If you want people to do things, the way to make that a reality is to visualize them doing what you want them to do. Being mean to them might work up to a point, but it will only work up to a point.
If there are things you want people to do, the way to get them to do those things is to visualize them doing those things. Being mean to them might work up to a point, but it will only work up to a point.
If you want to have a perfect life, the way to achieve that is to visualize a perfect life.
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I just googled "Phoenix software development companies", and you were at the top of the list. A quick visit to your web site suggests possibly why. It's an attractive page.
I am looking for a software development partner. My plans are fairly involved, very much consumer facing web service type ideas which I'm not fully prepared to implement. I do have one urgent personal need, which I think I share with the millions, though I get the feeling I'm alone in my thinking about what that need is. I don't think implementation for my own personal use would be exceedingly difficult, at least at a basic level, but I also don't think it would be exceedingly easy.
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Of course I am aware that, for example, Facebook has been describing a business model in which they see video as being increasingly central importance, and that video is central to the business models of other prominent companies in the industry, but, though my information is quite limited, I get the feeling that none of them fully recognize its importance. I suppose this may sound like a ridiculous assertion, but I have had this feeling for some time, and I remain convinced it accurately reflects reality.
Of course it is true that very nearly everyone has some kind of video capture capability, and, as I've just described, I agree it is true that encouraging people to capture and share more video is a prominent theme in the industry, but I believe the plan I have hatched involves encouraging people to capture and share some substantial order of magnitude, orders of magnitude, more video than, let us say, anyone, even today, seems to think is reasonable. I can't say this with complete certainty because what I have heard and seen with regards to what others are doing impresses me as being, on the one hand, limited examples or experiments, as they seem to me - and this notwithstanding the prominence of some of the ventures - and, on the other hand, rather vague assertions as to video's importance. (You might ask me, with regard to the last statement, what kind of assertion I would make. I would say that video is of complete and paramount importance.) It seems to me there remains a certain hesitancy, even a distinct hesitancy, to encourage users to capture more than limited amounts of video. This is an accusation which perhaps will be vigorously denied. If so, I would need to respond with some measure of what is a "limited" amount. That would be a difficult task, but I could approach it by instead offering some measure of what an unlimited amount would be. It could be argued that an infinite amount would be a meaningless measure, due to what we could call resource constraints, but I would offer this as an alternative: that we ought to encourage users to capture as much video as they possibly can. To be clear, this is a metaphorical construct. As such, though, it reverses what seems to me to be the automatic question, which is "how much video can we allow people to stream to the cloud" and replaces it with "how much video can we get people to stream to the cloud."
The resources to which I refer, calling them constraints, are of two types. One, of course, is computing resources - memory, processing power, transmission capabilities - but I am inclined to think - admittedly based more on intuition than on any empirical insight - that these are the lesser concern. Be that as it may, I think I can say with certainty that the other matter is of great importance, namely, what would people do with all that video? This is a manifestation of the information overload paradigm, but that is a paradigm I view with a certain distinct skepticism. At any rate it seems to me that some strategic thinking will help to solve either of these problems.
I write to you as essentially nothing more than a thinker, and, based only on that, in the hope of forming a partnership with you. Due to certain personal quirks - among them rather extreme shyness, awkwardness, downright weirdness - I have essentially zero connections. As a partial consequence of that I know very nearly nothing about you, and have no real idea whether this approach would interest you at all. The position I'm in makes even having hopes probably inadvisable, though I'm not beyond thinking there is a possibility. Your web page suggests a creative approach and real competence. (I found it by googling "Phoenix software development companies". It was right at the top of the results.) (I live in Tempe.) Google linked me to your Custom Software Development page, and initially, for whatever reason, I thought you had a minimalistic - but very interesting looking - one page web site. Now, having "finished" this letter, I've been back to the site and visited some other pages. Nice looking group. Very out of my league, to be sure, especially in a social sense, though of course in a technical sense, too. I am literally slightly trembling at the prospect of having to meet with you. The way I feel, it rises to the level of a necessity, however absurd that might seem, to communicate with you via the written word to a considerable extent, and until we've established a quite well defined relationship. I know something's got to give, but I can only speculate about what. Would you be interested in developing a framework that could support many millions of user accounts, with each user streaming volumes of video to the cloud, requisite data archiving systems, and what, in the simplest sense, would be integrated video editing capabilities, and even hardware offerings? Beyond the purely technical aspects lie business related issues, which I think about quite a bit, but I would need to greatly rely on my partners to formulate a real plan. I see you are also in Tempe, by the lake. Sweet! Also that you are, it appears, heavily involved with streaming video. Go figure. I can go on at length about features, and, for that matter, about an approach to data, which is of my own invention, though I have no way of knowing whether it's unique, but perhaps it could be useful. Just thinking things over in the hour or so since I wrote the body of this, I think some of it might not be as complicated as I've made it sound.
