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By combining socially networked music, listening and audio chatting, Roadtrip has created a product where there’s serendipity amongst strangers. Casual conversations from music to business flow in and out of the rooms, normally awkward silences are occupied by music which fills the void, and the vibe is unmatched.

These are not farm equipment manufacturers; they are Farming as a Service providers.

You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the

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Groupon started out with these really tight principles about how the site was going to work, really being pro-customer. And as we expanded people in the company would say, “Hey, why don’t we try running two deals a day?” “Why don’t we start sending two emails a day?” And I’d think, That sounds awful. Who wants to get two emails every single day... See more

We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure. This means architecture that anticipates and accepts the inevitable outcome of relatively centralized client/server relationships, but uses cryptography (rather than infrastructure) to... See more