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by crdb 10y ago
Yes and no. Usually you can play what you like and project a certain impression (e.g. last movement of Sea Eagle [1] if wanting to show brilliance, a Mozart concerto [2] if wanting to play it safe). This is similar to showing your open sour
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by crdb 10y ago
Not quite engineering, but related: Professional orchestras have auditions, where you will perform a piece from the solo repertoire in front of the head of the section you are auditioning for, and a few other key staff (e.g. [1]). Some audi
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by crdb 10y ago
I read about it on one of the other commenters' links and immediately thought that somewhere, a product manager was told to "move fast and break things" and "get it launched next month no matter what".
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by crdb 10y ago
There is a PR explosion of these stories at the moment (e.g. [1]). So I thought I'd give it a try here in Singapore. Neither Mobike nor Ofo were installable on my Xiaomi ("not available in your market" - maybe they should hav
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by crdb 10y ago
You're right on 1). Certainly reputation can get you much better terms, but it takes a really long time to build. I remember a famous fund launch recently and I was about to pitch them but then read up the main partner's comment h
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by crdb 10y ago
The TL;DR: if you skip the admin and due diligence of a deal, you will close more deals. For example: "I couldn’t understand why buyers felt they needed to dig into accounting minutiae". However, to paraphrase something I read fro
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by crdb 10y ago
> But I can assure you that it confers basically zero status, no matter how much I'd like it to. You could learn to free dive in a couple of weeks and use your capacity for breath holding to get yourself on most countries' nati
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by crdb 10y ago
What is your response to that argument?
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by crdb 10y ago
> While addressing a spellbound audience of young officers, he would sometimes partially immerse one finger in a small beaker of pure VX for a few seconds. Without interrupting his lecture, he would then amble to a nearby sink and casual
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by crdb 10y ago
What would make sense would be to tax the 20% cut that Uber (the company that makes >$75,000/year in revenue) is taking from the rides (see any discussion of what exactly is GMV). Then, if an individual driver does make more than th
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by crdb 10y ago
"Create"? From defected KGB general Oleg Kalugin's autobiography [1]: > Our station also became deeply involved in what we called “active measures,” which essentially involved dirty tricks and disinformation campaigns. One
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by crdb 10y ago
> if they had any idea of what they were doing, they wouldn't need to sell Having spent some time in the industry, I disagree, you're always trying to maintain or increase AUM. Funds constantly sell to existing and future limit
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by crdb 10y ago
Related: > On a cold and rainy February afternoon in 1947, one year before the Games Center was established, First Secretary H. M. Sichel of the British Embassy in Washington telephoned Loy Henderson, Assistant Secretary of State for Nea
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by crdb 10y ago
> Look at the way the Chinese do it. When they have friends they make sure that they are a friend for a long time and they make sure you know it. And there is no doubt about their intent and their ability to sustain a policy over many Ge
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by crdb 10y ago
Don't forget Marc Rich, FBI Ten Most Wanted, who US Marshals failed to kidnap in Switzerland several times... over unpaid taxes.
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by crdb 10y ago
Additionally, "referenced some news articles" is not sufficient for notability because most startup coverage is PR [1]. Unfortunately, when you get genuine independent journalism, it is also not positive coverage (e.g. Theranos, M
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by crdb 10y ago
They switched [1] as early as 1977 to Seiko after a brief flirt with Breitling, then to Omega from 1995 although Rolex did briefly reappear in 1989. In other words much of today's target market did not see Bond wear a Rolex in cinemas,
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by crdb 10y ago
They lead the game in terms of signalling disposable income to the 90%ers. They have been beaten by the Japanese in multiple areas for decades. The best example is that the Swiss used to have accuracy contests which they had to cancel after
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by crdb 10y ago
> it looks great with a tuxedo Debatable, as it is a sports watch (arguably "the" sports watch). Wearing a sports watch with black tie suggests a middle class New Worlder. I happen to like these values (meritocracy, individual
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by crdb 10y ago
This excellent post echoes what I have heard from friends employed or formerly employed at Bridgewater, although these patterns are common to all large organisations.
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by crdb 10y ago
The funding market, like that for employment and marriage, clears at different prices for different individuals. I'd say the number of founders who can truly aspire to get funded by the "Big Boys" (and have the choice you tal
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by crdb 10y ago
I think this is an unfair characterisation of both the post and what is implied about its author. I've followed Jason Lemkin for about a year (mostly on Quora) and he seems like a former successful SaaS entrepreneur trying to figure ou
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by crdb 10y ago
The filter for relevance for investment that has overwhelmingly survived in the market is social proof ("warm intros") for a reason: it's substantially more expensive and harder to fake third party signals (including their ow
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by crdb 10y ago
On the subject, if you've ever wondered what would happen if the US military were to invest millions of dollars into testing all kind of things from sarin to their version of super-strong LSD on volunteers (and, generally, why there wa
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by crdb 10y ago
> the movie Ender's Game was pretty faithful to the source novel I disagree entirely. In fact I would claim that the movie fails precisely because it deviates from the novel in exactly the way that makes the novel great. Spoilers fo
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by crdb 10y ago
After I had a similar issue, I decided to offer all clients a 10% discount for paying upfront, monthly. It has the added advantage of no notice period: if they are fed up with our work they can just stop paying and we stop doing any more wo
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by crdb 10y ago
I once visited a Ford factory in England where the manager told us the night shift workers were paid very well (more than London front office in their first two years at Goldman Sachs) because their life expectancy might be shortened by as
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by crdb 10y ago
The discussion by the source of the quote is worth a read (in the comment thread): https://www.quora.com/Did-William-Casey-CIA-Director-really-... > Though not explicitly said at that time, it was made clear in other con
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by crdb 10y ago
It's the opposite for me. All WhatsApp calls - including to others in Singapore literally less than a mile from me - have a 3 second lag. This is not the case with Skype.
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by crdb 10y ago
I think, on its own, that the story holds up to being "worth reading". The Dark Forest solution to the Fermi paradox is elegant and I was surprised (from cursory research) that Liu seems to be the first to come up with it. However

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