Investors seem to like the "product market fit" but that already exists for all these materials. The issue is always scaling up and what the costs and margins will look like. We're not lacking at all in solutions - just scale and efficiency.
Netflix is cheap enough with enough content to make it a keeper. There are lots of other options but they are too niche (Curiosity Stream, Gaia) or too expensive (Fubu, YouTube TV). It feels like a weird redux but eventually maybe the big platforms - AppleTV, Roku, Youtube TV will be just like the giant aggregators of the past Cable TV world but you'll be able to pick and chose which channels to pay for (Netflix, Tennis Channel, Disney, HBO, etc.)
I was lucky enough to do this with the man himself at NYU. He had trouble speaking then but the class was dead silent and hung on his every word. Profound thinker.
People smoke cigarettes, they drink alcohol, they bet. All are losing propositions in multiple ways. There is no scenario where you can stop any of it. You can make it harder and more costly but they will do it anyway. Some gamblers have discovered the stock market (especially call options) as a way to bet. The nice thing about that is your downside can be limited and nobody is going to "shut you down" like a casino if you win too much. I'm not a big casino gambler but I know how to play blackjack (not counting) and have won enough to be shadowed and proofed every 5 minutes in a casino to bother me when I was young. They send a clear message - your loses are unlimited but your gains are capped!
During the football playoffs there were some silly adds from some outfit called incredible or whatever. The point that they didn't really stress was not selling your data to every other vendor out there. I don't know if it's true or not but some company should go after the space of being able to apply for a financial service (loan, credit card, quote) without getting deluged with a million emails, calls and texts because they immediately sell your lead for more $ than they can make on the product itself.
It's hard to comment on something this general. 1-1 meetings come in so many different contexts. One thing that I think is universal is what questions you ask and how good you are at listening. I offer one idea which is if you want to amplify whatever 1-1 meeting you have take it out of the room/building. Go for a walk, pretend you need to run out to the pharmacy and bring them along, get a coffee or drink. Be creative. I've had 1-1 meetings that were useless (Zoom is generally bad) and some that were transformative. It does take two to tango but you can at least bring your dancing shoes!
It's funny but I've always payed for the NYT crossword subscription even though I tend to only pay for the NYT on the "trial" rate which I think is like $1 a week. I enjoy doing the crossword that much. I like doing the wordle too and would miss it. My day is mostly work so I really enjoy a game that challenges me and helps me get my brain going but also ends so there is no more playing. Crosswords and wordle are great in that regard. Could the NYT be on to something in gaming? I don't know that area but would be keen to know what gaming professionals think.
Seems to be news items from the financial press - FT, BI, etc. Not really anything value added since all those outlets broadcast out their headlines everywhere. If you are a trader or investor this information is not going to get you anywhere as far as an edge is concerned.
I don't think so. Almost every time I have seen good service it is either a function of the person (actually cares about doing their job) or the culture of the establishment. I tip generously because in the US wait staff generally get way below minimum wage so you want to make them whole.
If you do frequent a place then I think consistently good tipping is a factor but your attitude is probably just as important. At the end of this year I got some extra $100 bills that I gave to bartenders and servers that I have seen many times over the year and wanted to show a little extra appreciation.
It's not about service it's about appreciating the people serving you.
I was having some serious wrist and shoulder pain. Turns out it was related to my mouse which I kept to the right side of my keyboard. I moved it directly in front of the keyboard so it's in the middle and my pains disappeared. I may still take a look at this keyboard because the older you get the more you need. I've now been at the keyboard since 1979 and that's some wear and tear.
Google doesn't really build things or have product management. They need to acquire. So I expect them to do that if/when things get serious and they realize how far behind they are. There will probably be money to be made if we can identify the best fit names for them.
Thirty years ago when you needed to install new computers in an office I remember it took us weeks to get the cable (Ethernet) installed because one contractor had to pull the cable and cut it at each workstation, another contractor had to come and put the connector on the cable and yet another had to come and plug the cable into the machine. Believe me we were tempted to sneak in one weekend and do the whole thing ourselves but were severely warned about the consequences. So what could have been done in a day by one or two guys took over a month because you couldn't even schedule the second service until the first was done. I imagine this kind of thing is everywhere when it comes to building real infrastructure.
