jaysonelliot

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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
Blow my mind. Who was it?
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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
When Jimmy Wales stop trying to sex me with his eyes, I'll think about it. I find it hard to "donate" to megalomaniacs.
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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
Funny, that's just the scene I was thinking of. Imagine if he had preceded his visual aids with a couple dozen boards of charts and bullet points, and shrunk the pictures down to quarter size to make room for blocks of text explaining what
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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
I also prefer to speak without slides, or with images that don't make sense if you see them alone. After all, it's about the speaker, not the slideshow, as many others have pointed out. In a situation like that where I anticipate that peopl
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The Mother of All Demos(sloan.stanford.edu)
85 points by jaysonelliot 16y ago|10 comments
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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
Well put. Don Draper doesn't need Powerpoint.
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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
The two most important things I've learned about presentations: 1. Look at your audience, not your slides. They didn't show up to look at the back of your head. 2. Put as little on the screen as possible. If you have more you want them to r
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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
I interviewed with Apple last year, and I wasn't asked to sign an NDA. That said, I didn't actually see anything that would have required one. I didn't apply to Apple - they found me. A year later, I'm still not sure how that happened, sinc
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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
Myhrvold's approach to IP really disturbs me. The intent of patents was to protect the time and money an individual or company put into invention, not to stifle innovation by locking away every trivial notion behind a licensing fee.
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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
I've always worried about the concept of jury trials anyway, to be honest. Why would I prefer my fate to be decided by twelve random bozos off the street, when there's a judge right there who is actually educated in the law, and presumably
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by jaysonelliot 16y ago
Or instead of blowing all your money and creative energy on business cards, you could just build a great product or service.