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by skmurphy 5y ago
A realistic Medieval city game could do a good job of teaching key aspects of history. I learned a lot from SimCity about thinking in systems. I think well-designed games can teach quite a bit. It would also be an interesting challenge to m
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by skmurphy 5y ago
Here are 15 tweets from 2019 through mid-2021 that are Brian Norgard (@BrianNorgard) at his best on entrepreneurship.
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Brian Norgard Offers Pithy Insights from the Trenches of Entrepreneurship(skmurphy.com)
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Key points: The Orders require all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear face coverings when indoors in public settings, with limited exceptions, starting at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, August 3rd. As of July 30, 2021, 84% of re
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Bay Area Health Officials Require Masks Indoors to Prevent Covid-19(covid19.sccgov.org)
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Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in August 2021(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
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"Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical 'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!' says Wernher von Braun Some have ha
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by skmurphy 5y ago
References and extends this post, may be better to start with it: https://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-...
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The shorthand is "if only" => "next time." Key points from a good article. Definition: "A counterfactual is a statement about how the world might be different now if something had happened differently in the past
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I think this is in the category of compelling if true. Reported in https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2021.70801... which notes a potential conflict of interest: three authors (of four) are listed a
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Investigational magnetic device shrinks glioblastoma tumor 30% in human test(eurekalert.org)
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Concluding Paragraph: Being a cozy futurist is being aware that even when indubitably science & technology are cool, we can't forget about the lives of the users of said technology; the goal is a nice future, not just a technically
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Cozy Futurism starts with current problems and human needs not with technology(nintil.com)
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Homing torpedoes and homing missiles sound more like boomerangs to me. But while a boomerang returns if you miss your target, it does not explode.
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I learned it as "hone in" from hone meaning to sharpen or narrow (honing a blade). It seems to me that "home in" only makes sense if you are trying to return. If you seeking a new target hone in strikes me as more accura
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by skmurphy 5y ago
This is a good analysis. The core question is, "Why aren't more startups are working on programmer productivity." My early experience was in system design for board level and chip level systems (e.g. ASICs, FPGAs, SOCs) where
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by skmurphy 5y ago
Key points: The challenge for a startup is four fold: 1. Screen out folks with negative productivity in the interview process. 2. Avoid screening out potential employees who have great strengths in addition to some obvious weaknesses. 3. At
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Plus Minus People(skmurphy.com)
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“Skunk Works” by Ben R. Rich is a worthy sequel to Kelly Johnson’s “Kelly: More Than My Share of It All.” It brings the story of the Lockheed Skunkworks, founded by Johnson, up to 1995. There are a number of lessons for technology entrepren
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“The Ship That Never Was” from “Skunk Works” by Ben R. Rich(skmurphy.com)
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Summary: An enterprise sale is a significant source of opportunity for startups, but it is a complex undertaking with many moving parts and many people involved. The founders must discover and diagnose the need, determine that the offering
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by skmurphy 5y ago
Thanks very much for posting this, it's a well thought out exploration of what the design and management of large scale systems will entail.
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In "Thinkertoys," Michael Michalko describes "The Phoenix Checklist" as a rich set of questions developed by the CIA designed to help agents look at a challenge from many different angles. Michael Machalko introduces the
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The Phoenix Checklist for Framing a Problem and Its Solution(skmurphy.com)
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A transcript for Eben Moglen's talk is available at http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.h...
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Interesting analysis of the implications two overlapping distributions of characteristics between men and women. Two key grafs: It comes as no surprise then that population-based studies have demonstrated sex-related differences in personal
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by skmurphy 5y ago
Different sources quote a half-life of 3-5 hours in healthy individuals who are not pregnant. https://sleepeducation.org/sleep-caffeine/ Caffeine begins to affect your body very quickly. It reaches a peak level in your
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“Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an un
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by skmurphy 5y ago
Original article https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar... Not that "Epic" is the name of an Electronic Health Record system that embeds this proprietary algorithm for detecting sep
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A poignant set of memories that ends with some very good advice: don't wait to thank the folks who have made a difference in your life and tell them how much you love them or how much they matter to you.

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