kromodor

Hello,

It looks good as a style. I like that. I think the style fits the audience. But I am a sucky graphic designer.

However it's not immediately known that what you offer is a book (at least in the medium of a book).

If people visit the page without a context, they might not expect a book at the end of the page. You prepared us here that the page is about a book, but will that be the case with everyone visiting it?

You can do a little quick research to see if random people get what is this about.

https://usabilityhub.com/ provides 5 seconds tests - people see the page for 5 sec and they answer a simple question, for example - "what is this page about" or something like that. The 5 sec tests are pretty cheap. Last time used that site you could trade making 1 test for someone else for 1 participant for your test.

10 people should be enough to spot patterns.

Thank you good Sir for sparing the time to give feedback!

In a way it leaves the impression that they know it. They put the export option there.

There are days in which I ponder what made LinkedIn a success. It was obviously not their UX.

Design: paper; mockup app; .psd; html; whiteboard Docs: github wiki; word docs (for smaller pieces)

There are too many tools. One can drown in tools and still not do anything.

We try to keep as simple as possible, until it is not enough. Then we escalate the tool, but only IF experience proves we work less efficient without it.

Long term probably. I've read tents of studies on the topic and books on similar topic. Junk food has long term effects, non of which are good. They can affect various things, some of which, directly or indirectly, affect higher order thinking, levels of energy, mood, activity and etc.

Also *x increased chance of various debilitating diseases.

Not to sound like a crazy health nut - there are two stupendous studies on the citizens of Okinawa (The Okinawa project) and China (The China study) that leave little doubt on the long term effects of junk foods.

So yes, it can.

Unfortunately there is a psychological barrier that people must pass before having the understanding of their lack of experience and the need to face reality.

Only informing them about this, in some cases, is not enough.

It would really be well if people realized their bias, but they rarely do.

This man speaks wise.

It will inevitably take A LOT OF work to do one campaign than most people anticipate. Don't underestimate the work of promoting and handling it.

I have no experience with this, but a few of my current colleagues have similar experience with their former manager.

He didn't fake it, but had unrealistic vision of how things are working irl, thus were hyping them constantly. Millions, correction, billions were just behind that corner.

At the end they faced disappointed and lack of congruency.

In terms of search engine services. Probably won't suffer much. Will be over bing. It gives satisfying results and is (still) not much saturated by ads.

Over google maps will be tougher as bing maps are not that much developer in this region.

G+, while I use it, it won't hurt me much at this point.

SEO - well, this will hit me a bit and our clients a lot. Not a SEO company, but a lot of the clients have some sort of white hat SEO.

Will use some business apps that we use for gmail for some of our domains.

On the rest, I have migrated to MS services, thus google won't hurt mail, calendars, tasks, cloud storage that much for me.

But this is highly hypothetical situation. The chances of google disappearing is lower than ... I don't know...countries collapsing.

I am personally getting it from:

* /r/science (reddit)

* richard dawkins foundation (although there is much crap news there)

* Discover magazine rss

* Scientific american rss

* Ars Technica (not science but they are pretty deep and occasionally scientific)

* Google+ communities about science

Used to follow "I fu*king love science" but this one is not actually scientific at all.

$10k? This is too much. You can train yourself to induce OOB experience (as lucid dreaming) and have experience in first hand. Without paying anything.

- Solving logical problems

- Sorting things out

- Gaining understanding in things

- Working together with others, as a coordinated team

Both are not limited to certain industry or area.

For me is rather simple, but it took me a lot of time to realize it. I am almost 31y when writing this.

I use excel, due the fact we issue invoices few times a month (agency).

http://theanchorapp.com/ - this is a self-hosted free app. (not affiliated)

Depends on the idea. If the idea is based on real world data, strong feedback and statistics - then, why not.

Otherwise is a complete zero. I personally have ideas for 10 lifetimes of work and that is just the top which I don't scrape after a brief analysis.

As others said - ideas, in their initial states, rarely worth anything. Experience shapes idea into an unrecognisable state and even the right ideas, without the correct offering, may fail.

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Sometimes an idea can be worth a lot. Image a working company in a bottleneck situation on their concept. They have a problem that blocks their scalability. If you bring up an idea, that will fit their situation and be an elegant solution - they this can be worth a lot. But this requires a tremendous experience in the field.

I have this "travel" setup of a:

- Omni 10 HP tablet (mid-class) - Bluetooth KBD - Pen

You can really do some work in various of places. I personally write a lot, thus it helps. Not to mention it can open all websites without a problem and if needed, supports desktop apps.

Drawback is the low visibility under direct sunlight.

This started into a realm I had some knowledge and ended into a realm with zero knowledge from my part.

I can't help with cracking the reader. Keep in mind, while it has a benefit of not reflecting sun light with a glare, it still is not 100% immune to it.

You can always try making some shade where you work. Bring some headphones and music, as some environments can be distracting and noisy.

