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We're testing Chatty

Edan Maor from Chatty just kindly invited us into beta testing for Chatty.

Chatty is instant Facebook-like chat for any website. Site visitors can group-chat with each other in one large chat room, and it gives site visitors a dead-simple way of interacting with one another. Chatty’s design, features and entire essence is about encouraging site users to engage in conversation with one another. The web is chock-full of information but what we are really after as people is not information but other interesting people. Chatty takes users closer to that end.

We're testing it out on the site. You can log in using Facebook Connect and chat with other readers.

Via email, here was my initial concerns about Chatty -

My first few thoughts/concerns btw -

Be an effective imperfectionist

More Dalio. Man, this small book is so dense with good stuff. Bold added by me -

199a) Don’t be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other big, important things. Be an effective imperfectionist. Solutions that broadly work well (e.g., how people should contact each other in the event of crises) are generally better than highly specialized solutions (e.g., how each person should contact each other in the event of every conceivable crisis), especially in the early stages of a plan. There generally isn't much gained by lots of detail relative to a good broad solution. Complicated procedures are tough to remember, and it takes a lot of time to make such detailed plans (so they might not even be ready when needed).

He adds,

199c) Watch out for “detail anxiety,” i.e., worrying inappropriately about unimportant, small things.

Very useful term - "detail anxiety." Useful to think about - and strive to avoid.

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