jaynate

Often, that off-topic content was garbage anyway. Not really deep or helpful or expert in any way. Not always, but often.

Nearly 10% of the s&p 500 value is one company- nvidia. The mag 7 make up a significant portion. Prosperity isn’t distributed, it’s concentrated and the stock market is not even close to the only measure of the health of the American economy.

Wow, Chesterton’s fence parable could apply in so many places (not the least of which, politics).

Great concept, and love the approach of solving your own problem. There is a wide gulf between consuming something (tokens, emails sent, etc) and outcomes.

There has to be a translation layer the customer 1) can understand, and 2) agrees with.

Most companies settle for a consumption-based proxy to value and outcomes.

Yes, but those were on-prem deployments of Sharepoint, not Microsoft's infratructure.

Geocities and Angelfire are how I learned to program for the web. Amazing how much of the fundamentals of the web are still exactly the same as they were back then (90s). Just with a lot more layers of libraries today.

The repo three comma club

They also burnt a hell of a lot more cash. That’s a disadvantage.

They need Churnkey

Totally agree. Use it for everything. Even replaced my handwritten notebooks since I got new iPad Pro w pencil.

Agreed, it’s about understanding the problem they have or the thing they are trying to accomplish so you can invent a new or better way to solve it (or eliminate the need for it in the first place).

Depends on so many things, and there are so many providers out there. What industry are you in and what are you aiming to accomplish? Who are your email recipients / targets?

Gall’s law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”

Your theory of premature architecture reinforces Gall’s law.

This is from the book Systemantics: How systems work and especially how they fail (1977).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

Using OSS to commoditize complements plays a big role in breaking up big advantages.

There is big tech open source consortium working on maps now to commoditize it: https://siliconangle.com/2022/12/15/aws-microsoft-meta-tomto...

Not sure it'll work. I think half the advantage comes from the integration across all these tools (maps, search, etc). Have you ever tried to use duckduckgo? It surprised me what I take for granted in Google's user experience.

Agree you have to mix qualitative with the quantitative, but the best metrics systems don't just measure one quantity metric. They should be paired with a quality metric.

Example: User Growth & Customer Engagement

Have to have user growth and retention. If you looked at just one or the other, you'd be missing half the equation.

I guess it depends on how much equity you own as to what is better (to your first paragraph), and how large the paycheck is (to the 2nd paragraph.

I get inside the duvet cover. Pretend I’m a ghost. And have my wife hand me the comforter from the bottom. Bit of a workout. Works great.

Odd that the first two categories of AI startups were AI infrastructure. Reminds me of blockchain to some degree.

Would have expected to see more vertically focused solution on the top 4 list. Eg, transportation, oil & gas, agriculture, etc… all huge markets.

Agree. Occam’s razor: The explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct.

The more interesting metric would be the number of Vc-backed companies are sold to their next owner for less than the total amount raised.

You either pay for the product or you are the product. No different than “free” software. Want a smart phone you’re going to pay for it one way or the other.

Steve Jobs was completely right and posthumously vindicated.

The chances that you are going to get rich off a VC-funded startup as an individual contributor are very low. I’d focus on whether the opportunity is a good one to grow your career. Do they have solid leadership. Do you like the market and does the product serve a legitimate need (need to have vs. nice to have).

It’s even worse for some companies. Planet Fitness makes you go in to a physical location to cancel. Complete bullshit.

That’s on the CEO. And the board.

Wow. It makes you wonder what other types of bugs could exist?

Is “overemployment” a euphemism for fraud?

Is there a TL;DR?

Does this look 100% fake / CGI to anyone else?

Vast majority of whom have never paid a dime for an Evernote product.