There's also an interesting article in The Atlantic regarding the "endless stream" of news. Alexis C. Madrigal makes a very interesting point regarding the stock (what stays) and the flow (what keeps you entertained rather than informed).

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/2013-t...

Bouldering and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu are great pass times for that. Not only to blow off some steam, but also it's possible to easily get in great shape if you hate running/gym as I do.

Citation? I've seen a lot of studies saying intermittent fasting might not help bodyfat loss as much as you'd hope; but no studies saying it increases cancer risk.

I guess someone has to bring it up, but a digital design school is not a startup.

Care to explain why this is not a startup?

Because it's not scalable (yet).

For their startup to increase revenue to 100x or make $7M in revenue, their efforts/time put in/costs would need to be 50x-100x higher. For it to be a startup, at this scale their efforts should only be 2x-3x higher.

In other words, if they can't get to $10M in rev with 20 people or less, it's just not scalable and right now it looks like they need several hundred tutors, program coordinators etc. to do so.

For it to become scalable they have to do something like this https://onemonthrails.com/ for design. ;)

Does a startup need to be scalable on day one? Would you consider Nintendo a scalable company? They started selling cards in the beginning - which isn't very "scalable" in your mind. Would you consider Samsung a scalable high-tech company? They started as a trading company and diversified into textiles, insurance, securities and retail before also adding electronics.

Or to use a more relevant example 37signals, their humble beginnings was a design studio which then had a string of unsuccessful products such as the usability report before finally hitting it big with BaseCamp.

Lots of retail based businesses are highly scalable through a franchise model. If they can nail down the playbook - they can license that and repeat with new locations.

They don't use it because NSA monitors it

Thanks for this. As someone thinking about doing the similar, I was very happy to hear about someone else's story. Keep up!

Face it or not, a great deal of programmers have no idea of how to market a product or even have the will to deal with sales, finances and etc. This all thing of "I'm a programmer and I'm much more worth than you" is an attitude that won't get anyone anywhere. A good product sells itself, but this is 1% of the cases yo.

Advertisement in my phone's background? Thanks, but no thanks