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by heymijo 9y ago
I think what the author describes about a tipping point in receiving offers/intros is true. I also think he is right about social media (FB, Instagram, Twitter) for someone like him. This is also in-line with the author's writing
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Ankles! Little humans (kids) have great mobility in their ankles, hips, and shoulders. Big humans (adults) generally have poor ankle/hip/shoulder mobility. The body compensates by doing more with the knees, back, and neck. Hence t
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by heymijo 9y ago
Not sure that thesis holds water. Michael Mauboussin published the paper, "The Incredible Shrinking Universe of Stocks: The Causes and Consequences of Fewer U.S. Equities" in 2017 [0]. The Big Ideas: IPO's and being public ar
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The perverse incentives this instills will be worse than any supposed "efficiency" gains it brings about.
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Have you had any experience with Frances Frei? She seems to be a unique talent who seems genuine from her interviews. I'm curious how she is viewed within Uber and what impact she may be having.
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I think monsky's comment and the exchange below hit on an important point: different understandings of what a professor does. I would venture that most people equate professor with teaching. While many of the people that responded to m
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That's not entirely true. Lyft paved the way for UberX.
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"I think the compelling question is why people feel so compelled to take a pill to sell their souls to a rat race?" There seems to be an implicit assumption in your question that refers to adults. What about the growing number of
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Thanks for asking this gbacon. It's a question that came to mind for me as well and one that ameister's big picture response below satisfies.
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Hi ameister, I've read this comment and your sub-comments. I agree with your assertions. I am ruminating on ideas your comments have sparked and questions they have raised, but as I go to type them I can't clearly communicate them
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Hello eevilspock. Fairness seems to be the driving point behind your comment here and your linked 9-point sub-answer about the idea of a meritocracy. I read your comment here two ways: 1. Being a rentier is more unfair than not. and/or
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I appreciate this suggestion. When reading this I thought "Why do I care if the 1% are working or rentiers?" The outcome, being a growing class of marginalized people who lack equality of income, opportunity, and meaning is the sa
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You're right. There has been no fundamental change, either internal to SV or external, to cause Silicon Valley to lose its status as the epicenter of the technology world and the unparalleled access to capital that the region enjoys [0
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It's communication! And the first step in communication is communicating with ourselves. Step 1: In your head Step 2: Aloud (to yourself or others) Step 3: Written Ever notice how that thought you have in your head that makes sense sud
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This is a good point and one that is recognized often here: there's a good chunk of internet users that are mobile only. That's an entirely different way to come up and learn technology than those of us who went through any variat
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Julie Lythcott-Haims was a former Stanford Dean responsible for incoming freshmen students. From that position she likely collected many more data points than any of us on this topic, which led her to write a book called How to Raise an Adu
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I would not want Fred Wilson within 100 miles of the board of any company I cared about. There are many reasons Twitter is a mess as a public company today and Fred Wilson as a disastrous early board member is one of them. People learn from
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by heymijo 9y ago
What you just described sounds a lot like Peter Drucker's description of management: "Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesse
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I'm grasping at straws, but it seems relevant to this branch of the thread... Wasn't there recently an uproar in the U.S. about a [state/municipality/or some such] that gave copyright over to their [regulations/buil
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Genuinely ignorant question: couldn't a company file for a patent, and then open-source it? (not sure if open-source is even the right terminology) I'm picturing a scenario where the idea is patented, but the patent holder reserve
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There's more than fat and water that could compromise Woo's 12 pound difference. - Glycogen (stored glucose in your muscles/liver) is depleted - Muscle breakdown may occur (gluconeogenesis-converting amino acids to glucose) G
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What I'm seeing is the classic regulation vs. non debate. What's missing is recognition of the historical precedent of regulating what people can/cannot do with their money in the USA and China's proposed plans to follow
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Ben Horowitz described this particularly well. See his social credit matrix for decisions: https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/screen-sho...
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You may have been misled by the title. This is effective marketing to us, the constituents, not the lawmaker. There was a big thread yesterday based on a survey that most people don't even know what net-neutrality is. This is a net neu
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I'm a sucker for visualizations so that informed decision tree got me. What did you use to make it?
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Two things are swirling in my head: 1) Libraries and librarians are rabidly anti-censorship 2) The Supreme Court's ruling about pornography "I know it when I see it" Libraries aren't cesspools of things titled "...a
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What struck me from the article was how facebook knew what social networks are competitive threats. They're tracking what apps you use on your phone. "Facebook uses an internal database to track rivals, including young startups
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Math Games 1) Prime Climb https://www.amazon.com/Math-for-Love-Prime-Climb/dp/B00PG959... 2) Tiny Polka Dots https://www.amazon.com/Math-For-Love-Tiny-Polka/dp/B01N1UUHP... - Tiny Polka
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I get that. Twitter has a lot of usability imperfections. Lists is one, but I still use them. Anywhere from 0 - 200 people, depending on how much they post, is about the maximum I can handle in any one stream. So I segregate into lists. I s
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Curious, what part of education? I've found a few UK people I enjoy following (once I learned the UK education lingo).

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