Works for me. Yet I also start with a lot of questions.

We've tried something similar with one of our sites for digital marketing advice. Yet, maybe because of our delivery, but we didn't provoke engagement.

This!

also, we've had clients who wanted to know the payments so they can budget accordingly i.e. send them the invoices, but they might not be prepared to pay all 3 of them at once.

When I was younger and didn't had models of the world, my fist one was one of a workaholic - 10+ hours per day in the office; working weekdays. Everyone around me was following this model, so naturally, I thought the normal way is this. Thus was a financial audit company.

Then, I entered the other spectrum in a corporate structure company. Most of the people there didn't give much effort and just waited for the time to get to 5pm for then to leave home. The day was full with smoke breaks and coffee breaks.

When we (with friends) started a startup, 7 days a week was the norm. This quickly proved inefficient in the long term as people started resenting, not to mention long term thinking was missing and a lot of honest effort was a complete waste.

We're now into a normal work week model with the occasional up/down depending on the situation. But we got sufficient funding. Before we didn't and sometimes the pressure triggers a short-term mode where you want to grind as much as possible for the money-time-food you have available.

tl;dr - you are your own master and commander. You don't have to follow the "norm" but others may expect you to do so. In the end it's your choice.

@diego and @api summed up the benefits of a normal work time. Smart people value their rest. And, as you are probably aware - the best ideas usually come in the times when you are resting from work.

Free time has allowed me to get good at psychology, philosophy, sociology, marketing, critical thinking, martial arts, game design, have a decent fitness and endurance levels, social contacts with healthy people and so on resources, which I wound't have had of I was focusing only on work. Not to mention I would have probably go haywire.

Actually, without the knowledge of those fields, my overall suitability for business would be severely limited.

A great community = high engagement; quality contributed content; friendly and mature audience

I really hope the conversion ratio will be good. FB is a distraction built social network, where people are constantly bombarded with useless info, most of which they just skim and continue downwards the stream.

What you're doing seems a necessary step in order to bring your community to the next level, but must keep in mind not everyone there wants bigger dedication.

Start posting things from your new platform and liking them to FB (or using screenshot with info and link, since pictures get x4 exposure in FB).

Try something that allows them to sign up and log with their existing FB (few clicks) rather than requiring them to create brand new credentials.

You will have to keep up both places - still post in FB and nurture the newcomers to the new place.

And of course - persistence and testing with the posts people find interesting.

Considering it doesn't crash or having game-breaking bugs - ship this bi*ch.

As to the time - depends on the situation. The more severe, annoying or disabling the bug, the more rapid solutions one must apply.

I personally, can't give you direct estimate on the collective people's expectation.

When I read GURU, I automatically add "scam" to it. It is biased of course, yet my past experience made me very wary of "gurus".

Every big software company knows how this thing works and usually they respect their developers.

(By every I mean every major I have information about, which is rather not every.)

It depends on the purpose and type of software you are interested in.

I see your point, Sir. I have similar feelings about the fake motivational success crap. Yes indeed - 99% of those are written by people on payroll who are not actually an example of financial independence.

It is in the nature of humans to feel attracted to the future self-image they try to follow. Perhaps feeling the emotions of this expected self-image is what most people like. (Of course, the reality is different - having success has its own domain of issues)

Those articles are simple, easy to grasp, easy on the mind and wishful thinking. Everyone capable of reading can understand them. And project their dreams around them.

In reality, reaching success is a messy, confusing, tough, unpredictable and usually rather long journey. Not to mention the big luck factor that (almost) none of those article mention.

Yet people like them. They don't want the harsh reality. They want the dreamy shit to read between their jobs. No matter how it can delude their expectations of the real world.

edit: but I admit, it can work. People take action based on this motivation and sometimes this is the necessary step to actually do something.

I vote for quality, clarity and objectivity, regardless of match to my opinion.

Unfortunately sometimes the first come - first claim creates biases as you might have something very good to say, but I starts with 1, far below the other numbers. Other biases - like the majority not agreeing with you, regardless of your argumentation, are effective as well.

Yet, such voting systems are generally effective.

I am not sure if this fits but recent "close this window" = you like something on FB and until you see it and delete it, some of your friends follow the link.

The link, of course, is especially designed to capture attention using the human mind weaknesses (picture; headline).

It lives short, since I suspect, they ban the domain from the social website.

Show a portfolio or have a credible referral. Usually skill does not go unnoticed when you work with people.

Google is moving into semantic searches. Stuffing was bad and in recent times got even worse. I mean, do those guys like...I mean... do they even use Adwords Planner?

We recently made a WP based site who hit #1 in local kws, getting in front of Wikipedia even. But what we did was an experiment (100% white) and until we try it out on international, to confirm, I can't share.

Google is moving past stages where simple gaming doesn't give meaningful results anymore.

I probably asked a way too open question which has lead to a significant portion of cognitive load.

Thus I will state the question more correctly and post again.