How I overcame my fear of heights: indoor bouldering.
You can pace yourself with respect to the height you’re comfortable experiencing. It forces you to learn to fall safely. Most importantly, it progressively associates a positive outcome (route completion) with height.
I might even go so far as to suggest that the OP was aware of this and is simply trying to start a flame war about the practice of building fake checkout pages.
I think The Lean Startup was the first to popularize this idea, maybe? It’s nothing new, although I’ve always found it a bit weird/distasteful. I’m surprised he’s okay with doing it on his established brand where there is actually something to lose (vs spinning up a totally new site with no existing brand capital).
I can't imagine who thought it was a good idea to have their product offer something to customers ... and then pull a "lol nope not a real thing!" on customers who wanted the thing.
They probably justified it as some sort of product validation? Its like a huge thing with the community at indie hackers to use a landing page to validate market demand.
Does anybody use this for non-academic purposes? I've been looking for something similar to use as a personal knowledge base, but zotero may be a bit much for that use case.
It ended up being the perfect solution for storing manuals and other random information for me.
It's lightweight enough to not get in my way but still syncs everywhere and is searchable. There's even a third party app I can use on my phone if I need quick access to PDFs.
As well as academic papers, I use it for storing copies (wiut hthe chrome plugin) of websites - things are not permanent these days and may reference sources I wouldn't want to lose!
