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by smugglerFlynn 2y ago
This whole article is written around one key sentence: > There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is. But there are absolutely no examples given of what thes
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Do toasters have bad UX?
6 points by smugglerFlynn 2y ago|5 comments
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by smugglerFlynn 2y ago
They probably ran A/B test and this wording led to increased registrations rate. Not sure why everyone instantly assumes product teams are not aware of marketings basics. It is consumers driving how the products evolve, not the other w
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by smugglerFlynn 2y ago
What Naval was talking[0] about is that you start to know whom to trust when playing the long game, and people start to trust you in return. Which is exactly what causes those quiet exceptions to be handed out. While it does not seem to be
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by smugglerFlynn 2y ago
Some orgs of Fortune 500 caliber have innovation units that help to process ideas and changes. To be efficient, these units must have buy in on senior leadership level and high level of exec sponsorship, ideally they would also have C-level
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by smugglerFlynn 2y ago
There is no “internet”, there are thousands of digital media outlets and digital products, each following their own business model. Ads is not the only model available, but is the most popular one, by far. So another question can be asked:
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by smugglerFlynn 2y ago
Isn't it the whole point of failing fast? It seems the industry rebooted back into " any project must be a success" mindset, which we all have been walking away from for the past couple of decades. Truth is, there are shitty
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by smugglerFlynn 2y ago
> Chapter by chapter, Sal takes readers through his predictions—some have already come true since the book was written—for AI’s many applications in education. His main argument: AI will radically improve both student outcomes and t
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by smugglerFlynn 2y ago
Watching HAL happening in real life comes across as creepy, not magical. Double creepy with all the people praising this ‘magicality’. I’m not a sceptic and apply AI on a daily basis, but whole “we can finally replace people” vibe is extrem
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by smugglerFlynn 2y ago
Just to be clear, what you claim is actually two things: - advertising is ~1/5th of US economy (backed with facts) - all advertising is brainwashing (your personal opinion)
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
Solution is quite simple - rewire the dryer's jingle circuit to electrically trigger play for a pre-recorded "Hey Alexa! Notify my owner that drying is complete" cassette record on an old portable Walkman. Install Amazon spea
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
Isn’t solving trust issues with further mistrust leads to an even lower trust in the end? (genuinely interested because “low-trust/high-trust communities” concept is a topic I know nothing about.)
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
Mass media caters to the popular demand, so what you see is likely a mirror of average lay interest in the economics (or, broader, in any knowledge about how the world works). For example, if a person believes that government is ought to ge
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
I am yet to find a highly skilled person who gets excited by “moving fast” aka charging towards bullshit targets backed by unrealistic time/quality expectations. And getting highly skilled people bored or demotivated is the best way to
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
Pop science books seem to fall into "feel good" category of products. Most people buy them not because they are providing easily accessible scientific knowledge, but because these books make people feel smart. Actual science is of
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
It seems your ability to practically apply the knowledge about Dunning-Kruger effect is suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect.
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
In my experience it is the opposite, very few people qualify for "knowing their stuff well". Let me put it this way: Successfully executing on something requires _both_ domain knowledge + knowledge how to execute things effici
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
This switch might flip instantaneously.
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
It’s not the tech, it’s the business - people pay for new and shiny things to be added, regardless of the actual value they bring. Engineering managers hire for shiny things on your resume precisely because of that business trend. Tech tren
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
I'd guess there is another factor - with age you understand that promises hyped up around something new are often false. Instead of solving some deeply rooted problems, people chase shiny and new, while society stays more or less the s
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
So what interesting and exciting things are you up to nowadays?
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
If your crazy ex steals your watch on the way out, does it mean all new people you meet will get a frisk search at the end of each date? That’s not how trust works, regardless of potential consequences.
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
On a serious note, I think people in tech underestimate just how much yellow and mass-market race-to-the-bottom content existed out there prior to the Internet. What we see is just mass crowd getting into the tubes, with content producers a
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
It took some effort, but I have finally evolved past boring and unrewarding ability to read… Can anyone please share a hackernews-to-video converter? Tried finding it through TikTok, but without ability to read it is a pain to type somethin
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
There are no more people in that process, just “resources” that you “let go”. Welcome to 2024.
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
> compared to the best in the business Huh? They are among the best. Disney is among Big 5 major movie studios. Lego is top 4 toy companies, largest by revenue among them. Apple is top-3 company in the world by market cap. Quality is v
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
This. There is a heavy lifting issue hiding behind using OKRs as a tool: you need to build an organization that is able to held teams accountable, and has a working escalation chain. The prerequisite for OKR is that your organization is dri
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
It is a psychological bias called availability heuristic: https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/availability-heuristic... They use funny example in this article: When asked if falling airplane parts or shark attack
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
Let's say 15 year old Toyota arrives on your Uber, instead of a shiny new one - would you cancel and wait for another car? Keep in mind that riding in both cars is statistically vastly more dangerous than flying any modern Boeing, in
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by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
They also own largest Taxi service in Russia (Yandex Taxi), largest food and home goods delivery service (Yandex Lavka), and largest car sharing service (Yandex Drive). Yandex Taxi has been testing self-driving cars in Moscow for years. Int

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