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How Long Until Cloud Kitchens Are the SEO-Hacking of Food Delivery?(sharedphysics.com)
2 points by goopthink 4y ago|0 comments
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If you want to build a toaster from scratch(theprepared.org)
1 points by goopthink 4y ago|0 comments
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by goopthink 4y ago
Seriously caught off guard by this as well. It's not the fonts, it's the characters used: - The ʀᴇмᴀιɴs of a tall male and sixteen female skeletons were identified among hundreds of gold and silver artefacts and thousands of coins
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by goopthink 4y ago
Peter Reinhardt (Segment’s CEO) goes in depth about this journey (and more) in the “Learning How To Sell” episode of Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s “Invest Like the Best” podcast. Likely the original source for this post: - https://op
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by goopthink 4y ago
But even human-generated work has all sort of domain-specific “fair use” rules to comply with, including plagiarism (academia), open source licensing (code), attribution for generative works (CC) and so on. People who make too closely gener
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by goopthink 4y ago
"Write Useful Books" by Rob Fitzpatrick is an amazing guide for how to write, test, edit, and polish technical nonfiction.
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by goopthink 4y ago
… and in retrospect, was it worth it? Or was it a pyrrhic short term victory at a huge expense for something that would have happened eventually anyway but at a slower pace? Was this all just a quest to accelerate the inevitable outside of
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Become a famous programmer by not programming (2006)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
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by goopthink 4y ago
https://archive.ph/N1blh
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by goopthink 4y ago
Best speed reading technique is actually to just skip the boring bits - the fluff that most nonfiction books include to move the narrative between ideas or to reiterate a point. Combine that with note taking and you have a very powerful rea
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by goopthink 4y ago
Using Clubhouse as the end-all for social audio does the "space" a disservice, IMO. I used Clubhouse early on and it fell squarely into every single trope and commentary that everyone here is posting about it. Much later, I was in
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by goopthink 4y ago
Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley have a lot of great game mechanics and are also about discovery, trade, and building relationships. Factorio is probably a bit more advanced, but meets your criteria (except for story, maybe). There is a rabb
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by goopthink 4y ago
Mortifying, but thanks for the catch! Should be fixed now.
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by goopthink 4y ago
This is a really valuable point and we faced a lot of ground-level resistance because of this. Teams and people were incentivized to care about the wrong things. Those things made sense in the past, but the structure and incentives of the e
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by goopthink 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree. There's two key elements: 1. If you don't properly evaluate the work and be selective with what you work on, actual engineering time will be allocated to too many projects. People spin their wheels worki
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by goopthink 4y ago
OP here. I think those are good points. Particularly: "perhaps the plan is not what ended up mattering so much as having someone who was willing and able to push it through." . This is very true. It was a combination of having te
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by goopthink 4y ago
This is very fair! We used a few guide posts: - 1: Keep asking "why is this valuable" until you get to the money questions. It's often a few layers deep. Not being able to get at that (missing an ability to quantify) was in i
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by goopthink 4y ago
OP here. We had a lot of discussion about where Tech Debt falls on the spectrum of projects to work on. That merits its own post. But the gist of it is that resolving tech debt has value. The challenge is that most engineering organizatio
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by goopthink 4y ago
OP here -- something I didn't touch on is that this is really common when a company transitions from early-stage to mid stage. The operations of a small company and the operations of a mid size company (and the operations of a large co
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by goopthink 4y ago
"The Mom Test" is an awesome look at that -- how bad questions and worse feedback leads to a lot of wasted effort. Highly recommend it. http://momtestbook.com/
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When everything is important but nothing is getting done(sharedphysics.com)
389 points by goopthink 4y ago|78 comments
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by goopthink 4y ago
That’s a comment from 2013, now 9 years ago. Since then, healthcare technology has really changed. Compliance and auditing are pretty standard with easy to follow playbooks, and there are plenty of off the shelf tools HIPAA-compliant as soo
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by goopthink 4y ago
I worked in three different healthcare technology companies (for doctors, pharma, and insurance). 1. In not a single case was compliance with HIPAA rules ever a cost center beyond the initial project to implement controls, and that itself w
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by goopthink 4y ago
This includes primarily heavily excerpted copies of the papers. While some editorial choices may make a lot of sense, you don’t know what you don’t know between the ellipses.
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Fore-Edge Indexing Books(austinkleon.com)
9 points by goopthink 4y ago|0 comments
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by goopthink 4y ago
Yes, and you should read “The Mom Test”. Key takeaway, focus your questions on the problems customers are trying to solve and details therein, rather than talking about your solution or trying to be on pitch mode.
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The Product Management Reading List(sharedphysics.com)
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Some Thoughts on Using Terraform CI for Monorepos(viperandleaf.xyz)
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by goopthink 4y ago
I completely agree - this is nearly verbatim a personal frustration I recorded in my work log from a few days ago: Extremely frustrated with Google Shopping ads. I can’t understand how they make money. Spent an hour trying to figure out how
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by goopthink 4y ago
Google’s Ad Products have - over the last few years, in the pursuit of “smartness” —gotten progressively dumber and harder to use, making all sorts of bad and often unchangable decisions on your behalf, and having really awful interfaces fo

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