Tag: essay
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Note Taking, revisited
Draft I’m not taking as many notes as I was used to take. It has nothing to do with motivation, but with function or… utility. Until before the C-19 pandemics, note taking was for me a form of extending my brain from an utilitarian perspective. My note included pieces of knowledge I understood were “closer…
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Personal Accountability? Make it impersonal.
Do you want to encourage a culture of personal accountability in your team or company? Start by making it impersonal. Good accountability, in general, involves having tools and processes in place to generate business metrics. It is impossible to implement accountability without metrics. Therefore, it is necessary to have parameters, or criteria, by which the…
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UAI
In case you are Brazilian, you must be thinking I’m crazy. In some regions of Brazil, “UAI” sounds like a gentle form of “WTF”. That’s not what I mean. UAI stands for Useful Artificial Intelligence. Useful to me, at least. Instead of labeling AI to every piece of artificial intelligence I see around — and…
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Reflexion of Reality
Humanity has spent centuries developing perfectly reflective mirrors. The idea of transposing your own image to an external object was almost dreamlike. It was something magical. Some colonizers used rudimentary mirrors to enchant indigenous peoples in the Americas when they arrived. Some colonizers pleased the locals with the gadget, while others were eaten alive as…
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Greed Based Pricing
Thirty years ago in 1994 I was entering university to get my Business degree. One very interesting theory that I learned right from the beginning was Michael Porter’s cost-based competitive advantage. Porter points out that if your company does a great job of keeping its operational costs low, it could practice lower prices than its…
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Startup Founders need the High-Touch
High-touch user acquisition means: And many more. Startup founders often see high-touch activities as being: Sometimes founders go over the board, and consider high-touch as “anti-capitalist” 😂 Yes. They say going high-touch will make them less aggressive in terms of making money, thus the idea would go against basic rules of doing business. I had…
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MVP
The Minimum Viable Product, of course. The least you think your product needs to be understood and convert some users. Somebody sent me this image this morning and asked my opinion about it. I don’t get the sad and neutral face to the skateboard, the kick scooter and the bike. Riding any of them can…
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Is blockchain our best response to deep fakes going mainstream?
I don’t know. I saw some people bringing this as an hypothesis today on X. It makes sense to me that blockchain could allow looking back to previous versions of a given piece of content up to its original source. For that to work in practice, we would need a new kind of certificate authority…
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Big waves of technical evolution
Someone asked me how Bitcoin stands next to other technological marvels of our recent history. In my view, these are the “big waves” of technological evolution that change everything on their path.
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I want my children to be better than me
Last updated on 20240306. Cover photo was generated by AI using MS Copilot Designer. Like the Dune books, all eight of them. The statement above is enough to provoke anger and fierce discussion among Dune fans. A big part of them dislike two of the eight books for the sole reason they were written by…