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Re: It’s Time to Stop Drifting and Design the Life You Want

Dale Larson — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 23:21:07 -0000

Loved the first chapter, looking forward to the rest...

Re: 5 Ways Mindful Eating Can Help You Lose Weight

Dale Larson — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:00:31 -0000

Great post, thanks! I wish MyFitnessPal included more support for mindful eating instead of forcing us down the path of calorie counting. (Don't get me wrong, I love how much MyFitnessPal supported me dropping a lot of fat, but I want it to keep being useful as I learn even more about healthy and mindful eating.)

It'd be wonderful to include what time I eat and how long I take to eat each meal, as well as to record a 1-10 for how hungry I am before the meal and a 1-10 for how full I am after. These seem like super simple additions that would help a lot of folks.

Hand in hand with that, I'd also love an optional mode where I could free form enter food notes (without worrying about exact portions and ingredients) because when I cook more and eat more whole foods its a hassle otherwise. Ironically, if you eat more mindfully with fewer processed foods, MyFitnessPal gets harder to use!

Re: The Power of Passion When Starting Your Company

Dale Larson — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 07:51:08 -0000

Brad, I love that you asked them questions the way a coach would, to clarify for themselves which idea actually resonated for them and they had passion for. That it also made you want to invest is a nice bonus!

Re: SXSW 2012 - Naked Business - Honesty works

Dale Larson — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:08:13 -0000

Sounds like you're really talking about being vulnerable as well as honest -- an important strategy in building any relationships, be they with peers, employees, investors or customers. I look forward to attending!

Re: SXSW 2012 - Startup Breakthrough: Speed Coaching for Founders

Dale Larson — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:51:16 -0000

Thanks for your support, Cherie!

Re: SXSW 2012 - Startup Breakthrough: Speed Coaching for Founders

Dale Larson — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:50:41 -0000

Great, will be awesome to see you there, Paul. How important do you think coaching is for entrepreneurs?

Re: Rumor: iPhone 5 To Have A Larger, 4-Inch Screen?

Dale Larson — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:39:54 -0000

This would be my guess, too: no more hardware home button and a phone that is similar in size with more screen.

Re: The 4 Hour (Vegan) Body - by Tim Ferris | HappyHerbivore.com

Dale Larson — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:13:11 -0000

As a lacto-ovo vegetarian, I appreciate your review, and would add that I wished there were more of a simple meal plan available for us, perhaps one in vegan and one in vegetarian. I look forward to hearing the result of your experiment (and seeing your menu!).

Given the severe limitations of the Slow Carb diet, if I wanted to try a 14 or 28 day experiment, I'm still left with a lot of work to derive actual meals that fit, and a fair bit of uncertainty. As I read the text, it not only seems unclear about confusing vegetarian vs. vegan, but unclear about whether the plant based diet examples are actually intended to be slow carb, or are just examples of vegetarian or vegan athletes (who eat a lot of grains).

To do vegetarian true slow carb (as described in the front of the book) seems like it would be unsustainably limiting and nearly impossible to eat out. At home, it would help to have protein powder, and perhaps products like Quorn with protein from a source other than soy. (I love the taste of Quorn, does anyone have a good sense for whether it actually gives the dietary "benefits" of meat without risks or animals in it?).

Re: The Smartphone Explosion

Dale Larson — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:00:40 -0000

Do you think the Mac App Store will be a similar aberration and that all software is meant to be free? Or is there perhaps a place for some paid applications on the desktop and web?

Re: Who can build your iPhone app?

Dale Larson — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:38:07 -0000

ReadWriteWeb posted a roundup of thirty mobile app builder DIY tools, hopefully they'll add more information about each: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mo...

Re: Win dinner with Fail Whale creator and Walls360.com co-founder Yiying Lu

Dale Larson — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:38:01 -0000

DocPop, we wish you'd been here to be stuck in the elevator with us for an hour between dinner and the art show -- it was a night filled with excitement! We'll have to have you and Unwoman over another time, and are looking forward to it!

Re: Is the tech press needed anymore? (how Apple iPhone apps take off now)

Dale Larson — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:39:38 -0000

Major press hits usually don't even measure a bump in app downloads since the store on the device (not the web) drives most. Press is stil important to creating overall awareness, and it may be influential in helping Apple figure out what to feature as well as helping to drive the biz dev (for app cross-promotion, sponsorships, etc.) that also help with downloads. There are a few examples of wildly successful iOS apps never featured by Apple, but even then, it's through brilliant iTunes marketing, taking advantage of the known features of the stores, that drives enough store traffic to make it work. Duplicating iTunes success is crucial to making a successful app ecosystem on other platforms: a single place all users go for discovery, download and payment on a given platform.

