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Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”(replicationindex.wordpress.com)
819 points by skmurphy 9y ago|328 comments
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Summary: Amazon, the Clinton Foundation, and the American Heart Association have partnered to sell high-sugar food to children. And they’re marketing this junk food as if it’s healthy. The Amazon-Clinton-AHA initiative is called the Healthi
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Four excerpts on how entrepreneurs exploit errors in conventional wisdom. The first two are from a Feb-8-2001 public forum that was part of BusinessWeek’s “Captains of Industry” series, where Oracle Corp. CEO Lawrence J. Ellison sat down wi
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Entrepreneurs Exploit Errors in Conventional Wisdom(skmurphy.com)
1 points by skmurphy 9y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 9y ago
If your direct goal is to consume more and more of your user's attention so that you can sell it to your customers and you don't place any limits on how much you will "harvest" you are on a path to destroy people's
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Yes for people with ADD cigarettes enable focus and productive work. Much stronger and more effective than coffee.
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Like alcohol or gambling, it's probably inherent in the product for some people with genetic predispositions to certain types of addictive behavior. My hypothesis is that the level of "dopamine-kick" is at least partially a f
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Some other references: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-mak... http://www.tristanharris.com/2016/05/how-technology-hijacks-... https://www.ted.com/talk
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Key points: I invested in Google and Facebook years before their first revenue and profited enormously. I was an early adviser to Facebook’s team, but I am terrified by the damage being done by these Internet monopolies. Facebook and Google
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Roger McNamee: I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it(usatoday.com)
133 points by skmurphy 9y ago|75 comments
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Wikipedia entry has a good history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies There is a good superset list at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-nireland/A635528 I blogged about 10 for sta
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by skmurphy 9y ago
the price is a key part of product functionality.
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by skmurphy 9y ago
I agree, it's better to make a "beta price" or "pioneer price" that you honor, when I see "Free for now" I worry about investing effort in a product that the company does not have enough confidence in to p
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by skmurphy 9y ago
Recursion: hacking a customer development survey to assessment the customer development needs of hackers.
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by skmurphy 9y ago
an update to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14278565 this thread from two months ago, Seger's music is now available on streaming services. A representative for Seger said Friday's move was prompted by
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Bob Seger Music now available on streaming services(usatoday.com)
2 points by skmurphy 9y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 10y ago
When Cyberspace everts into the real world enabling communication and connection for non-computing related applications we call it IoT (the Internet of Things). Original idea comes from William Gibson's "Spook Country." Writt
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Cyberspace Everts into the Real World as IoT(skmurphy.com)
1 points by skmurphy 10y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 10y ago
This was the best take-away for me: I also learned that my best tactic was to reconceive my bewilderment as curiosity, and give free rein to it. I asked a lot of “why” and “what if” questions, forsaking the “what” and “how” que
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by skmurphy 10y ago
My mileage varies: I sign at least one NDA--most are mutual--a month and often learn things I didn't know already.
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by skmurphy 10y ago
FYI two days after writing this article he shut down his startup https://medium.com/@OmidAminfar/the-end-of-my-rewarding-star... so while I am not disputing the accuracy of his statements there may be other factors as
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by skmurphy 10y ago
the design flaw is not what happened to main spillway but that the emergency spillway flows over a dirt hillside that will quickly collapse once used in the situations where it will need to be. And not just Random Internet Guy but many othe
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by skmurphy 10y ago
She offers a seven step approach for bootstrappers 1: Make time for learning new skills – your startup’s success depends on it 2: Figure out your preferred learning style, as that will determine your learning medium. 3: Master the basics –
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Transcript from Elena Krasnoperova’s Learning Hacks for Bootstrappers(skmurphy.com)
2 points by skmurphy 10y ago|4 comments
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by skmurphy 10y ago
If you are having trouble getting prospects to talk to you how will having a product change that? Unless you are attacking an existing well defined market it makes sense to talk to prospects about what you are developing to make sure you do
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Why do startups staffed by amateurs sometimes outperform teams of experts at established firms? Creativity and new perspectives can yield surprising results.
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by skmurphy 10y ago
"past event horizon for human understanding" I think you are too pessimistic and that "centaur Go" will evolve in the same way that "centaur chess" is, where a player (or team of players) with access to the sof
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Good insight, I think there are implications for the Cynefin framework model that offers four possible state spaces: simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic. This classification may have as much to do with our state of information (or dep
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Summary: humans with ApoE4 variant living in Stone Age conditions with high exposure to parasites and pathogens, which cause their own damage to cognitive abilities when untreated, had better cognitive performance than others in same condit
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ApoE4 variant that triggers early onset Alzheimers protects against parasites(phys.org)
2 points by skmurphy 10y ago|1 comments

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