achillesheels

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by achillesheels 5y ago
What matters is the succession of factors that are in founders or companies control. The objection is that most of Google's success is luck - uncontrollable good fortune. It's precisely the motivation towards gaining fortune that
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It's actually because Google had predetermined intrinsic value to human beings in filtering through the world wide web which demonstrates one cannot simply launch a competitor without offering substantially significant more value in ac
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Mining proprietary data is indeed a value proposition.
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I believe the answer rests in offering a solution to a problem that is worth more time than money to solve on one's own, or a new solution that creates more opportunities for a customer to grow their profitability.
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by achillesheels 5y ago
Really? Google is a product of luck and not centuries of the willfully successful extensions of men, e.g. Leland Stanford, on this continent? What, in your estimation, can be controlled then?
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by achillesheels 5y ago
Picking up feminine hobbies definitely balances out the need for constant mathematically rigorous accuracy. It softens the mind to enjoy the ride ;)
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by achillesheels 5y ago
You are assuming that the institutions are making worthwhile "epistemological risks"; when, clearly, there is a lack of the facilitation of the knowledge of Fourier Mathematics (e.g. the Fourier Transform) in virtually every scien
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by achillesheels 5y ago
I'm curious if in your generalization are there any references to cite? I am in desperate agreement with you, but sources are needed! (Irony unintended)
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by achillesheels 5y ago
It simply requires more self-reliant men and women to be bold with the truth as opposed to rationalizing some future comfortable well-being which is being jeopardized. If anything, being outwardly self-righteous filters out those who have s
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by achillesheels 5y ago
Is the goal to cure cancer or to have a black woman cure cancer? Which is the more efficient cause?
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Entrenchment.
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From the B2B side, demand is validated when multiple (>10) organizations are willing to schedule time (30 minutes) to watch your demo. That requires scheduling and team efforts. That’s when you know the pain is real.
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“To secure the peace, one must prepare for war.”
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It is a world-historical moral affirmation to deny sensual pleasures, likely because this recursiveness causes us to live closer to animals seeking utility from their bodies than immortals. "But we must not follow those who advise us,
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They created the game.
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Is the enterprise necessary to be manned?
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by achillesheels 5y ago
I think you are abstracting the personnel too much from your analysis. Clearly Apple, for example, persists and thrives in a world with such dynamism. The difference is one of talent, and the internal organization therein.
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by achillesheels 5y ago
>I think you missed the part where I said this was not moral or virtuous. Don't go looking for virtue. You won't find it. That's like, your opinion, man. There are plenty of businesses that run with integrity as a necessar
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by achillesheels 5y ago
Good points. Will you agree that businesses die due to unprofitability? And what causes unprofitability in a firm? One might answer a whole slew of reasons, such as profit erosions, but it is mostly due to lack of innovation; at least at th
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by achillesheels 5y ago
Fair point regarding the golden goose. My point is there is more motivation to keep things as-is then to continue to adapt. Why is that? Because all the key decision-makers can just get up and leave when revenue starts to deteriorate. The g
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>I see a lot of startups dying, much more than fortune 500 companies. Can I now conclude not having processes kills companies faster? No you cannot, because your starting premise is flawed. One organization has demonstrated its value ove
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by achillesheels 5y ago
The end of a for-profit company, I will agree, is to profit, but what end is that for humanity? You imply that moral corruption toward profitable ends is of no difference to those where righteousness in action creates profitability to the o
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by achillesheels 5y ago
The judgment, however, is that while one is not the same priority any longer, one's priorities are necessarily devalued, due to the a competition for resources, namely, time. I see the common explanation here is to just shrug at the st
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by achillesheels 5y ago
>Learn how the system works, and learn how to be effective within that system. And what if the system is corrupt? Do you advocate complacency? > but I also know for sure that new employees who try to bypass process and question the pr
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No one wouldn’t, because can one be electro conductive in both?
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by achillesheels 5y ago
Don't think of it as a copy but a continuation of you. And why do you think I can't continue to live in a new body, brain included, cloned from my proprietary genome, with a digitally transmitted cache of my proprietary self w
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by achillesheels 5y ago
How about taking an everlasting perspective? Ancient wisdom provides us with a healthy perspective on how irreversible all the motion of the cosmos is. And our place in it can be significant in relation to it by informing it with motion whi
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by achillesheels 5y ago
So Zuckerberg was like playing the ATL Falcons with Michael Vick and their 4-6 formation on Madden online? Cool thought.
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by achillesheels 5y ago
Well said! Human cultivation, such as "deep reading" - like reading Descartes or Leonard Euler - can't be sustained when one is so easily interrupted at work.
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I think the OP is providing value, just at a rate which can't be calculated using 19th century industrial era compensation schedules, i.e. the 8-hour work day. OK, it actually became shorter than before, but the main point is that soft

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