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by erikstarck 7y ago
That’s because you’re not actually paying for the education itself but access to the network of people who also can afford it plus the brand name of the institute.
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by erikstarck 7y ago
Started a company with some friends in May 1999. Company was acquired (with stocks) in February 2000. Everything crashed in March. Lost basically all the money during the coming year. Stock is still 99% down from peak. Crazy days.
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by erikstarck 7y ago
There is an English version of Generation 64, about the C64 and people who used it: http://generation64.com/
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by erikstarck 7y ago
“Without the Amiga, I would not be the computer person i am today.” Then this book is for you: https://fandrake.com/produkt/generation-500/ It tells the story of the Amiga and the people using it and how it shaped
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by erikstarck 7y ago
Sure, watch it but also read this article for balance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11... "It Sounds Crazy, But Fukushima, Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Show Why Nucl
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by erikstarck 7y ago
Pixels.
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by erikstarck 8y ago
That was a very good list of things that would typically come up in a healthy retrospective. But, yes, there has to be psychological safety first.
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by erikstarck 8y ago
This. That is why the retrospective meeting is at the heart of agile. A truly "agile light" setup would be: Every other week, do a retrospective. That's it! On the retro, ask yourself 3 questions (or work with these 3 themes)
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by erikstarck 8y ago
"OKRs tend to require hours and maybe even days to determine what are the right goals and metrics." The author implies that this is wasted time. It is not. Figuring out why you do what you do and how you measure the success of tha
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2.7M Medical Calls Breached in Sweden, and It’s Pure Comedy(medium.com)
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Simone Giertz brain tumor is back(youtube.com)
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by erikstarck 8y ago
The note about Sweden seems a bit off. It is now January and we still don't have a government formed since the election in September. The politicians have all showed their worst sides in not getting along and the trust in them has plum
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by erikstarck 8y ago
There's also, finally, a new Mac Mini! "The most specced-out Mac mini can feature 64 GB RAM, 4.6GHz 6-core Core i7 CPUs, a 2 TB SDD and 10 Gigabit ethernet."
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by erikstarck 8y ago
"all mammals are basically the same type of system" Key word: "mammals".
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by erikstarck 8y ago
The book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies" (phew, long name!) is a fascinating read about how the lifespan of whales, humans and
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by erikstarck 8y ago
The hike is my favorite metaphor for sustainable product development: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880953
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Sprints, marathons and hikes(hackernoon.com)
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by erikstarck 8y ago
OKRs has its roots in Groves ideas. John Doerr who wrote Measure What Matters learned about OKRs working for Intel under Grove.
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by erikstarck 8y ago
Similar but not the same. A KPI is backward looking/lagging while an OKR should crystalize an ambition and look forward.
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Zero, One, Infinity – The Only Three Numbers Your Startup Should Care About(medium.com)
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by erikstarck 9y ago
Two good books on the subject... First read "The E-myth". Then read "Built to Sell".
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by erikstarck 9y ago
You can create groups of people on Facebook. I’m pretty sure you could get something very similar to that using Facebook and some active management of lists.
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by erikstarck 9y ago
With self driving cars this might become more normal. I wonder how that will affect urban planning and house prices.
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Ship and Sell and Learn = Progress(medium.com)
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Back to basics-programming(medium.com)
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by erikstarck 9y ago
For a conclusion, it's very inconclusive. :) "Crucially, we find that the nonlinearity of the problem leads to multiple local optima, so that very different optimal portfolios can exist simultaneously, and the global optimum switc
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Go on, build that MVP(medium.com)
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by erikstarck 10y ago
Crisp is quite transparent in how they work and it's documented here if you want to clone it yourself: http://dna.crisp.se/docs/index.html
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People, products, projects or guru – four ways to build your business(medium.com)
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Onboarding like Michael Jackson(medium.com)
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