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Design advice for startup founders

Start by thinking about the problem you want to solve for people. Answer the question "what problem are we trying to solve and for whom", and let that answer guide everything from the tech stack, to the user expereince, to the business model and marketing. Once you've identified what you are trying to solve, and who you're solving it for, everything else should flow from that vision.

Do research from the beginning. Research will help you validate whether there is even a market for your product, what that market will pay for your product, what things are important to that market, how the market is currently solving their problem, and what solving the problem is worth to them and whether they are willing to pay actual money to solve it.

Aproach everything with a design thinking process. Design is not just how things look, and it's not something that happens after building something. Design is what you are building, why you are building it, and how you are bu

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Rails stuff

link_to helper

• good reading: https://mixandgo.com/blog/how-to-use-link_to-in-rails

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Likes

• TouchBar is pretty pretty neat, and has the potential to be really useful (although so far in practice I've not really gotten much out of it that I didn't just wish I had the normal keys for, except maybe the emoji toolbar).
  • there's some fun novel stuff like a NyanCat touch bar app that adds an extra point for nerdy cool factor
• The thing is really REALLY thin and light. Noticably so over my previous 2013 13" MBP Retina
• The screen is much brighter than my previous model, and has slightly better/more accurate native color
• The speakers are much louder than my previous model (about on par with my iPad Pro speakers, which are fantastic and quite loud)
• Processing power def feels a bit snappier. I wasn't too unhappy with my previous model, but so far this one feels a bit quicker, although it could be the placebo effect since I have no objective data to back that up. UPDATE 3/27 while the processing still feels snappier at times, it really seems like the computer significantly slows down a l

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Paper by FiftyThree feedback

Thanks for asking for my feedback. Here's the long form.

What I love

• It's a great tool for product/UI sketching; I use it for sketching out abstract concepts for discussion, and for diagraming low fidelity wireframes for UI/layouts

What drives me nuts

• The autoshape tool drives me nuts. I love the tool for what it is supposed to be, but in practice it drives me nuts specifically because I usually have to draw the shape like 8 or 9 times before it actually snaps into a shape

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How to install Xcode's Command Line Tools

run xcode-select --install

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The ones I've read

These are the books that have had a profound impact on me. It should go without saying that I do not agree 100% with everything in all of these books, but for the most part every one of them resonated with me deeply for the overwhelming majority of what they speak to, and had a profound impact on how I think about the topics they address.

• Torn: Rescuing The Gospel From The Gays vs Christians Debate by Justin Lee
• Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell
• What We Talk About When We Talk About God by

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My cool links list

• My personal blog
• Follow me on Twitter
• Fork my stuff on GitHub
• HospitalRun is an open source project I work on in my "free time"
• Star Wars Battlefront is my fav XBox game right now
• This is my Gifs project

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Mary & Brandon's wedding • 2:30pm

Processional

• Groomsmen usher parents down the aisle
• Groomsmen all line up at the front
• Brandon walks his mom to her seat, then joins groomsmen at front
• Nick walks his mom to her seat (?)
• Then I nod to DJ who cues the music
• Kids come down with flowers, then signs
• Bridesmaids begin to walk to front at medium pace, next one starting while first is half way

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