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Aug 10, 2020 11 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Particularly relevant for time management
Set an aspirational hourly rate, it will help you to quantify the importance of activities and stay focused
KISS: Why = pain point (PP) = opportunity = MVP's USP

Other than that: YAGNI, don't waste resources

Your products are built one PP at a time, in diminishing returns

Resource allocation prioritized by ROI

When ROI for next PP is too low: the product is finished, i.e. dead
It's easy to find a complex way to create huge hypothetical value

Finding a way simple enough to be implemented by a single person is easy too… for small actual value: many minimum income jobs

Scale the value, keep the requirements low, how far can you get?

Keep it simple
Here X: Y reads as "To do X, do Y"

Find a job: show the value you can create: prove by selling: sell something at a gain (no loss): create the added value

But if you can do that? Would you want a job

Better creating than consuming, jobs too; so that you can consume when needed
JS may be the best option to create value, it is simple and runs on browsers, outcompeting Java ("runs «everywhere»") with simplicity

Some people will tell you the way to create value is capturing time or attention, taking something from people, creating artificial complexity,…
Disregard them, attention may give you fame and status, but it destroys time, the most valuable asset

This is a substraction thread

To create value, take hassle from people's lives, not their time, attention, or energy

Automate the things they have to do but do not want to do
If you are going to say something, first make sure it is better than the silence

Try to think what is the best thing that you could be doing now, do that

Very rarely someone else would be able to tell you that better than yourself

Leaders create leaders […], make yourself one

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Dec 10, 2022
GPT may explain references, requiring a bit more reading and a lot less background to understand the expansion of reference-rich very concise text

I tried, the result follows, seems better than expected. I will certainly use it again
1. Clever Hans was a horse that was able to perform mathematical calculations and other impressive tasks, which initially appeared to be a remarkable example of animal intelligence.
However, it was later discovered that the horse was not actually doing the calculations himself, but was instead picking up on subtle cues from the audience and trainer to determine the correct answer.
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Dec 30, 2021
Both web3 and the metaverse jeopardize untapping the relevance of crypto: “X as code”:
$BTC: money
$ETH: contracts

Software is eating the world. Eating the web or VR only delays the unavoidable

Relevant: create value, solve problems, do things that matter, fix what sucks,…
Web3 is a terrible choice of name too

Crypto is undoing a lot of the centralization in web 2.0*, and requires technical knowledge. Today, it should be 1.2 IMHO

* Similarly to Jamstack: less PHP, more REST & static pages. Nobody promised linear evolution…
Many people expect crypto will become easier, more polished, and gain mass adoption

It is about freedom & DIY, avoiding intermediaries & centralization, much like GNU/Linux. It's not about getting rich. In fact normally freedom comes at a cost

When mass adoption for GNU/Linux?
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Nov 30, 2021
🍋🍑🍎

Producers selecting for their preferred features against the preferred features of consumers, great way to shoot yourself on the foot

The Boeing case is a “great” example

Many references in the parent thread and replies too

In a way, it is the “natural order”
Narrator: The guy that could not do maths went to be the boss of the guy that could, demanding explanations that 4 year old children could understand

Personal suggestion: practice puppetry
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Nov 18, 2021
Nothing better than education to create value in a society

Pre-apocalyptic dystopias are boring, full of BS and nonsense

Post-apocalyptic dystopias are more interesting, because there's less margin for BS and nonsense

There will always be plenty, though. It's a main feature of a "complex" brain
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Mar 14, 2021
Several things may be considered as "triggers" of an AI winter, e.g
—"aging" of teams
—not meeting investor expectations after diminishing returns
—whistleblowers ending the hype by exposing lies
—…

TBH: I think those are symptoms, but not the root cause
The root cause is: "running out of hype"

The biggest threat (TBT) for GPT-4 is not bad practices in OpenAI, investors disappointed with GPT-3, or Gary Marcus calling BS on GPT-3

TBT is finding something to sell not sold for GPT-3 yet

IMHO — as always
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