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by skmurphy 8y ago
I found this quote the most interesting: "Microsoft's entry into most new technologies follows this same plan, with the first effort being a preemptive strike, the second effort being market research to see what customers really w
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by skmurphy 8y ago
Summary (from post): Creating urgency has become synonymous with leading change to the detriment of individuals, organizations, and societies. The more leaders create these artificial crises, the less we trust and engage with our leaders an
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Leading change: The nonsense of urgency(woodlanddecay.com)
1 points by skmurphy 8y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 8y ago
This is really good advice, early sales for founders looks more like a combination of problem diagnosis (often of your own feature set or assumptions which makes premature "objection handling" very dangerous as it cuts off learnin
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by skmurphy 8y ago
Sleep is another form of cognition that can unlock other problem solving capabilities. See "The Committee of Sleep" by Deidre Barrett https://www.amazon.com/Committee-Sleep-Scientists-Athletes-S... for a number of
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by skmurphy 8y ago
Takes this quote by Soren Kierkegaard from “The Concept of Anxiety“ as a point of departure: "Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? I
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Kierkegaard: Creativity Must Master Dread of the Unknown(skmurphy.com)
2 points by skmurphy 8y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 8y ago
Fair point they are in the top 100 but not the top 50 Software/SaaS firms. They are at about a 600M run rate so I don't think of them as a "small" firm but but they not the behemoths that Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook
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by skmurphy 8y ago
This is a fantastic insight, it crystallizes a sense of foreboding about Google I have had for several years now since a friend got locked out of his GMail account by Google and had no redress. Dealing with Google is like dealing with an in
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by skmurphy 8y ago
see https://www.harrisonmetal.com/library/the-cognitive-distorti...
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by skmurphy 8y ago
See https://www.harrisonmetal.com/library/the-cognitive-distorti...
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by skmurphy 8y ago
I agree that there were a number of earlier novels and stories that were cyberpunk in their sensibilities: John Brunner's "Shockwave Rider" and "Stand on Zanzibar", Vinge's "True Names", Dick's &
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by skmurphy 8y ago
That's certainly possible. It's interesting that the developers of the Motorola Star Tac phone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC said that they were inspired by the Star Trek communicators so sci
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by skmurphy 8y ago
Neuromancer, William Gibson’s first novel, was published in 1984. It helped to establish the cyberpunk genre of science fiction: a dark future where computing, communication, and artificial intelligence technologies were dominant, compleme
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Revisting Neuromancer After Three Decades(skmurphy.com)
65 points by skmurphy 8y ago|85 comments
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by skmurphy 8y ago
I think the abuses will get fixed through a combination of increased awareness, specific regulation targeting certain dark patterns (in the same way that unsolicited commercial email, junk faxes, and do not call lists were created), and app
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Superstimulus: Refining Online Interactions into Digital Heroin(skmurphy.com)
1 points by skmurphy 8y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 8y ago
I blogged about how to apply ten of these to startups at https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2011/01/10/applying-akins-laws...
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by skmurphy 9y ago
triggering event: disappearance from YouTube--due to new automated curation retroactively applied--of Syrian Civil War footage. "In the summer of 2017, observers of the Syrian civil war realized that YouTube was removing dozens of chan
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Silicon Valley Cannot Be Trusted with Our History(buzzfeed.com)
4 points by skmurphy 9y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Thiel's opening statement to Fox Business: "When people are unanimously on one side, that tells you not that they've all figured out the truth but that they're in a sort of totalitarian place, that they're in a one
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Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley Is a Totalitarian Place(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by skmurphy 9y ago|9 comments
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by skmurphy 9y ago
"escalation does not deter escalation" I think there are examples both ways. Hiroshima, Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Crisis, involved escalations that were not met with further escalation.
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Very useful transformation of a "conflict" or zero sum model of engagement into a "mistake" or positive sum. For more on difference see http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mist
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Reversing Alinsky's Rules: Create Positive Sum Negotiation, Enable Collaboration(sethgodin.typepad.com)
1 points by skmurphy 9y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 9y ago
This analysis on the Fenwick website "Grand Jury Indicts Startup Founder Isaac Choi – Implications for Silicon Valley" By Casey O’Neill and Hanley Chew from June 19, 2017 https://www.fenwick.com/publications/p
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Original HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379518 opening paragraphs from San Jose Business Journal article: "Isaac Choi, the founder of a shuttered Santa Clara startup, faces up to 20 years in pri
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Isaac Choi, CEO from “Scammed by a Silicon Valley Startup” Pleads Guilty(bizjournals.com)
1 points by skmurphy 9y ago|2 comments
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by skmurphy 9y ago
This is from Nov-28-2017 but I think think the analysis is still good. Meetup made some significant changes to their interface recently that have let to a lot of dissatisfaction and complaints from organizers complaining[1], I think these d
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WeWork Buys Meetup; Here Is How Meetup.Com Will Change(gaintap.com)
52 points by skmurphy 9y ago|25 comments

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