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@twigpress @JackEllis It’s a long distance (east to west) but 85% of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the border (so not a lot of north-south track needed)

@jamiemccue_ Yup. 💯

@MattGiovanisci @TransistorFM 👀

@hannah_rfh @TransistorFM Thanks for spreading the word!

Let me know if you want me to show you around. 👋

@pascallaliberte Yes. And now YouTube is introducing background listening.

The alternatives people have matter!

Inertia is powerful. For someone to switch to a different solution, there has to be something compelling about the new solution.

"Voice plan" just doesn't feel like it has it.

@pascallaliberte But for you personally, won't you just pay for a full plan?

@pascallaliberte I think I'm skeptical because I spend a lot of time observing how people buy and consume goods/services.

I haven't observed those kinds of interactions.

What I do observe:

<Loud party> "Hand me your phone so I can search for a song."
"Don't use Siri, I'll just type it in."

@pascallaliberte I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of consumer behavior here.

If the alternative is Spotify freemium; why would someone switch?

@pierresenechal The question is: will it cause people to *switch* from what they're using now for music?

@m1guelpf How do you mean?

@adii @petersuhm @getRewardful @kylefox @cogsyapp Umm, what???

How have we not accelerated the product??!??

Go read our changelog and come back and talk to me.

(Super arrogant/ignorant take btw)

@adii @petersuhm @getRewardful @kylefox @cogsyapp Not new? Isn't it about the same age as Transistor?

We still feel new (est 2018). 😅

What is "new" in internet years?

@mattmedeiros Haha. Good point!

@petersuhm @getRewardful What would you improve?

@GetTheAudience @kentcdodds @zachrip_ @TransistorFM But aren’t you fiddling with system volume no matter what?

Apps, podcasts, music, all have variable volume already; how does having a slider in an individual player help?

Don’t you still need to to adjust system volume despite individual player settings?

@kentcdodds @zachrip_ @TransistorFM Curious about this one: don’t most folks just use the volume keys on their keyboard?

@HardwickNYC @TransistorFM Yup! Did that. 👍

RT @jonathanstark: ★ Just published a new episode of Ditching Hourly: Justin Jackson - Catching Bigger Waves. Listen: https://t.co/Cy3pWSO4…

@rezzz Yup. But we’re eating tonight. 🥰🍁

@KeliWestgate Whoa!! And now it’s green where it burned?

@curtismchale Nice! 🦄

RT @Kev_Conti: The simplest checklist that I can think of for evaluating a product idea:

1) When your ideal customer hears about it, do th…

@kwuchu 🙏

@JackEllis I think you’re going to easy on those ToS. Not even closed to “solved.”

Also, as far as I know, none of this stuff has been tested in court.

I’m just confused why you’re going so easy on Lazy Lions? Normally you’re a stickler for this kind of stuff (when it’s relate to privacy)

@JackEllis “Change those ToS slightly?”

I think you’re glossing over some major issues.

Apply the same level of scrutiny you have for privacy issues to NFTs; I think you’ll see what I’m seeing.

@ianlandsman @JackEllis NFTs are a cool idea. They’re “a proposal for how ownership could work” (@DCoulbourne).

That’s fine.

But “a concept” is a looooong way from a “sure thing” (culturally, and legally).

And, this particular execution has significant, fundamental flaws.

@brendonbigley Nice! What resonated with you about it?

@nwquah Nice! Is it an exclusive, or available everywhere?

@pascallaliberte Not me! Just her; she’s 18 and independent! 😮

@chrisbintliff Thanks! I will.

RT @ljin18: Another interesting idea is @NBerggruen's proposal for a national common prosperity fund that provides dividends from capital g…

@arvidkahl I thought this was going to be a link discussing all the FB-related businesses that are dead in the water right now. 😉

@themikesteez @VirtualElena @AxieInfinity The problem with anecdotes is there are plenty of examples on the other side of the coin:

Folks with very little means who invested in crypto/NFTs and lost everything (scammers, price fluctuations, forgetting their password, losing a hard drive).

@themikesteez @VirtualElena Just read it.

I don't see any proof that true redistribution is happening.

People who already rich in ETH, spending their ETH on ICO projects, seems like a pretty weak proof that crypto is going to provide true upward mobility for folks who are poor.

@themikesteez @VirtualElena That’s fine rhetoric, but where’s the proof that it’s happening?

