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What are fashion brands' biggest pain points today? I leave this wide open. Take whatever angle you want and feel free to break it down by functional area. To what degree is 'a good edit' enough in ecommerce?  Nastygal and ModCloth are two examples that have done well because they have developed a clear point of view and curated a specific style for a specific demographic. This is what has driven their success . While they have some simple, nuanced additions to their online stores, it's pretty much just the curation that drives people to the store. Yet, with all of the new models emerging, it seems consumers are expecting more than just curation and looking for 'curation plus discount', 'curation plus content plus discount' , 'curation plus subscription', 'curation plus N factors'. What are interesting new ways to blend commerce and content? Business of Fashion just wrote this article on rap video meets ecommerce. There is a HUGE untapped territory leveraging content including video , text, imagery, etc... where it's a blended experience. What are some potential interesting permutations of this?What are trends in manufacturing ? With increasing costs in China, desires for Just-In-Time manufacturing to an extreme, campaigns around increasing US manufacturing , 3D manufacturing , etc... how will manufacturing evolve and what are the challenges associated with these shifts both on a macro and micro level.There seems to be a shift from people going to department stores  when they want to find something specifically, similar to Amazon in the online context. However, people tend to frequent vertically integrated stores like J. Crew, Banana Republic, Zara/H&M/Forever 21, etc... when they want to browse and discover. Also, people go to J. Crew because they have trust with the brand but also enough to discover. Though, a lot of the ones I mention also have a lot of physical stores and thus could be successful due to convenience as one factor. Yet, the latter does not seem to have an online-only comparison that's really taken off.  To what degree do you think this offline behavioral shift will translate online? Or in another way of saying, will we see more online-only vertically integrated models (e.g. J. Crew) become successful and commonplace online? What are the challenges or differences with this shift online? How can one effectively build a brand online? (follow up to previous) I know you wrote something previously on Brand Psychology, so as a following, how can a brand be build online (e.g. Bonobos, Warby Parker, Everlane, etc...) How large and sustainable is subscription ecommerce? Obviously,  you have a connection to Manpacks , and then JustFab today said they will be doing $100M in revenues by end of 2012. However, how sustainable is this given it is extremely challenging to maintain share of the consumer's wallet consistently and delight a customer every month. Which categories will be able to scale and achieve these levels better than others? Also, Shoedazzle's refocus might be a telling data point, so what do you think of that shift?If you want to start manufacturing a good, what is the best way to get started? I've had this conversation with a lot of people, and it is a cagey world with limited resources . I've been helping some folk but have limited actual experience in different component from concept to sample to batch production onward. So, what are different recipes and resources for early stage brand manufacturers : how to do production, how/where to qualify a manufacturer , quality control, etc... I can ask more questions if you like... I have an endless list , and with every answer brings up new questions. If you don't like any or need clarification, please lmk!  If you want to answer one of them, I'll go ahead and ask it.Oh, and I have opinions on all of them, so curious to hear your perspectives. Thus, if you write something on one of the aforementioned, it'll hopefully incite me to actually do some more writing (or rap/jam --as you like to call it--with you one of these topics)...

I usually say 8+ because people have varying definitions of what it means to speak a language. Here are all languages I have ever studied for more than a few hours, in chronological order. I have marked the ones that I'm intermediate or higher in with an asterisk. * German (language) - 0 years old - my native language. Obviously fluent in it now, I have created 500+ language lessons for it as the host of GermanPod101 and I sometimes teach students over Skype.* English (language) - 10 years old - learned it as my first foreign language at school in grades 5-13. For the first few years I was really bad at it, but then I got English-speaking penpals, I hung out on political discussion forums online and I started voice-chatting, so that it started to feel like another native language around age 17 or so.* Latin (language) - 12 years old - my second foreign language at school, grades 7-11. Started studying Latin because it was a mandatory choice between either Latin or French and I thought Latin would help me with other languages in the future. After three years, my teachers recommended me as a tutor for weaker students and eventually I started teaching Latin online on Myngle and Edufire. Udemy course to appear soon.* French (language) - 14 years old - my third foreign language at school, grades 9-10. I really struggled with this language and quit after grade 10, but I had online friends who wouldn't let me forget it completely. I visited Montréal for a month immediately after graduating from high school and stayed with a French-speaking family, from where I picked up my passion for the Québécois variant. When I needed a linguistic-oriented university major to go with my study of computational linguistics, and I was too late to inscribe for English Studies, it was easy to decide on French Studies instead and my trusty online friends helped me re-activate my French in time for the initial evaluation exam. I speak French fluently now and I enjoy reading some classic French literature.