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by klenwell 6y ago
On that question, I've quoted this here on HN before. From Donald G Reinertsen's Principles of Product Development Flow: I used to think that sensible and compelling new ideas would be adopted quickly. Today, I believe this view
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Yeah, when I originally learned what the Impossible Burger actually was, my first thought was, "Wow. They must have read that Malcolm Gladwell article."
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What's interesting is that McDonald's has tried something like this this before and, it has been argued, effed it up due to naming. For an interesting account of their first failed attempt, 30 years ago, I highly recommend this Ne
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NIH or Resume-Driven Development might be another way. From personal experience, I worked with a team years ago where product owners wanted a datetime picker or parser for an app we had built. Senior dev on team decided it would be cool if
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by klenwell 6y ago
Or you could have the unintended consequence of zombie executives wandering the earth until it's in their family's economic interest to declare them dead and bury them in the ground.
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Search and Deploy: How Google took on its competition (2000)(newyorker.com)
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Influencers in Space: Astronauts Prepare to Receive Cosmetics and a New Toilet(npr.org)
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I initially read this the other way: used by employers to detect wage theft. Supervisor Drone: You are allotted two government-mandated 15-minute breaks a day, but our third-party right-to-work service detected you away from your work sec
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Interesting. I didn't make the connection. Or, well, I guess I did.
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Chinese Citizens Are Already Receiving a Coronavirus Vaccine(newyorker.com)
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I just watched The Royal Tenenbaums again. (It's available for free right now on Amazon Prime!) This sounds like the fairy tale version of that. Probably doesn't make for great cinema. But I imagine a lot of people here would have
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> That sentiment (though I didn't think of it in quite this fashion) is why I set up a bi-weekly project management meeting at my last office, and tried to set up something similar for technical people. At my last office, I set up s
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That Gervais Principle series, and the Company Hierarchy chart that opens it, was one of the first things that came to mind when I read this article. My takeaway from the Gervais Principle: the only way to win, if you're not a sociopat
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Saw this graph last week on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ernietedeschi/status/1309231458876260355 For skilled workers, perhaps especially software developers, the job market may not be as dire as it looks more gen
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by klenwell 6y ago
Two classics that helped me a lot: - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27140043-high-output-man... - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware They don't go so much int
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Are you a manager? Do you have a manager? https://www.askamanager.org/
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slopier.com: enterprise accounting system decretism.com: enterprise accounting system calinum.com: enterprise accounting system
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- A summer cleaning bathrooms at Disneyland: eliminate smells at their source. Applies to code, too. - College catering kitchen: don't mistake pickled ginger for sliced turkey, even if you haven't eaten all day.
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Can you provide a link to one of those newspaper articles or government documents? That would go a long way toward establishing your credibility.
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Also an account less than an hour old. GP's post would be a great example for a critical thinking class.
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A variation on this theme: make people frame their comments as falsifiable predictions. This is what Philip Tetlock advocates with his Superforecasting concept and sorta implemented here: https://www.gjopen.com/ The hitch:
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This statement by Nuremburg prosecutor Ben Ferencz has resonated with me: That's nonsense. That's nonsense. There's no Greatest Generation. Greatest Generation are the ones who have the courage to say that what the governmen
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by klenwell 6y ago
Interesting. When I mediated about it a little further that's where I sorta arrived too. The x-axis would be future/past. The y-axis would be different timelines. So if I go from present (0,0) to (2,2), I'd be going 2 clicks
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I'm thinking of the old Pacman arcade game but with two joystcks, one for spatial movements and the other for temporal movements. I have no idea what the second joystick would do. That is, I can imagine time as a single axis so that yo
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NPR reported a story like this this week: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/08/25/9045178... They are not hard to find. This one also included some dodgy billing practices by the medica
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I was going to suggest a variation of this idea that I learned about here on Hacker News and have applied successfully since: Try to stop on a bug or error. Same reasoning you cited with a bonus: when you come back in the morning, you&#x2
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Jonathan Bines is a staff writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Not that this rules out your theory.
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They offer it as a stopgap, which, I agree with you, seems improbable given the latest reports on vaccines: Used once a day, AeroNabs could provide powerful, reliable protection against SARS-CoV-2 until a vaccine becomes available. But ma
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Here was a trade. Nikola Corp., the maybe-one-day-electric-truck-maker that went public via a blank-check merger last month, has a lot of warrants outstanding. Each warrant (ticker NKLAW) allows you to pay $11.50 to buy one share of Nikola
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Some recent ones I've bookmarked: logfromblammo on code quality and professionalism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430173 hanoz on the best thing about buying a domain name: https://news.ycombinator

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