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Re: Square Pitch Deck | PitchDeckHunt

Bryan Landers — Wed, 27 May 2020 16:18:22 -0000

Heads up, founders - this is not an official Square deck. It's a contest entry from UC Berkeley students.

I wrote about it here:
https://medium.com/@Bryan Landers /the-case-of-the-fake-square-pitch-deck-8315ab862f29

Re: 1 Million Zapier Users: Apps, Zaps, Tasks and the Future of Work

Bryan Landers — Thu, 05 May 2016 12:39:13 -0000

Hooray! Congrats on the huge milestone and thanks for sharing such excellent details, case studies, and ideas in this post. Very well done all around. I even love team's signatures at the bottom (like the team signatures inside the case of the first Macintosh computer!)

Keep up the great work! 👉 To the FUTURE!

Re: 12 Podcasts Every Entrepreneur Should Be Listening To

Bryan Landers — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:55:07 -0000

So honored to be included in this excellent list. Thanks! If you give Mission & Values a listen, let me know what you think!

I love these podcasts - solid. In case anyone wants some bonus recommendations, here are some other top entrepreneur podcasts I'd throw into the mix...

The Twenty Minute VC (awesome interviews with notable investors):
https://itunes.apple.com/us...

The Rocketship.fm Podcast:
http://rocketship.fm/

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders By Stanford eCorner:
http://ecorner.stanford.edu...

From Scratch:
http://www.fromscratchradio...

Dorm Room Tycoon:
http://drt.fm/

Stuff by Justin Jackson:
https://justinjackson.ca/po...

Re: 4 Ways to Hire Employees Who Mesh With Your Company Culture

Bryan Landers — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 12:17:38 -0000

Very reasonable tips!

If you're curious to hear more about Zapier's culture and hiring process, I just interviewed the CEO/Co-founder mentioned in point #1 in this article in Episode 1 of the Mission & Values podcast. He talks about how their core values help assess culture fit during hiring as well as the impact of being a 100% distributed/remote team.

http://missionandvalues.co/...

Re: Slowing down to speed up

Bryan Landers — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:28:37 -0000

Good post! Interesting and diverse examples. Facebook had embraced that slogan so much, it was definitely awkward to modify it; clearly the change was that important.

Re: Bryan Landers | Google Script for Migrating Otherinbox Defender Email Addresses in Gmail

Bryan Landers — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 15:01:28 -0000

Ok - merged in (manually because it's a gist!) your updates and added some other handling. Thanks again for your input! https://gist.github.com/bry...

Re: Bryan Landers | Google Script for Migrating Otherinbox Defender Email Addresses in Gmail

Bryan Landers — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 11:42:31 -0000

Very cool! Thanks, Clive. Open source FTW! I'll give it a try and update my post if it works. Cheers :)

Re: Bryan Landers | Google Script for Migrating Otherinbox Defender Email Addresses in Gmail

Bryan Landers — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:18:11 -0000

Yeah, mostly I'm moving to my primary gmail because it's so easy manage things in there (good spam protection, easy to filter, etc.)

I'm doing the "+" trick for a few of those (ex.: username+oib_email_name@gmail.com) like multiple Twitter accounts I maintain.

https://support.google.com/...

Then for ones I trust less, I'm using an older email I check less frequently.

Re: Bryan Landers | Google Script for Migrating Otherinbox Defender Email Addresses in Gmail

Bryan Landers — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:16:57 -0000

Thanks, Ted! Really glad to hear it helped.

I feel your pain - I've been slowly working my way through the spreadsheet marking them as "Changed", "Unsubscribed", and "Not needed" as I go.

There are definitely some that are clearly more important (active app accounts vs newsletter subscriptions). I'd mark off the crucial ones you have and knock those out first when you get spare moments.

At least for me there's been no way to automate updating my email address everywhere, so it's just a bit of a slog. Let me know if you think of any clever tricks!