RT @stephsmithio: Humans are irrational... especially with money:

- Ppl more easily pay for a $5 coffee vs $5 app

- Ppl prefer "buy one g…

@theDanielJLewis 👀

@christobarley That’s conjecture; we don’t know if El Salvadorians have saved anything due to the switch.

@stauffermatt I understand what you’re saying.

The nuance is that they are a “new form” of the 1%: tech-enabled folks, who now own most crypto assets.

@stauffermatt But, anecdotally, that's true.

You had to be techie, and have access to computer hardware + crypto knowledge, to mine it. And the original miners own most of it.

The global poor had neither the knowledge nor the access to tech.

@stauffermatt See my second tweet.

It's difficult to get a proper sense of wealth concentration in crypto, but @docmarionum1 has a reasonable attempt here:

https://docmarionum1.medium.com/wealth-inequality-in-cryptocurrencies-c8a0a31b96f9

@vimtor_ http://justinjackson.podia.com should work

@grantwhunter I disagree.

For me, JTBD describes “why people buy a product.”

The headlines describes “what the product is.”

@JDomanPipe Can you give me an example?

@typeoneerror Yes!

@michaelofei @TransistorFM Transistor updates your RSS feed right away, and makes your episode immediately available to anyone subscribed to your feed. 👍

Unfortunately, apps like Spotify and Apple now rely on their own databases, which means they have to update every time you publish a new episode.

@michaelofei @TransistorFM Quick answer: Apple and Spotify's indexers have been slow lately.

Apple's new policy is it takes up to 24 hours now for new episodes to appear everywhere.

However, Spotify just indexed your new episode:
https://open.spotify.com/show/79LS5ueX3qE8CgKc5gJpIM

@cogentgene too real 🤣

@harriskenny 🤔 yup. That facial recognition tech that humans have built-in (after billions of years of evolution) is pretty powerful.

@WylesOne @laravelphp @plcosta @skylerkatz I figured it out... but I can't remember how I did.

@andrewstepner Yup.

Being a "fast learner" might not mean a lot, in the long term.

@colinloretz I'll send it to him!

RT @mijustin: I wish our culture gave people space to explore more.

So many people feel squeezed: too much to do, not enough time, barely…

@DavidEpstein I’m a slow reader but I’ve been really enjoying it! 😄 https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1388005135259901953

@Swizec 🎯

RT @mijustin: "Driving more traffic" to a product that doesn't already have underlying demand isn't going to produce more results.

✅ You w…

@leenyburger That’s Laracon + a few concerts I went to.

@amedina_dev Who is your closest competitor?

@amedina_dev I like to see evidence that people are actively searching for a similar product.

RT @mijustin: The biggest marketing mistake you can make happens *before* you've built the product:

🙅‍♂️ Choosing a category/problem where…

@BrendanOfEarth This is pretty close to how I think about it.

You can acquire them, and even get them to activate; but what keeps them coming back?

https://www.websitemagazine.com/blog/pirate-metrics-acquisition-activation-retention-referral-and-revenue-(aarrr)

@BrendanOfEarth Yes enterprise is different.

However, I’m making a distinction here between “activation” and “long-term, continuous use.”

But you’re right; in the enterprise a company can force their employees to use the product!

@brhea Yes! Reducing friction can help improve activation.

I’m not sure it can drive ongoing usage though?

I’m sure it helps, but the underlying push/pull seems to be mostly outside a product’s control.

@jonathanstark Investing effort in trying to motivate unmotivated customers to use your product is probably not worth it (inside the product or outside the product).

At least, I’ve never seen it work in self-serve SaaS.

I can probably nudge people; but I can’t provide the underlying pull.

@k_kristian @tylertringas The challenge is that the underlying desire has to be pretty strong to consistently overcome inertia.

You might convince people to come to the gym once with the promise of beer afterwards... but it has to work over and over again.

@marcin_knows My guess is you're right. 😉

@RickieTicklez Just felt like: "I need it for these two things. It's already going to save me way more than $119.40 in time saved. I might need it for a few other things? Might as well just pay for premium."

(Mostly, $119.40 felt like a no-brainer)

@mydigitalself @SliteHQ But what about retention?

In my experience, getting folks to "activate" (sign up for a trial) isn't super hard. But motivating them to actually record a podcast episode, edit it, and upload it? That's hard. 😄

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1440391601868578822

RT @annehelen: There's a tendency to view whatever those fully distributed companies are doing as weird or "not for us" but you know what e…

@typeoneerror Good to know!