I hear you on JS. Nothing against it or the people that love it but I don't enjoy it at all. I will look at Netlify. They have been active here because they just raised a round.
Okay I went back and read it. It reminds me of an old time method where you spent five or six hours thinking before getting in front of the computer to start writing code and them limiting the amount of time you will have to write, test, and finalize your code. It forces you to consider your assumptions, abstractions and ways you might simplify the overall design.
I've got one of these from my Grandmother and I wish I had been smart enough to accept the lot of them. I get that newer ones with bigger pores can be "just as good" but this old pan seems to be on a different level IMO. I have some other "tech" pans that perform very well but if you cook it's also about emotion and this my old Griswold just makes some things taste way better cooking in it. (Plus a friend of mine borrowed it and on the way home scooped up a pheasant that he thought was dead and put it in the trunk. It turned out to be alive and made a hell of a scene and he had the Griswold right there which put the bird out of its misery in short order.) Pans with stories!
I presume the US banking industry pays lots to lobby and makes big campaign donations, gives senators offspring jobs, etc. In the old days we got great at check processing and lowered the cost to pennies. Processing a transaction should be close to free (especially in a debit scenario.) I just paid 1.4% on Coinbase to transfer USD to ALGO. (They probably make something on the spread also.) But 3%+ on a card? One thing I did hear from some retailers is that the cards that provide lots of benefits and cash back charge more to cover the benefits. That money has to come from somewhere.
Finally! I hate the whole "keyword" thing because it makes your writing terrible (IMO). Of course you want the keyword and meta stuff to make sense but getting all these messages about "use your keyword here, here, and there" is just too much.
Very beautiful space. However it seems like sound isolation would be horrible. A conversation or any noise anywhere would be heard everywhere. Fine if you are living alone but this looks like a lot of space. Congratulations though on the sale and it's always nice to see a little "real estate porn." Hope you did well financially.
The title should probably be "A Major Quantum Computing Strategy..." It's less surprising that way since there are quite a few different fundamental paths people are taking towards quantum computing. I'm no expert but did an in-depth project around "adiabatic" QC and I was satisfied that it could work for a number of optimization problems. With IonQ coming public this week I expect the level of attention on the sector to keep going up. There have been many false starts over the last decade. I wonder how close we are to commercial use?
I don't understand why people with a large audience feel compelled to weigh in on things that they don't know anything about. It makes sense when it's entertainment but when it comes to medicine and investment advice it seems ill-advised. But hey, Joe Rogan and Jim Cramer have been making buckets of money doing what they do. Maybe it falls into the category of "you get the universe you deserve?"
It's all a very appealing sort of "alternate reality." I don't mean that in a bad way. If "virtual" will become a bigger and bigger share of our economy and personal rewards system than I guess it makes sense to think about investing this way. Of course as physical beings we still need to pay for food, housing, healthcare, travel, computers, etc. Investing in crypto and crypto-related projects that may act as viable platforms for some of these things does seem like a good idea.
After a few decades away from programming I got back into it some and decided that Python was the easiest and closest to the languages I was fairly fluent in back in the old days. I did write a lot of Pascal code at one point and after going through the "give it a Go" link I can see the appeal. It looks like a good tool for some things. I look forward to working with it some more. Thanks for your article. I have always enjoyed Brooks and Wirth so that's some good "geek clickbait" that I can't resist!
Seems like a good idea but it's a little hard to sign up for something that's a basically a one-page "coming soon" website with no details on features/functions/team.
I have to award creativity points for the defense. If it is true it is terrible and I'm sorry it happened to her. However it's a bit of a stretch to see how it would directly translate into bold faced lying to your investors and falsifying documents all along the way. It's not like she was a shrinking violet who had no drive and charisma of her own.
On the surface this seems pretty weird. A maker of $200 technical books on math and science buys a US based political online media site? Doesn't seem like a great deal of "synergy" or whatever.