Yes men
One of the reasons Ashley and I are so interested in Touchstone is that in the past we have worked on ventures where we had to have sales teams that had to convince customers and partners of using our (usually fairly complicated) products.
With Touchstone we have decided to have a totally different attitude. We call it being 'xen'. We promised ourselves that we would never try to 'sell' people on Touchstone. If they got it by themselves then they were the people we wanted to talk to!
This is all fine and good and a surprising number of people have 'just got it' and contacted us out of the blue. It's been very gratifying. But sometimes the result of this approach is that you only hear 'yes' or 'that's so great' and never any real challenges to your ideas.
Recently I have been having a bit of a fun debate with someone about Touchstone and it's usefulness and viability as product or even an investment opportunity. I don't really hope to change their mind and I am sure they don't care if I change mine - but I think the debate is worth having - and its fun to have your assumptions challenged. It helps you clarify your decisions (for yourself) and re-evaluate your position.
The worst thing someone can do is stubbornly protect their own position out of fear - they should learn from the criticism of others.
With Touchstone we have decided to have a totally different attitude. We call it being 'xen'. We promised ourselves that we would never try to 'sell' people on Touchstone. If they got it by themselves then they were the people we wanted to talk to!
This is all fine and good and a surprising number of people have 'just got it' and contacted us out of the blue. It's been very gratifying. But sometimes the result of this approach is that you only hear 'yes' or 'that's so great' and never any real challenges to your ideas.
Recently I have been having a bit of a fun debate with someone about Touchstone and it's usefulness and viability as product or even an investment opportunity. I don't really hope to change their mind and I am sure they don't care if I change mine - but I think the debate is worth having - and its fun to have your assumptions challenged. It helps you clarify your decisions (for yourself) and re-evaluate your position.
The worst thing someone can do is stubbornly protect their own position out of fear - they should learn from the criticism of others.
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So I keep getting .net runtime errors when trying to install and the community section seems to be down. darn.
Hi Brian,
Both those issues are related believe it or not.
The Community site runs off a sub-domain and our invite server runs off a sub domain and our hosting company has broken our sub domains.
Looks like our hosting is in Alpha too!
In future builds we will handle the connection problem more elegantly than a .NET error - but in the mean time please be patient while we perform physical acts of violence against the sys admin.
Thanks for your patience!
Hi Brian - I am affraid I have no other way of contacting you - you should really email me with bug reports :) - Sub-domains should be up and running again so try running touchstone and logging onto the forums.
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