ignore mobile

treat tablet like desktop

idiot proof business

you should only buy a business any idiot can run because one day an idiot will be running (vs ruining) it

advertising (fight club)

advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.

technical debt

https://medium.com/@joaomilho/festina-lente-e29070811b84

lending club and baseball betting

avoid A's

avoid renters

avoid debt to income ratio over 25 percent

check baseball odds after midnight or morning

get users manually

Our advice at Y Combinator is always to make a really good product and go out and get users manually. The two work hand-in-hand: you need to talk individually to early adopters to make a really good product.  So focusing on the narrow and deep end of the sales/marketing continuum is not just the most effective way to get users. Your startup will die if you don’t.

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-livingston-why-startups-need-to-focus-on-sales-not-marketing/

you need to have something people want

 "What many people are missing is that you need to have something people want," says Noah Kagan, formerly a product manager at Facebook

http://online.wsj.com/articles/growth-hacking-helps-startups-boost-their-users-1401320789?tesla=y&mod=djemSB_h&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303633604579589872338854520.html?mod=djemSB_h

i picked the wrong career... now what (the fuck do i do)?

almost 40, stuck in a job i hate

i picked the wrong career

stupid career choice

after 9 years as a data analyst, i finally realize it's a dead end job, a dead end career.

now what?