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by mpbm 10y ago
"knowledge hub", in this case, apparently means a collection of logs on various topics. 1) create your own team 2) create lots of channels (don't screw this up) 3) put thoughts into the channels as you have them and use integ
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"Nicer."
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I still don't have any idea what she was telling me to do.
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by mpbm 10y ago
I think that's repeatable and adaptable for two reasons: 1) technology keeps changing and it's usually easier to just write new software to take advantage of new infrastructure or design assumptions or whatever 2) almost nobody wh
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by mpbm 10y ago
"It sucks when you realize you have built something that users like, but they don't really NEED" That's a great point. There are a lot of intractable problems that everybody wishes could be "solved" but the rea
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by mpbm 10y ago
Yeah, but Tim already addressed that scenario when he said that nobody but him had quit their job or lost any money yet. The PayPal team was already well into being a committed startup.
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by mpbm 10y ago
I've been in uniform for around 19 years and I'm leaving to found a startup, so this subject is near and dear to my heart. I just don't think it's gonna happen. The peacetime military is fundamentally incompatible with s
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by mpbm 10y ago
"This is outer fucking space." - James Oberg
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by mpbm 10y ago
Okay, I re-read it and the cynicism must have been a reaction to the self-aggrandizing click-bait nonsense. I got nerd sniped when I started pondering the challenge of going a whole year without buying anything. Like, maybe you grow your ow
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by mpbm 10y ago
Ugh, it's kind of painful to read an article that looks like it was literally copied out of a magazine a few decades ago and just had the subject changed. 3D printers are going through the technology hype cycle, just like other things
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by mpbm 10y ago
- hire awesome people - target investors who bring more than money - focus on product - be strategic (which I think is just code for "don't suck") The internet would load a lot faster if people stopped padding their advice wi
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by mpbm 10y ago
Yeah, presumably "bills" is a nice, vague term for anything that would actually change her life, like medical stuff and climate control. Sounds like she's only cutting out optional expenses. I guess going vegan and/or gl
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by mpbm 10y ago
Should have just linked directly to this article http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SacrificialArchitecture.html I think an outline is: - start with a monolithic MVP - replace it when A) you find out it needs to do somethin
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by mpbm 10y ago
Yeah, but... ...SpaceX is not developing launch vehicles for Earth. They're developing launch vehicles for Mars and bootstrapping by using them on Earth. So all of these comparisons are off-base because they're so short sighted.
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by mpbm 10y ago
I'm not sure this is actually counter-intuitive. Seems like anyone with the domain expertise and discipline to apply this advice is likely to succeed. Maybe it's "counter-intuitive" in the sense that it's counter to
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by mpbm 10y ago
Well, if you can look past the simplification, The Matrix had some examples. Like how deja vu is a glitch caused by the controllers manually changing something. And an example from The 13th Floor is to travel so far you reach the limit of w
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by mpbm 10y ago
Technically, even if the vehicle logs do show the accelerator pedal being commanded to 100%, that doesn't necessarily mean the driver actually pushed the pedal. The computers inside the car are capable of commanding the accelerator too
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by mpbm 10y ago
Step 1: be single-celled
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by mpbm 10y ago
It sounds like we need a special category. He thinks corporations should be partial persons. I wonder what fraction he'd pick? He's got many good points that are a helpful education on the topic, like pointing out that since the 5
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"What we found surprised us." - insurgency "Lose this clear purpose and your company becomes directionless and uninspiring" - front line obsession "Lose this deep curiosity for what is going on at the front line, an
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by mpbm 10y ago
The difference is that "we're in a simulation" is still a natural, as opposed to a supernatural, explanation. We can come up with ways to test whether or not we're in a simulation. If the tests return positive we can com
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by mpbm 10y ago
Technical debt actually isn't a great metaphor. It breaks down too quickly, as in this case. You don't have to "repay" technical debt. It's not really debt. A company only needs to build something that works. If it
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by mpbm 10y ago
I think that might be focusing on the smoke instead of the fire. The sort of people who make amazing things happen are driven by rage. They take the success of some area of the world so personally, and hold themselves to such a high standar
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The interpretation that I like is that "10x productivity" is more about what someone doesn't do than what they do do. It's in the sense that they seem more productive, partly because they're really good at what they
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by mpbm 10y ago
Also, it's not actually "10x". That's just easier to write than "an order of magnitude", which is a subjective thing in productivity. The idea is vaguer than the "10x" abbreviation implies.
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by mpbm 10y ago
Putting the cart before the horse a bit. Borders exist to establish a separation between inside and outside. An awful lot of different things will fall on either side of the line, but to pick out just one of those things and pretend that&#x
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You mean other than the first sentence being "I'm torn by this?"
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Neat. Kind of like how there's a whole website tvtropes.com devoted to collecting examples of all the different shortcuts used to tell stories. After a while, the trends in the material become interesting in their own right. Someone wh
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Haha, yeah, I actually rewrote that sentence a couple times because I was trying to phrase it in a way that wasn't wrong, but also got me out of having to address tangential topics like exploration, creativity, and art.
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That's awesome! He puts into words something that I've been trying to explain for years. I'm leaving the military and a big part of it is the "can do attitude" or "loyalty before cleverness." Basically, be

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