fighting the lack of good ideas
Any time someone who does not understand the practical outworkings of a given topic tries to “teach” it, you end up with a “presentation” – mostly in the form of propositional statements (dogs are mammals; barges are boats), or key-value pairs (in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue; Caracas is the capital of Venezuela). Propositional…
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A dozen years ago, I shared an edited-for-readability chat I had with a friend on the gold standard. In it I stated: I’d think that it would be better to keep the mountains and valleys more stable / less high|deep, so that slowdowns aren’t felt by a disproportionately small community/niche of the economy, and so…
I made a mistake 4 years ago. I said vampires and zombies couldn’t [long] coexist. Because they’d be competing for the same – dwindling – food source: the living (vs them both being undead). But I was wrong. If the universe in which they exist is a mash-up of that of Twilight and iZombie ……
What we have now is a completely neurotic population obsessed with security and safety and crime and drugs and cleanliness and hygiene and germs… there’s another thing… germs. Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media, constantly running stories about all the latest infections –…
“Telsa will add solar power to the Cybertruck to generate 15 miles per day. Fold-out solar wings for the Cybertruck would generate 30 to 40 miles per day. The average daily commute in the US averages 30 miles per day.†https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/11/solar-power-tesla-cybertruck-could-have-free-15-40-mile-daily-commutes.html (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1197889310550216704) Or remember my comments on SolarCity 3 years ago? Offering a solar option…
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Ben Thompson is generally spot-on in his analysis of industry goings-on. But he missed a lot in The Cost of Developers this week. Here’s what he got right about this acquisition: Developers can be quite expensive (though, $7.5B (in equity) is only ~$265 per user (which is pretty cheap)) Microsoft is betting that a future…
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