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Monday, February 13th, 2012
A current frontier of innovation: broadening availability of services by scaling
We don’t really have a problem that there aren’t enough television sets in our society. We really don’t. I mean we did once. I mean it used to be that some people had television sets and some people don’t. We don’t have that problem anymore in America.
You know, if you think […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
Our secret: many people can invest wisely by themselves, with a little help
The heroes are always in possession of a great secret, one that will disrupt the empire. It always works the same way: It takes power out of the hands of the entrenched nobility and bureaucrats and puts it back in the hands of the people.
via reginald braithwaite
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Moments when I play above my pay grade
After an hour of doubles with Loren, Jeff, and Bharat yesterday Bharat and I stayed behind to play out our remaining court time with some singles. The score will show that I lost the first three games, then won eight games in a row to be up 5-3, before being unable to hold the streak […]
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Instead of working, I sang songs from the 90’s
Interesting that even when I work out many times a week, there’s still this other need - an emotional energy that must be released every so often. It’s very similar to the feeling of wanted to jump out of my skin when I’ve not tired myself out at tennis for too many days in a […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
What if restaurants charged non-linear variable pricing for food based on nutrition?
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
Just a feature vs. *the* feature
hybrid is “just a feature” until it becomes the driving feature
Email was “just a feature” until blackberry showed people it was *the* feature to buy for.
Honda thought that hybrid was “just a feature” so they added it to Civic. But for people buying a hybrid to feel good about themselves it reduces the value of […]
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
Optimize for acceleration
We’re bad at adapting to the second derivative. Research that I’m not going to cite here (because I’m writing a blog post, not a NYT article) suggests that if at time t, success is a point in space f(t), then we’re pretty good as a species at adapting to our location f(t). I posit that […]
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Watching myself scan an unfamiliar webpage
Makes me realize 3 things:
I really do scan top to bottom, left to right, exactly like those eye-tracking heatmaps show.
Use of strong colors in certain regions can, to an extent, override this position-based scanning pattern.
I have only about 6-8 seconds of patience before I leave the site, if I haven’t yet figured out why the […]
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
A sunset suspended in time
Flying west from Chicago to Seattle in the early evening leads to the expected but no less amazing phenomenon of a looking out the aircraft window and seeing the orange horizon glowing from a sunset that seems to be stuck. It’s looked pretty much the exact same out there, sun just below the horizon and […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Low-ramp signup flow
mypunchbowl.com has a great signup flow – it’s after responding to the invite, which unblocks your primary task for being there. Plus, when you get to it, it’s on a page that does something else (you entering a message to send to the organizer) and below the fold. This means that by the time you […]