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Garry Tan
garry.posterous.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Garry Tan, a founder who later joined Y Combinator, wrote about startups, product design, and Posterous.
What HN saysHN links it for his startup advice and the Startup Library PDF; commenters also discuss his post on Google Circles.
38HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
51stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Google Circles is high work and low return2 people · 103 points · first shared 2011 · 107 comments on HN
- 2The Startup Library - 613 page downloadable PDF2 people · 4 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 3How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997)1 people · 244 points · first shared 2011 · 65 comments on HN
- 4Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC1 people · 201 points · first shared 2011 · 34 comments on HN
- 5If you can't remember why onions are in there, take 'em out.1 people · 151 points · first shared 2011 · 59 comments on HN
- 6Paul Graham and Y Combinator are on the cover of June's Inc Magazine1 people · 113 points · first shared 2009 · 38 comments on HN
- 7Super last minute advice for startups applying for Y Combinator1 people · 74 points · first shared 2009 · 32 comments on HN
- 8If you own the infrastructure you get to charge rent1 people · 70 points · first shared 2011 · 45 comments on HN
- 9Hamachi: A billion-dollar tech revolution that can still happen if you build it.1 people · 59 points · first shared 2010 · 17 comments on HN
- 10Why the new task UI in Taskrabbit has great behavioral design1 people · 55 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11When a few hundred lines of javascript could equal $100 MM1 people · 53 points · first shared 2012 · 33 comments on HN
- 12Practicing Product Minimalism1 people · 52 points · first shared 2009 · 19 comments on HN
- 13How a train ride helped Mixpanel get into YC1 people · 42 points · first shared 2012 · 10 comments on HN
- 14You don't really need those features... yet.1 people · 37 points · first shared 2009 · 7 comments on HN
- 15Photos of all the Speakers from YC Startup School 2009 - Thanks YC1 people · 35 points · first shared 2009 · 7 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Terretta · 2011-10-04
> It's a matter of signaling/conspicuous consumption... it's already been in the market for, what, 16 months?
Counterpoint: Movado Museum Watch[1]. Latest fashion goes out of style. Great design becomes timeless[2] because it's not "simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value."[3]
1. http://www.amazon.com/Movado-606085-Museum-Black-Leather/dp/B001JJCPHW
2. http://garry.posterous.com/dieter-rams-his-first-braun-design-an-10-pr…
3. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8555503/Dieter-Rams-Apple-…
rantfoil · 2008-06-29
While we're sharing, here's mine. Add me, add me! =)
http://garry.posterous.com
dotBen · 2011-10-30
Must have been a policy change, it used to be IE only..
http://garry.posterous.com/matt-mullenweg-and-toni-schnei
JohnLBevan · 2011-07-12
Hey Alec,
Thanks for your thoughts - I see your point, though think the functionality could be made available without increasing complexity. Circles would work in exactly the same way as they do now; there would just be an extra button available to those who wanted to use it to bring up a security panel (similar to google docs sharing functionality). If the default for a circle is for it to be a private group (i.e. as it is now), users only need to ignore the "share this group button" to avoid any complexity.
It looks like a few other people are having similar thoughts, so opinion on this area's certainly split: http://garry.posterous.com/google-circles-is-high-work-and-low-return-…
Thanks again,
JB
anurag · 2009-12-30
swombat · 2009-04-15
Yes, absolutely. Googling for "luggage reviews" or "which luggage is best" yields only trash (try it, you'll see).
On the other hand, tweeting gave me the following links:
http://onebag.com/
http://geekeasy.com/travel/articles/Luggage_2.shtml
http://garry.posterous.com/muji-kicks-ass
http://wherethehellismatt.com/faq.shtml
And a variety of other tidbits of info, including some tweets from someone who runs a blog dedicated to location-independent life ( http://locationindependent.com/blog/ ):
http://skitch.com/swombat/bm4y1/twitter-swombat
That represents immediate, obvious value to me.