Clearly you've never been to the Starbucks at Slauson and La Tierja in LA. There are guys there who set up everything but their nameplate and a picture of their family on their table.
Six hours a day, six days a week, for six years? Golf can take it's toll on the wrists, forearms, shoulders, lower back, and knees. I predict he'll give up due to overuse injuries long before he reaches 10,000 hours.
If you read Dan's blog, you'll see that he has a physical therapist coaching him. His team of advisors have a good plan and it seems to me that avoiding injury is a big part of that plan. For example, Dan currently is not using any big clubs - the largest a chipping wedge. If his spends most of his practice time near the green how is going to injure his shoulders, lower back or knees?
In a recent blog post Dan mentions that his physical therapist will prescribe a certain weight lifting program to strengthen his muscles enough to achieve the driver head speed that his golf coach plans that he should achieve.
I suppose that today's golf pros, those actually on the tour, have each put in those thousands and thousands of hours of practice, regardless of whatever athletic gifts they received at birth. So are injuries the reason most near-pros never make the tour? That would be the case if your point is true. I think that they don't make the tour because it is simply too much effort and dedication to put in all those hours of practice.
And that's the wonderful thing about Dan's challenge. If valid, it means that any of us may achieve outstanding results if we put in the hours required to gain the expertise. Golf, in this regard, is a model for any skill we need to satisfy our aspirations.
Admittedly, I didn't log in and actually try your site but from the looks of the landing page, why couldn't I just march down my timeline and essentially do the same thing? Where's the added value? Also, I can't see ever paying to use this. Sorry if I sound harsh...
Thanks for your feedback. We felt like the value added features are the convenience that the app affords e.g no scrolling, and the decision to follow or unfollow is done with just one click. We also provide information to help you make your decision such as the average tweets per day that the person makes. As for money this is mostly just for fun to build something that people might find useful and cool :)
Frankly, I'd be _extremely_ happy if they just changed the damned Finder so that I can right-click a folder and create a new folder within it instead of placing it alphabetically so that I have to go find it and drag the new folder into the folder I want it in.
My wife, who hires people, complains about this point all the time. Unless you've been a serial entrepreneur since age 10, keep your resume to one page. You're too young to have a resume longer than a page.
And if it does not fit, don't reduce whitespace. A light two page layout is better than a dense one pager. And cutting the less interesting parts to get down to one page should be even better.
You probably know this already.. but #1 advice for someone your age, I find, is: don't list "reading" or "swimming" (etc) as an interest to fill space :)
