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by paulorlando 2y ago
I hope that the author gives banned laptops another shot. I've been able to ban laptops and phones from my classes without issue (at least for grad students). The students even say they appreciate it. But I recently gave a talk in a co
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Popping the Bag(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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The Clip(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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Has anyone noticed that once they lose the writing habit that their thinking suffers?
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There's something (maybe innate) about belief in advancement vs a cycle. Historian Will Durant noted that the ancient Greeks thought of history as a vicious circle that repeated again and again. E.g. there was no mention of progress in
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A friend of mine has a thing about wanting to read new poems (ok, written within the last 30 years). Some are not bad. But I still go for the old stuff. Currently doing a lot of long drives and am almost half-way through memorizing Rime of
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It was all quality. The food was so much better at the second place that even if the first place was free I wouldn't have gone back
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I checked out his About page just because he mentioned that only 1% do it. For my writing, the observation that almost everyone moves on is certainly true. But those few who reached out sometimes become new friends. I've never met any
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When I moved to the West Village in NYC, the first night I went to a kebab place right by my building. The owner was talkative and friendly and gave me a free cup of ayran. I went back regularly, but the place was almost always empty. Meanw
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People here encouraged my writing. The first year I wrote this blog I kept my name off it. The word spread a bit and I then added my name. But I sometimes miss the early days when felt more like writing for myself. https://unint
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I used to have a view from about 3 stories up of one of the densest crosswalks in Hong Kong. As the crowd of people crossed the street in two directions, they would organize into 7 rivers of flow (3 one way, 4 in the other). The rivers were
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Music changed so much from tech like better mics, recording, and inventions from Les Paul (reverb, echo, delay, and more). It took a while for the musicians to catch up with it, but when they did, that new tech led to decades of new genres.
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Product Market Fit Collapse: Why Your Company Could Be Next(reforge.com)
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It also led to the ability to sing in a quieter, more natural way, and gave birth to the "crooner" style. The earlier popularized carbon button microphone (invented in 1878) didn’t enable this personal singing style. If you look a
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The TikTok Ban and the Openness Trap (2020)(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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I learned about this while growing up after hearing Jerry Harvey talk about it (mentioned in the article). I actually used to keep a picture of the pilot with the words "we salute you" as a reminder of how to handle mistakes. No o
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by paulorlando 2y ago
I wrote these two books based on work I had done in/with startups over the years. Why Now: How Good Timing Makes Great Products: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Now-Timing-Makes-Products/dp/B0CY... Growth Units:
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I did this too... As a Covid project I took what I used to do live on a class whiteboard and wrote it up. The second one went from a workshop talk I used to give that kept getting developed more and more. Key for me was keeping to topics an
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Secular Indulgences(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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Under a Spell – The Armistice(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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Re government cheese... "The story of “government cheese” started with Jimmy Carter’s campaign promise to support the price of milk (specifically, to support a $0.06/gallon price increase). Consider it a rare campaign promise that
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by paulorlando 2y ago
Patents do explain some of this delay.... Fused Deposition Modeling or FDM (1989, expired in 2009), Liquid-Based Stereolithography or SLA (1986, expired in 2006), Selective Laser Sintering or SLS (1992, expired in 2012), metal processes lik
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"They were using a toy wand that gathers static charge to levitate lightweight objects, such as a balloon." -- How much science progresses through play.
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The Youth(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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I have a set of hand-me-down Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars I had growing up. There's an astounding difference between them and the newer ones my kids have been given. I actually use that difference as a lesson in workmanship to my kids.
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The Great American Safety Valve(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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Borrowing an Arrow(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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Decreeing the Deity(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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Narrative Capture (2021)(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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Dead Poet Societies(unintendedconsequenc.es)
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