gartdavis

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by gartdavis 11mo ago
"elaborate foot guns" -- HN is a high signal environment, but I could read for a week and not find a gem like this. Props. Destiny visits me on my 18th birthday and says, "Gart, your mediocrity will result in a long series o
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by gartdavis 11mo ago
Manufacturing was hard to do 2 decades ago, and is harder now. I started, grew, and exited a modern manufacturing-based business, and I can confirm that almost everything about modern capitalism in this cycle is biased -against- any busines
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by gartdavis 1y ago
I've always loved being confounded by unexpected stories like this. 20 years ago, I was working to build a self-publishing company - lulu.com - that would open up the world of book publishing. It was not an easy journey. In 2005 a b
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by gartdavis 2y ago
Is this an empathy test?
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by gartdavis 2y ago
The Canadian government drove its primary aerospace company, Avro Canada, not just into bankruptcy/reorganization, but to completely shutdown operations. The country lost 14,000 aerospace professionals, but more importantly, it lost i
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by gartdavis 4y ago
a_bonobo.... I think you're digging in the right vein here, but to perhaps to make the point clearer we could separate the discussion into two: In an AI laden world 1) How are artists relevant 2) How are artists fairly compensated I be
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by gartdavis 4y ago
One way to think about this is that color is information. We have a processing capacity for this information that became fully saturated somewhere between 1967 and 1973, and since then we've been creating a surplus that everyone has t
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by gartdavis 6y ago
Brexit was about UK nativism. As the USA steps out of its own nativist administration, the UK has fewer like-minded global partners with real shared interests. I'm an American that lived in London for 2 years in the 90s - the high tid
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by gartdavis 7y ago
Lulu.com - book self publishing. Discussions between Amazon & Lulu led to the reproduction of every use case over the following 24 months. I worked at Lulu.
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by gartdavis 15y ago
While I appreciate the sentiment of this RFS with regards to the sclerotic dysfunction of the legal system of copyright (and the business models that perpetuate it), truth be told, as a life-long citizen of startupworld I've often found mys