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by anotherhacker 2y ago
Not quite. This behavior leads to firing of middle-class workers. John Deere just laid off 300 workers, moved the factory to Mexico, engaged in buyback, and gave the CEO a huge pay. So, yeah, it helps your 401k, but in the mean time you don
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Basecamp’s Hey: A Missed Growth Opportunity (So Far)(alanklement.com)
1 points by anotherhacker 6y ago|0 comments
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by anotherhacker 8y ago
I read the article. It’s bad advice. Here’s a famous paper on why: http://www.sympoetic.net/Managing_Complexity/complexity_file...
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by anotherhacker 8y ago
Terrible advice. You shouldn’t “fall in love” with anything Everything is always changing. Consumer “problems”, their goals, their constraints.. its all changing, all the time. Instead, commit yourself to delivering progress to consumers, a
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The Illusion of Measuring What Customers Want (2017)(jtbd.info)
2 points by anotherhacker 9y ago|0 comments
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The Illusion of Measuring What Customers Want(jtbd.info)
1 points by anotherhacker 9y ago|0 comments
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by anotherhacker 9y ago
You're conflating knowledge work with manual work. Knowledge work requires the brain to wonder...to explore a problem and possible solutions freely. Michael Jordan wasn't trying to create anything new, he was trying to develop a p
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
I have a BFA. I taught myself programming (C++) when I was 15 (1995). I made simple puzzle games on my Mac. The internet got big and I got into HTML and JS. I didn't go to college for Computer Science b/c it sounded like I'd
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
>Why isn't there a Google for the law? There's no (or little) money to be made doing it. Maybe in the future when collecting and modeling such knowledge is cheap. For now, it's not cheap.
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
I wouldn't say that Taylorism is why those workers succeeded. I'd say that those workers were successful in spite of Taylorism. Don't fall into the trap in thinking that just because a methodology was applied, that it contrib
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
Yep... and it all started in the 1920s with Taylorism - the idea that management could be a scientific process. Taylorism is why, for example, some companies still use lines of code written as a measure of productivity.
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
The problem lies in business schools and degrees like the MBA. Check out the faculty list at Harvard Business school [link below]. I randomly looked at profiles of 14 of them and not a single one had real world business experience . If the
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
Anyone who writes this kind of stuff needs to disclose that: 1) They are a parent. 2) They have used their suggested technique on their own children.
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
Paul Graham was very much in support of increasing immigration. But Peter Thiel - by supporting Trump - is signalling against it. Does a Trump presidency discourage immigrants from coming to USA to work & start businesses?
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Silicon Valley is right to be worried about a Trump presidency(economist.com)
8 points by anotherhacker 10y ago|1 comments
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Bitch’n Ain’t Switch’n – Don’t Be Fooled by What Customers Say They Want(jtbd.info)
2 points by anotherhacker 10y ago|1 comments
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
Mark Suster is a respectable, thoughtful person. Joel Spolsky also lends his support to what Mark says. https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/793438357267308544
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
The topic before was "Should YC disassociate from Thiel from YC?" The argument from YC was (more or less) "businesses shouldn't let political differences stop people from working together." Here's my question t
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Peter Thiel: I’m voting for Trump because(businessinsider.com)
9 points by anotherhacker 10y ago|3 comments
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
>Socialism does not say anything about the political system. Socialism is about economics and welfare. Definition of Socialism: "A political and economic theory of social organization..." (via Google) When a government enacts s
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
Hitler was a Fascist / Authoritarian, not a Socialist. This confusion about Socialist vs Fascism is common because - as you point out - they enact similar policies, e.g. high taxes. There are numerous differences between the two. The b
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
Is this a problem for the Y Combinator Brand? I remember when Brendan Eich was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla because he donated $1000 to a campaign to block gay marriage. Paul Graham has called Peter "eccentric, but earnest."
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Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump(nytimes.com)
11 points by anotherhacker 10y ago|2 comments
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
"I'll never again work for a company who has institutional performance review processes." Deming's 3rd deadly disease: Annual rating of performance. “It is purely a lottery” https://youtu.be/ehMAwIHGN0Y?t
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
"Depends on what you mean by 'making it' as a startup " Making it = profitable and no debt. As odd as that may seem, a great many companies don't do that. E.g. Uber (for now).
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
This is compassion / responsiveness, not empathy. Empathy = mental simulating of how an action will affect another. Compassion = a desire to help another. Responsiveness = the ability to recognize changes in someone's emotional st
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
Thanks.
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
I don't understand. Can you say that simply?
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
"Tesla loses money on every car they sell" What data do you have on this? How is such figure(s) being calculated? Your claim also doesn't jive with the "Secret Tesla Master Plan": "The strategy of Tesla is to e
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by anotherhacker 10y ago
"We have to earn money at the end of the day though." Yes...but you can't build the products of tomorrow when you're primarily focused on selling the products of today.

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