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by skmurphy 10y ago
What are you trying to learn? If the market is well defined you can start with a discovery driven sales approach where you sell against the existing solution your prospect is using and keep your eyes and ears open as to why the choose to st
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by skmurphy 10y ago
The way it works today is that different software engineers write the code that disemploys other software engineers. Also with machine learning access to open source code bases it would seem that machine systems could "apprentice"
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by skmurphy 10y ago
The full data chart reminders me of Abraham Wald asking the question "where do we never see damage on a returning plane?" to understand that those areas meant complete loss of the aircraft and would most benefit from more armor.
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Strongly recommend "Art of Learning" There is an interview with Waitkzkin (whose chess talents were chronicled in "Searching for Bobby Fischer" book and movie) in "Learning about Learning" http://www
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Thanks for suggesting https://barnacl.es it looks like an HN for bootstrappers.
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by skmurphy 10y ago
they use a quote by Larry Summers to frame the tension between innovation and maintenance: SUMMERS: People always think more about how new ground can be broken than they think about how existing institutions can be sustained or e
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In Praise of Maintenance(freakonomics.com)
2 points by skmurphy 10y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 10y ago
My hypothesis is that intermittent and alternate day fasting are closer to the lifestyle are bodies evolved in so it's less that they have health benefits as much as eating multiple meals a day may be less healthy for you.
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by skmurphy 10y ago
I shared it with folks at Canary Foundation because it also has implications for hunting for biomarkers for cancer.
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by skmurphy 10y ago
This was an extremely thought provoking article. I wonder if this same mechanism would also impact activity and cell division rates for cancer cells, with implications both for detecting them via biomarkers and the timing of chemotherapy an
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Key extract: The researchers classified human relationships into four types: in-roles (who include colleagues, classmates, and others who we are acquainted with and see on a regular basis), friends (those who we are acquaint
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Role of Familiar Strangers Overlooked in Social Networks(phys.org)
1 points by skmurphy 10y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 10y ago
The other thing that’s built into this law (Bill C-16 see https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-16/ ) and the surrounding policies is that they’ve changed two legal principles. It’s not ‘innocent before bein
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by skmurphy 10y ago
It's very hard to succeed if your manager fails.
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Extraversion is one of the Big 5 personality traits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits There is considerable evidence for its existence as a factor of personality.
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Most interesting aspect was the details of Doggerland, a large area inhabited in the Mesolithic buried by a rising North Sea. More on that in Europe's Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland https://www.amazon.com/Eur
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Out of the deep: why lost civilizations under the waves fascinate(aeon.co)
2 points by skmurphy 10y ago|1 comments
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Zenefits Reboots as Z2(wired.com)
3 points by skmurphy 10y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Looks like they have re-branded as Z2 on Oct 18 https://www.wired.com/2016/10/zenefits-reboots-z2-might-not-...
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by skmurphy 10y ago
None, new CEO should have re-branded to signal a change.
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by skmurphy 10y ago
how can you be contacted?
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by skmurphy 10y ago
analysis of https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08... and http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/09/13/a-statement-on-online-co... builds on http:/&#x2F
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ADA Lawsuit spurs DOJ to kill Berkeley on-line courses on YouTube(forbes.com)
3 points by skmurphy 10y ago|2 comments
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David Saxby 8 things to think about (a lot) before you start a company(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
1 points by skmurphy 10y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 10y ago
many copies of "Secrets of Consulting" by Gerald Weinberg and two copies of Bionomics by Michael Rothschild
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Chinese Startup Investments Come with Complications(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by skmurphy 10y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Voice (podcast / video) builds trust faster than print/text; text is better for detailed technical information. Especially for Enterprise accounts this is a complex sale not an impulse purchase and you need to establish trust and
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by skmurphy 10y ago
Less focus on quantity, more focus on quality might yield a substantially higher conversion rate: 5 a week or even 2-3 well done articles a week may be a much better goal, especially if he can hunt for more enterprise accounts that create r
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Top Startup Accelerators Follow on Funding Rates(cbinsights.com)
2 points by skmurphy 10y ago|0 comments
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OpenSensors IoT University(university.opensensors.io)
4 points by skmurphy 10y ago|0 comments

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