Re: Bryan Landers | Google Script for Migrating Otherinbox Defender Email Addresses in Gmail

Bryan Landers — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 23:36:06 -0000

Thanks for reading! I think you have it right about needing to login to Google Docs with the account you need to get OIB emails from. Can you open a new incognito window in Chrome (or use a different browser where you're not logged into your main Gmail address), log into the desired Google Apps or Gmail account you want to get a list of emails out of and then open Google Drive from that window? Any Google Apps or Gmail email should allow each user to login, so I think that could work for you.

Re: Three weeks ago there was an excellent interview... | Wade Foster

Bryan Landers — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:41:36 -0000

Aren't there more blue collar workers that do a job they don't like to provide security for their family? I don't doubt there are some who do like their job, employer and company's mission (your TV show example proves that), but is that an atypical blue collar employee? This doesn't effect anything about your points, since an exceptional worker could fit your requirements, I'm just curious about your take on it.

Re: Sock Bankruptcy

Bryan Landers — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 01:51:00 -0000

Speaking of entrepreneurship and socks (?), I noticed two people recently who were rocking some styling socks during interviews: Seth Godin had a cool pair of bright, multi-colored, medium-sized striped ones; and Chris Dixon had a wonderful solid, bright green pair. Lesson: bold people wear bold socks.

Re: Sock Bankruptcy

Bryan Landers — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:57:09 -0000

I have denial about harder-to-find patterned socks that I really like. I put them on, notice they have giant holes in the bottom, take them off and put them back in the drawer, and then pretend like nothing happened.

Re: Behavior by Design Video

Bryan Landers — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:34:22 -0000

Great talk - short and simple, but full of useful ideas. You're an excellent speaker, Nir. I caught this on HN - looked like it made the frontpage for a sec and then fell off. Not sure why it didn't spark more conversation... Thanks so much for sharing the video (and the slides on scribd.) I'm looking forward to checking out more of your posts!

Re: Spread Some Love! Make Your Own Beautiful E-Cards With Card Karma

Bryan Landers — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:33:40 -0000

What an amazing post! Thanks so much for this wonderful tour of Card Karma. I’m thrilled to hear you enjoyed it and I hope your readers give it a try, too.

I absolutely plan to keep things as simple as possible and the current features offered for free will always be free.

I made the site because it was something I wished existed for years while using other ecard sites where I was forced to pick from a bunch of creepy Flash animations that didn’t capture the sentiment of my message! As you said, there are millions of amazing Flickr images and Youtube videos out there, so why not make use of those in our ecards, right?

Also, I wanted people to be able to try out the service without having to sign up for an account. So, on Card Karma, creating an account is optional if you’d like to keep all the ecards you’ve made handy for future use or to share on your profile.

The holiday season is here, so come back anytime to make and share creative ecards. Happy Holidays to MakeUseOf!

Bryan
Creator of Card Karma

Re: http://estherbester.tumblr.com/post/8342400478

Bryan Landers — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:13:39 -0000

hmm, so what's the width of this column? the new card dimensions are designed to fit in the standard 500px wide tumblr column...but this must be smaller? this is why i really need to have images created for embedding the photo ecards...erfff :P

also, you caught a bug! i forgot to update the iframe embed code dimensions. i've updated it on the site...it's supposed to be: height="340" width="500" (sorry!)

Re: bryan landers - musician, hacker, under-designer, creator of card karma

Bryan Landers — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:38:57 -0000

Thanks! I'll pass that along :)

Re: A Social Media Valentine’s Day

Bryan Landers — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:27:13 -0000

Don't forget about Valentine's Day ecards!