* Esperanto (language) - 14 years old - the first language I studied outside school. I had read a popular science book about linguistics, which dedicated a few pages to Esperanto and mentioned that it was the most successful of all constructed languages, and designed to be super-simple. I thought to myself "If it's so simple, I should be able to pick it up without effort, as another notch in the belt. If it gets too hard or annoying, I'll just drop it, no regrets". So I signed up for the German Esperanto Youth's free e-mail-based course and got a mentor who was a student at Berlin Technical University. Learning Esperanto was exhilarating, the only language before or after that was intrinsically motivating to study. I finished the course in 5 months, then attended a weekend course for intermediate students in Berlin that my tutor invited me to, and by the end I was comfortable in Esperanto. Read also how Esperanto changed my life: http://www.quora.com/esperanto-best-of/How-Esperanto-changed-my-life* Italian (language) - 16 years old - my fourth foreign language at school, grades 11-13. Started studying this because of the vacuum left by quitting French class. By the end of grade 13, when I chose Italian for my oral baccalaureate exam, I was able to talk fluently about technical matters I had studied before, for example the causes of Venice's frequent flooding problem. Then I didn't use Italian at all for the next 5 years or so and I'm afraid it's not as fluent as it used to be, though I have started to use it a bit more regularly. I still regularly read books in Italian.* Modern Greek (language) - not sure exactly when I started studying it, because a Greek friend kept teaching me a few things here and there and eventually I decided to pursue it more seriously. I learned the basics in self-study and from my friend, then to signNow intermediate level I used the Assimil method Greek course and an online tutor. Right now I'm conversational but not fluent and I have read four non-simplified books in Greek without the help of a dictionary.* Mandarin Chinese (language) - 18 years old - I've always been fascinated by Chinese characters, so when I heard about a federal competition for high schoolers starting to learn Chinese, and I was in my last year of high school, that was all the motivation to start it then. I studied it by myself for half a year, then won the competition (prize: scholarship for 6 weeks language school in Beijing), sat in 1 1/2 semesters of Chinese at my university, then those 6 weeks in China (2004), then some more self-study, which tapered off... in 2009 I decided to get serious about it, studied 2500 characters in that one year, then have been steadily improving since. Last week I had a 2 1/2 hour conversation all in Mandarin about all kinds of topics, but I still search for words occasionally. I have also read almost a dozen books in Chinese by now.Thai - 19 years old - learned maybe 100 words and phrases just for fun. Been re-discovering it recently, but still not sure where I want to go with it.Czech (language) - 22 years old - I got the opportunity to attend a seminar in the Czech Republic, so I studied some Czech, maybe 500 words, even though the seminar itself would be in Esperanto. I haven't done anything about Czech since this trip, so I forgot it all.Swedish (language) - 24 years old - exact same as for CzechLithuanian (language) - 24 years old - exact same as for Czech. I'm happy I learned it, because otherwise I would have missed my flight back. After the seminar, the bus stop to get to the airport had changed and none of the passer-bys were able to speak English or another of my languages.* Kiswahili (Swahili) - 26 years old - I want to study some languages that are truly different from the ones I studied so far, and Swahili sounds really cool. I learned it from the Assimil course. I haven't had a chance to speak it much, but I can read and write it well enough to keep a diary in it for example.* Dutch (language) - 27 years old - As Dutch is so similar to German, low-hanging fruit so to speak, it would be stupid not to pick it. Some language geek friends and I made a challenge to learn Dutch in 6 weeks of self-study. For proper motivation, I signed up to give a 45-minute presentation of the German language, in Dutch, at a language festival in Leeuwen exactly 7 weeks after we started. I managed, though only a Dutch attendee could tell you how many mistakes I made. These days I'm keeping my Dutch active by reading books and listening to the political radio program "Met de oog op morgen".* Spanish (language) - 27 years old - Spanish is similar to Italian. I wanted to study it but found the course too boring, so I jumped straight into reading "A Space Odyssey" in Spanish. Spanish and Italian keep conflicting in my mind though, whenever I want to speak one, I keep thinking of words in the other language, so it requires concentration. Reading Spanish or understanding TV is no problem at all.Arabic (language) - 28 years old - I studied it non-seriously before but always got discouraged quickly. In 2011, I finally managed to bring Arabic up to A2 level, but then I lost interest because the people I was planning to talk Arabic to moved and there's not much to read in Arabic even if my level was better.Finnish (language) - 28 years old - This language never really interested me, but some language geeks made it a challenge to spend 35 hours on Finnish in one month and see how far we'd get. I used Assimil, Teach Yourself and a word frequency list supplemented by sound files from Forvo. At the end, my level was evaluated as A2, but I didn't continue to study Finnish. The challenge thread: http://how-to-learn-any-language...Japanese (language) - 29 years old - I spent 50 hours on it for the August/September 6 Week Challenges in 2012 (those challenges occur 4x a year now). My main goal is to understand the anime series "Hikaru no Go" and Japanese Go (board game) lectures and I don't care about much else for now, so I tried a new method that involved flashcards made from Hikaru no Go episodes (try Subs2Srs, it's awesome). After just 50 hours in this challenge, I was able to understand two thirds of a new Hikaru no Go episode without subtitles, and my Japanese was useless for anything else. I have started to take conversational classes. EDIT: I just posted a description of how I signNowed this level so quickly as a step-by-step guide on my blog: http://temp.learnlangs.com/step-...