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FinnLobsien
1,700karma·540submissions·July 18, 2019
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Its funny that the motivational speakers, coaches etc are rarely the people who’ve actually done the thing they preach for a living. The best coaches, “mentors” etc I’ve had would never issue blanket …
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It’s important to remember the source here: A motivational speaker’s online course/consulting company. They’re extremely incentivized to have a simple, takeaway that makes you feel good for 2 min…
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I think it's precisely this that makes the products desirable in public. In a social class where everyone can afford everything, the real status signal become the things that require more access,…
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When I started my career as a freelance writer (In Europe), I'd get requests for university essays regularly. I always said no, it seemed super sketchy. But there's definitely plenty of dema…
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Let's hope it will be implemented in typical "Germany does anything on the computer" fashion where they endlessly debate into a theoretically comprehensive, but impossible to implement …
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Agreed. Though for a layoff/redundancy, it's slightly different. What I'd add to the situation described here would be: a) Practice talking about that situation until it no longer trigg…
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I think that’s always the thing with any of these things. The companies private equity or Bending Spoons acquire are frequently inefficient, bloated and not the best-run businesses. But its basically …
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Bending Spoons has recently been buying aging SaaS companies that have established PMF and customers and decent brands (Evernote, Komoot, WeTransfer, Meetup). I guess it's mostly a private equity…
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Sure, but will anyone use this model?
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What's their unique value? How are they differentiated vs. OAI/Anthropic/etc. who have way more money/distribution/etc.?
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But that’s precisely what I mean. How many companies had similarly sketchy situations, cleaned up their act and nobody ever noticed? That number isn’t 0
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Always makes you wonder how many companies that are successes today could’ve had their SBF moment, but market conditions kept them afloat
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I always thought that there's some stuff that looks hard in chess, but is actually not so difficult. Things like sacrifice lines. Those feel complicated, but the calculation eventually becomes …
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Nitpick, but I'd assume The New Yorker paid the artist who generated with AI. And it's a fitting artwork that was generated using AI. I don't find that a massive problem. The article do…