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I think that there are remedies to overcome your situation.

First of all try to remove the source of distraction and force yourself to take only one thing at a time. Open a webpage and read it entirely, read a book from start to finish (not necessary in a single day), try to work on your tasks without background music or podcast. Eliminating the distraction usually improve productivity.

Second try meditation. You can think that is a "radical chic" rubbish, but it really works. Start reading "Zen and Japanese Culture" and "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" and try to practice meditation, maybe with the help of an expert. You will see an improvement on focus and clear thinking.

Third, take time off your pc. If you understand that most of what you doing in front of the PC is not valuable, just close it and go out, or read a book, practice sport, cook, etc. Learn to recognise when you're waisting time and do something else. Try to make time at the pc more valuable. Use it for coding and research, not much more.

Improvements take time and consistency. We're used to get everything fast, but your cannot buy self-improvement in a course or a book. So start with basic steps and stop complaining.


Thanks! Checked every single link. And let me say that I was thinking using something like price-unlock in the future. I hope to see some updates on the project


So magicbell is a dropdown displayed with an API? $99 /month for 2000 users? I don't understand what problem is trying to solve your startup. To me it seems that you're trying to sell a library more than a service.


It sounds really simple to do, but we literally spent a month or two implementing a notification inbox, browser push notifications, granular settings and permissions, etc at Spectrum. Even with all that work it was still relatively buggy!

I'm very glad MagicBell is tackling this — I never want to build another notification system myself, I'd much rather pay them to solve this problem for me!


push notifications and state management across devices is a very hard problem, try doing this yourself.

I am glad that something like magicbell exists.


It certainly looks deceptively simple. Once you factor in real-time updates with multi-device sync, things start to get challenging pretty fast. Also, that's 2,000 monthly active users. Happy to discuss on twitter @unamashana


I feel jealousy in your words. Tesla is a cool electric car. That's it. Everyone else is still producing using fossil fuel cars but the trend is going in different directions (for a very good reason). So I genuinely can’t understand what is the problem with Tesla. I just hope other car companies stop selling their ass to the fuel moguls. P.S. I'm not a Tesla owner or a Elon toady


Yes, is better not thinking that much and fill all your free time with podcast, audiobooks and email subscription. So someone else will do the work for you


"built in Nigeria" is a pro or a cons?


Neither. It is just a rarity.


I read it and thought Nigeria was a new language


Wow, that's reminds me of Her (Spike Jonze)


You know what are the main elements of an electric car? Battery and electric motor. Dyson uses them in every product. So it's in the business more that you think. And another great skill of dyson is the design. And the CEO is one of the most famous in the world. So battery, motor and design makes a good electric car. At least in theory...


Not even close. A car is way much more than a motor and 4 wheels, specially in 2019. You need suspension, aerodynamics, an infotaiment system, seats, air conditioning, doors (dont understimate this one), a music playback system, a good display for the driver... And this in a cabin that can confort people from temperatures and noise from the outside. Making a decent car in incredibly difficult. + Safety features required for the current standards.


Dyson uses batteries but doesn't manufacture batteries. They've been researching the hell out of batteries but they don't manufacture batteries and they sure don't manufacture batteries at scale. Contrast with the Tesla gigafactory which cost $5B.

Dyson may have had something with their digital motor. It's hard to say whether that is an advantage let alone a competitive advantage. But at this point they should license that to one of the other EV players.


Comparing the battery & motor in a vacuum cleaner and a car is ridiculous.

Dyson is famous for tiny high RPM motors which are cool but irrelevant in a car (?), and the battery in it's latest vacuum has 7 cells - my Tesla has over 7000.


AWS and Atlassian


When he fails the performance review with a bad vote. Probably he doesn't work at an high level or he has some relationship problem that makes difficult for him to work in a good team.


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