Tag: essay
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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…
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PKM changes with age
Personal Knowledge Management changes when you age. That’s my feeling now. My ‘documents’ folder sums more than 100,000 documents on a wide variety of topics. My Evernote account has more than 4,000 notes. The majority of them are clippings from the web. Articles, blog posts, photos, memes etc. Fifteen or maybe eighteen years ago when…
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Do Unforgettable Work
Some thoughts deserve to be forever available online. This one from Taylor Town is a true gem. On 20230727 https://taylor.town/do-unforgettable-work ### Do unforgettable work. This is not hyperbole. At minimum, customers must think you are superhuman. Respond instantly. Finish work quickly. Check in frequently. Proactively prevent problems. Deliver stellar quality. Exceed expectations in every possible…
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You are not a magician, you are an entertainer
People are very creative now when describing themselves in the ‘About’ section of their LinkedIn profile pages. Are we really capable of describing ourselves accurately? How good are we in the task of evaluating ourselves and describing difficult aspects of us like ‘competencies’? No, not a magician. Maybe you are in the business of making…
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ChatGPT is an Alchemist
I’m 50% through The Alchemist right now. The last time I read it was more than 20 years ago. One of the discussions between the young traveller and the English man was about the fact that gold would start losing its value if alchemy turned to be simple. It was a hard practice to understand.…
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The Ultimate Full-Stack Developer
He/she is a full-code full-stack developer who now works in no-code development. He/she can deliver a fully functional production ready MVP in 4 days, not 4 months. He/she can organize the development workflow for the stakeholder group so its members can better participate in the project, especially when it is not a technical group. He/she…