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by bgroat 6y ago
It's still early days, and there are a lot of hypotheses that will be invalidated. But one of my goals at the moment is to *not* double-down on winners. The thesis being, whatever is working, is clearly working. I think a lot of produc
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by bgroat 6y ago
I think the big distinction is avoiding launching companies and instead launching products. I'm increasingly convinced that very few products need to be companies, and the insistence that they do is why a lot of them end up so shitty.
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by bgroat 6y ago
This is kind of what I'm working on. Basically a product studio with LPs
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by bgroat 6y ago
A little naval-gazy, but I once tried to separate "plants" from "animals" from first principals and had a really hard time. - They both reproduce - They both eat - They both have some sort of a nervous system - They both
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by bgroat 6y ago
I think it's that most people don't take time to reflect. I recently became very anxious that I was "dreaming less". Then I remembered that this couldn't be true because my cognition wasn't impaired. This indic
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by bgroat 6y ago
You and Retric are right. I'm imagining a checklist of: - Stable - Well Documented - Age In descending order of importance. When choosing between any technology choose the one that is most stable. If multiple options are on a s
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by bgroat 6y ago
I don't want to say "anti-pattern" because that's not what I mean... But new tech should be the last resort. If nothing stable, decades old, and well documented can solve the problem then reach for hot new-ness
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by bgroat 6y ago
Or a rail gun. My understanding for why we don't use those for spacecraft is because people and fine machinery can't take the Gs. Trash could.
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by bgroat 6y ago
It's funny, this was one of the reasons I always found Harry Potter so overrated. So Harry has super special invincibility from The Killing Curse because Lily sacrifices herself for him. This is described as "Ancient, Long Forgott
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by bgroat 6y ago
I remember once explaining to a friend that depression wasn't really "feeling sad all the time" It was more like "Emotional AIDS" - it's not that the depression made me sad, it just took away all my emotional i
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by bgroat 6y ago
I think this is the ticket. There's often only one way to be right. There's an infinite number of ways to be wrong
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by bgroat 6y ago
I've been writing about this a lot lately. Intellectuals tend to be VERY dismissive of critically looking at charisma and persuasion as tools. They're convinced that since they're ideas are SO GOOD they should will just be ac
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by bgroat 6y ago
That applies to the bottom of the class too. C's get degrees, etc, etc. It's dangerous, because it can come off as 'anti-science' but this is why I'm skeptical of many experts. Just think about how many shitty e
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by bgroat 6y ago
imho The only correct answer should be salary. It doesn't need to be market rate, but if you're ever not paying someone, they're a founder - and deserve to be represented on the cap table
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by bgroat 6y ago
Serious questions. Which countries would you suggest for this? Just the UK?
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by bgroat 6y ago
I'm expecting my first child in October. You best believe I just bookmarked your site. I can't wait to show my wife
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by bgroat 6y ago
edit: brackets 40% to 49%) This is such a nitpick, but do the economics work at 40% (or even 49%)? It seems intuitively wrong to me that your value captured is greater than the content creators. If the economics don't work, feel
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by bgroat 6y ago
I'm actually harvesting water through condensation machines and storing them in a man-made underwater resevoir now. Soon I'll be pumping it into the house for plumbing, etc. My reasoning is, in 20 years I'll have a cool proje
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by bgroat 6y ago
Can you expand on this? I get that to store a calorie in a potato I need to supply a calorie of energy from somewhere else. But why is fusion power required instead of better UV lamps in my vertical farm? (Assuming I had enough electricity
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by bgroat 6y ago
This is my understanding. It's also what I argued in a thread about Mr. Robot (a show where the protagonist perceives an individual who doesn't exist) sometime back. Someone was asking how Elliot could be on a computer while Mr. R
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by bgroat 6y ago
Or Wimbledon having paid pandemic insurance for over a decade
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A Bunch of Rocks(xkcd.com)
1 points by bgroat 6y ago|1 comments
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by bgroat 6y ago
One of my most beloved xkcd that involves an individual with unlimited space and time building a complete simulation of the universe. Do you believe that given these contrived circumstances, that an individual with human level intelligence
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by bgroat 6y ago
The number of times I have to tell people that '+service' isn't enough would boggle your mind. Regexing that away is a trivial task for spammers.
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by bgroat 6y ago
About to open a repo and tag you
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by bgroat 6y ago
Are all of these values in US dollars?
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by bgroat 6y ago
This is amazing. And much more aligned with how to actually build momentum. 25 minutes can be a LOT for some people, and 5 minutes can be enough to start building momentum
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by bgroat 6y ago
On Monday I'm launching a giveaway campaign of my 20 favourite marketing books on FB. If you want I can just DM you the list.
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by bgroat 7y ago
I love betterexplained. Does this guy have a patreon?
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Ask HN: How Long Is Reasonable Onboarding?
2 points by bgroat 7y ago|1 comments

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