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by garrickvanburen 7mo ago
I flip this around. Marketing comes first. Sales second. Product third.
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by garrickvanburen 7mo ago
“The business enterprise has two—and only two—basic functions: marketing and innovation.” - Peter Drucker I'm pretty sure my primary job is marketing the work that I do.
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by garrickvanburen 7mo ago
Considering: - Anthropic decides how much a token is worth. - Users have no visibility or ability to control in how many tokens a given response will burn. This is the only expected answer. https://forstarters.substack.com&#x2F
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by garrickvanburen 7mo ago
Based on my math, taking development in-house doesn’t make sense until we’re talking >$5K/mn. https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-72-vibe-code...
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Strategic Leadership Is Lacking, Not Trust(garrickvanburen.com)
2 points by garrickvanburen 7mo ago|0 comments
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Vibe-Code vs. Buy for B2B SaaS in 2026(forstarters.substack.com)
1 points by garrickvanburen 7mo ago|0 comments
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by garrickvanburen 7mo ago
I'm reminded of the original Agile joke, "software you don't want in 30days or less." today it's "software you don't want in 5days or less."
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by garrickvanburen 8mo ago
The most hyped use cases for AI/LLM make me wonder, "why are we doing this activity to begin with? We could just not."
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The End of Cargo Culting Startup Accelerators(garrickvanburen.com)
3 points by garrickvanburen 8mo ago|0 comments
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by garrickvanburen 8mo ago
If I recall correctly, the impetus for Christiansen to even look into this was to answer the question: “why are there so many milkshakes sold in the morning via drive thru?” That’s a different question than, “how do we make our breakfast me
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by garrickvanburen 8mo ago
I'm a big fan of JobsToBeDone, but partially because of this milkshake example, it took me years to grok. As I see it, the milkshake example isn't about innovation, it's about actually having human-to-human conversations wit
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by garrickvanburen 8mo ago
I would say Apple's original exclusivity deal w/ AT&T shows they're comfortable letting a 3rd party control some of the user experience if that's the only way they can get to market.
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by garrickvanburen 9mo ago
It’s likely the land would be far more valuable as something else. Small family farms, while romanticized, have all the problems of any small business competing with larger professionalized businesses; consistency in operations, consistency
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by garrickvanburen 11mo ago
On the news of Netflix acquiring Warner Bros, I’m reminded of how good Netflix has been at innovating their business model. Over the past 27 years, their business model has changed multiple times and each evolution appears to be in direct r
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
I prefer Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect or Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy “AI is amazing about the thing I know nothing about…but it’s absolute garbage at the stuff I’m expert in.” https://garrickvanburen.com/an-increasingly-worse-
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
My rant on token-based pricing is primarily based on the difficulty in consistently forecasting spend.....and also that the ongoing value of a token is controlled by the vendor...."the house always wins" https://forstar
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
Fortitude is amazing. Cinematography, soundtrack, creepiness all top notch.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
"social media" is forums, IRC, blogs, etc, but through the lens of advertisers.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
One of my favorite phones. Despite a bizarre hiccup preventing sd cards from being recognized if the camera lens sensor broke.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
After briefly looking into it, my assumption is intermittent fasting works great for people that are eating throughout the entirety of the day.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
Or Kubb! It has a high silliness factor
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
That’s my question: what are the political stars now aligned?
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
What inspired working to reverse this now? I'm all for it, just curious as the law has existed for 8 years and been in effect for 3. Seemingly little interest from anyone in the tech world to put lobbying behind reversing it until this
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
I've got a slightly different philosophy. A calendar is for storing commitments, and a specific date/time is part of that commitment. I consider a 'to do list' a 'to schedule list', they are potential commitmen
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
personal projects are fantastic and don't require making anyone happy except yourself. if however your goal is to make other people happy (which I'd argue is no longer a personal project)...the iterative "work" described
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
this is the problem Google search originally had. They successfully solved it with an advertising....and they also had the ability to cache results.
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
I don’t see the problem. I’m not sure how LLMs output is indistinguishable from Wikipedia or World Book. Maybe? and if the question is “did the student actually write this?” (which is different than “do they understand it?” there are lots o
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AI: How and Why I Use It(patreon.com)
1 points by garrickvanburen 1y ago|0 comments
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
I’m always hesitant to drag books written in a different era through today’s sensibilities. For all the complaints of these books today (and I’ve complained about Lean Startup as recently as Dec 2024) these were written in a different time
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by garrickvanburen 1y ago
There are 2 parts: 1. Presumably, the surgeon has determined that this specific intervention is the best possible intervention of all the possible ones (fewest downsides, best outcome, etc). There are always alternatives - including #wontfi

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