It gets cold at 4pm.

Building Customer Driven SaaS Products | Jason Evanish

I moved to San Francisco 9 months ago from the East Coast bastion of Boston. Despite having experience living in a major US city, I found quite a few surprises coming here.  Some have been great, while others not so much.

If you’re planning the move here, I hope this will help you know better what to expect. And if you already live in SF, this should give you a laugh or two and hopefully inspire you to leave a comment with anything I missed. Consider this the guide I wish someone had given me when I moved here.

On the east coast I got used to it staying warm on a nice day til 10pm. If it was 70 degrees in the morning, you could rest assured that the temperature would be about 70 when you left work that night.  That is not the…

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Repeat Patterns of Success

I cannot take credit for the genesis of this thought (ht Doug Evans).  However, it’s worth talking about.  When it comes to business goals, why would the United States possibly want to emulate China and not Germany?  Do you want millions of poverty like wages for your population?  Or, would you like very high paying jobs for millions of people based on high skilled labor that is adapting to the manufacturing realities in this decade?   Similarly, who in their right mind wants to be in Beijing right now?  Certainly the government cannot expect its people to endure this kind of suffocating air quality, no matter what they say about the business outlook. 

Repeat patterns of success.  Discard those ideas that have proven to be unsuccessful and you will be able to focus on the truly innovative ideas that can get millions of people in the USA with good wages and a good environment.