chris_l

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by chris_l 18y ago
It wasn't necessary to swap nixon and elvis
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by chris_l 18y ago
Is someone in stalker mode today?
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by chris_l 18y ago
Do they give you written explanations then?
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by chris_l 18y ago
Well seriously, forget about the news too. It's like negativity programming for the brain. See how you feel after a month w/o it.
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by chris_l 18y ago
The amount of "data" (whatever that means) might be small, but it's a highly redundant signal, that's the way it works. You can't compare the two.
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by chris_l 18y ago
I'm normally a fan of Paul's essays, but this one felt a little forced. Maybe not enough "essayer", too much agenda?
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by chris_l 18y ago
"The Monk and the Riddle" by Randy Komisar
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by chris_l 18y ago
I think people are creative at night because the body becomes tired and has less energy to interfere with inspiration.
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by chris_l 18y ago
I find that if you can't keep focussed, that's because you are merely excited but not passionate about your work. When the excitement wears off, you crash. Why do you want to do a startup? What would you do if you didn't need any more money
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by chris_l 18y ago
The purest hack serves no other purpose but itself
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by chris_l 18y ago
Well, if Zen didn't kill you...
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by chris_l 18y ago
Well I guess you got me there, but you can give scarce stuff away for allocation...
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by chris_l 18y ago
What I had in mind is more the classic pay services, a là 37 signals and the pro flickr accounts. Currently they work by having a free trial or functionality-limited version. I read somewhere to charge the producers, not consumers of conten
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by chris_l 18y ago
This is spot on, I've wondered about the economics of scarcity for a while. How does it apply to selling accounts for a hot web service? Maybe give them away for free while you're obscure, grant invitation privileges to the early adopters a
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by chris_l 18y ago
It goes against fashion these days, but I reckon it's still the USA. Anyway, I would go to Cambridge, MA.
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by chris_l 18y ago
I really like the way the price goes up as more sell. I always wanted to try that on pro accounts for web services.
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by chris_l 18y ago
That seems really early... is it normally around this time?
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by chris_l 18y ago
This high school business is all about ego. The popularity thing is just a layer on top of that. Being popular means joining in with the collective ego building. Being good at something that requires honesty (i.e. math, chess) will just get
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by chris_l 18y ago
Well, it probably built up his ego.
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by chris_l 18y ago
About ACD: well, that was as a student, not in high school which is what the essay is about, but ok. Could you be more specific about what you mean with "character"?
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by chris_l 18y ago
I knew this before reading the article, but I just can't recall where I got it from. I find it kind of ironic how he provides all this scientific theory as a sort of rationalization of the idea...
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by chris_l 18y ago
The point here being that these people are notable for a reason. I expect to find disproportionately more useful/insightful comments from them on their subjects than from the average user, including myself.
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by chris_l 18y ago
VCs probably still think the venture capital market is biased in their favour when at least in software that has changed.
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by chris_l 18y ago
I wonder what story they spun to get that money!?!
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by chris_l 18y ago
Another way to decommodify is being original and to have good design
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by chris_l 18y ago
I'm not after an implementation (i.e. code) rewrite so much as more of an interface redesign. I think that happens anyway, but at a slower pace than such a radical cut would allow.
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by chris_l 18y ago
I don't think we would encounter Windows Vista again, to take an example. It seems to require the path from DOS and the company culture that grew along with it.
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by chris_l 18y ago
Thanks, that sounds useful, I'll keep it in mind.
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by chris_l 18y ago
Sorry if my tone or style disgusts you, I'm no pg. I'll try and say it more succinctly: I think it's possible to innovate quite a bit, simply by ignoring the status quo to a yet unknown extent. In a worse-is-better way to serve simplicity a
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by chris_l 18y ago
Yeah, that's pretty true (and sad). My main idea is that things we could do better, even if still in several different ways across cultures/companies, would have already emerged, but for the momentum of the legacy interfaces (in the widest

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