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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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This has been a rough couple years personally and professionally for me. My dad almost died last March from multiple pulmonary embolisms. My mom had breast cancer for the second time. The Highrise dra…
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1) Casey's a great storyteller, filmmaker, and success. Just like anyone else who reads a book 4 times. Or practices a programming problem over and over again. I study how he accomplishes things …
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Yeah, he did. It's a good one.
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Don't forget carrying a smoothie too :) But yes, that's a great point. And I think adds to my thesis too. A lot of us expect that creating videos of his quality would take a team of 3+ peopl…
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Definitely! I tried to convey that in the article: "And though it is still hard, and potentially risky, if you filter your ideas through this lens, you’ll get much more impact from your own ideas…
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Dig it! But I'm clicking on Preview and getting a I need to subscribe? https://cl.ly/709c92e9ca7b/Image%202018-11-20%20at%2011.12.4... Get this: https://cl.ly…
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I've stopped trying to remember things to consume. So no lists. To echo others here, read it now, or if you forget about it, it wasn't worth reading probably. Where I think it's importa…
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omg yes! I think about dining out. Every time I've had a terrible meal or experience: Host: How is everything?
Me: Great I just want them to go away and just not return or tell anyone to come her…
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I love that. Exactly. Any more you can share about that story? I imagine customer loyalty or repeat projects after that proposal went up too? There's another post I'm kicking around about ho…
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Oh for sure. It's tough in the services business here though where a lot of us find ourselves in when we're building products on the side. We have to build on what our customers say a lot. O…
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Ah that's interesting. Hadn't thought of it that way before. Have you seen any more research about that topic? I'd love to see more.
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Very true. Could just as easily just count the number of times we've looped through this and multiply by our sleep to get a sense of time taken place. Thanks for the poke at that!
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Hello. No apologies necessary! Wanted to put this out there for the discussion. So thanks for the comment. I'm not sure what you mean though. This is polling to see if the jobs are completed. Eve…
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