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Stuck in a 3rd-world information vacuum? download real books for free...(gigapedia.org)
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How to Use Search Engines & Web Data to Conduct Competitive Brand Analysis(seomoz.org)
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Guatemala as Muse and Base for a Writer(nytimes.com)
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by h34t 19y ago
I think it's possible to argue carefully, thoughtfully, and with 100% good intentions, and still be guilty of intellectual dishonesty. Example: the honest, well-intentioned pastor who delivers a sermon on creationism. I witnessed one of the
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by h34t 19y ago
Each level (DH0,1,2,etc.) could include a variety of forms of disagreement, instead of just one. The resulting chart would become a rough guide to their relative strengths: move "up" the chart for better forms, and "down" for the bad ones (
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by h34t 19y ago
Another way out is to simply ignore poor arguments and spend one's scarce time responding to the intelligent ones instead. (Admittedly, this is not always possible or desirable.)
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by h34t 19y ago
The Prize by Daniel Yergin is another great book that totally demolished all assumptions I'd had of what a "successful businessperson" looked like. It's a history of the oil industry, and I was riveted by how colorful and different the va
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by h34t 19y ago
Also -- in response to the thought experiment: For me to "apply Munger's theory of misjudgment in this startup to make it better" would basically entail putting myself in that startup's environment, probing the situation to get a sense of w
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by h34t 19y ago
It sounds like you're asking me to repeat exactly the same task that Andreessen and Munger have already attempted -- to show how understanding human misjudgment can be valuable to people in business/entrepreneurship. If they were unable to
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by h34t 19y ago
Sort of. I stayed in south east asia to live cheap & learn python. Supporting myself on a few hours of work per week makes it easy to tinker, have fun, and figure out what to build next by "playing". So I'm not in the midst of a startup
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by h34t 19y ago
I just talked to a musician from Nashville who came to Thailand for some expensive dental work. Saved many $1000's and had a fantastic vacation to boot (I met him in a remote cove of an island, where he was playing guitar all afternoon for
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by h34t 19y ago
Also, I have my own anecdote. I worked my tail off for a year in China. I had two other founders/partners back in N. America -- I was the only one on-the-ground, and I was also the youngest & most inexperienced. I basically stayed there
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by h34t 19y ago
My thoughts on this matter were summed up today by Marc Andreessen: In my view, entrepreneurial judgment is the ability to tell the difference between a situation that's not working but persistence and iteration will ultimately prove it ou
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by h34t 19y ago
> I've seen how psychology-driven corporate HRs ruined companies I'd say that if an HR department has a good understanding of human psychology, that understanding can only help them. If they only focus on psychology and nothing else,
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by h34t 19y ago
This is right up there in my own "top 7 influential books"... Last year I put all Munger's "mental models"/biases/etc. (and a bunch of my own) on index cards. Every now and then when I want a fresh perspective on something, I scatter out th
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by h34t 19y ago
Your startup depends almost entirely on the thinking and behavior of people: you, the people in your company, and the people outside your company (who are the reason your company exists). According to Marc and Munger et al, understanding wh
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by h34t 19y ago
"You suck, but not because of who you are intrinsically -- only because of your environment. You must become a startup founder, or you'll probably continue to suck." To me, this retains PG's argument but also shows why it's so easy to be of
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by h34t 19y ago
I think your example shows the importance of learning how shrewd businesspeople think. << example #1 >> My first business mentor was literally a con artist. I was starting my first business and he, ostensibly a retired lawye
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by h34t 19y ago
Me too. I thought the (un)caged lion metaphor was poignant. I was so stressed last year that my stomach lining gave out, lost my entire sense of self & found I'd lost all desire to do anything (doesn't help when you actually do live o
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Ask HN: Where do you stand on privacy?
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by h34t 19y ago
I fail to see how systems that I use precisely because they are stimulating and curiosity-satisfying are going to dull my mind.
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by h34t 19y ago
I disagree -- good links are easy to find; good discussion is not.
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by h34t 19y ago
He used a dramatic title to bring attention to an issue which he believes (1) is important and (2) can only be fixed if a lot of people become aware of it. He explains this clearly, honestly, and without apology.
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by h34t 19y ago
If you limit the ideas or energy you give to your job, I think you'd better be prepared to give those ideas & that energy to your own project quite quickly and in a concrete way. If your "independent dream project" is too far away on th
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by h34t 19y ago
What an amazing story... this is the first I've read of it. It doesn't much to do with my argument, though. Even though I haven't talked about this much here, I personally believe that persistence is one of the most important ingredients in
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by h34t 19y ago
Ah. Well, I agree with that. Taking a break totally away from work, especially, can be a great refresher. Instead of letting frustration imply problems, it might just be signaling the need for some fresh perspective.
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by h34t 19y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification -- our thinking has a lot more in common than I thought. FWIW, I'm no economist either. I did major in Political Economy for a short while, but that just means that I had enough time to gobble up some conven
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by h34t 19y ago
Do you have any evidence these arguments always boil down to who has control of the raw materials? I think access to intellectual capital and social capital are far, far more important. In the future, perhaps, access to raw materials will b
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by h34t 19y ago
Are you talking about the teachers making an economic analysis out of the lego game, or the internet-comments making economic analysis out of what the teachers did? If the former, then I can at least understand your point, though I would d
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I agree entirely, but in a limited way. That's sort of like saying that the way to change policies in a democracy is by voting; it's true, but as an individual (or someone involved in setting the rules/administering the technology of the co

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