In this episode of Startups for the Rest of us, Mike and I talk about why absolute thinking is

always bad. This is Start Up to the Rest of Us, episode 445.

Welcome to Startups for the Rest of Us, the podcast. It helps developers, designers, and entrepreneurs be awesome at building, launching, and growing software products. Whether you've built your first product or you're just thinking about it. I'm Rob. And I'm Mike. And we're here to share our experiences to hope you avoid the same mistakes we've made. Do you catch the joke? The sarcasm in the title there? Just a little. Like, is it though? Is it always bad?

Always bad. So we're going to dive into always never absolute thinking in this episode.

But before we do that, what's the word this week, sir? Well, I'm still going through the hell that is the

Google authentication approval process. And I feel like it's one of those ongoing sagas, kind of like Game of Thrones right now,

where like the last episode's coming up, and you're just like, oh, just let it end.

And you're just like, it's going to take a little while.

So I don't know.

They sent me an email.

What was it?

I asked them for more information.

They said, we signed up.

And this is me going on a rant here,

but they signed up for Blue Tech, apparently, and then they ran into the credit card screen,

and then they emailed me saying, we need you to make our account so that we can log into

your application without, you know, and bypass the payment information. And I'm just thinking to

myself, I'm like, you're Google. I

imagine that somewhere there is a credit card that you could put in for like the 14-day trial.

I would just imagine that that would be the case someplace. But of course, I email them and it was

like a week later and still nothing from them. Like I was just like, I need an email address.

Like what email address did you sign up with? Didn hear a word from them and then they're like oh you

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