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I learned from a recruiter years ago that the most valuable part of your LI profile is … your connections number.

How long ago was this? I’ve been talking to lots of recruiters and the most common points I hear are

- add every skill

- keywords in your descriptions so you show up in searches

- gaps and job tenure

Remote jobs apparently get a ton of fake candidates so some recruiters have started checking for verification and profile age as additional signals.

Jørgen Vig Knudstorp saved Lego

The High Velocity Edge had a lot about this subject.

The most memorable example was at a hospital, nurses would occasionally pick up the wrong vial. They always noticed before injecting, but there were lots of close calls that didn’t get tracked anywhere. Once they started tracking that as a leading indicator, it became pretty obvious that the vials needed a better design to prevent even the possibility of grabbing the wrong one. Also, if the hospital never realized this problem and someone got hurt, they would’ve ended up with a much worse solution like “double check really close”

Kindle was pre-smartphone popularity (same year as first iPhone) so it had a chance to become established before it was competing directly. Alexa and other smart home devices are better examples now that I think about it more. Also, looks like they already make some hardware for drivers

https://www.uber.com/blog/beacon-improving-pickups-with-bett...

Spotify tried this, did not go well for them. Amazon and Meta learned the same many years ago

If you have 10+ items it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll need an attendant at some point. Also why lock out the whole system when you scan alcohol? Let me keep scanning and I’ll show ID when the person gets here.

Doesn’t work anymore :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894135

https://www.askaway.bot/

AI concierge for my parents’ vacation rental. Mostly just pulling info from the guest binder, but I’ve also started using some local guides to give better suggestions. Built with NextJs and deployed on Vercel (was really easy and they have a generous free tier).

There’s been some research showing the effect you’re seeing is real.

We estimate that CGB [carryout grocery bag] regulations lead to an average increase in purchased plastics of 127 pounds per store per month, ranging from 30 to 135 (37–224) pounds for 4-gallon (8-gallon) trash bags.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-022-00646-5

I made this extension fully using chatGPT to diagnose some layout issues. It’s super simple but chatGPT was definitely useful setting up the chrome boilerplate (and commenting what each option meant). Make sure you ask it to target the most recent version, they recently changed (to v3?) and it seems chatGPT prefers writing for the old version.

https://github.com/notzane/red-box-outline

Building a chatbot for my parents vacation rental. Lots of fun playing around with the new OpenAI assistant features (and nextjs)

https://www.askaway.bot/BanyanRose

120k registrations * $30 = $3.6 million last year (minus fees). At the peak (July 2020) they did 140k in a single month.

https://domainnamestat.com/statistics/tld/tv-TLD_ID-1435

.fm for radio and music related sites (Federated States of Micronesia)

Lapse as well. And Poparazzi before that. Hard to make money so they never seem to last long.

StockX has 1000+ employees and they only do used sneakers and clothes. I remember reading about eBay spending a lot to compete with them a few years ago, seems they lost. It’s valued at 3.8 billion so not an insignificant chunk of eBay’s market cap.

Where was your site?

The following marketplaces have threatened or suspended our accounts and are unlikely to return to diskprices.com without clear policy changes from Amazon: amazon.jp, amazon.nl, amazon.it, amazon.sg.

A few nights ago, I spent 30 minutes standing outside of a rental because the August app wouldn’t connect to my AirBnB account. Eventually the host woke up and sent a backup code for the keypad (with the help of phone support—do they have a pager system?).

(If anyone from August is reading please help, it’s error log ID e720cfee2a9e90e5)

My company is fully using cloud desktops for engineering except iOS and Android development (we get faster laptops instead).

Compare the copy on the landing pages and it’s pretty obvious

https://pages.cloudflare.com/

https://neocities.org/

https://xkcd.com/538

Steve Jobs was the same—here’s a clip of Ive talking about it

https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1545415644425752576?s=...

I still keep caps lock bound to control even though I don’t use emacs much anymore

Brick by Brick is a great book about the history of Lego and how it came back from near bankruptcy. It reads like a business case study—turns out they were saved by a McKinsey consultant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jørgen_Vig_Knudstorp

This was my experience getting into programming as a kid. I just wanted to make things and the games I made in Scratch were cooler than printing to the console in C++ (especially as a slow typer).

I eventually learned html/css which let me build real websites and see them in my browser. At some point you hit a wall with what you can make and are forced to learn js/php/python/etc.

Their statement explains it pretty reasonably: https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/about-us/news-and-insights/2022/o...

Our investment represented less than 0.05% of our total net assets

Naturally, not all of the investments in this early-stage asset class perform to expectations, however, since inception, TVG has delivered solidly on intended objectives.

BHW SEO forum has a lot of technical SEO discussions