Re: Trouble for Social and Location Networks means Opportunity for new Startups

Dale Larson — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:35:17 -0000

Jon: So glad this post could serve as such a powerful reminder, I'd love to hear more details of what it means to you and how buUuk does/might tackle the problem. (And thanks again for coffee in Singapore a year ago!)

Re: The Creative Phase

Dale Larson — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:57:08 -0000

This also changes the importance of soft skills, perhaps more than anything else. Better communication and culture with strong interdisciplinary teams focused on the customer will win vs. the best "creative" or engineering organization that is wasting time working on the wrong problems or in internal battles. The question to ask is not are we and engineering-driven org or a creative-driven one (or any other single discipline).

Re: The Creative Phase

Dale Larson — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:23:46 -0000

Great thought to point out that every problem used to be technically hard, and startups used to be more about engineering. In a more mature industry, engineering is what you do when you have a stable product that has to scale. Many startups now are more about defining, differentiating and marketing product than about engineering them. The focus now is on the customer first rather than the tech first.

Re: With Their Carrier-Crippling SIM, Can Apple Do What Google Chickened Out Of?

Dale Larson — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:49:58 -0000

When iPhone first launched, I was wildly excited about how much it changed the horrible experience of buying and activating a new mobile handset.

When the App Store launched, I was wildly excited about how it would revolutionize the ability of developers to put software into consumer's hands. The industry had been crippled from the beginning, and the degree to which we've forgotten how bad it was is evidenced by how much we complain about the "closed" nature of the app store.

Getting carrier subsidies and lockins out of the picture the way you described with Google's original plan is probably their best hope. Ironic that the biggest challenges Android faces are probably driven more by prioritizing carrier and manufacturer needs over consumer experience.

It's interesting to consider: would Apple get a bigger lead by makin that move first, or would it pave the way for Google to free itself from shackles that are currently holding it back.

Re: Dear Foursquare: You just don’t understand my feelings anymore

Dale Larson — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:01:31 -0000

Robert's latest post mentions a couple of these issues in an interesting context: http://scobleizer.com/2010/...

Re: Failcon Privacy Panel topic: why are location services ignoring these guys?

Dale Larson — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:54:31 -0000

Issues 1, 2, and 3 led me to break up with Foursquare a couple of weeks ago. Well, at least to take a break for a while... Here's my breakup note to them: http://dalelarson.com/2010/...

How do you think they can really fix these issues?

Re: Mac App Store: It’s Coming This Winter

Dale Larson — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:21:15 -0000

Christina, I just can't understand why it took them so long to get around to it! I fully expected it to be part of the announcement for the first MacBook Air: http://dalelarson.com/2008/...

Re: Jobs announces Mac App Store?

Dale Larson — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:36:09 -0000

It's about time! It's been too long that most software has to be a web page. The new announcement from Apple today, in Dave Morin's words is "the best thing to happen to desktop software in 20 years."

For all the positive growth and change brought by the web, it has also cut off many possibile motivations to develop software and ways to get it into users hands. Thank goodness developers can once again sell their work directly ratehr than selling ad space and subscriptions. The OS X App Store may have as much impact on desktop software as iPhone has had on mobile software.

Re: Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg Talked Ping Over Dinner

Dale Larson — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:54:13 -0000

Job's style and Apple's culture is exactly the opposite of key things you want to create in Social Media-positive organizations (open, transparent). Simply integrating particularly well with Facebook would be the least painful way for them to make the most progress. But how would Facebook gain from all this value going to Apple? It's little surprise that they might ask a lot in return. It's challenging for Apple to sufficiently grasp what they're missing in social and what it will take for them to bridge that gap, and what they're leaving on the table by failing to do so.

Re: What comes after The Social Network?

Dale Larson — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:59:20 -0000

http://www.scribd.com/doc/538697/Mark-Zuckerbergs-Online-Diary

http://www.fastcompany.com/1693257/the-social-network-facebook-mark-zuckerberg

Sorkin responds on the issue of misogyny in The Social Network: http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/10/aaron-sorkin-responds-to-commenter-in.html

Re: What comes after The Social Network?

Dale Larson — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:42:15 -0000

http://larrycheng.com/2009/... is really interesting as a first-hand personal account.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/... Trent seems to agree with the idea that someone could easily execute on a better Facebook. The network effect that got us here could just as easily get us elsewhere...

Re: Dear Foursquare: You just don’t understand my feelings anymore

Dale Larson — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:53:14 -0000

Thanks, Laura. I'd love to hear your ideas to make it more relevant -- I think how social networks deal with context and groups and the real depth of our connections (as opposed to the binary friend/follow or not) is the biggest challenge they all face. But if your app or startup that is going to solve this, then maybe what I really want to hear is your pitch!

Re: Canon SX30IS: test shots of the Blue Angels at Fleet Week San Francisco 2010

Dale Larson — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:19:12 -0000

Thanks, Robert, glad you liked them!