redelbee

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by redelbee 2mo ago
This is a marketing piece that can’t be taken seriously without that context, or maybe one that can’t be taken seriously at all. And yet I can’t help thinking we’re missing the forest for the trees. We don’t need to decide where future pro
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by redelbee 4mo ago
I understand the following isn’t the point of this piece and yet I still can’t help wondering: How much better off we would all be if “senior management” stopped playing these games to get things done and instead spent most of that time rea
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by redelbee 1y ago
First off, I appreciate the thorough explanation and review of the ZSA Moonlander. That said, I’m here to discuss the “visual ergonomics” of this post. Why is justified text so bad on the web? And why do people still use it, despite how ter
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by redelbee 2y ago
Interruptions are productivity and creativity killers. Middle managers are of questionable utility but that layer of an organization would be much more effective if it focused ruthlessly on removing distractions. I worked at a small company
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by redelbee 2y ago
So we’re back to the idea that only philosopher kings can shape and rule the ideal world? Plato would be proud! Jests aside, I love the idea of incorporating an all encompassing AI philosophy built up from the rich history of thinking, wisd
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by redelbee 2y ago
I too have survivorship bias that I try to explain away with self serving theories and ideas that pit my special nature against the tendencies of the inferior masses. In my case I literally survived alcoholism after I was lucky enough to co
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by redelbee 2y ago
There are many ways to reason ethically about your situation, and you could start by using historical philosophers as inspiration. Bentham might apply if you consider the overall outcome: is the work your company does positive or ethical fo
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by redelbee 4y ago
I think a better title might be “Memorize Exponentially” because that seems to be the true gist of the article. There are undoubtedly many areas in which memorization is useful. I tend to use memorization as a second-order tool, in the sens
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by redelbee 4y ago
It was a cool job until the newspaper business imploded. I have yet to experience anything even remotely close to the buzzing productivity of a newsroom minutes before the press deadline. Election nights were always fun because all the info
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by redelbee 4y ago
I was a newspaper layout designer in a previous life. The only complaint I have about HN is the line length on large-ish screens. In my newspaper days we stuck to around 60 characters as an optimal line length for readability. I've see
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by redelbee 4y ago
I love used bookstores and my retail business is right next door to one that I mostly despise. The shelves are literally overflowing and there is no rhyme or reason to shelf organization. The prices are high, which I normally wouldn’t mind
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by redelbee 4y ago
The article explains this but the link scrolls to the third paragraph. For anyone who missed it: > If you are a guitarist, you might notice that there is something strange about her technique. She was left-handed, but rather than stringi
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by redelbee 4y ago
Actually the current REI return policy has a time limit of 1 year. It changed in 2013: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/rei-now-limiting-retur... Before that there was no time limit though. I remember becoming a m
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by redelbee 5y ago
According to the 2020 census data linked below the percentage increases to around 24% for individuals who worked full time all year. I don’t think there is any easy way to find the more specific groups you mentioned. That’s not a large enou
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by redelbee 5y ago
What if this article is missing the forest for the trees a bit? In my experience performance advertising is almost always paired with awareness advertising. The latter makes you aware of the brand/product/whatever then the former
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by redelbee 5y ago
I started working for a newspaper just after 2007-08 hit and hastened the decline of the already struggling industry. One day, after working diligently on the job for a few months, I pitched my editor an idea for an online-only story with s
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by redelbee 5y ago
If you were intrigued by the headline and ultimately let down by this post (like me) then I highly recommend reading “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I think Taleb can be
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by redelbee 5y ago
It’s interesting that you chose 2019 to grow, wasn’t that an off year for elections and political spend? Either way congrats on starting your own agency! I was an early employee at an agency (not focused on politics but likely similar to yo
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by redelbee 6y ago
I read Don Thompson’s “The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art” last year. It was published in 2008 (interestingly the day before Lehman went bankrupt) so it felt like I was missing out on some interesting c
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by redelbee 6y ago
I check back on Derick Sivers recommendations often at https://sive.rs/book See below for some recommendations based on my 2020 reading. Fiction recommendations: - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. This book absolutely wre
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by redelbee 6y ago
I would opt in to this. I read 100+ books a year, not all digitally however. If this was real my reading would probably look like this: 1. Buy ebooks and read them at the same rate as I do now 2. Use the proceeds from reading to buy physica
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by redelbee 6y ago
Fact: You are conflating two separate instances where Trump bullied reporters to make your point. Instance from 2018 (with what you termed “racist” insinuations): https://youtu.be/OXp5GJjuOvQ Instance from 2020 actually rel
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by redelbee 6y ago
I agree with your use of “chilling” but more in the traditional sense when it comes to expression: that any censorship/bans/etc will likely have a chilling effect on this type of speech. In this case I think “this type of speech”
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by redelbee 6y ago
This is an interesting approach and I hope it results in great work/results/progress in the climate change space. Are there any other examples of funding at a relatively low dollar amount that have resulted in outsize successes, i
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by redelbee 6y ago
Increasing ridership can come from tech but I think it’s much more likely to come from better and more bike-centric infrastructure and norms. Separated bike paths, bike storage, showers at offices/work, etc would all make it much more
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by redelbee 6y ago
I agree with everything you wrote, and struggle with how to come to grips with my own privilege that allows me to take more risks than others because of a safety net (I do not have a trust fund and could definitely be wiped out if things we
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by redelbee 6y ago
I never took a job just for the pay increase, but I definitely continued down a career path I knew was the wrong one because of the money. I tried to start multiple companies right out of college and failed at all of them, all while taking
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by redelbee 6y ago
I am doing this now with my wife. We are aligned on many areas relating to the business but, as you can imagine, we don’t align perfectly all the time. Usually we can work it out but not always. Example: Our company is a small retail busine
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by redelbee 6y ago
My paternal grandmother has Alzheimer’s, just like her mother before her, and it makes me worry for my father, myself, and my brother. I am often hyper vigilant to any perceived changes in my dad’s mental acuity and I worry that it hurts ou
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by redelbee 6y ago
I also feel more focused today, but I don’t think it’s because of any of the platitudes in this post. I think it is actually because of circumstance and has nothing to do with conviction, divergence, convergence or anything else in the art

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