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by adam 14y ago
Relevant point to bring that up. However notice the progression from trader to other more classically "noble" pursuits. And again, I was speaking about his (and other's) character in how they treat people, not necessarily what the stereotyp
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Business people: good guys vs. bad guys(smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com)
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by adam 14y ago
Not only is this mean spirited, I think it's fairly short-sighted. I've tried several to-do list apps and none of them have quite worked for me. I end up going back to scrap pieces of paper laying on my desk or stickies, both of which are s
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by adam 14y ago
Thank you - I think people are forgetting such misses as the Cube when Jobs first came back. I remember very distinctly after taking it off the market his comments about not always being able to get it right but they must continue to try an
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by adam 14y ago
"...because nobody wants to be in Topeka." Perhaps very few readers of HN would like to be in Topeka, but there are also families that have lived there for generations and all kinds of people who I'm sure absolutely love Topeka. In fact, I
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U.S. Intelligence Tests Crowdsourcing Against Its Experts(latimes.com)
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You Can't Be Effective When You're Too Smart For Your Own Good(fastcompany.com)
22 points by adam 14y ago|18 comments
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by adam 14y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I'm not the designer, but recognize this for what it is - a thought piece that obviously required some fairly significant effort to put together. Some items have issues as you point out, but there are
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Maintaining Perspective: Real Hope vs. False Hope(smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com)
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by adam 14y ago
Why the snark? There is much talk on HN and elsewhere about how new ideas are generated, how companies try to be "innovative," etc. This is just his take on one way he comes up with new ideas. I don't have the same fascination with screws,
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How do you continue to please your game or site's 1%?(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
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by adam 14y ago
I think it's a great idea in concept as well but it seems likely based on the way it's described that Jason's project will move forward (because he's the CEO) and then the rest of the folks will have to battle it out to get their project fu
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The Lost Art of Letter Writing(huffingtonpost.com)
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Avoiding Depression While Not Running a $1B Company(smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com)
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by adam 14y ago
I actually had the opposite reaction in terms of its usefulness. I agree the UI/polish needs a couple more iterations, but I used this to put together an itinerary for my upcoming short vacation. Really like the gannt chart style view as a
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Prediction market for Facebook IPO(home.inklingmarkets.com)
4 points by adam 14y ago|1 comments
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Not setting expectations correctly ruins deals(smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com)
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The Psychology Behind Redesigns: Are You Just Insecure?(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
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What will your 5 bullet points be at the end of your life?(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
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What the Bagel Man Saw - An Accidental Glimpse at Human Nature(stephenjdubner.com)
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by adam 15y ago
Your specific comment about "$" may be false. Waldorf schools in urban areas are indeed $15k+/year/kid, but there are Waldorf schools in rural areas that charge far less for tuition. Not having kids myself but knowing parents of kids who go
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by adam 15y ago
Ironic since we were in the market first as Inkling ( http://inklingmarkets.com ) in 2006, then the well-funded "Inkling" (inkling.com) came along who ignored our claims about trademark, and now the Wacom Inkling tablet. Guess it's just a c
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by adam 15y ago
Agreed - it's been great. As soon as we added it we couldn't believe the pent up conversations that began to take place. Now we're actually hiring some community managers in large part to manage and hang out in the chat rooms.
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by adam 15y ago
I think you've done a really nice job with this. I've already replaced my nytimes.com bookmark with skimmer. One small request - could you put friendly time stamps on the articles, i.e. "posted 3 hours ago" "posted 2 days ago" and/or mark a
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by adam 15y ago
I worked at Accenture for 10 years and am on my second yC-funded company after leaving there. While I would never go back to that environment, I praise it for what it is to this day. I strongly believe more than ever you just need to unders
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by adam 15y ago
I suspect this may be true, but if you're Groupon, you're not just sitting around waiting for the daily deals business model to become more and more saturated, you're hard at work on your "next thing" and your next "big thing." Look already
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by adam 16y ago
I agree. He kind of reminded me of the Gordon Gekko figure in the original Wall Street. You're not supposed to like him because he's this amoral ass, but you end up totally digging him and a little itty part of you wants to be just like him
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by adam 16y ago
Your "All that's necessary..." is a big "all." Looking at the political class today on both sides of the aisle, I'm afraid they just aren't capable of taking any sort of necessary actions Zakaria prescribed. In addition, a President who man
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Start up selling to the enterprise? How to pass the initial “smell test"(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
4 points by adam 16y ago|0 comments
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Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral choices(news.stanford.edu)
14 points by adam 16y ago|4 comments

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