mcrittenden's comments

A wag?

"the 30 and 40 age groups tend to outperform younger runners"

Source on that? This seems to show the opposite: https://marathonhandbook.com/what-is-a-good-marathon-time/#:...

Can you provide a link or author name? I can’t seem to find that.

I've used it heavily for a couple years now. I describe it to people as tinker toys for building your ideal todo list app. There's an active official Facebook group community, if that's helpful at all: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1927874704161821

Fascinating! It was a really big realization for me in terms of how day to day choices of how to spend my time. Here's the post that I was referring to, if you're bored: https://critter.blog/2020/10/27/am-i-an-extrovert-or-an-intr...

Because when I post an article, and then visit the new page in incognito, my article isn't there, although articles posted after it appear fine. And if I post things from other domains using that same account, they show up on the new page immediately.

It makes sense - I spammed only my blog daily for months. I'm not complaining!

Hey thanks! Seems like your questions are based around building a following, and that's not something I've been concerned with, but here are some answers regardless.

1. I don't really use social media. My blog posts auto-post to Twitter and LinkedIn, and that's the extent of my social media engagement. I don't follow anyone on Twitter, for example. Sometimes people will email me if they feel strongly about a post. But for the most part, I solve for being "caught in a bubble" using a small Slack community I'm a part of, where some friends and former coworkers pick apart my blog posts and point out how stupid they are :)

2. I'm not really sure. I don't pay much attention to SEO since the traffic doesn't matter much to me. Don't get me wrong, I get a thrill when something I write makes the rounds and people seem to like it, but not enough to worry about optimizing for it.

3. I just use the built in Wordpress email subscription feature, which doesn't provide any open rates. I only have ~150 email subscribers anyway, and my blog itself only gets 100-150 views a day. In general, I've done basically no marketing for it outside of that I used to post a lot of them to HN until the domain got shadow banned.

I read a good bit too. I highlight the interesting bits (https://critter.blog/2021/04/01/the-evolution-of-my-ebook-hi...) and if something really stands out then I base a blog post on that thought. Here's a small example of that: https://critter.blog/2021/06/28/ignoring-the-reactionaries/

Oh hey, I'm the person mentioned in the first sentence of this post. I was wondering why my stats went up today!

I've published a blog post every weekday for over a year now (today's was #280). It's been life changing for me. It's now my go-to method for figuring out what I think about something and for crystallizing those thoughts and finding links between them.

- I figured out that I wanted a new job while writing a blog post (and I started that new job 9 months ago).

- I learned that I'm not an introvert, but rather a shy extrovert, while writing a blog post.

- That led into me realizing I have social anxiety while writing a blog post.

There are lots more examples of that. I'm often surprised to find that I don't actually believe what I thought I believed when I started writing that blog post.

Journaling never stuck for me because it felt like work, but making it public made it exciting and fulfilling enough to become a habit that I look forward to each day.

Since the author mentioned Zettelkasten, I'll add this: https://critter.blog/2021/02/10/blogging-as-a-zettelkasten/

I just finished reading "Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley" which has a whole section on the PayPal Mafia. I never realized how influential that group was to startup culture.

Represent! I only stopped working with Drupal about 6 months ago.

For what it's worth, I built something very similar to this and it ran for 7 years until Google shut it down for violating the terms of service. Here's a blog post I wrote with specifics, I case it also applies to your service. https://critter.blog/2020/08/04/a-farewell-to-toogles/

Just curious, what do you like about it over other ebook readers? I've been using Moon+ heavily for years and it's fine but I'm interested in trying some others out.

Brave [0] is a web browser, built from Chromium, but with built in ad and tracker blocking.

FLoC stands for Federated Learning of Cohorts. The third party cookie is dying, and FLoC is a way for companies to group people together and track them, rather than tracking individuals. Here's more info about that [1] and here's an EFF article about why it's dangerous [2].

[0] https://brave.com/ [1] https://github.com/WICG/floc [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...

I wouldn't call it "bad". I'd say it's not perfect, and rightly so, because perfection would be lower ROI than some other things their developers could be doing.

I think the core mismatch here is that you are optimizing for experience and NYT, as a business, is optimizing for revenue. Those two things often do not overlap.

I can virtually guarantee you that NYT has spent thousands upon thousands of hours optimizing and multi-variant testing their headline display to maximize conversion. In other words, if they followed your advice, they would be leaving money on the table.

As for your stock ticker display bug, keep in mind that NYT likely employs hundreds of developers and dozens of teams each owning various pieces of the website. Bugs will make it to production, so it's a matter of prioritization. I'd be shocked if they weren't already aware of that bug. It's probably lower on some specific team's backlog than a bunch of stuff that will be more valuable for the company in terms of revenue.

For anyone else wondering what NFTs are:

> Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are digital assets that are indivisible and provably unique. They can be used to represent both tangible and intangible items.

https://decrypt.co/resources/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-explai...

Can you suggest a good 101?

I don't think that's an unreasonable phrase. "Hire slow, fire fast" is a well known strategy.