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by cm11 6mo ago
I hadn’t heard of brushing, but you might also be a bystander for a different common eBay scam. Seller sells to Buyer, but ships something different to another address with the same zip code. I think eBay may have since fixed part of this,
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by cm11 6mo ago
"Better to just not think about it" feels like the majority sentiment and a lot of people's path to their own (albeit less) success. We’ve got lots of modern phrases like "don’t listen to the haters" or "you do
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by cm11 6mo ago
I'd add (not saying you said otherwise) that marketing bad ideas well isn't quite the same as good communication. I guess a funny thing is that the more naive or blind or optimistic one is, the more one might wiggle their way out
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by cm11 6mo ago
Certainly, "enough" is doing a lot of work and things get blurry, but I think "good enough" is meant to capture some of that. Over building is also a problem. It isn't strictly true that building longer lived things
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by cm11 6mo ago
I sorta feel there's as much fantasy on the other side. The situation as is—the concrete one we're discussing here—exists. You're voting for a version where this person doesn't complain through the methods designed for i
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by cm11 6mo ago
This isn't a happy counterargument or anything, but (bad as it is) this is this person's job. Or rather it is the job. Their employer has customer service in order for it to buffer—in a cost efficient way—the one or many layers of
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by cm11 7mo ago
I don't think this is simple econ 101. Yes with more houses we should expect lower prices, but also with high prices we should expect more houses produced. All that is econ 101, but that second econ 101 prediction isn't happening.
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by cm11 7mo ago
Interesting: "Why Apple is the best place to buy AirPods." I've never seen them have a section for that. It's slowly made less sense to buy directly from Apple in recent years. Not a criticism just an observation. I assu
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by cm11 7mo ago
I also think HR has this same mistaken belief about themselves. There are things they're aware they know that the employee(s) don't so they have some sense in which they're part of a misdirection, but anything that seems &quo
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by cm11 7mo ago
I totally agree with this. I would add that it's well beyond the discussion boards. It's probably most clear there and it's well possible we learned it there and then took it into our social interactions everywhere, but the m
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by cm11 7mo ago
There's a tension (imo) between deciding to only spend time trying to talk to people who immediately agree with you or are open to hearing you out vs those who immediately disagree such that they will fight hard to not hear, not unders
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by cm11 2y ago
disarming means that we can move past the "I'm pissed at you, why can't you fix your stuff" useless conversation I'm not so sure this part is "useless." It's not the most pleasant part (partic
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by cm11 2y ago
A caring about B is a good point. If A thinks to themself, "Crap, I effed up. I should apologize. B will be mad, what can I do to make B feel better? I could buy them a coffee", that's pretty good. If A thinks, "Crap, I
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by cm11 2y ago
Fwiw, I don't see "disarming" as a particular goal or win. It's neutral maybe. It might even be a bit unjust if we think the aggrieved is owed some form of recompense. I guess my framing of these things goes something li
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by cm11 2y ago
The extremely powerful part imo is what it implies about the person owning the mistake and how they might change future behavior because of it. I think it's less about the effect it had on the other person, who as you point out was ent
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by cm11 2y ago
> The people that pirate were never going to pay in the first place. I think I agree with your larger point, but is this part true? When Spotify provided a much simpler UX to get the goods, people were happy to pay $10/month and Nap
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by cm11 2y ago
I interpreted his "intrigue" (he's left it at that for now) with Palantir as an AI player to be based on two things. First is what you mention around data integration. I don't know enough about this and your point makes
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by cm11 2y ago
The problem is that the PM—the role (and sometimes the person)—at this party enables this. 1. We can think this sort of agility is good (and the outcomes better because of it). If so, we are at the least saying the PM doesn't know or a
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by cm11 2y ago
Decentralize decision-making, delegate, bottom up culture, etc. These things have merit, but increasingly less the more you move away from "whole" plans in which they make sense. These particular ones are troublesome because they
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by cm11 2y ago
I think there's two ways to read this. One is that maybe a lot of startups are not improving the status quo today. Perhaps this is right. If so, I don't think it would negate the environment described. If the intent is that solid
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by cm11 2y ago
Right. And even if you outcompete your competitor on product—say they're un-innovative and even slow such that they continually copy all your stuff, doing it with a year lag and less polish—they can still beat you because you're c
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by cm11 2y ago
Michelin stars seem to have the dynamics of a loss leader. Particularly as it's become known that many of the restaurants are badly unprofitable—and moreso if you think the chefs should earn something commensurate to their presumable t
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by cm11 2y ago
Agree with a lot of this and also feel torn (though I've been settled on a side for a little while). I've been debating with my neighbor the last few years about whether artists are still artists if they're charging for their
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by cm11 2y ago
I'm very much in line with the the gist of what's being said here. That said, there are a couple of discrepancies I think. First, I don't think Founder Mode works as a name. He's saying all the founders are being told to
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by cm11 2y ago
This is interesting, do you have any reading suggestions along these themes? It could be those travelogues, which I assume describe firsthand experiences, or maybe authors generalizing it from distance.
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by cm11 2y ago
This is only tangentially related to the main topic of the post, but thought I might ask for your thoughts on a similar dynamic. My thesis is that companies should not be (or just be much less) functionally org'd—that is, not divided i
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by cm11 2y ago
Hybrid lenses have worked for me. Hard contact in the center with a soft "skirt" around the edge. Ideally, it's the vision of the hard lens and the comfort of the soft. One brand: https://synergeyes.com/consum
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by cm11 2y ago
I think this is misconstruing what he’s saying. I read the sentences quoted as him wondering aloud that Google provides so much benefit to the world there is some question to regulating them (despite what he views and argues as legitimate a
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by cm11 2y ago
Funny, another commenter posted both videos, Steve Jobs saying it and Steve Jobs the film. Steve Jobs says what you say. Hollywood says it the other way. I suppose it also wouldn't be surprising if Jobs rehearsed this Hollywood-style f
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by cm11 2y ago
That was the gist I got too, but the relatable-ness felt undermined by the pithiness and the specifics. It resonated though, which is why I felt it said something about where people are at.

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