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by heymijo 10y ago
Systems and incentives within them help explain this. Society at large doesn't incentivize the type 1 errors you described. Ben Horowitz created a 2x2 to describe this.[1][2] [1] http://imgur.com/wmsy3hV [2] http:&#x2
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This reminds me of Schlitz beer and its downfall [0]. Schlitz went from battling Budweiser for domestic supremacy to a case study in how to ruin your brand by repeatedly cheapening your product coupled with a belief that your customers are
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Ah, I see. That's not something I considered.
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Definition of candid: 1) free from bias, prejudice, or malice 2) indicating or suggesting sincere honesty and absence of deception
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I live in a small university town in Appalachia Ohio. A few months ago 70 people were arrested at a peaceful sit-in at the university student-center. The State Highway Patrol, who had nothing to do with this, requested for its intel unit, i
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"...the previous POTUS, a constitutional scholar that campaigned on ending domestic surveillance..." 1) This line reminded me how fallible my memory is. I held a view of Obama as always toeing the line on government surveillance.
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Yes, it's a niche but how many niches in a similar vein exist on Twitter? What I heard davycro describe above sounds a lot like the K-12 mathematics community on Twitter dubbed the MathTwitterBlogosphere #MTBoS. It connects everyone fr
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Thanks for additional context. I don't agree with this statement though. "Credit is not a zero-sum game." History sadly says differently. It seems many discoveries are made concurrently, yet only one becomes synonymous with t
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Thank you for this. No specific critiques but I thought I'd give you some context about why this tutorial is a help to me. The last time I built a web page was probably 2001 and the fanciest it got was frames in Frontpage. Prior to tha
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CapEx. Amazon eschewed profits, instead investing ungodly amounts in building out the infrastructure for a distribution network that no other company can compete with. Walmart was (and is) tooled up to distribute to its stores. Amazon toole
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Let me second that. Gladwell raises my skeptic alarm often, but these three highlighted episodes are good. For the past 7 years I've been involved in education from pre-k to university and my BS detector didn't budge during these
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Nearly everything in the U.S. is on a truck at some point in its transit. Most companies that make those items don't own their own trucks. Of the roughly 3 million trucks on the road, 10% are owner operators (a person who owns his or h
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I haven't read that one yet. Have you?
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Creativity, Inc. is also one of the best books on management. I say this with reverence for the work of Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming.
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It seems like you have learned a tremendous amount throughout your career that others could benefit from, that's why! Not learning from you flies in the face of wisdom (1)(2). I'm not afraid to generalize this either. I see so man
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Do you ever get asked about this? e.g. what you don't do anymore as a result of learning from experience Either in your current role / in interviews / on the street?
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"I find these days I spend less time coding and I end up with better applications because I think through the design before coding." ^A golden nugget buried in an insightful ramble.
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Here is Bob Iger's response (Disney's CEO) to where streaming ESPN is headed (1) Q: Some people have been thinking this new streaming service will offer a flat rate, roughly the $6 or $7 a month that customers pay on their cable b
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If you're not familiar with Lawrence Kohlberg and his stages of moral development you should take a look. They may help you frame how/why it's important to get beyond "please others/pass exams" as motivation in
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Tren Griffin, the 4th employee at Teledesic, has a good write up of it with lessons learned. May be able to see if anything has changed that may make these new efforts work where others failed. https://25iq.com/2016/07&
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Did you read Hatching Twitter? I was appalled at the board's mismanagement and ineptitude throughout the company's life.
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Peter Drucker & W. Edwards Deming These are the two best management thinkers of the 20th century and they are largely ignored today. Here's your chance to engage in some information arbitrage and profit. Drucker wrote A LOT. Assump
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This reminded me, I grew up with not only ozone but also acid rain as the environmental disasters of the day (born in '82; grew up in Ohio). I don't hear about either anymore. Am I not paying attention? Are they not getting attent
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I asked the parent comment as well, but would you mind sharing more about your experience(s) at CTY? Thanks!
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Can you share more about your positive experiences, especially with CTY? I hadn't heard of it before now and your anecdote would help shed light on what I'm reading about. I teach and I'm interested in all things learning.
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There's a story that I love about Pixar, a Black Swan event, and Toy Story 2 [0]. The gist was, the movie's files were accidentally deleted while still in production, and the backup was corrupted. Instead of blasting people for mi
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That's a good clarification on the number of people the funds are going to help. Thanks.
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From your [0] link. "Eight city departments oversee at least 400 contracts to 76 private organizations" That says a lot about how spending $31,967.10 for every homeless person can amount to, well, no one seems to know. I'm cu
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I saw your comment before reading the article and, I get it. There's a cynic in me too. However, after reading the article, I'm thinking, who cares? I'm a sucker for a story about potential, especially in the underdog, and th
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We do ourselves a disservice by thinking about subjects as silos. What is unique to each subject is less interesting than what each has in common, especially in regard to the particular practices and mindsets of the people in each disciplin

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