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If You've Never Had an Annoying Neighbor, You're the Annoying Neighbor
It can be difficult to empathize with others without direct experience.
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Commoditization Increases the Importance of Distribution
As products and services become commoditized, distribution and companies that help distribution become more important.
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Taking an Airplane Into the Water
The user is complaining that our boat is leaking through the windows, it’s unstable, and too slow.
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Measuring Infinity
In a thought experiment from The Beginning of Infinity, the author introduces a universe traveling device.
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The Turing-Test Is an Empiricist Mistake
The Turing-test is rooted in the idea that a human can judge whether something is an Artificial Intelligence merely by the behaviors it exhibits during the test.
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Building Compliance Products Is Like Reading Kafka but You Get to Fix It
Many people don’t find compliance to be a particularly interesting area to work on.
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Jump to Universality
The jump to universality has two phases. Before universality, one needs to create specialized objects.
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Computers Are Universal Objects
Computers can be programmed to do anything a model of computation can express.
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It's Easier to Blame Others for Lack of Success
Given the choice between taking responsibility for lack of success in a given arena and blaming others for keeping you down, many will choose to blame others.
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Applications for New Businesses Are Up 20 Percent
In 2021, 5.4 million applications for new businesses were filed. This rise in entrepreneurial activity coincides with the Great Resignation and the COVID-19 global pandemic where people are re-evaluating their relationship with work.
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Give Users a Way to Skip the Invite List
A common pattern for launching products and companies is to start with an invite-only beta.
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Reductionists View High-Level Behavior as Consisting of Lower-Level Behavior Only
The reductionist view of science is that all high-level behavior consists of the underlying lower-level behavior and should be analyzed into components to fully understand.
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Multiple Explanations at Different Levels of Emergence Are Not Inconsistent
A reductionist argument against an explanation might be that it is incorrect because there are multiple explanations of the same phenomena.
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Abstractions Are Real
The real world and it’s behaviors are extraordinarily complex. To theorize and create good explanations necessarily requires some encapsulation of ideas through abstractions.
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Cryptocurrency Is Not Immune to Market Conditions
The selloff and resulting crash in cryptocurrency prices on Jan 21, 2022, which wiped out over $1 trillion from the major coins, showed that cryptocurrency behaves like any other risky asset in the market.
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Interest Rate Fallacy
Economists and financial analysts often assume high interest rates are associated with tight monetary conditions and, conversely, low interest rates are associated with easy money.
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The Poverty of Compromise
When two people have competing ideas (let’s call them idea A and idea B), it’s common to compromise somewhere between idea A and idea B (let’s call that idea C).
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Monetizing Innovation Literary Notes
Product failure is rooted in failure to put the customer’s willingness to pay for a new product at the core of product design.
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Matter, Energy, and Evidence Are All That's Needed for Knowledge Creation
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The Ringelmann Effect Shows Groups Become Less Productive as They Grow
An inverse relationship exists between group size and productivity which shows that group effort does not necessarily lead to increased effort from the group members.
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Remote Work Hasn't Prevented People From Getting Omicron
While remote work is obviously better for reducing exposure to COVID-19 than going to the office, the rapid increase in Omicron cases shows that remote work has little impact on reducing Omicron case counts.
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Humans Transform Inhospitable Environments Into Support Systems for Themselves
A popular view of the environment, “Spaceship Earth”, is that the planet provides just the right biosphere to support human life.
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Median Series a Round Grew by 30 Percent
From 2017 to 2021 the median size of Series A funding rounds grew from $7MM to $13MM.
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If You Sell to Startups, Your Business Needs to Grow With Them
If you sell to startups you should expect churn (they go out of business) and if you happen to catch the next big startup, you’re business model needs to be uncapped to grow along with it.