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by mlchild 14y ago
Is there an essay coming on your new findings? Not to pry but "How Not to Die" is one of my all-time favorites.
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by mlchild 14y ago
Tangentially, I thought Clayton Christensen makes a compelling argument that this type of analysis—focusing on IRR and returns on equity—creates an overabundance of "efficiency innovations" that liberate capital but don't really push things
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by mlchild 14y ago
Think we're likely to see a similar pattern with Facebook—seems clear that the instagram acquisition happened because they were scared of someone capturing the photo-sharing "vertical" better than they do.
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by mlchild 14y ago
Considering that the answer to the article's question is essentially "no," this is a weak putdown.
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by mlchild 14y ago
Seems to support the power-law view that Silicon Valley is a better place to start a company than everywhere else combined.
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by mlchild 14y ago
This is a fairly shallow article, but I suppose most investors do fairly shallow fundamental analysis. Aside from whether or not you believe in the company, the management team, the product line, growth opportunities in China, etc., the pro
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by mlchild 14y ago
There's two issues here. First is the supply-demand balance, which several commenters have addressed (would you rather have bottled water cost $5 a bottle during Sandy or not be able to find any bottled water because "gouging" law kept it a
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by mlchild 14y ago
Good to know, thanks much.
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by mlchild 14y ago
Very interesting. Perhaps the empathetic and analytic systems are parallel to Kahneman's systems 1 and 2? (1 for thinking "fast" and 2 for "slow," to oversimplify an Nobel laureate's life's work.)
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by mlchild 14y ago
I agree that probably neither or those explanations is fully true, but I do believe that Jobs had the ability to harness conflicting personalities towards greater goals. I do disagree with your last point, though —— I've watched every keyno
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by mlchild 14y ago
People's reactions to this announcement are overly focused on Forstall's assumed support for heavy skeumorphism (and their excitement at his departure as lead proponent). I think his record as head of iOS since its inception is a much more
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by mlchild 14y ago
I believe PG's point is that creating a company as successful as Groupon or Zynga from scratch requires an incredible level of psychological and man-hour commitment, in addition to constant creative and iterative idea generation. The idea t
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by mlchild 14y ago
Thanks! Great piece, by the way — my goal is to be a successful starter and builder. And I agree that many seem to focus only on the former.
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by mlchild 14y ago
Stamped was a very well-designed, well-thought-out app, but its failure to take off proves no one has cracked the "anti-yelp" recommendation app yet. Someone's going to figure it out.
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by mlchild 14y ago
I think the key dichotomy here is between creating a successful product at the core of a company and creating a successful system that is able to repeatedly generate, select, and distribute products that fill market needs. Disney, 3M, a
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by mlchild 14y ago
Yeah, I totally deserved to get called on that exaggeration. Your point passed through my mind as I was writing but I was in a swashbuckling mood and decided to go with it. Let me make amends—"best reading experience utilizing pixels on a b
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by mlchild 14y ago
Instapaper for iPad is almost ethereal in the brilliance of its reading experience. I assume he wanted to maintain that level of quality for his new product.
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by mlchild 14y ago
Counterpoint: maybe just name it what you think is the best name and assume you'll be able to figure out the rest.
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by mlchild 14y ago
The more I've used Instapaper, the more I'm convinced that the version on the iPad (especially retina) is the best reading experience out there, period. And as a huge supporter of long-form journalism and technology lover, this is a dream c
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by mlchild 14y ago
I'm with you conceptually, but I don't end up using Flipboard much if at all—and I understand I'm generalizing from a minute sample, so bear with me—because I don't find it to be the best way to read anything. For news/text, Instapaper is k
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by mlchild 14y ago
A similar issue is the preponderance of hyper-image-oriented mobile app designs at the expense of content and usability. Examples that come to mind for me are Urbanspoon, Flipboard (perhaps a controversial view), the new Chef's Feed app—if