marketing' in your head, then go from there.

Yo Alexis - was the main logic behind starting this the fact that so many other sites are using Reddit UGC to drive their content machines (and thus revenues)?

"On what it will do with the money? Doyle says it will go to making Medium “the dominant pipeline for connecting quality content and conversation,” which is pretty broad." - The content is decent, but the conversation aspect of Medium has a long, long way to go before it comes close to many other platforms.

Damn, this is how you have fun. Both on the tech side and the marketing side. Much respect to Netflix.

While the battery oversight was bad, who actually cares about how many eggs they have left and needs to be notified? It's a non-problem first and a hardware oversight second.

It's to manipulate the 'auto-complete' feature.

Well said.

Being a great communicator != never lying.

I think that most people do, and most people should - it's the principle of social proof at work. Most of us value this community, so we look to those who came before us to an article to signal if it's worth a read or not.

I think a better question is: what type of comments and discussion will lead you actually click through to the article?