I do want to say something about my technical abilities. They are very limited, but I have made what I think I can call a concerted effort, over a period of years, working in isolation - so, I suppose, self taught - to understand programming. This has never gotten me beyond what might be called basic JavaScript, in a practical sense, although I've successfully implemented what I think were some quite interesting demonstrations, using that - or, fairly unique ones, maybe. Well, though I don't know if this would be considered "beyond basic", I did find myself needing DOM methods for certain things, and made a study of them. I have read as widely as I could about computing generally, without learning much that I could actually use, but I might be fairly well familiarized with the terminology. I have also made it a point to work quite a bit with social media, again without producing any result that would on the face of it be meaningful to anyone, though I would add that I have produced a result here and there which was, shall we say, different, and possibly in a meaningful way. At any rate, I feel I have somewhat familiarized myself with that territory. A little CAD work. Finally, my most advanced reading has been some of Edsger Dijksta's work, and I take some pride in that. Well, I ought to add that I am quite interested in extending my knowledge.
In conclusion, and this was originally going to be a footnote to my claim to zero connections, and is also an addendum to my little list of personal quirks, though I do have essentially zero connections, I have for a long time, in what could be called a strange twist of fate, moved in business and technical circles, to the extent that I move in circles at all, and always to the utmost degree as a fly on the wall - and to, what is more, similarly annoying effect. This is partly just as a kind of habit, or inclination, but I have made, at intervals, efforts in this direction, and have on occasion, as a result, had the pleasure - or experience, at any rate, because the results have always been somewhat sour, though I would add that several of these people, no, most of them, have seemed quite lovely - of speaking with people in the professions. Certain of these efforts have been in the manner of sending a letter, and I have actually in the main a replies, even, though maybe never more than one, and on occasion been invited to visit. Also, I have occasionally bestirred myself to an event of one sort or another. But, too, on occasion I have simply met someone who was in business, at social occasions. My sad story is that, on several of those occasions, I have asked these people business questions, and certainly it seems from their expressions that this was a great faux pas - something I find rather baffling ... it seems to me to be something about me, rather than something about asking business questions, though I can't be sure. (What I am fairly certain of is that I'm giving you a full taste of that something about myself, here.) But there is a point to my story. I recently availed myself of such an opportunity, and asked a person who, what can I say, is very authentically an expert, what to do, and his quite annoyed answer (as it seemed to me) was nevertheless detailed (and thus rather generous) and at the same time very simple. He said I need to write a business plan, and with expert assistance. "Talk to a lawyer," he said. Well, that particular plan is beyond me, but as I described my proposal, earlier, I thought "How could they even consider something so involved? Where would we even start, if it came down to discussing it?" This idea of developing a business plan came to mind a little later as a perhaps reasonable answer, and so maybe that is what I am, at this stage, asking you, if you are inclined, to discuss with me.
I just googled "Phoenix software development companies", and you were at the top of the list. A quick visit to your web site suggests possibly why. It's an attractive page.
I am looking for a software development partner. My plans are fairly involved, very much consumer facing web service type ideas which I'm not fully prepared to implement. I do have one urgent personal need, which I think I share with the millions, though I get the feeling I'm alone in my thinking about what that need is. I don't think implementation for my own personal use would be exceedingly difficult, at least at a basic level, but I also don't think it would be exceedingly easy.
</some notes made before i figured out what maybe to do>
Of course I am aware that, for example, Facebook has been describing a business model in which they see video as being increasingly central importance, and that video is central to the business models of other prominent companies in the industry, but, though my information is quite limited, I get the feeling that none of them fully recognize its importance. I suppose this may sound like a ridiculous assertion, but I have had this feeling for some time, and I remain convinced it accurately reflects reality.
Of course it is true that very nearly everyone has some kind of video capture capability, and, as I've just described, I agree it is true that encouraging people to capture and share more video is a prominent theme in the industry, but I believe the plan I have hatched involves encouraging people to capture and share some substantial order of magnitude, orders of magnitude, more video than, let us say, anyone, even today, seems to think is reasonable. I can't say this with complete certainty because what I have heard and seen with regards to what others are doing impresses me as being, on the one hand, limited examples or experiments, as they seem to me - and this notwithstanding the prominence of some of the ventures - and, on the other hand, rather vague assertions as to video's importance. (You might ask me, with regard to the last statement, what kind of assertion I would make. I would say that video is of complete and paramount importance.) It seems to me there remains a certain hesitancy, even a distinct hesitancy, to encourage users to capture more than limited amounts of video. This is an accusation which perhaps will be vigorously denied. If so, I would need to respond with some measure of what is a "limited" amount. That would be a difficult task, but I could approach it by instead offering some measure of what an unlimited amount would be. It could be argued that an infinite amount would be a meaningless measure, due to what we could call resource constraints, but I would offer this as an alternative: that we ought to encourage users to capture as much video as they possibly can. To be clear, this is a metaphorical construct. As such, though, it reverses what seems to me to be the automatic question, which is "how much video can we allow people to stream to the cloud" and replaces it with "how much video can we get people to stream to the cloud."
