my time at a money startup (debit cards) i pushed to legal and security people to change their behaviour from "how can we prevent this" to "how can we enable this - while still staying with the legal and security framework" worked good after months of hard work and day long meetings.
then the heads changed and we were back to square one.
but for a moment it was glorious of what was possible.
It's a cultural thing. I loved working at Google because the ethos was "you can do that, and i'll even help you, but have you considered $reason why your idea is stupid/isn't going to work?"
I found the development of my Triclock[1] interesting. Stayed in Show HN for 3 days, never reached the frontpage, 65 upvotes. So a popular 3 day evergreen. All other of my Show HN were Crash & Burn or Burn & Shine
Yeah Show HN has a pretty interesting distribution compared to standard posts due to the long-term visibility on the Show page. The odds of a Show HN post breaking 10 points is significantly higher than an average post, but of the posts that clear 10 points, I recall the likelihood of breaking 100 points to be similar to a regular post.
As a sidenote: That clock is so cool: I was just mesmerized for multiple minutes!
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