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by skmurphy 6y ago
re: Osteopathic clinic, in the original article they outline treatment as follows: "Manual treatment was provided to aid central lymphatic drainage, improve mechanics and reduce the inflammation of the spine and reduce the allostatic l
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by skmurphy 6y ago
The author has a zero sum view of how companies function: everyone is pitted against everyone else for a larger slice of a fixed pie. I find Neils Pflaeging's positive sum three network model more accurate and more actionable, see htt
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“Whether something is complicated is in the mind of the beholder.” Don Norman In the same way that a probability represents your state of information about an event or action your assessment of the complexity of a task or problem is a funct
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A his property so he can license at whatever price he wants. B it's not clear from your description that you are obligated to continue to work at a below market rate. Why not quote your current rate and accept he may not hire you. Cons
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It's OK to build there as long as you acknowledge that fire is a natural inhabitant of any forest and over a 20-30 year period is likely to come for a visit at least once.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
A conversation involves both listening and talking. Good sales people know that they have to "diagnose before they can prescribe" which means they must elicit symptoms and confirm need and fit with product capabilities. Really goo
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You need to separate sales from marketing. Sales is a conversation, marketing is a broadcast. Marketing gets the phone to ring, sales takes the call and closes the deal. For B2B sales resembles project management: the goal is not to convinc
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by skmurphy 6y ago
I think it's much earlier. It should at least be dated from founding of NAACP in 1909. Rosa Parks was not a random person. she was elected Secretary of the Montgomery Alabama NAACP chapter in 1943.
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My top four: Behavior is hard to fix. People say they’ve learned but they underestimate how much of their previous mistake was caused by emotions that will return when faced with the same circumstances. Being good at something doesn’t promi
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your email is not currently in your profile https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wesammikhail
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We have helped a number of teams form at the Bootstrapper Breakfast over the last fourteen years. You are welcome to join us, here is a schedule of meetings in September: https://bootstrappersbreakfast.com/2020/08/
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I will use it for my "Quotes for entrepreneurs collected in Sep-2020" blog post (full set going back to 2006 at https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/category/quotes/ ). I will show the basic version and thi
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by skmurphy 6y ago
I was verifying the Alan Kay quote: “Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible” and came across a Quora answer by him that provides a lot of useful context. See https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-stor
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Thanks for clarifying, I had run across this book last year and put it in my Amazon cart and then decided it was too academic. I will give it more consideration.
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This is a $150 textbook ($75 used $25 Kindle): have you read it and actually gotten value out of it? https://www.amazon.com/Building-Successful-Online-Communitie...
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Live Free or Die State Motto of New Hampshire Eleftheria i thanatos Freedom or Death Motto of State of Greece
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1. How well do you know your partner? Ask tough questions up front. 2. What strengths and weaknesses do you both bring to the partnership? A good partner will complement your skills and assets. 3. Do you have a shared vision? 4. What type o
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Andrew Hargadon: 7 Questions to Ask a Potential Parnter (2007)(andrewhargadon.typepad.com)
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Journalism is a key element of our collective civic sensemaking. Kent Bye worked on a model for collaborative journalism he called "The Echo Chamber Project" see https://archive.org/details/KentByeEchoChamberP
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I have used Hightail for years, from when it was called YouSendIt. Here is info from their website on plans and pricing https://www.hightail.com/file-sharing Hightail offers four different subscription levels for file shari
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by skmurphy 6y ago
FYI: Paul Linebarger used the pen name Cordwainer Smith to write a lot of good science fiction.
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Back when they were not closed for pandemic I met a number of YC folks in the second floor area. They have established a gofundme to try and bridge their expense gap during Covid. See https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en&#
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Mountain View's Red Rock Coffee Asks for Community Support(mv-voice.com)
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The people and businesses who have the problem are willing to pay a lot to solve it. It's a high value problem to solve. If your competitor(s) could process the equivalent of 10,000 inbound messages a day would they be able to maintain
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by skmurphy 6y ago
It can happen one of two ways, Google may shrink. Consider AOL, Kodak, Sears as examples of other dominant players who did not react to changes in the zeitgeist. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245817 for an
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It's not a question of receiving that many emails an hour, but only having to spend an hour to process 1,000 emails that you may receive in a day. With spam filters many have already passed a threshold of processing that many emails a
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by skmurphy 6y ago
Some folks--including many on HN--have many more insights or "good ideas" than they can execute on. If they want to see them come to fruition they are not harmed by giving away a substantial fraction of them that they don't p
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by skmurphy 6y ago
Privacy - Duck Duck Go may overtake Google at some point. Better Email management tools, use existing transport but allow you to manage 1,000 to 10,000 inbound messages in an hour of work. Note: this is not mean to offer encouragement for m
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Think of it as taking advice from a successful serial entrepreneur who is using a metaphor.
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I really like Derek Sivers "Change Careers Like Tarzan" model https://sive.rs/tarzan "I get emails from many people who want to make a big change in their career. Each one wants to quit their current career,

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