motohagiography

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by motohagiography 7y ago
It must be copyrighted or have some other broken dis-economy, because the most obvious product decisions that would make this huge have been rejected. The whole point of this is to study in spare moments, like on public transit - using mobi
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by motohagiography 7y ago
The main difference between big box and indie bookstores was the attractiveness of the staff. This may seem glib, but the whole point of a book store was they were curated hangouts based on filters of what the staff would tolerate. Big box
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Just tried to use it. What's with the Anki UX? You can't just install the mobile app and start downloading shared decks to use.
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by motohagiography 7y ago
I use cypher most days over the last few years and I like it because it's a complete level of abstraction over the database. In gremlin and this new nGQL, the whole notion of "INSERT," implies that the graph is just a represe
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I work in the domain of these wicked problems, and they usually reduce to Taleb's no "skin in the game." The necessary condition for one is that someone has power from some exogenous source, but without accountability. You c
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Multiples of revenue is a common valuation number that can imply the length of time an investor will expect they will be able to profit from it. At 66m/y in profit, that's under %2 annual return on their $4bn investment. To strip
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Napkin math: So 3.9b / 600m Revenue = 6.5years horizon to breakeven. Assuming no growth plan, they can hollow out the operating costs by cutting staff by 1/4, and offshoring another 1/4. Guessing here, but their aim is a to
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Auras that precede migraine headaches do resemble these, and also apparently resemble the patterns people see when they use hallucinogenic drugs. This narrative around things being revealed on drugs seems less plausible than your ability t
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Conflating culture and race doesn't provide a strong control. The effects of drugs on poor black and white groups in the U.S. are similar. I don't think poverty and the effects of drugs are because someone is racialized, however I
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Saying things are actually good or better is pretty subversive, or conservative, depending on your view. Somewhat related to the Varian Rule, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Rule which is documented as: "A s
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by motohagiography 7y ago
The conclusion seems foregone, all that is left is to let them create a record of how the process itself was the punishment. British justice appears to have become fickle, cynical, partisan, and self dealing. These are of course the views o
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by motohagiography 7y ago
There is a situation in relative poverty where you become so risk averse you end up paying outsized prices for things because you can't afford the risk of a change. If this person lost his ability to drive based on not being able to ge
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Sssh! Valuations are a function of projected market size and opacity of the problem. Clarity like this collapses the uncertainty and destroys value. If you pour enough capital into rooms full of PhD's something's gotta hit. My wa
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Can appreciate the reaction, but management and leadership aren't therapy. There is only one component of leadership, and it is the definition: it is the effect of being followed. You can't fake it because it is an effect, not a
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Regarding all these alternative ways of organizing, what's wrong with a leader taking responsibility, delegating it where feasible, and selecting for team members to whom they can delegate responsibility with confidence? Taking directi
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by motohagiography 7y ago
This is testable, and also very difficult to falsify without testing it. I'd say there is more value in doing or sponsoring the research to investigate it and I wouldn't cast aspersions on the vendors. They are better than passwor
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by motohagiography 7y ago
See profile
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by motohagiography 7y ago
The fashion magazine business was about selling pharma and cosmetic ad space in front of people who can both read and yet still choose to read about celebrities. I don't know how it survives now. Was writing for newspapers and magazine
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Can guarantee it's not a zero sum haggle. A comp package has a salary number, it also has bonuses, commissions, stocks, options, IP ownership, holidays, work from home time, days/week, travel requirements, travel policy, mat&#x2F
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Reddit was a great place to engage with ideas, and then move on from them, but turning it into just another surveillance operation is where communities go to die. I still think I know how Reddit could make money, but it's possible th
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by motohagiography 7y ago
If it's below what you would accept, there just wasn't a deal to be had. Everyone's time is saved. However, a manager's "no negotiation" policy deprives investors of growth. It's irresponsible. Of course,
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by motohagiography 7y ago
To say women can't negotiate is the most bizarre and offensively sexist trope I have ever encountered in acceptable discourse. I"m not necessarily making a direct accusation, but we should acknowledge that the very idea is un-ser
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by motohagiography 7y ago
If your skills aren't valuable, then yes, they won't be worth much. If you have invested in developing skills that are valuable, then you have all the leverage in the world. But even if you flip burgers, if you can convincingly co
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by motohagiography 7y ago
People who read about negotiation typically learn it's a positive sum process for creating and discovering value. People who have not often conflate haggling with negotiation. There is a critical theory that arbitrarily paints the proc
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Not sure this view relates to any of the actual literature on negotiations outside of NVC (which is a cult), or any significant experience in negotiations. It is quite patronizing though. The game of putting a lack of virtuousness on others
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Negotiation is price discovery. It is literally the empirical process of discovering the clearing price of an agreement based on deductive reason instead of the blind-man's-bluff bullying of a haggle. People on the privileged end of
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Contrarian view: salary disclosure destroys value for people with negotiating skills, which are among the most valuable and useful skills of all. Disclosure advantages people who collude to apply political pressure (gang up) instead of appe
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by motohagiography 7y ago
I like that the related Quanta articles are linked from each concept. The idea of teaching maths as an ontology of concepts and tools is very appealing because it creates a "why," for each aspect. It's as though code did for
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by motohagiography 7y ago
It just means you are responsible for assets. When you choose to take responsibility for things, you become wealthier. It's the same thing.
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by motohagiography 7y ago
Wealth is just responsibility, and if outlier intelligence people are underrepresented among those who choose to accumulate responsibility, this should come as no surprise to anyone. Most extra-intelligent people choose the freedom to solve

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