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I first came across Richard Cook in connection with his enormously insightful "How Complex Systems Fail" (1988) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228797158_How_compl... If you have not read this it&#x2
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Richard Cook: A Life in Many Acts(adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
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I think you have to join two kinds of communities, customer-oriented and peer (and potential competitor) oriented. You need to join communities where your prospects hang out so that you can understand their needs better. And it's very
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These don't sound like serious inquiries. Have you been approached by a partner at a VC firm or a executive at the Megacorp? This sounds more like due diligence against other investments they are considering by having low level folks r
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You are making an inference, it was not my implication.
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We offer online Bootstrappers Breakfasts® events in three time zones and host face to face events as well. These events are for “entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast.”® We have a dozen events on offer this month to help you move you
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Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in September 2022(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
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I used acetaminophen as an example of drug that is killing many more people than grapefruit juice. It's possible we could take a more holistic look and see where else we could minimize unintentional overdoses and dangerous interactions
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If labeling efforts cut the death rate in half that's 249 more people a year who are saved vs. "grapefruit deaths." The trick is to aim for improvement not perfection. We could limit deaths more by banning Tylenol but that wo
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The question is what is the level of risk you are trying to prevent. For me a far more underappreciated risk is the level of liver toxicity in acetaminophen (Tylenol) especially with even moderate amounts of alcohol--taking Tylenol for a ha
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Don't lose your desire for excellence and don't discouraged by the non-constructive comments on this thread. Happy to chat; you can contact me at https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2016/08/01/skmurph
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Pricing decisions can be subtle. I like to try and calculate the value I delivered to the customer. Here are a couple of questions you may find helpful. What are you replacing? What else could they pay for to achieve an equivalent speed up?
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From Paul Saffo "It's the Context" (Wired 1994) http://www.saffo.com/essays/its-the-context-stupid/ "The seductive chaos of the Internet today offers hints at why these agents to come will be s
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This is an old one but a good one: Clear Technical Writing by John A. Brogan ISBN: 978-0070079748
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Related “Never tell a child you have a soul. Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body. As we learn to think of things always in this order, that the body is but the temporary clothing of the soul, our views of death and the unbefittingnes
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We offer online Bootstrappers Breakfasts® events in three time zones and host face to face events as well. These events are for "entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast." We have a eleven events on offer this month to help yo
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Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in August 2022(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
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My vote for best quote from the book “Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. ‘You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.'”
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Your job is giving you enough to live on ad time to spend on other things. Focus on giving your children the best start in life by spending time with them now. They are only young for a brief time, and you cannot go back and undo neglect la
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I think you need to look within your circle of competence for know-how that few others possess, which can translate into solving problems that a particular customer set will pay for. You can start by offering services and develop products t
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I would suggest asking your manager a few questions [not in meeting]: I am having trouble relating the [transformation strategy] to the tasks/projects I am working on this month / this quarter. Can you please explain if there is a
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This is from Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshall by Stuart Lake https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671885375/ according to Jul-2-1956 Life Magazine article "Bang" which several longer excerpts https:&#x2F
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Theme for July: "Opportunity: Know What You are Looking for and Prepare for it." Eleven events listed: four in person (Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Mountain View, and San Jose), seven virtual. New Bootstrappers Breakfast chapter in Fort
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Roundup of Bootstrappers Breakfasts and Related Events in July 2022(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
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tl;dr: Kenopsia is a neologism coined by John Koenig for “the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet” like the “bare ruined choirs” of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73. This is one of
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Kenopsia: Bare Ruined Choirs Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang(skmurphy.com)
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The Perun video series is well researched and well presented.
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I am at a loss as to what you are recommending as a course of action.
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If you follow that logic every day and end up buying 1,000 tickets you are out $2,000 and you don't win powerball. Market results routinely outperform lottery tickets.
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Theme for June is "Do What You Love" With the change in the economic climate starting to affect at least follow on startup funding, many entrepreneurs--encouraged in many cases by venture capitalists--are rediscovering the power o

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