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by skmurphy 6y ago
Thanks for this reference to Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer, it was a fantastic book. I like two quotes in particular "The epic of the Pacific war found new chapters for everyone. The endless game of personnel-rotation mus
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by skmurphy 6y ago
summary: 1. give yourself an error/practice/learning budget, 2. schedule breaks that recharge, 3. follow suggestions from Desiderata, 4. join one or more peer support groups for entrepreneurs.
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Some Suggestions for Managing the Stress of Bootstrapping a Startup(skmurphy.com)
1 points by skmurphy 6y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 6y ago
This article offers some useful elaborations on the "rubber ducking" or "Spaniel Method." I blogged about this in https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2015/09/25/asking-questions-fr... and f
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by skmurphy 6y ago
The least competitive markets don't exist yet, the next least are tiny. These attract the smallest and least well funded competition.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
Bay Area has done exceptionally well. Central Valley is in line with Southern California.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
Reviewing https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coronavirus-map/ and https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-case... I don't see evidence for the thesis of the article.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
I am not sure your timeline is correct. For example, https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/ven... implies US counter-intelligence efforts against Soviets under the Venona project continued until
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by skmurphy 6y ago
My goal was not to rehabilitate McCarthy or give aid and comfort to Holocaust deniers but to point out that there was a lot of Soviet espionage activity, which the article implies was not the case. I strongly encourage you to read Patrick M
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by skmurphy 6y ago
"McCarthy had, in fact, no such list. He did not have even a single name." The FBI Venona project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project ) detected a significant number of Soviet spies operating in the
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by skmurphy 6y ago
New technologies expose new low hanging fruit. The act as what Taleb calls "half-invented" in AntiFragile, a working implementation applied to the wrong problem. The approach of "service first" or concierge or Wizard-of
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by skmurphy 6y ago
I am not sure that the "days of the Wright Brothers are over." Above all else they were experimenters who gathered data on aerodynamic properties and performance of different wing and control surfaces. I think there is much undisc
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by skmurphy 6y ago
From first paragraph: this is a 56,000 word summary of Peter Thiel’s view on progress and stagnation in his own words, sourced from a number of his interviews and articles. This document consists only of direct quotes from Thiel, lightly ed
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by skmurphy 6y ago
Core argument is for "building codes" for software that is effectively mission critical infrastructure. Data and identify security--and privacy--concerns may drive a fair amount of regulation in the next five to ten years. Here is
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by skmurphy 6y ago
Thanks for the cite, I learned something new.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
Quote investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/04/ulcer/ sourced this to David O. Selznick or Samuel Goldwyn. There are not attributions to Walt Disney uncovered. In an article about Disney ht
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by skmurphy 6y ago
This strikes me as an emerging area for application trustworthiness and privacy issues. In some ways it's an extension of This strikes me as an extension of the dark patterns work ( https://www.darkpatterns.org/ ) or in
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Customer Support Tools Violate Privacy(letterbase.io)
1 points by skmurphy 6y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 6y ago
It seems like the core of the disconnect was that the customer ("Alpha") was designing screen using power point at a font size and page size that did not translate well into actual screen real estate. I wonder if the developer cou
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by skmurphy 6y ago
New startups form in private conversations: here are some ways to make it easy for potential cofounders to find you based on the problem you are working on or customer need you plan to address. Some number of these random conversations will
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New Startups Form in Private Conversations(skmurphy.com)
10 points by skmurphy 6y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 6y ago
You are making the unsubstantiated claim, it seems to me it has to be regarded as unproven until you can offer more details.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
There is no substantiation provided in the article for this assertion. You are simply repeating an unsupported claim. What was the name of the book? What was the name of the blog post?
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by skmurphy 6y ago
I am not sure I agree. Many factories involve organizing skilled labor in a repeatable well defined process, where there may be experiments but they are managed top down. Also, inept government agencies employee more than you might imagine.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
This strikes me as a good definition of a bureaucrat (or middle manager for that matter) "But their actual day-in, day-out work involves the coordination of various teams and resources across a large organization based on established a
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by skmurphy 6y ago
two key grafs: "Professionals today would never self-identify as bureaucrats. Product managers at Google might have sleeve tattoos or purple hair. They might describe themselves as “creators” or “creatives.” They might characterize the
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by skmurphy 6y ago
https://postbag.co/pricing/ is now up with pricing. Freemium model with first paid tier at $99/month.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
If it's no secret pick a price.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
No pricing for a service that cannot remain free. This never ends well.
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by skmurphy 6y ago
OCT is a recognized diagnostic modality in dermatology and worth discussing with your doctors. Here are some references: https://www.mdedge.com/dermatology/article/146053/melanoma/o... https:/&#x2F

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