The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q No one's suffering. Um, so, uh, alright, so you're coming, you're trying to come up with a bunch of different ideas, and when you say building things, like, just, you'd have an idea, and you'd start to try and build it, like, code it?

A Yeah, I, I would code, design, launch, and this was during the time, too, where TechCrunch Disrupt was a thing, so you had this idea that if you got a business through, and you could launch on stage, you That would be making it. And so, uh, I had launched a business in that area. Uh, it was a company called Chompon, but we effectively allowed people to create their own Groupon. So it was a white labeling service. And it was interesting, like the whole group buying space was sort of a, uh, coincidentally a flash in the pan too, in many ways, although Groupon is still around. Um, and the takeaway for me was just how difficult and how, uh, how much, I should treasure if I ever had the, the, the good fortune of, of landing on a business that really resonated with like a community or a group of people. Um, and so most of that, my years during this time was, uh, as I recall, just full of a lot of loneliness and, uh, development by, by myself in my bedroom.

AI assessment note: “Yeah, I, I would code, design, launch”

Answered produced feed D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30

Q Meantime, Sam, you had left, um, you had left your, the first startup you worked for, and went on to found your own startup, um, called Adworld. What, what was Adworld?

A Yeah, um, I mean, thinking back on it, a lot of this was, was quite boring, but, uh, uh, this was during the area when the iPhone was getting really popular and a lot of, uh, yeah, developers were creating their own games and whatnot. And in fact, uh, my co-founder and myself at that time were also making these iPhone games and, and applications. And there was a lot of good money in advertising in that, uh, I know we created like this virtual pet game that ended up, uh, gathering actually millions of users at the time. Uh, and we were seeing a few thousand dollars come through and just, uh, ads being clicked on, and so, uh, Adworld was just an effective way for these mobile developers to monetize that.

AI assessment note: “Adworld was just an effective way for these mobile developers to monetize that.”

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