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I too once thought "Why don't girls like me for who I am, why do I have to dress nice and make myself presentable, this is just a façade and I want them to love me for who I am inside", but then I grew up and understood that appearances matter and there's no point in fighting people's feelings. You might say "don't worry buddy, my startup is really good and effective, don't mind the messy styling and presentation" but why place that hurdle on your business when just a tiny bit of effort can make a big difference.

There's no need to be pixel perfect, but some eye for colors and proportions goes a long way, just like there's no need to perfectly groom every single hair, but a nice shave and deodorant go a long way.





Do you have that bookmarked, or just really good at searching?


For that I had the quote saved to a text file of comments, with the link.

If it were something like a web page which I found worthwhile it'd be saved as a MHTML, categorized and with notes in the filename for quick searching via Everything. I don't use bookmarks for anything except regularly accessed pages.

20 years ago there was an article[1] that argued anything worth sharing was worth saving, on the benefit of keeping a copy of content locally vs linking/bookmarking (which is prone to link rot). Ironically that site itself no longer exists.

> If you want your links to be worth anything in two, three, or five years, download all the pages you're linking to to your hard disk.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030207224216/http://www.j-brad...


> For that I had the quote saved to a text file of comments, with the link.

Now I'm curious about seeing what else is in that file :-)


Plus a quick shower once or twice a week


Wow that’s really wanting to make a good impression.


or daily depending on the climate ;)




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