the_watcher

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by the_watcher 4y ago
What I read was that she will be leaving in the fall, but they are immediately starting to transition her team, which is exactly what I'd expect.
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by the_watcher 4y ago
Completely agree with this, matches my experience as well.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
Thanks for this, cryptography is a good example where this could be a problem.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
The social science and medical replication crisis seems like it would be far more impactful than a mathematics crisis, right? Politicians, policy-makers, doctors, etc. all make decisions based on potentially flawed or outright incorrect stu
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by the_watcher 5y ago
Annoyance 4 is the one that really bothers me (although to be fair, I have Beats Studio Buds that have exactly the same issue). Also, they get _really_ dirty and are very irritating to clean. Really not sure how Apple hasn't produced a
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by the_watcher 5y ago
I had to use ID.me for something earlier this year (I forget what), and while it was not a terrible experience technically, I literally had to shave off my beard to complete it, as my drivers license photo is me with a freshly shaved face.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
I discovered Codecademy in late fall 2011, while miserable in my first semester of law school. I had no idea how to code, and had only found it after stumbling on PG's essays for the first time (which led me to google "learn to pr
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by the_watcher 5y ago
I recently read Cryptonomicon, and there's a moment in the book where a Japanese (IIRC) soldier is instantly able to tell that someone is new to the south Pacific because they're standing under a coconut tree.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
Byrne Hobart noted recently that SPACs are interesting for spinouts, which matches their history as a vehicle designed to take something public that would have trouble in a traditional IPO process.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
Are you able to share how someone could see that this is what happened? I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, I am genuinely interested.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
I'm find myself agreeing with this more and more. Packy McCormick's framing as "The Great Online Game" seems like the best way to approach crypto and web3, to me. Go in for enough to play, if you're interested (it&#
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by the_watcher 5y ago
That book is fantastic. I found it via Byrne Hobart, who accurately pointed out that it's as much about project management as it is about a coup.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
Found this from 2014: https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/24/sheryl-sandberg-facebook-r...
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by the_watcher 5y ago
This is pretty similar to my POV. The front light is huge for reading in bed (or anywhere dark, like a plane). Also, you carry essentially every book in print with you, everywhere. But the biggest reason I find myself reading on my Kindle d
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by the_watcher 5y ago
That's why I mentioned Byrne Hobart and David Perell, two people I regularly read and built businesses partially funded by EV.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
You should email him and ask him if he's considered this. Of all funders, he seems like one of the most likely to consider doing this (and given some of the people he funds, it may actually be possible to run some sort of experiment wh
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by the_watcher 5y ago
While it's true he will give grants to accomplished people, he also makes far more grants to smart young people (often from non-Western, lower income nations) that are _not_ accomplished, for things like "general career developmen
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by the_watcher 5y ago
The episode with John McWhorter is my favorite example of this - McWhorter is audibly delighted by Cowen's questions about linguistics.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
He regularly says something like "my superpower is that I respond to all of my emails". And from what it seems, he truly does.
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by the_watcher 5y ago
Yea, the first thing I learned was that nuts are an excellent snack if you stick to the serving size, but the serving size is shockingly small and easy to _blow_ past. I ended up just not buying them anymore, too easy to eat half a bag as a
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by the_watcher 5y ago
Minimizing added sugar/processed carbs while at home (mostly ate what I wanted when out to eat with spouse, made slightly healthier choices with friends), stopping all drinking outside of special occasions (weddings, anniversary's
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by the_watcher 6y ago
I grew up within an easy drive of the Salton Sea and had the same reaction: it's a pretty sad and gross sea, and it's a tragedy for the people who live there, but it's not a Mad Max wasteland (seriously, Indio is a 20 minute
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Airtable Apps(blog.airtable.com)
75 points by the_watcher 6y ago|68 comments
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by the_watcher 6y ago
About a year ago, I stumbled on Substack's page that shows writers what they'd make, net of fees based on number of subscribers * price. 400 subscribers at $10/month works out to ~37,000/year. That's not a way to ge
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by the_watcher 6y ago
I was hoping this would be by Byrne Hobart! If you haven't checked it out, he writes daily at diff.substack.com and is up there with Ben Thompson and Matt Levine in terms of quality.
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by the_watcher 6y ago
The government doesn't bankroll air travel, at least not in the same way. I believe the quoted statement is referring to propping up the prices of flights via the pre-deregulation era. The government no doubt supports airlines in plent
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by the_watcher 6y ago
The same reason resellers exist in pretty much all industries: The buyer doesn't actually care who they purchase from. When you're a reseller, in many ways your true customer is the vendor you are reselling, who are simply purchas
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by the_watcher 6y ago
My reaction was basically "this is emblematic of a whole lot of the problems seemingly endemic to our current politics, but at the same time, this also accurately represents what our politics has become, and there's real value i
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by the_watcher 6y ago
I don't even acknowledge it. I just say something like "Just wanted to let you know that I'm on the market, are you free for a chat?"
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by the_watcher 6y ago
The only thing I use email tags/folders for is to tag recruiters. Last time I looked for a job (in September), I just ranked the companies in order of my interest, and went down the list. 80% of the recruiters were happy to hear from m

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