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“Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast” Eric Reis
Automate This by Christopher Stiener I’ve been struggling with the concept of Innovation lately. In 2012 I read Christopher Steiner’s book Automate This and my climbing partner that summer was the first person I ever knew getting a PhD in Machine Learning. In that year I went from never having heard of Python as anything…
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How to Get the Price You Negotiated
A business use case for Multi-Model RAG and OCR Contract enforcement is a big weakness of mine as a landlord. I’ve had plenty of tenants pay late and I can’t think of one time I actually charged a late fee. When I hired a property management business they charged it to a tenant in the…
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Names Matter | Pick My Brain | Stack Overflow
I found a job because of their website domainname. In 2021 I was thinking about rebranding Carragee Consulting as Analytics in Action and discovered that domain name was taken by a guy in NZ. (good on him!) Then I looked for Actionable Analytics and I found Action Analytics, a federation of highly skilled independent consultants…
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Do you want to be right or be effective?
Arguing with my 3 yo has turned into serious negotiation. I try to stay calm, give options and set her up to make good choices. 1) Define the problem“You haven’t finished your dinner.” 2) Confirm understanding“You asked specifically for, for Mac and cheesey, but now you don’t want it or you’re full?” “I’m all done.”…
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Freelance Pricing
Dimitri Visnadi’s Upwork Advice So many freelancers and small businesses pick a way to price without realizing they have options and that their choice can impact – their customer’s behavior– their own income security– customer perception of value and overall satisfaction– their own work/life balance Pricing structure is as or more important than rates. Dimitri…
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Chocolate should cost more
John Oliver is trying to ruin my life I love John Oliver, but this episode is deeply saddening. In honor of Halloween he did an expose on the global Cocoa supply chain showing that it’s mostly grown on family farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana, often using child labor and paying poverty wages. Since such…
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Credit Scores are bad proxies
Simon Squibb oversimplifies and calls them a scam I paid off my house and my credit score dropped In 2015 I had no student loan debit, no car loans and no revolving balance on my credit cards. I had never paid a bill late and I was earning in the top 20% of Americans and…
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The End of Competitive Advantage
Rita McGrath’s 2013 book is still relevant Explore/Exploit tradeoff optimization is a core topic in computer science. How long and with what level of effort/expense should you seek a maximum vs employ what is available. Traditional product lifecycle pricing assumes you can charge a lot to early adopters assuming they get value your product or…
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Pennywise and £ foolish
Nick Huber make some great points Nick’s show great examples of two key reasons, other than generalized stupidity, that people make this mistake: 1) Costs are explicitly known and value is hard to measure or attribute value – Exactly how much does an A location contribute to drop-ins, name recognition and revenue compared to a…
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Teaching developers how to ask for help
Debugging Course and Minimum Reproducible Examples Bethany Lyons recently made me think about the future of education for developers in the age of LLMs which can write some basic code. I wonder where courses focused on debugging are being developed and what the role is for professional services like “office hours” exist in helping remove…
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