Come to http://cardkarma.com and make cards with your own image, Flickr photos, and Youtube videos that you can post to your sweetheart's Facebook wall, tweet on Twitter, stumble on Stumbleupon...you get the idea. Social media style ;)

Re: Our World, Slowed Down 100 Times [VIDEO]

Bryan Landers — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:45:37 -0000

My favorite is the slow-motion cat, seen in ecard format here: http://kr.ma/zL

Re: One is the Loneliest Pancake You'll Ever Make From Scratch

Bryan Landers — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:51:57 -0000

Groovy. Now that we've got that covered, how about doing one on how to make those insanely delicious Danish pancakes they have at Paula's in Solvang, CA? Thin, not too heavy...some magic shit in there like cardamom or something. If you have to take a field trip to accept this challenge, it will be worth it. Oh, and if the waitress says, "yes, we have a pancake mix," remember, it's NOT the same as the pancakes they serve there. Fool me can't get fooled again. Carry on...love, Bryan.

Re: http://www.ethanbauley.com/post/1309720716

Bryan Landers — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:00:37 -0000

our scene opens with ethan stopped in his lowrider on the side of the 280: "but snoop dogg is an incredible entrepreneur, officer..."

Re: Six Weeks to Determine if I'm Bumpkin or Metrosexual

Bryan Landers — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:31:52 -0000

so with you on this. i grew up in uber-rural new hampshire and i'm feeling ready to move out of LA. but, we don't want to move somewhere too isolated because even though we can make our own espresso, we feel like having some sort of art/music scene and good restaurants nearish is a factor of our lifestyle we're unwilling to part with. i'm worried about the summer heat in portland, the rain in seattle, and the cost of living in the bay area (palo alto, etc). maybe this is the american artist's dilemma? country cabin or city loft? high-cost convenience or low-cost solitude? dare i even broach the subject of roots and family and "settling down"? i wish i had answers for you (and me), but the only one i've come up with for myself is: just keep going!

Re: NASA Puts Historic Image Collections on Flickr

Bryan Landers — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:25:55 -0000

The photos are exciting and this means that we'll all be able to use these images in web apps and mashups that use creative commons-licensed images. I'm going to be using them in ecards like this http://kr.ma/5b and the ones shown here http://post.ly/udb2 I look forward to seeing what other people come up with to inspire and challenge mankind. Creative commons FTW!

Re: Social Thinking...

Bryan Landers — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:56:15 -0000

alright, alright, i hear you. stop bitching about the glossy display ;) i guess i just feel like there's some chance that no one's saying it out loud and actually everyone hates them, and my comment will open the flood gates. i'll keep dreaming.

Re: Backstory on the Umair Haque hang, plus: why social media is underhyped

Bryan Landers — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:29:41 -0000

It seems to me you can break down a culture, which on it's own is a dynamic, living thing, into 2 useful divisions: what it is and has been up until now, and what it will become. For integrating new members into a culture (I'm thinking of Joss Whedon show fans as well as Ethan's new employer, HP) you have schema (the Kantian version, I think it is), which is the knowledge that the newcomer is assumed to share with others in the culture, and the knowledge base shared by the existing members. Regarding schema, that's more about hiring and assessing cultural fit and aligned needs, and I'm sure there are tools and advice for that (I don't have much experience there). But, the knowledge base part is where you can find a lot of the tools you were expressing interest in discussing.

If the culture is exclusive, inner-culture knowledge will be actively kept hidden from the new member (or it can become part of an initiation test to seek and discover the inside jokes, ideas, and concepts within the culture). If it's inclusive, there are some great tools that can be used to aid in catching up with the shared history and experience of the culture to date. Wikis, previous blog and microblog posts, and news coverage are all places where info can be gleaned; developers are familiar with documentation as a means of communicating not only the specific items that are central to interaction, but also guidelines on etiquette and best practices to ensure a cohesive end-result, both socially and in terms of products (as opposed to a bunch of chaos...or something like YouTube comments). Some things don't document very well, like your example of stereotypes, and those seem to be almost exclusively communicated verbally and in-person (oh, our great oral traditions!), although I suppose some of that leaks into tweets and such.

I would look to fan bases for examples of organically scaled culture (I got to witness a couple of Grateful Dead shows years back, and, man, those folks know how to scale a culture!)