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by amoorthy 8y ago
Good caveats, thank you. Sigh, takes careful thought to really get out of the bubble we inhabit.
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by amoorthy 8y ago
Beautiful article. I've loved reading the author's writing for over a decade now and this one lives up to his previous writings. This sentence, in particular, caught my eye: >Hospitals are one of the very few places left where
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by amoorthy 8y ago
Just a comment on branding. I worked for RealNetworks a long, long time ago and I remember when we came out with RealPlayer One in 2002. This was an effort to bring a bunch of products together in the face of competition from MS and others.
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by amoorthy 8y ago
I'm a Stanford business school grad and harbour no fanatical love for it. I penned a public letter to my Dean [1] five years ago suggesting changes to a curriculum I saw as myopic. But this article strikes me as a diatribe against capi
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by amoorthy 8y ago
You are correct that all sources have bias. It's difficult for readers to check every article for this and gauge their credibility. So my startup, CivikOwl, built a Chrome extension that makes it easy to check the quality of citations
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by amoorthy 9y ago
While this is generally a positive step by Google it will fall short in revitalizing the news industry for a simple reason. In a world of near infinite content options, most people can no longer justify having any single news subscription.
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by amoorthy 9y ago
I use two Intuit products at my startup: Online Payroll because my BofA account easily integrates with it and Quickbooks to manage the books (because my accountant suggested it). Both products are easy to use. Online Payroll looks like a &#
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Agree 100%. We're building a product to help people find multiple, credible viewpoints on news stories - at http://civikowl.com . (Apologies for the shameless plug but hope it's helpful to folks reading this thread).
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Without much more data I'd say: 1. I once thought the same of an idea I had. When I finally launched it failed. So no one cared to clone it! 2. I have another idea I now think has merit. I've proven some traction with users. Enoug
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Just read this article. Very cool how the researchers simulated the role luck plays in society with some neat models. The conclusions they reach are fascinating and counter-intuitive e.g. >"[I]f the goal is to reward the most talent
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by amoorthy 9y ago
I played rugby for a few years in high school (not exactly stellar credentials but bear with me). The first thing we were all taught to do was tackle. The technique was to wrap your arms around the opponents legs, particularly below the kne
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Details on marketing tactics that worked and didn't with our recent launch of a Chrome extension. Hope this is helpful to others launching their MVPs.
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How to successfully launch an MVP(blog.civikowl.com)
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Any idea why Fred is not a believer in subscriptions? My hypothesis is subscriptions, for news at least, are all-or-nothing propositions. But in a world where there's so much content, much of it for free, we will only want to bypass a
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by amoorthy 9y ago
I did this retreat and found it to be extremely valuable ( http://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/141396/Vipassana-10-d... ). However, its value only carries if you continue meditating daily, at least for 30min
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by amoorthy 9y ago
I was granted an E2 visa (after showing $100k in actual expenses towards my company). Process is straight-forward and not too paper-intensive. Note that you cannot, however, apply for a green-card while on an E2. ps: Peter - thank you for d
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Lessons learned on the road to product market fit(blog.civikowl.com)
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Excellent question. The 3 periodicals I mention above represent a more classical conservative viewpoint, i.e. Paul Ryan rather than Trump. But those two overlap at times so the distinction isn't clear. What I like is that these sites h
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by amoorthy 9y ago
There are many news outlets that provide high-quality conservative viewpoints. e.g. The American Conservative, Reason, Washington Examiner etc. The insightful and different viewpoints here help me understand an issue better. Several of my f
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by amoorthy 9y ago
My company is working on this idea of Netflix for news, although we are not yet ready to test the payment part. If we succeed it may mean less news media but higher average quality. ps: excellent article and grateful for people like James a
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Hi there! The preceding review is from my sister who has a very similar sounding username (amoothy12 vs. amoorthy). Still, I'm thrilled to have her as a shill for CivikOwl :) Looking forward to some non-biased reviews on our product. H
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by amoorthy 9y ago
We've written an algorithm that scores news for quality. It's a work-in-progress but you may be interested in checking out our chrome extension at http://www.civikowl.com/
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Agreed that cost transparency is good. Better is what your non-US friends are saying: "an X-ray is this much" regardless of where you get the service and if you have insurance or not. ps: hope your biopsy was ok. Must be a very st
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by amoorthy 9y ago
There is a downside to pricing being front-and-center. It encourages the patient to make a judgement call on what procedure to undertake based more on cost than on need. Since they are not qualified to assess need they rely on cost more tha
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by amoorthy 9y ago
We built a Chrome extension to help users evaluate the quality of an article's citations and suggest better alternatives. This is Beta; the algorithm will soon go beyond citations and our recommendations will become more frequent. But
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Wow! Thanks for offering to help. Can you email me at amoorthy at civikowl dot com and we can figure out how best to work together?
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Wow, thank you for writing out such detailed feedback! Your initial assumptions are correct on the inputs to the algorithm. >the extension's rating of an "objectively good" outlet and an "objectively bad" outlet
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Thank you very much for offering to take a look. Btw, you can email feedback directly to me at amoorthy at civikowl dot com. I'll also check this thread regularly if that's easier for you. (Oh, and only works on Chrome for now; so
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Good point regarding pervasive bias in journalism, intentional or not. I've been thinking about how to help people identify bias and poor quality citations and built a chrome plug-in to do so. This is Beta but would appreciate any feed
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by amoorthy 9y ago
Yes correct (and not saying that top schools are really top; good article on selection bias a few weeks ago on this). I was primarily pointing at the fact that he started in Community College, which is sometimes looked down upon.

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