pwatsonwailes

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by pwatsonwailes 2mo ago
There's a Shakespeare quote from Julius Caesar which would seem appropriate.
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by pwatsonwailes 4mo ago
It's written by an AI. That's why it's a bit shit.
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by pwatsonwailes 5mo ago
In most ways, it isn't meaningfully. It became what it is now, but in the same way a 600 year old oak isn't anything like an acorn or a sapling, what exists now isn't meaningfully that. They're a monster. Vastly impressi
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by pwatsonwailes 5mo ago
Short version: Reported quarterly revenue: ~$111 billion, so a 17% year-over-year increase. Diluted earnings per share: ~$2. 22% increase compared to the same quarter last year. Operating cash flow: surpassed $28 billion. Record for a March
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by pwatsonwailes 5mo ago
Terra Mystica, Brass Birmingham, Scythe, Root, ARCS and its expansions, Nemesis: Retaliation and SETI would all get shouts from me for that sort of thing. Slightly depends on your definition of complex and sophisticated, but I'd put al
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by pwatsonwailes 5mo ago
You may want to check out Siromer tractors depending where you are. Similar idea.
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by pwatsonwailes 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/tPWvX
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Europe's rearmament meets reality: the story of a failed frigate project(ft.com)
3 points by pwatsonwailes 5mo ago|2 comments
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by pwatsonwailes 6mo ago
Doesn't seem to do anything on custom game.
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by pwatsonwailes 6mo ago
A product being good enough isn't enough. At some point you also need to price it, and communicate it's existence persuasively to the market and win market share, and it has to be distributed effectively. Most businesses fail beca
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by pwatsonwailes 6mo ago
My mistake. Nice catch. That being said, AirPods use a steel frame construction to get the weight up for the same reason. There's a whole thing with weight in neuromarketing for luxury and luxury-adjacent products. There's fringe
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by pwatsonwailes 6mo ago
1. They have steel weights in them to make them that heavy so they feel more premium.
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by pwatsonwailes 6mo ago
Both built by Claude Sonnet 4.6
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
Doesn't need to be a single person, but yes, all good products come from someone or a (generally) small team, spotting something, and fixing it. As for the marketing department - depends on definition, but assuming you mean (as it most
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
Good segmentation is mostly not by demography nowadays. At best, demographics are a correlative element to something more fundamental, usually economic, behavioural or psychographic.
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
"how come no one, in the past 25 years of my life as a consumer, has ever had any time to ask me a single real question" There's a lot of shit marketers, is my short answer. Like, a lot.
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
The problem I tend to see is that companies say they're doing JTBD research, but they're actually just running attribute preference surveys (asking customers to rank features, from a list of things the company would like to build,
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
It's what always happens when there's a disconnect between the product built and the actual thing people want to do. In marketing, we differentiate between Jobs-As-Activities (the task of "changing a background") and Job
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
Not sure where you get that for Milgram. That's been replicated lots of times, in different countries, with different compositions of people, and found to be broadly replicable. Burger in '09, Sheridan & King in '72, Doli
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
You're not wrong strictly speaking - the challenge comes in getting KPIs for ethical and moral behaviour to be things that the company signs up for. Some are geared that way inherently (Patagonia is the cliché example), but most aren&#
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
Responded on this line of thinking a bit further down, so I'll be brief on this. Yes, there's selection bias in organisations as you go up the ladder of power and influence, which selects for various traits (psychopathy being an o
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
It's instructive though, despite the flaws, and at this point has been replicated enough in different ways that we know it's got some basis in reality. There's a whole bunch of constructivist research around interactionism, t
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
People's actual measured experience, vs people's experience of the experience, are rarely the same things, when they have prior knowledge of one thing, and low knowledge of the alternative. They prefer the thing they know, even wh
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
There's loads of this in the UX space. To overly simplify, people's brains use expected ideas about what things are like, in order to interact with the world. We build models as to what things are like, and then things that look l
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by pwatsonwailes 7mo ago
Not quite. The idea that corporate employees are fundamentally "not average" and therefore more prone to unethical behaviour than the general population relies on a dispositional explanation (it's about the person's char
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by pwatsonwailes 8mo ago
To expand on this a little for those interested, time has properties space doesn't. For example, you can turn left to swap your forward direction for sideways in space. You cannot turn though, in a way that swaps your forward (as it we
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by pwatsonwailes 8mo ago
None of it is them, all of it is LLMs.
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by pwatsonwailes 8mo ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds Startide Rising by David Brin A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks Semiosis by Sue Burke Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Dragon's Egg by Robert L
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by pwatsonwailes 10mo ago
To be clear, this is a pun on A*
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by pwatsonwailes 10mo ago
That's a stellar observation right there.

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