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by GCA10 4y ago
We're told at the end of the piece that the author "is an attorney based out of Maitland, Fla., with a practice concentrating on local government-related matters." It would be nice to know if he's represented either Disn
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by GCA10 5y ago
Agreed. I spent a bunch of time a few years ago doing home-coaching for our two teenagers as they rolled into SAT time. The way you get better at the math section is to genuinely fix whatever gaps might exist in your knowledge of algebra an
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by GCA10 5y ago
Or pseudo-writers who get paid a pittance for stringing the same short, flattering phrases together, again and again. With a little practice, it gets easy to spot the repetitive cadence of the shills.
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by GCA10 5y ago
A great deal of Amazon's store has moved from the old "customer obsession" principle of the early years to a new principle of "revenue obsession." Brad Stone's second book about Amazon ("Amazon Unbound&quo
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by GCA10 5y ago
My bad -- and thanks for clarifying that. Must be my small sample so far. If I keep playing Wordle long enough, it looks as if I'll get a full dose of despair after all.
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by GCA10 5y ago
One more factor in Wordle's popularity that I haven't yet seen commentators identify much. The game's word roster tilts heavily toward words with neutral or cheerful connotations. So your brain conjures up something happy at
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by GCA10 5y ago
For those of us who are semi-good at all three paths, our long-haul choices depend quite heavily on how the wider world either opens unexpected opportunities for us, or gradually chokes them off. In my own (non-technical) case, I had a grea
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by GCA10 5y ago
Pixel phone user here. Very similar experience.
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by GCA10 5y ago
Peak coffee consumption (per capita/US): 1946 Peak cigarette consumption (per capita/US): 1963 Peak oil production (global): unknown, maybe 2020-2030 Peak Facebook: ?? That's an incomplete peer group, but I find it interestin
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by GCA10 5y ago
Dan Luu is right that public messaging -- and company-wide internal messaging -- tends to be bone simple and incomplete. What's interesting is that the nuances don't completely fade out of site. They exist in quiet and sometimes q
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by GCA10 5y ago
Some solid advice here, but after six cycles as "the new guy," I've found everything goes better if we add these two elements to the list. Both are Day 0-30 priorities 1. Figure out what the organization knows that you don&#x
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by GCA10 5y ago
This is the key insight. Systems like Zillow's model a dozen or so big factors that are easy to collect (square footage, exact location, nearby comps, sales history, etc.) -- and then treat the rest as minor random noise. Minor? Usuall
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by GCA10 5y ago
In my 20s, I got paid $50 to be part of a focus group on young men's attitudes toward Foster's Australian lager. Of the six of us in the room, five of us drank maybe 3-4 beers a week. One guy (call him Tony) admitted to drinking a
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by GCA10 5y ago
Can't help but think back to W. Edwards Deming's distinction between after-the-fact efforts to "inspect" quality into the process -- as opposed to before-the-fact efforts to build quality into the process. OP offers a fi
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by GCA10 5y ago
Bear in mind this article's primary source (data, interpretation, calls to action, etc.) is Edelman, a global PR firm. Quoting from the tagline on Edelman's own website, its mission is to "partner with businesses and organiza
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by GCA10 5y ago
I've been impressed with what News Literacy Project is doing, particularly in terms of helping high school students recognize the hallmarks of carefully researched material vs. the opposite. https://newslit.org/
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by GCA10 5y ago
Fascinating! Most of the messaging here is refreshingly open-minded, direct and timeless. I'd expected to read a lot of imperialistic bombast that aged horribly. Truth is, as many other commenters have pointed out, this document's
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by GCA10 5y ago
My grandfather had an old-school windup watch that he thought would be his most cherished heirloom. Either my sister or I still have it somewhere (safe-deposit box), but it's never really resonated with any of his descendants. He also
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by GCA10 5y ago
Fascinating essay about a landmark pair of books. Thanks for posting. I'll argue another option on one key quote, though. > What Stalingrad demonstrated was precisely that the unfreedom of the Soviet Union, as terrible as it was, wa
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by GCA10 5y ago
I'm liking the Robert Norton chart about 2/3 of the way down, showing how safety factors need to be adjusted quite radically once we think about how reliable or rickety our estimates might actually be. Particular kudos to thinking
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by GCA10 5y ago
There's a big difference between being restless -- i.e. going for a bunch of job interviews -- and actually switching jobs. Articles like this highlight the very plausible idea that the post-Covid reawakening will include a lot of &quo
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by GCA10 5y ago
A lot of 19th century fiction was done this way. Authors (Dickens, etc.) tended to work from a loose outline and construct the details as they rolled along. Peer at those books closely and you can see some odd detours that were shut down. A
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by GCA10 5y ago
If it's a business with a clear social mission (fighting poverty; helping the environment, etc.) I'm super-sympathetic to the challenges of being an altruistic founder in a money-obsessed world. But Iterable's mission (quotin
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by GCA10 5y ago
Board-CEO relationships come in three flavors: - We love our CEO! We'll do anything to keep this boss happy - We're stuck with a loser, and we need to make a change - We're in the middle. This CEO has real strengths, which we
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by GCA10 5y ago
Figuring out how to deal with non-destructive microdosing on company time might be a tough call. If he's a genius and this helps him achieve his full genius-hood, then maybe it's tolerable. But microdosing -- and getting the dose
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by GCA10 5y ago
But wait! Yes, aspiring monogamists will fit your bill of people who "want to be off the site in 12 months" or sooner. That's one segment of your users, but it really isn't everyone by a long shot. Plenty of users are si
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by GCA10 5y ago
Lots of sentiment today that the USPS is way out of its zone of expertise in doing this -- and that is possible. But it's worth noting that the USPS has had its own legion of postal inspectors going back to the 19th century, when they
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by GCA10 5y ago
A couple postal workers died about 20 years ago when someone used the U.S. mails as an anthrax-delivery mechanism. Details are here: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5239a2.htm Note that's the
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by GCA10 5y ago
Handy rule of thumb: On any headline with a question, the likely answer is: "No." Or, more precisely: "No, but we wanted to tantalize you into reading this piece, where we'll go through 15 paragraphs of innuendo and then
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by GCA10 6y ago
Author here. I'm going to join the argument that Goodreads may be clunky (in fact, it definitely is), but it's not broken. OP's criticisms all have some validity, but they overlook these far more important facts: 1. Goodreads

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