@asmartbear Yup!

@EshanMathur This is helpful! Thank you! 🙏

@pradeephenry @staydecent The question is, who do want doing that scrutiny:

Armchair experts on the internet?

or

Experts who have dedicated their lives (going to university, doing research, working in the field) to that discipline?

RT @mijustin: When people get deathly ill, they don’t get treatment from their pastor, politician, Nicki Minaj, Joe Rogan, or Bret Weinstei…

@rskopecek I agree. I think having a proper conception of science is key. https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1432068592246444035

@rskopecek The hand washing scenario doesn’t seem to exemplify a system plagued by ego, power, and profit, but rather, a system that progressively updated its beliefs based on a proven hypothesis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK144018/

@emd Tell stories.

Here’s one from me:

I personally know a vaccine-hesitant father from my area who is now intubated and fighting for his life in a Vancouver ICU bed.

He has young daughters, and his prognosis is grim.

It’s heartbreaking. 💔

@rskopecek What’s a reasonable example of a systemic breakdown of the process due to ego, power, and profit seeking?

@staydecent Ultimately, any research needs to be evaluated (on several levels: statistical accuracy, methodological, etc) by a groups of experts, and related institutions.

So far, even the most pedestrian review of ivermectin research reveals that more is needed.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-supporting-ivermectin-as-covid-treatment-withdrawn-over-ethical-concerns

@staydecent Unfortunate that Mark Humpfries doesn’t offer an alternative to peer review in that article? 🤷‍♂️

What’s the alternative? “Be like Einstein?”

@staydecent Yup.

But so far the FLCC hasn’t proven that they’re doing good science.

It’s not just government approval they’re lacking, they haven’t been published in Frontier (or any other journal from what I can see).

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/frontiers-removes-controversial-ivermectin-paper-pre-publication-68505

@staydecent The peer-review for FLCC (both from government and scientific journals) is not looking good. 😬

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Line_COVID-19_Critical_Care_Alliance

@staydecent That’s the beauty of the peer-review process: it exposes bad ideas, bias, political influence, and mistakes.

It’s not perfect, but it’s the best system we’ve found.

Any scientist can do “discourse;” but they’re not all doing real research.

https://time.com/5709691/why-trust-science/

@ProfeLuke @secos Fauci is the messenger.

He’s communicating the best available knowledge that’s come out of the scientific process. https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1432068592246444035

@ProfeLuke @secos Science doesn’t care about the “cult of the individual.” It doesn’t matter how well-known a doctor is.

What’s great about science is that every claim has to be evaluated and independently replicated, multiple times.

You can’t make a claim based on reputation alone.

@msurguy For some, the cognitive dissonance is so strong.

It is possible for people to change their minds, but it typically happens slowly.

@ProfeLuke @secos Put your stats hat on.

Those doctors, and those treatments, are outliers.

Statistically, and scientifically, they are insignificant (at least until they go through the process of rigorous review)

When you go to the emergency room, they’re not treating you with fringe theories.

@gilesvangruisen I don’t think Josh (nor I) is staying that conclusion.

RT @mijustin: Ways to grow professionally:

- Podcast
- Give a talk
- Write a blog
- Take a course
- Ask for a raise
- Go to meetups
- Get…

@evankirby That was a good run.

@heyjoshwood "It's like the perfect lubricant solution..."

(✍️ me taking notes)

@AlbanBrooke @opensea How is that different than Harry Markopolos investigating Madoff and exposing the evidence?

@AlbanBrooke @opensea we *did* need a whistleblower though?

https://twitter.com/ZuwuTV/status/1437921263394115584

I’m primarily listening for @StarrHorne’s printing press updates.

@AlbanBrooke How is that different than normal insider trading, and the way we catch those folks?

@mubashariqbal But that’s not the case with OpenSea, correct? It’s a central exchange hub?

@fran_rimoldi But isn’t OpenSea a central hub?

The argument that “this type of corruption is more easily exposed with crypto” seems overzealous.

With traditional securities, we’ve exposed insider-trading the same way: by noticing anomalies.

Wouldn’t the anonymous nature of crypto make it more disposed to corruption?

@fran_rimoldi How is this any different than how we’ve exposed other insider-trading scandals?

We’ve tracked insider trades the same way with other securities: by noticing anomalies.

Also, is OpenSea decentralized? It seems quite centralized to me!