Thoughts

A current frontier of innovation: broadening availability of services by scaling

Bo — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:29:45 +0000

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 about it, there aren’t that many manufactured goods that actually, even families beneath the poverty line, don’t have. Where we have huge gaps are in the provision of services that the people in this room take for granted, for themselves and for their children, that actually aren’t available to a large fraction of Americans.

- Larry Summers

If you follow this reasoning, it also strongly implies that whereas we spent a great portion of the last 50 years making manufactured products more accessible by driving down costs with innovations in design and manufacturing, the current frontier of driving down costs to make something more broadly accessible is in the service sector.

One more reason we’re here working on scaling financial services. (via NYT)

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Our secret: many people can invest wisely by themselves, with a little help

Bo — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:21:20 +0000

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

Moments when I play above my pay grade

Bo — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:41:20 +0000

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 and ending at a 5-5 tie when we ran out of time. But the story on the court, in my head, and through my eyes, was oh so much more.

During our singles match, in that eight-game streak, I saw a brief glimpse of what tennis must look like from the eyes of a 4.0 player. Everything, from stroke mechanics to the nuances of timing, simply fell into place. First serves were hitting the centerline with speed and spin. Returns were still late, but bare milliseconds earlier than my normal out-wide returns, turning them into cross-court winners. Volleys were falling in, and I was playing my heart out, charging the net on every opportunity.

But of course, nothing lasts forever, and even I missed four set-point opportunities on my serve in a row before giving up the last two games. But, for a brief moment, I felt what life at the next level (in terms of tennis) must be like.

Instead of working, I sang songs from the 90’s

Bo — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:33:49 +0000

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 row. I want to sing when I’ve not tired myself out emotionally or artistically for too many days in a row.

Or, it’s just the many nights at RockBox reminding me what it feels like to sing.

What if restaurants charged non-linear variable pricing for food based on nutrition?

Bo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:58:17 +0000

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Just a feature vs. the feature

Bo — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:44:24 +0000

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 the hybridness to a feature and so they buy a prius. The problem is that Civic comes in both Hybrid and regular. These customers don’t want to be seen in a regular car that “could be a hybrid”. Nor do they want to be confronted with “well, I could get the exact same car for $2000 less”… because it confirms in their mind something they don’t want to believe, that hybrid is just a feature. To them, it’s an idea.

Optimize for acceleration

Bo — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:41:42 +0000

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 over time, with consistent performance good or bad we begin to get good at anticipating and adapting to velocity f(t)/d(t). But it’s acceleration that really gets us - makes us super happy or super sad. It’s getting a burst promotion after years of slaving in obscurity, it’s winning a string of tennis matches after months of being just on the edge.

So rather than being born rich and not appreciating it, which is adapting to f(t), or always getting a promo every year and expecting it, which is f’(t), let’s optimize for jumps in performance, f”(t).

Success sometimes comes in quantum - like missing the green light. You work maybe twice as hard to walk 10% faster than the other guy. You pass him. But then, you miss the walk signal by a couple seconds - and a short while later that other guy saunters up, and you ask yourself "what did I work that hard for?"

Then your realize, that if you do it again, and keep working twice as hard, over time you’ll make those walk signals, and pull ahead.

Watching myself scan an unfamiliar webpage

Bo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:09:25 +0000

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 site is useful to my life in that time. At my 400 words/minute reading speed that’s about 40-50 words, mostly the first couple words of sentences.

Maybe I could convince myself to increase that 6-8 second time by 2X given that I’m way more impatient than most of my friends. But seriously, good reality check next time I design a site. Six seconds.

A sunset suspended in time

Bo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:19:03 +0000

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 many bands of orange and red of different hues, for more than two hours now :)

Low-ramp signup flow

Bo — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:33:47 +0000

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 see it you’ve already put some effort on that page (witty, heartfelt-sounding response). So, you’re more likely to put in the work to sign up because you don’t want to lose the work you already put in composing that message. A bit conniving, but not in a bad way, especially as people should understand the principle of sunk costs but don’t actually do.

And the kicker: you see a form that has five fields with three already filled in. Somehow this makes the form seem much more complete-able, because it’s already been started for you (and in my case, the data was correct).