Ask Sahil Lavingia - pinterest designer, gumroad founder - a question

Udo14y ago· 3 in thread

Seriously? "How tall are you" and other extremely softball questions? I think the average question quality on Askolo would increase if they would display the asker's name next to the Q.

rollypolly14y ago

Here's another one that had me frowning:

  Q: How did you end up in Silicon Valley at
  such a young age?
  
  A: I flew on a plane from LA. Southwest,
  I think.

It's like a middle-schooler wrote these.

yinyinwuOP14y ago

Sahil wrote a blog post about the length of emails: http://sahillavingia.com/blog/dont-judge-an-email-by-its-len...

There are other questions and answers that you should check out. My favorite:

Q: Rails or Django? A: Users don't care so I don't care.

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jasonshen14y ago

Feel free to ask better questions... =)

cemregr14y ago· 1 in thread

(sees default twitter bootstrap button, closes tab)

pbreit14y ago

Why? Good or lame reason?

Alex391714y ago

Wow I didn't realize that Sahil was the one behind Dayta, I think I still have that on my phone from when he asked people to test it.

rokhayakebe14y ago

Q: Rails or Django?

A:Users don't care so I don't care.

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If I could pay with my Karma I could give you 1/5th of it.

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