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by bksenior 7y ago
This read like a business school professor. All young businesses are a fluid experiment "out of business rationale" is a hindsight fluff statement. If rationale informed effective product then a lot more people were successful.
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by bksenior 7y ago
The effectiveness of types of persuasion change with time. Eventually there will be something that moves people if it becomes important enough.
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by bksenior 7y ago
You ever read Upton Sinclair's the jungle? It's a tale as old as time. Just publicly shame the company and ultimately they change or congress passes laws. This is a major reason the media works this way, it's part of Ameri
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by bksenior 7y ago
Almost every piece of acadamekc and practical research shows that this is not true (Ariely has 3 great papers on this). People love things, power, sex and connection. Most of the things that lead to those things are exchanged directly or i
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by bksenior 7y ago
This is a crazy naive take and Id argue almost the opposite. Id say if you want to cut down anti-intellectualism, that might be more of a founded hot take. Start-ups are foundationaly bullshit. It's almost always some person with som
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by bksenior 8y ago
I think it's an indirect way of telling people not to over think or analyze action.
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by bksenior 8y ago
I guess heres my bigger question. If some individual where to have knowledge of a murder or rape and it came to light that they were intentionally with holding the evidence of the crime, would this individual be committing a crime themselve
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by bksenior 8y ago
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a21239... droooool
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by bksenior 8y ago
You think thats bad. Tesla is about to have to head to head with all the majors who are now starting to finally harvest about a decade of their own research in the space (prompted by Teslas early success). Musks ambitions and outbursts str
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by bksenior 8y ago
What? One is a marginal cost business and one is not. Not a great take.
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by bksenior 8y ago
I bet it's much simpler than that. Just like oxytocin amount, being prone to cancer and everything else there is probably large genetic predisposition and response. I bet the range range is enormous as to how sleep affects people.
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by bksenior 8y ago
I think it's actually even simpler. If you se a set a function of value you in your life and you build a feedback loop to track how much of that value you are achieving, you're probably gonna have a good time.
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by bksenior 8y ago
Outside of the obvious increase in value, it tends to be lost that VCs are money managers. Mark-ups serve as marketing for the next fund which they get a % of an annual basis. The time horizon to see any company turn to cash is so long tha
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by bksenior 8y ago
I mean, Im not sure the meta-deception could be anymore apropos given the topic and response. I think the backstory takes a good story and makes it an accidental masterpiece.
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by bksenior 8y ago
Someone want to share a tl;dr?
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by bksenior 8y ago
Google been a defacto monopoly for a long-time. I always just assumed it was to keep regulation from some states backwards religious senators/congresspeople at bay.
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by bksenior 8y ago
You can have a good idea from a bad source. It doesn't really affect the quality of the idea.
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by bksenior 8y ago
Why does he have to give back money or soul search? This isa common emotional take on all issues of this type. Human experience is dynamic and people seem to confuse a need for some type of life consistency of values with the validity of
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by bksenior 8y ago
Eh. This seems fluffy. This seems more like the Industrial Revolution + Twitter. Just like all the studies that the world is technically better off in every modern metric of improvement (poverty, starvation, mobility..etc, but things feel
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by bksenior 8y ago
This is deeply intellectually disingenuous and a bit masturbatory even. News isn't only events you can or cannot effect, it is context setting, value creating and signal driving. The idea that your local culture is superior to foreign
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by bksenior 8y ago
Eddie Lampard's ego tour was the real nail in what could maybe have been a salvaged niche success story.
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by bksenior 8y ago
You're confused. Faking it is still doing your best to meet your own knowledge and standards. No one is going and just trying to fuck it up.
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by bksenior 8y ago
Leeches used to be common medical training, Penicillin was literally created by a pro who went against his training. Training is often helpful for pattern mataching, but make no mistakes, your doctor can kill you and your teachers can misl
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by bksenior 8y ago
I picture the second part said in Ron Howard's "The Narrator's" voice.
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by bksenior 8y ago
He used to be on at like 4a when I was in high school. I genuinely dont understand how this guy has had his own shows consistently for 2 decades and STILL most people have never heard of him.
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by bksenior 8y ago
I bet you're a hit at Children's birthday parties
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by bksenior 8y ago
You've clearly missed the point of the story and kind of reaffirmed the pitfalls of being the CEO of a company with any amount of public success. First, it was a fail if felt your primary responsibility is to the team, shareholders and
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by bksenior 8y ago
This is a perfect way to put it "Los Angeles is a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit." Once you understand how to travel the city, it's hard to live anywhere else because quality of life is so ridiculously
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by bksenior 8y ago
Not accurate. Theranos's investors, board and outside stakeholders where by design people with no medical or related experience.
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by bksenior 8y ago
lol. I'll assume that you've never run a bigger company before. It's literally everything, there is a story for everything. If you want to cut the leadership as being absentee, it's easy to track a thread back to abse

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