icu · HackerTrans

Wow, I remember this. My Dad won a Apple Newton MessagePad 100 and I loved using it as a kid to draw. While I appreciated the ability to write notes, I found having to enter letters one using the special character input was too much friction for regular use. You basically had to learn some of your ABCs when writing letter by letter. Sadly the device was not really used by either my Dad or I because it was too much hassle to relearn how to write.

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9 mesi fadiscuss

Would really like to know what makes a person (or group of people) invest the time and energy to do this? Is there a group of hobbyist gamers who work on titles they love? Is it about digital conservation?

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9 mesi fadiscuss

This looks cool but that D-Pad is going to hurt after a few minutes of play.

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10 mesi fadiscuss

Yes, I had the first version and loved it. Back then searching for local files took forever. I was upset when it was discontinued. Even today on a high spec Windows 11 Pro machine search isn't as good as what it was with Google Desktop back then.

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7 anni fadiscuss

This tweet is the exact reason I choose to live in the UK, and not the US, when it came to pursuing my career in financial services.

I do not believe that the US approach—in many sectors, but particularly in finance—of putting your career before your family life is a good use of the unknown and limited time we have on this planet.

That said, I am an entrepreneur, and the buck stops with me, so if I need to work weekends than I will juggle that obligation while still being there for my son.

Part of my reason for this approach is based on what my father once told me, that in life you'll juggle a lot of important balls, your career ball, your family ball, your health ball etc. The gist was, life is a juggling act, but his final word on it was something along the lines of, "Your family ball is made of glass, and if you drop it, it could shatter so much that you will never be able to piece it together again."

Obviously what is happening in an employee's life will have an impact on their work life. Saying things like, "if you miss your KPIs than you're fired" isn't going to motivate your staff, especially the ones who need to up their performance. Firing people who don't perform creates a situation where staff members will live under fear and that doesn't usually create great customer experiences.

And this leads to another point, if you are a good leader, you should never be in a position where you need to remind people that they need to work weekends if they are behind or they will get fired. He’s the CEO, the buck stops with him. If he communicated the problem they are solving, the company’s mission, and put in the right culture, hired the right people, you don’t need to say such things.

IMHO a good ‘Culture’ would have the following values:

1. Spartan Wall – We win the battle for our customers by protecting/taking care of each other.

2. Obsessive Customer Empathy – We are our customers’ biggest advocate.

3. Unfiltered Brutal Truth – Feelings, rank, politics NEVER have priority over truth and what’s right.

4. Proactive Problem Solving – When we hit problems, we do not put our hands up, we find a solution.

5. Laser Focus – We only keep to the problem and the mission.

6. One Destination, Autonomously – While we work loosely together, we all have the same mission and we are all in it together.

I bet you all the money in the word Nikolay Storonsky—the CEO of Revolut—doesn’t actually understand that a CEO’s job is to create the environment to find, motivate and retain people who are focused on the problem the company is solving, believe in the company’s mission, and are a fit for the company’s culture. IMHO venture success is the result of building an organisation that does this.

I wish Revolut all the luck in the world but the fish rots from the head!

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10 anni fadiscuss

I think the entrepreneur failed to assess why it had to be him to solve the market problem and give birth to the company.

Sometimes it's not necessary to assess this because you are compelled to act and you can't stop.

In this case I think had he asked this hard question sooner he would have found his heart wasn't in it. Either way dropping it was the right thing to do.

In comparison my 'why' for the thing I'm working on makes my soul burn and is a limitless well of determination.

Call it 'Conviction/Opportunity' pull.

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