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Value = doing things that other people don't do, won't do or can't do.

"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve" — Elon Musk
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Service is high-touch result generation (building experience), product is low-touch result generation (scaling experience).
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In a world of infinite distraction, focus is the only path to freedom.
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Sell time to buy experience, sell experience to buy time.

“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.” — Warren Buffett
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Use free time to build systems that free up time.

"Let systems run the business and people run the systems." — Michael Gerber
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You can't get good unless you get going.

“Failure is success in progress.” — Albert Einstein
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Make media work for you.

Write, record, design, edit once, publish twice.
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Build once, sell twice.

"Software is eating the world." — Marc Andreessen

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First, that time when an AWS employee posted confidential AWS customer information including including AWS access keys for those customer accounts to


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Amazon launched their bug bounty, but specifically excluded AWS, which has no bug bounty.


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forgive my indulgence but 2020's been a big year for @shmuplations, so here's a look back at everything that went up over the last twelve months—there's a lot of stuff I'm sure you all read & other things you'd be forgiven for missing, so let's recap (thread)

the year kicked off with shmuplations' first big video project: a subtitled translation of a 2016 NHK documentary on the 30th anniversary of Dragon Quest which features interviews with Yuji Horii, Koichi Nakamura, Akira Toriyama, and Koichi Sugiyama
https://t.co/JCWA15RTlx


following DQ30 was one of the most popular articles of the year: an assortment of interviews with composers Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima concerning the music of Streets of Rage 1, 2 & 3 https://t.co/QUtyC9W12Z their comments on SoR3 in particular were full of gems


Game Designers: The Next Generation profiled six potential successors to the likes of Shigeru Miyamoto & Hironobu Sakaguchi, some of who you may recognise: Kazuma Kaneko, Takeshi Miyaji (1966-2011), Noboru Harada, Kan Naitou, Takashi Tokita & Ryoji Amano https://t.co/lWZU3PLvwX


from the 2010 Akumajou Dracula Best Music Collections Box, a subbed video feature on long-time Castlevania composer Michiru Yamane https://t.co/NMJe4ROozR sadly, Chiruru has since passed; Yamane wrote these albums in his honor

https://t.co/orlgPTDsKK

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