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What It’s Really Like Being a New Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur's Handbook

plaintext emails outperforms marketing templates, complexity kills engagement). I’m getting better at policing myself. I also no longer have the luxury of huge traffic to experiment on. It’s been replaced by faster decision-making based on intuition from my PM days (e.g., Would I want to do this again?”

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Short URLs: why and how

Derek Sivers

If I can remember “ /plaintext ” easier than “ /pt ”, then that’s a better choice. Using 36 characters (a-z and 0-9): 2-character URLs give me 1296 (36²) unique combinations. 3-character URLs give me 46,656 (36³) unique combinations. 4-character URLs give me 1,679,616 (36?) unique combinations. I don’t need more than that.

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Maker of ‘smart’ chastity cage left users’ emails, passwords, and locations exposed

TechCrunch

A company that makes a chastity device for people with a penis that can be controlled by a partner over the internet exposed users’ email addresses, plaintext passwords, home addresses and IP addresses, and — in some cases — GPS coordinates, due to several flaws in its servers, according to a security researcher. The researcher, […]

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