* Indonesian - 29 years old - My most recent addition. I started to learn Indonesian because the Indonesian embassy in Berlin offered a free beginner's course in April 2013. Then they announced a speaking competition for June 2013 and I challenged myself to participate in it, so that I suddenly had to learn Indonesian quite quickly during the May 6 Week Challenge. You learn more about my method and results here. I'm happy to say that I'm currently almost B2 in Indonesian.I recently collected the most useful Language-Learning Advice I gave on Quora. Also check out my blog about language-learning, which includes personal updates as well as advice on methods etc., at http://www.learnlangs.com , and my Quora board about languages: http://www.quora.com/selected_language_postsIf you're looking for language geeks like the crazy ones who started the challenges with me, http://how-to-learn-any-language... is your best bet. And if you want to experience intense language self-study, why not sign up for a 6 Week Challenge? http://6wc.learnlangs.com/howto

I was fresh out of high school, getting ready to head to college on a scholarship.  I was the bomb, the cream... I was destined for the best.  I was pure EGO.My car was crap though.  And while driving through a very bad area of town, it stopped working.  I was stranded.  I didn't have but a single dollar on me, so I figured that I had to find a phone and call my family to come get me... but within moments of stepping out of my car a bum came up and asked me if I could give him a dollar for a beer.I explained to him that NO... I needed that dollar to call for help as my car just broke down.  He asked what was wrong with it and I explained that I had NO idea.  He asked if he could look at it and I said sure.  He asked me to start it and started messing around with a few thing.He found there was a split in a vacuum hose that was preventing the carburetor from drawing gas properly.  He pulled out a pocket knife, trimmed the hose to remove the split, reattached it and the car started.I was the bomb.  He was the bum. I was headed to college and great things.  He could fix my car with a pocket knife. I gave him my last dollar to buy a beer with.My ego shrank permanently that day.I realized that everyone knows something that I don't. You can learn something from everyone if you listen.

Filing an FIR is a tedious process.Let me tell you a story ( based on true life events)Day 1It all started with my phone, hardly five month old Moto G5s Plus getting stolen on a Sunday night while I was walking to my home after meeting a friend.It was around 10:20 PM, I was on the side of the road and was on a call. All of a sudden my phone was snatched by a group of 3 men on a bike, a Pulsar to be specific and definitely above 150cc Engine. The incident took place at a junction so there is an immediate left turn. I ran behind them, I tried to chase them with the help of a fellow citizen on bike but that was in vain. The number plate started with KA but could not make out the rest due the light from the tial lamp.In about 5 minutes I went to the Police station hardly 200 metres from there. There was a constable on duty. I explained the whole incident to him. He just wrote down the phone details along with the time at which the incident took place, told me to file a e-lost report on the Bangalore police mobile application and instructed me to come the next morning around 9:30 AM and report it to the crime branch Sub Inspector (PSI).E-Lost ReportDay 2It was 26th Morning, I typed a letter and went to the police station met SI. He explained me that there are two ways it can go down. One with e-lost report or FIR. He explained to me that FIR is time consuming and I'll have to come to police station when call upon also there will be Lawyers involved and multiple number of visits to the court. I said father's friend is a lawyer and I told the PSI that my father's brother is a Deputy Commissioner in Kerala and that he insisted that I file an FIR. He then asked me to get a copy of phone purchase invoice. I immediately went home and took a print of it then back to police station. Now he says the letter I wrote isn't enough there should be more information like...Incident TimeParticular PlaceVehicle Type (Make/model)No of peopleAgeDressVehicle NumberMobile NumberPresent NumberCurrent Mobile ValueRobber Identifiable or notSim card present in phoneIMEI numberI started writing that down, when I was done he was nowhere to be seen. I waited for 2 hours he wasn't to be found, I had some work to do at the college so finished it and went home. Typed a detailed report of the incident with info he said I should mention. Went to police station at 2:30 PM PSI wasn't available.Waited till 5 PM he still wasn't available, the very adjacent building there was Assistant Commissioner’s (AC) office. Went inside AC's office told him about the issue and it's taking a lot of time to file an FIR. He yelled "what's happening in my station" and directed the constable present there to immediately take me to the available PSI and take my complaint. Now this PSI repeated the same thing and told me to wait for the Circle Inspector (CI) to come . Waited another hour and half and met the CI , he said " Information you have provided is sufficient and we'll file FIR". Waited another half an hour the PSI collected the documents I had ie; letter with complete details of the incident, phone purchase invoice and e-lost report. Went home. Around 10 PM two constables came home and told me that I