mvkel

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by mvkel 9mo ago
These are great ideas!
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by mvkel 9mo ago
I am saying for it to succeed as multi-user, it needs to be useful first for a single user.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
This app (like any consumer social app) needs to first solve the cold start problem: make it useful for a single user, layer the social on top. Instagram had photo filters; Strava had activity stats. What could this have?
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by mvkel 9mo ago
One thing I think it's still always valid to complain about is when your time is stolen. It's precious, and you can never get it back. If the unpaid experience slows you down unnecessarily, I think it's okay to be frustrated.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
How's their spam filtering?
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Such fond memories. So many OS reinstalls after inadvertently infecting my computer from a sketchy photoshop crack. You learn to never get too attached.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
> far preferable to arranging a face to face meeting over this low impact, simple procedural issue Whenever an issue involves people, slack simply won't suffice. There's too much good will lost on either side. "No worries
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by mvkel 9mo ago
What seems to be missing in all of this is a cohesive vision and mission. I do see mention of "making the world a better place," but that's a bit like saying "our company exists to generate revenue." That's eve
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Not disagreeing, but adding a cultural context. So if your culture is a trading floor like boiler room, sure, shame publicly, all day long. Maybe not at a cancer nonprofit
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by mvkel 9mo ago
It's not one or the other, but should align with the culture. Like the old board chair of Starbucks said: if you're going to be an asshole, be a really good one.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
All fair points, and agreed. Appreciate this context.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Punishing in public; managing via Slack; being a speed bump just because, all in service of preventing the "scope creep" bogeyman. This is good management? You can almost see how a toxic workplace experience seeped into OP's
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Indeed it was[0]. Give the latest models a try. They're a major leap from just six months ago. [0] https://chuanqisun.com/#projects
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Absolutely love stories like this. It's such a departure from traditional software where the emphasis is on having "elegant" code, being DRY, etc. This thing just needed to work once, in whatever way it could be hacked togeth
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Just in time, right when Apple is quietly abandoning it
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by mvkel 10mo ago
The author doesn't understand what model collapse is, in that no modern model is trained in a way that would surface it. Model collapse is a phenomenon where machine learning models gradually degrade due to errors coming from -uncurate
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Huge disappointment that it's just a glass rectangle with a modified OS. What made previous Punkt models cool is that they were "dumb+" phones. They did what you needed them to, and nothing else. In exchange, you got a devic
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Berkshire's investment in Apple is responsible for ~50% of its portfolio success in the last 20 years. The rest is insurance. Respect to the man for running an operation for 60 years. That's a helluva feat that deserves a lot of a
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by mvkel 10mo ago
If you define success as number going up and to the right, sure.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
I am puzzled by the conclusion that not having a hand in the code means you don't care, which means the ultimate value of the product is diminished. Maybe in that case, the thing to change your relationship with is yourself, and how yo
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by mvkel 10mo ago
That's what I meant, though. That's the expensive part.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Isn't this the same thing as saying "if everyone just agrees that a dollar bill is actually just a piece of paper, USD becomes worthless"? Albeit at a smaller scale
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by mvkel 10mo ago
The fact is nobody has any idea what OpenAI's cash burn is. Measuring how much they're raising is not an adequate proxy. For all we know, they could be accumulating capital to weather an AI winter. It's also worth noting that
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by mvkel 10mo ago
There's no technical way people could be as informed as they are today. Newspapers are yesterday's news, tomorrow.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
One massive bullet that is missing that is worth more than the other things combined: synthesizing all company data and developing a cohesive strategy that achieves some stated long term vision. There is no shortage of data a company has at
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by mvkel 10mo ago
What feels "different" today is not necessarily risk, but visibility. We now see every war, cyber incident, threat, and speech in real time. I have to imagine the Cuban Missile Crisis (for example) was a much more serious existent
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by mvkel 10mo ago
If following any of this worked, this website wouldn't exist.
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by mvkel 10mo ago
Die Hard: The Way of Water
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by mvkel 10mo ago
This is a personal reflection checklist and weak as a general theory of decision quality. You could avoid violating every one of these, and won't automatically have a good decision. For example, layoffs feel "icky" and are al
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by mvkel 10mo ago
I was a CEO for thirteen years. For the hard CEO skills, AI is perfectly suited for the job; even more than it would be for specialist roles. For the soft CEO skills, not so much. Not that that's a deal-breaker. I have a vision of an A

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