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by flybrand 4y ago
Great article. Using household examples to explain theory is very powerful. Along those lines the most recent Goldratt / Theory of Constraints book “Rules of Flow” has a chapter on Thanksgiving dinner preparation, similar to the origin
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by flybrand 4y ago
It's straight out of Goldratt and Theory of Constraints, ultimately the constraint becomes leadership. How many issues can leaders address in a day? How do they prioritize the personnel needs of their team?
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by flybrand 4y ago
> I wish such clarity of training and feedback exists in other skill domains. a lot of success as a leader is creating such fast feedback loops for a team
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by flybrand 4y ago
What’s wrong with the other 50%?
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by flybrand 4y ago
That really stings…
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by flybrand 4y ago
“Google sucks,” “search doesn’t show real results anymore,” and many similar comments are common in my world of heavy industry / manufacturing / b2b sales. They’ve been harvesting profits rather than making a better product. They
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by flybrand 4y ago
Crops have a shelf life and a consumption window - they are perishable. There’s enormous investment going on in technologies to enhance the storage of downstream products. That will pay off, in the same way that the excess crops of the Ohio
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by flybrand 4y ago
Isn’t the biggest research topic in Alzheimer’s the questioning of the amyloid hypothesis?
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by flybrand 4y ago
Maps will often load faster.
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by flybrand 4y ago
I sold a line of high end r&d tools to university labs; they became engines to knock off each others work. The least ethical group of buyers I ever worked with!
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by flybrand 4y ago
Do what’s best for you; it’s hard to see other project a false reality about entrepreneurship when you’re doing the work and not achieving what you want.
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by flybrand 4y ago
Frankl is a great place to start.
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by flybrand 4y ago
We can’t control if we find the right person - so control the things we can. Creating that confidence leads to a more confident exterior which is attractive to others!
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by flybrand 4y ago
Identify people who have what you want, or match your view of success and spend time w them. Find a way to see if mentorship - formal or not - is possible.
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by flybrand 4y ago
I left finance, working in illiquid alternatives - writing checks as an LP into VCs and buyout groups because it wasn’t fulfilling. Went back to manufacturing / industrial tech. Hard at first, very fulfilling and economically good a
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by flybrand 4y ago
Quiet could be a big driver. I advised a drone co w a contract to inspect off shore turbines and they did testing to show how quiet their product was so as not to disturb marine mammals. Also, we’ve been eFoiling a lot and it is so calm com
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by flybrand 4y ago
Chocolate covered turds look like sweets until it’s too late.
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How can that claim be made?
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by flybrand 4y ago
I’m planning how to trial a smaller version on our EFoils in the spring. For battery power, that bump is huge.
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Sharrow MX-1: Tipless propeller (2020)(mby.com)
392 points by flybrand 4y ago|156 comments
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by flybrand 4y ago
Great podcast recommendation - the 5 out now are all books h enjoyed for their perspective, but it wasn’t a perspective I was a supporter of / believer in.
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by flybrand 4y ago
It seems like you’re saying that all monolayer products are better than all composite layers. I would agree that optimal PTFE is a mini layer, bc it’s got such poor air perm. However, the ‘working’ layer in futurelight and Neoshell has abou
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by flybrand 4y ago
Sughoi (sp?) had Neoshell bike gear and new composites often focus on higher asp markets like mountaineering before they go into running, etc. These products are about breathable water barrier, not about warmth. They will come!
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by flybrand 4y ago
The number of global PTFE producers is limited - yes, there will be knock off apparel layers, but there are less than a dozen producers of the base layer. Many of them are preparing for a post-apparel world given the new restrictions.
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by flybrand 4y ago
I believe what makes this different is a coating layer on top of the traditional PTFE.
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by flybrand 4y ago
Did you work with POLARTEC Neoshell or the North Face Futurelight? There were some bike garments made of similar materials.
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There’s precedent for that in illiquid alternatives - several publishers had internal investment arms that grew into distinct GPs.
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by flybrand 4y ago
Sure, it 'could' - anything is possible! > Of all the ideas presented, creating a fibrous film that is edible, no-waste, anti-microbial and water soluble was the one that took off, and Zhao published her first paper on the subj
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by flybrand 4y ago
What’s the right problem?
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by flybrand 4y ago
Which chemistry kit do you wish you’d received?

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