forgot sign on the letter. Again went to police station and signed it. He said something about the case going to court or something in those lines.2. Initial Letter3. Detailed LetterDay 3The next day 27th Feb, knowing that I might get called again, went to the police station. After 5 minutes I got a call from a women constable saying "please come to station". I said I'm already at the station, asked her which room she was in. Went to her room, she asked my father's name , my occupation, age, sub caste. After that she typed the incident report in Kannada and asked me to sign it, it was all online process. She took a print out of it gave it to the crime branch PSI, he then called me. He told me take 5 xerox copy of the print out and come back ASAP. I took copies and came back. PSI told me to sign in one of the copies mentioning " Received copy of FIR". I felt like writing "I made copies of FIR". Then went home I received an SMS with the FIR number and GSC number.4. Received SMS5. FIRTo summarise it all,Met all the officials at the police station ranging from constable to Assistant CommissionerSpend a lot of time at the police station.Even though there were CCTV in nearby shops I don’t know they’ll ever check it.Filing an FIR is tedious as this when coming to theft of phone.They definitely lack personnel and technology.Go with FIR only if you have enough time to spare and be prepared to wait.E-lost report is helpful in getting you a new sim and excempting you from any misuse of the stolen device.EDIT:1Phone recovered, yeah you heard it right.On 16th July I got a call from the police station to come down to station and verify the IMEI of the phone. The phone wouldn’t switch on, I remebered that IMEI is also printed on the sim tray. I removed the sim tray, voila! the numbers match. The police tracked the phone using IMEI number ie; whenever someone else inserts a sim and makes a phone call that record is fetched. In this case the accused turned out to be a 16 year old, yeah really his mother was there to release him.The phone will be returned after due process of the law and paying a court fee(which is very less). It’s been two months after they recovered the phone though.So yeah system works but very very slowly…EDIT:2The case is still pending at courtHere is the latest update.Also I didn’t have to hide the the FIR No. as it’s public record.

Before Fermat’s last theorem was proven, numerous crackpots were convinced they found a proof. In the US, they could simply be ignored. In Soviet Union, however, workers were entitled to have their missives answered. At Moscow State, Professor Feldman, a number theorist, was tasked with answering these. Often, his grad students would help. I was taking an elective class from him, and at one point he has shown the pile of drivel he had to sort through. He had a form letter where he'd fill in the page and line where he found the first logical error. Despite help from his grad students, this seemed like a nontrivial drain on his time.At one point, I was accosted by a real-life Fermatist who was convinced that her nonsensical scribbles constituted proof and all that was needed was to put them into the proper format so that they could be published. It was quite difficult to extricate myself from the awkward situation and to get rid of her. She kept coming back, taking any response as a sign she really was right. When I'd physically leave, that was, to her, further evidence that she had the proof, because I must have needed to go consult others to reply to her new formulas. Her alleged proof was complete nonsense; she was shaky even on middle-school concepts like divisibility.The reason that looking into works such as that was a complete and utter waste of time was not that these writers were amateur mathematicians who lacked academic prestige, and not even that they didn't know how mathematicians communicate proofs. It's just that these people are crackpots and have absolutely nothing to contribute. It's a mental health problem.If an amateur mathematician makes a real contribution, there really isn't any reason to worry about formal credentials or standing. Mathematicians are largely immune to arguments by authority. A proof is a proof no matter who wrote it.When I was 12, I found a few minor errors in a calculus textbook. I wrote to the author and received a polite reply where he thanked me, acknowledged the errors, and promised to get them fixed in the next edition. My lack of formal credentials was irrelevant.The chances that an “amateur mathematician” makes a substantial contribution to a field that has been extensively studied are very small. Other that Ramanujan, no one comes to mind, and he discovered new things rather than solving any previously posed open problems. Should such contribution be made, however, it will be easy to have them recognized.To be very frank, however, if you never studied math and you believe that you have solved an important open problem, you are overwhelmingly likely to be one of the countless crackpots. If you write it down and email it and are told that it doesn't make sense, the problem isn't that you lack standing. The problem is that it doesn't make sense. I am not aware of any mathematicians starting out as crackpots and then getting better as mathematicians. However, it can deteriorate as a mental health condition. If you feel like “official science” is stifling you, seek help before it's too late.

After reading numerous psychology books (such as “Thinking, Fast and Slow” and “Predictably Irrational”), I decided to clean out my desk and my bedroom for one simple reason: priming.Priming is a phenomenon in the human brain which happens all the time. Essentially, a person is “primed” by the things in their field of vision that they aren’t consciously aware of.For example, if someone is working at a messy desk, they are probably focusing on their work and not focusing on the piles of unorganized stuff around them. However, their “unconscious mind” still analyzes everything in their field ...