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Kitedesk, the everything client
I have been playing with lots of email clients lately, and one of the very ambitious ones is Kitedesk. Boy have these guys bitten off a lot to chew. Better webmail client, better calendar, better file manager… Not there
Kitedesk, the everything client
I have been playing with lots of email clients lately, and one of the very ambitious ones is Kitedesk. Boy have these guys bitten off a lot to chew. Better webmail client, better calendar, better file manager… Not there
Reading Paul Graham on the Re-invention of Email
It’s usually wise to start with a line from Paul Graham: The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work… Dealing with email, for example. You do it
Reading Paul Graham on the Re-invention of Email
It’s usually wise to start with a line from Paul Graham: The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work… Dealing with email, for example. You do it
Ericsson’s law = 10,000 hours to expertise
If you feel like quoting that paragraph from a Gladwell essay you skimmed one time, you should memorize: Ericsson’s law = 10,000 hours of practice yields expertise. At 2,000 hours of full-time 40 hours/week x 50 weeks/year, this is 5
Ericsson’s law = 10,000 hours to expertise
If you feel like quoting that paragraph from a Gladwell essay you skimmed one time, you should memorize: Ericsson’s law = 10,000 hours of practice yields expertise. At 2,000 hours of full-time 40 hours/week x 50 weeks/year, this is 5
Robert Bork’s America
“Robert Bork’s America,” Mr. Kennedy said in a speech, “is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could
Robert Bork’s America
“Robert Bork’s America,” Mr. Kennedy said in a speech, “is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could
Paying for usage
I have not yet seen an app that charges you like 1 cent per hour. I would totally put in my credit card for an app that agreed it would only charge me 1 cent per hour. And then for
Paying for usage
I have not yet seen an app that charges you like 1 cent per hour. I would totally put in my credit card for an app that agreed it would only charge me 1 cent per hour. And then for
Why is video chat unpopular?
I am wondering. Why don’t we video chat. Is it human reasons or product reasons or ‘other’. It’s grandparents/babies or hiring/firing or long-distance-romance. But the cameras, phones, networks are all there. And surely human beings like to look at faces.
Why is video chat unpopular?
I am wondering. Why don’t we video chat. Is it human reasons or product reasons or ‘other’. It’s grandparents/babies or hiring/firing or long-distance-romance. But the cameras, phones, networks are all there. And surely human beings like to look at faces.
How Email is like Craigslist
There is this good recent post where Chris Dixon suggests horizontal, popular apps often spawn promising vertical ones. He frames it as “some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece“. Though his point is
How Email is like Craigslist
There is this good recent post where Chris Dixon suggests horizontal, popular apps often spawn promising vertical ones. He frames it as “some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece“. Though his point is
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