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by csallen 7y ago
Your complaints aren't unreasonable, and I wouldn't disagree with skipping the book to read others instead. I agree with whoever said the book needs a version 2. However, I don't think this justifies dismissing the entire b
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by csallen 7y ago
I believe this is overstated and makes it sound like all of his work is bs, when the majority of the book is just fine. (I could be wrong and would be happy to be proven so. Just not a fan of the all-or-nothing attitude people apply toward
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by csallen 7y ago
Second this. I barely made it a week at a construction site when I was younger, and I was convinced the experienced shaved a few months off of my life expectancy. I was also just as exhausted coming home from work as I would be from an equi
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by csallen 7y ago
People have very limited notions of what a business is. At its core, a business is just a project or activity that's capable of sustaining itself financially. That's it. There are no other requirements. There are some super crea
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by csallen 7y ago
A bomb unexpectedly exploding in a major city is only one of many possibly nuclear scenarios. What happens if, say, the US or Russia detect what they think is an incoming attack and have the time to respond before it hits?
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by csallen 7y ago
> Who wants to destroy the world and why wouldn't they have done it already? Who wants to shoot down a civilian airliner and why wouldn't they have done it already? It's not about the desire to destroy humanity. It&#x2
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by csallen 7y ago
We certainly had to adjust to those technologies, and all of them came with side effects in addition to being valuable, the same as the new tech we've seen in recent years. In the 90s all anyone could talk about was how terrible TV was
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by csallen 7y ago
> which is unfortunate since they are almost always the wrong choice Why?
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by csallen 7y ago
Where's the 21st?
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by csallen 7y ago
Ben Tossell of Makerpad. He made about $200k in the past year from a site that teaches others how to build interactive sites and apps without writing code. Lynne Tye of Key Values. She made about $400k in 2019 from a site that connects soft
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by csallen 7y ago
I can't speak to what we need to find fulfillment. I haven't met many people who've said, "I'm fulfilled." And is fulfillment even the right goal? Once you reach it, is it not something you must constantly stri
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by csallen 7y ago
Why not make it your goal to find a goal? Due to hedonic adaptation, the journey of working toward something is usually more rewarding than reaching any particular destination, especially if you're getting lots of feedback along the wa
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by csallen 7y ago
It's interesting to read the original post, your comment, and the responses to your comment. There are many different uses of the word "focus" and its relationship with saving time. For me, focus is simply about depth over br
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by csallen 7y ago
Start small. Way smaller than you think is reasonable. Nothing saps motivation like overly ambitious projects (read: 99% of projects) where it takes you forever to get to any sort of milestone. Every time I work on anything that takes longe
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by csallen 7y ago
Didn't the Roman empire fall centuries after its peak? Also, the US (and many other nations) have been growing and improving for hundreds of years at this point. So by your logic, at almost any point in the past you could have said, &q
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by csallen 7y ago
> The problem with any big book is that, at the end, the author has you over a barrel: either you loved it and the author is a genius, or you hated it and you are a sucker. Lots of people claim to love long, ponderous books just to avoi
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by csallen 7y ago
> Sorry, but walk into any once a week church AA meetings and you will find many wealthy alcoholics there. This type of anecdata is meaningless for assessing anything. Not only is your sample size tiny and biased based on where you liv
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by csallen 7y ago
I second The Dream Machine. Not only is it an entertaining and informative read, but it's also super impressive. I can't imagine all the work that went into putting that book together.
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by csallen 7y ago
Google did the same thing with Glass. They had super slick concept video that went viral, and the real product couldn't be anything but a disappointment after that.
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by csallen 7y ago
There's a large subset of people who, for whatever reason, are particularly attuned to ideas and fears around societal collapse, authoritarian takeovers, and other threats to their personal liberties. That's not to say these fears
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by csallen 7y ago
Tech -- especially social media -- is often directly competitive with old media, and has for years at this point posed an existential threat. From Jobs wanting a 30% cut of the Times' revenue on iOS, to Amazon's cutthroat relation
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by csallen 7y ago
Obligatory link to the famous HN Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 When thinking about the viability of a business, developers commonly make the mistake of assuming that nobody would pay for somethi
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by csallen 7y ago
> Can you imagine the impeachment hearings if the committee had 500 members, each demanding their 5 minutes to grandstand with each witness? You have to assume that if you changed the size of the committees, their behavior would change,
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by csallen 7y ago
I don't think it's purely rational. It's probably the case that loss aversion[0] or some combination of psychological phenomena play a huge role. But I suppose the rational component is: If it's practical to save a speci
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by csallen 7y ago
Sure something like that, although I'd say it's to save every species that's practical to save rather than merely possible. Whether or not they're "viable" seems irrelevant.
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by csallen 7y ago
Limiting the impact of humans is a means, not an end.
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by csallen 7y ago
> But that's not true in the case of a bank account. Its insured. And often times you dont even get to see that the bank lost money, because of how banks are structured internally. And even if the bank can't insure it's th
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by csallen 7y ago
> So you're saying if I rob your bank account it's not theft because it's not a physical good. Okay. It's not about the physicality of the good. It's about it being rivalrous. If you take my money, I no longer
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by csallen 7y ago
It's not an elaborate definition. From the first line of Wikipedia's article on theft: "In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with
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by csallen 7y ago
> Given that many brands are not exclusively a maker's mark, most folks can't even be reasonably informed in the first place without asking. But even if we ignore that, it's worth pointing out that your argument only is tr

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