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by GCA10 9y ago
Could we stop using the term "lifestyle" to describe young companies that aren't chasing the unicorn dream? A lot of them are run by very driven founders who work long hours to build world-class products for smallish niches.
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Agreed. We're back in cause vs. correlation territory, no? The most sedentary people may also be the most obese, the most likely to suffer from diabetes, the most burdened with respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, etc. Their expect
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by GCA10 9y ago
Ah, farmers' markets! We have a nice one in our town, and it's fun to visit. But it didn't take long to notice . . . 1. It's a hard life for farmers. To be open for business by 8:30 a.m. for our local gentry, it's n
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by GCA10 9y ago
Zappos's CEO gets more eccentric all the time, and the site's search function could use updating, but the selection remains excellent and service is first-rate. We still use them. Other Amazon acquisitions such as IMDB, Goodreads
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by GCA10 9y ago
It's a big enough economy that we can both find lots of examples to support our different world views. Probably not worth arguing that at length. Still, the U.S. economy has created about 12 million net new jobs since 2012. (BLS data.)
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Very few parents say: "I hope my child can get a shipping center job stacking bins, day after day, and hold that job for 40 years." Shipping-center automation is going to move people out of rote jobs in the same way that farm auto
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What Alexa's Creators Got Right(forbes.com)
1 points by GCA10 9y ago|0 comments
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by GCA10 9y ago
There are lots of ways this can go wrong, and the sharp-edged headline prompts many of us to start thinking about misfires. The actual text of the story, though, focuses more on a desire to find people who are good at teamwork and higher-or
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by GCA10 9y ago
I actually read the verb "wants" in exactly the way that you prefer. Having submitted a lot of book pitches, article pitches, etc. over the years, I'd say "want" is generally used as an expression of interest and ap
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by GCA10 9y ago
If we're going down the rabbit hole of projects that take forever to complete, I'd welcome any update about Sweden's ultimate dictionary, which was started in 1898 and still isn't finished. As far as I can tell, partial
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by GCA10 9y ago
Unexpected takeovers make this much harder than it seems. For example, Twitter's prospects on its own don't look so great right now. But if that induces you to avoid owning Twitter, you miss out on a quick profit (perhaps even a b
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by GCA10 9y ago
Yes -- especially because just about every diversification strategy being promoted over the past 20 years involves putting money into other asset classes that have under-performed the S&P by large amounts. And the arguments for diversif
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HackerRank (YC S11) Pegs California 3rd in Software Talent(forbes.com)
3 points by GCA10 9y ago|0 comments
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They all need websites. The ones that have bad websites need better ones. And to some extent, they are willing to pay rates based on value pricing, rather than a carefully clocked hourly rate. If you make their business work a lot better, y
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by GCA10 9y ago
It's possible to load up a traditional resume with 5-10 pages of granular detail like this, but that's actually more awkward than helpful. Once a (shorter) resume establishes basic competence, employers generally want to do the ne
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by GCA10 9y ago
I was about to argue that the illegal drug trade might be a counter-example, but haven't they gone metric, too?
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I like your optimism, and every octogenarian who can stay sharp is an inspiration to us all. But if you look at aggregate data on chess players' ratings as they get older, or university professors' publication rates (and citations
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by GCA10 9y ago
Time to own up to the elephant in the room. Medicine so far has done a really good job of prolonging people's seventies and eighties. All the symptoms of advanced aging that used to be compressed into ages 70-82 or so, ending in death,
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by GCA10 9y ago
The comments on the original story are fascinating. Hundreds of truckers sharing personal stories. Their spelling is dodgy but many bring detailed personal data. From my read, it sounds as if Amazon has two business issues to fix (staggered
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by GCA10 9y ago
We're all fussing infants, to be truthful about it.
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As much fun as this test is, it dodges the most interesting question of all: "Are these machines supposed to be talking search engines?" I'm increasingly believing that the answer is: "No." These machines (especiall
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Ah, that would be a "person with extensive knowledge."
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Hmmn. The entire story is attributed to "a person with knowledge of the company’s grocery plans." We aren't told whether this is a senior Amazon executive or an automation-services vendor who sat in on a couple meetings with
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by GCA10 9y ago
That's gracious, thanks. Still, each writing home has its own mix of +/-. The overall Forbes environment offers fast turnaround, editorial freedom and sizable readership. And it pays! Getting 80% of my top five priorities in one s
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by GCA10 9y ago
Author here ... Thanks for the catch. I just repaired the article link so that it works, too.
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Author here ... I feel your pain, every day.
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Article author here .... Thanks for reading. Not sure if you had a chance to read the actual article that ran between the headline and the comments section, but just in case ... In paragraph 10 of the story, I observe: "It would be har
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Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer(forbes.com)
268 points by GCA10 9y ago|73 comments
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This is a provocative but deeply misleading calculation. It assumes that our no-college-S&P-investor is a stoic enough soul to live on truck drivers' wages for 24 years, so that the stock market can do its magic, before collecting
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by GCA10 9y ago
Reinforcement from an unlikely quarter! The Big Ugly for anyone working in retail the past 20 years is that stores have done almost nothing to improve workers' productivity. Price scanners were a 1990s innovation and there hasn't

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