The resources to which I refer, calling them constraints, are of two types. One, of course, is computing resources - memory, processing power, transmission capabilities - but I am inclined to think - admittedly based more on intuition than on any empirical insight - that these are the lesser concern. Be that as it may, I think I can say with certainty that the other matter is of great importance, namely, what would people do with all that video? This is a manifestation of the information overload paradigm, but that is a paradigm I view with a certain distinct skepticism. At any rate it seems to me that some strategic thinking will help to solve either of these problems.
I write to you as essentially nothing more than a thinker, and, based only on that, in the hope of forming a partnership with you. Due to certain personal quirks - among them rather extreme shyness, awkwardness, downright weirdness - I have essentially zero connections. As a partial consequence of that I know very nearly nothing about you, and have no real idea whether this approach would interest you at all. The position I'm in makes even having hopes probably inadvisable, though I'm not beyond thinking there is a possibility. Your web page suggests a creative approach and real competence. (I found it by googling "Phoenix software development companies". It was right at the top of the results.) (I live in Tempe.) Google linked me to your Custom Software Development page, and initially, for whatever reason, I thought you had a minimalistic - but very interesting looking - one page web site. Now, having "finished" this letter, I've been back to the site and visited some other pages. Nice looking group. Very out of my league, to be sure, especially in a social sense, though of course in a technical sense, too. I am literally slightly trembling at the prospect of having to meet with you. The way I feel, it rises to the level of a necessity, however absurd that might seem, to communicate with you via the written word to a considerable extent, and until we've established a quite well defined relationship. I know something's got to give, but I can only speculate about what. Would you be interested in developing a framework that could support many millions of user accounts, with each user streaming volumes of video to the cloud, requisite data archiving systems, and what, in the simplest sense, would be integrated video editing capabilities, and even hardware offerings? Beyond the purely technical aspects lie business related issues, which I think about quite a bit, but I would need to greatly rely on my partners to formulate a real plan. I see you are also in Tempe, by the lake. Sweet! Also that you are, it appears, heavily involved with streaming video. Go figure. I can go on at length about features, and, for that matter, about an approach to data, which is of my own invention, though I have no way of knowing whether it's unique, but perhaps it could be useful. Just thinking things over in the hour or so since I wrote the body of this, I think some of it might not be as complicated as I've made it sound.
I do want to say something about my technical abilities. They are very limited, but I have made what I think I can call a concerted effort, over a period of years, working in isolation - so, I suppose, self taught - to understand programming. This has never gotten me beyond what might be called basic JavaScript, in a practical sense, although I've successfully implemented what I think were some quite interesting demonstrations, using that - or, fairly unique ones, maybe. Well, though I don't know if this would be considered "beyond basic", I did find myself needing DOM methods for certain things, and made a study of them. I have read as widely as I could about computing generally, without learning much that I could actually use, but I might be fairly well familiarized with the terminology. I have also made it a point to work quite a bit with social media, again without producing any result that would on the face of it be meaningful to anyone, though I would add that I have produced a result here and there which was, shall we say, different, and possibly in a meaningful way. At any rate, I feel I have somewhat familiarized myself with that territory. A little CAD work. Finally, my most advanced reading has been some of Edsger Dijksta's work, and I take some pride in that. Well, I ought to add that I am quite interested in extending my knowledge.
In conclusion, and this was originally going to be a footnote to my claim to zero connections, and is also an addendum to my little list of personal quirks, though I do have essentially zero connections, I have for a long time, in what could be called a strange twist of fate, moved in business and technical circles, to the extent that I move in circles at all, and always to the utmost degree as a fly on the wall - and to, what is more, similarly annoying effect. This is partly just as a kind of habit, or inclination, but I have made, at intervals, efforts in this direction, and have on occasion, as a result, had the pleasure - or experience, at any rate, because the results have always been somewhat sour, though I would add that several of these people, no, most of them, have seemed quite lovely - of speaking with people in the professions. Certain of these efforts have been in the manner of sending a letter, and I have actually in the main a replies, even, though maybe never more than one, and on occasion been invited to visit. Also, I have occasionally bestirred myself to an event of one sort or another. But, too, on occasion I have simply met someone who was in business, at social occasions. My sad story is that, on several of those occasions, I have asked these people business questions, and certainly it seems from their expressions that this was a great faux pas - something I find rather baffling ... it seems to me to be something about me, rather than something about asking business questions, though I can't be sure. (What I am fairly certain of is that I'm giving you a full taste of that something about myself, here.) But there is a point to my story. I recently availed myself of such an opportunity, and asked a person who, what can I say, is very authentically an expert, what to do, and his quite annoyed answer (as it seemed to me) was nevertheless detailed (and thus rather generous) and at the same time very simple. He said I need to write a business plan, and with expert assistance. "Talk to a lawyer," he said. Well, that particular plan is beyond me, but as I described my proposal, earlier, I thought "How could they even consider something so involved? Where would we even start, if it came down to discussing it?" This idea of developing a business plan came to mind a little later as a perhaps reasonable answer, and so maybe that is what I am, at this stage, asking you, if you are inclined, to discuss with me.
