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by paulorlando 1y ago
That story is very Chesterton Fence. If Chesterton was working in a canal instead of walking on a country path. There's a balance between preserving memory and maintaining and benefitting from that knowledge and choosing what not to re
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Reminds me of how AT&T continued generating revenue from renting landline phones many years after it became legal to own and connect your own equipment to their network.
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Should Almanzo Become a Wheelwright?(unintendedconsequenc.es)
2 points by paulorlando 1y ago|0 comments
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Reminded me of NYU's Wooden Mirror Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb6eFGbwPeA
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Narrative Capture(unintendedconsequenc.es)
2 points by paulorlando 1y ago|0 comments
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Best quote: "The right question is, 'Why would you expect information theory from someone who needs a babysitter?'"
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Discoveries unlock more discoveries. When, not if.
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by paulorlando 1y ago
From science fiction author Charles Fort in his 1931 book titled Lo! “If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things.
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by paulorlando 1y ago
I love the execution on this. It's powerful because it overlaps with different approaches (adjacent possible, inflection points, dominant design, creative destruction, opportunity curves, the multigenium, hype cycles, Cambrian explosio
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Many forms of ignorance include the failure to recognize something that you experience. There’s a scene in Michael Lewis’ book The New New Thing that chronicles a tear in a sail on Netscape investor Jim Clark’s mega yacht, the Hyperion. Tha
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Is posting when no one is reading different from writing and not posting?
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Sorry to hear this. And thanks for sharing this warning to other educators. I hope you find a way through.
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Business models rule us all. Have you tested what kind of pushback you'll receive if you happen to flout the remote rule?
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Is the difference "stayed Catholic" vs the churches had to close?
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Not sure I understand what you mean. At least, I thought that (most? all?) the churches were closed for the worst part of the French Revolution aftermath. For example, the new state transformed Notre Dame and other Catholic churches into Te
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Fun fact... or not so fun? For 12 years of the revolutionary era, France did use decimal time. And the calendar and clocks were organized around a 10 day week and a 10 hour day. But those changes, coupled with the loss of Sunday worship, ha
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by paulorlando 1y ago
There's a newish requirement not to smile in US Passport pictures. I compared my new one (with the photographer-enforced requirement) and my old ones (smiling). That type of requirement has existed longer elsewhere. (Both for Hong Kong
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by paulorlando 1y ago
In 2020 so many people recommended this to me in support of my writing and related research. But my laziness saved me.
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by paulorlando 1y ago
If relevant, I wrote this in a related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43912331
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by paulorlando 1y ago
I think that's why some writers refuse to talk about their work in progress. If they do, it saps the life out of it. Your ego bump example kind of fits into that.
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by paulorlando 1y ago
I've noticed something like this as well. A suggestion is to write/build for no one but yourself. Really no one but yourself. Some of my best writing came during the time that I didn't try to publicize the content. I didn&#x2
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by paulorlando 1y ago
A few years ago in a class I had a group of students analyze a set of CSV files and charts relating to the performance of a large YouTube channel. This was right as generative AI was coming out and back when it would struggle with this type
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by paulorlando 1y ago
That report interested me. Especially how the price has gone up in the last century. There's another study that tracks the cost of lighting over the centuries as well: https://lucept.com/wp-content/uploads/201
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by paulorlando 1y ago
From Munger in The Psychology of Human Misjudgment: "And human nature, with its version of what I call incentive-caused bias, causes this terrible abuse. And many of the people who are doing it you would be glad to have married into y
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by paulorlando 1y ago
Liked this: "Startup pitch competitions are mostly a waste of time—validation comes from talking to users and iterating, not from impressing a judge."
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by paulorlando 2y ago
That carcinisation convergent evolution effect is real. But so is the reality that outside of network dependent companies like the Netflix example in the post, those faster horses do still exist, just in niches. In Kevin Kelly's book W
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by paulorlando 2y ago
The important quote: "If the tariff from China is 100%, and you know it is going to be 100 % for the next 10 years, you will make a different business decision than if it is, ‘Might be 100%, not sure what's going to be in three mo
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by paulorlando 2y ago
Curious about this quote: "'My elder colleagues tell me you never stop learning, even after 50 years of doing it,' recounted Stocchi. 'The day you think you’ve learned everything is the day you’ll start making errors.&#x
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by paulorlando 2y ago
It's on a different level.
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by paulorlando 2y ago
And even with the existence of those tools, the old professions continue for years, sometimes many years, in niches. For example, even today there are people who are paid to wake up others manually - a job that used to be called "knock

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