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 " a startup idea is a hypothesis for why your company is gonna grow really quickly.  " - Kevin Hale

  How to talk to users  talk by Eric Migicovsky Notes Learn about user's life Specifics around the problem area that you are solving The path that led them to encounter that problem Extract the context around how they arrived at this problem.

                                                         Image: amazon.com Mattan Griffel's  story is interesting. He started how to learn coding in a month. Back when I was a kid, I used to watch these books, which would teach you any language in 30 days, yes a month. While then geography wa sthe unconquered land, its now the programming space that needs conquering. pythonformbas

  Netflix for entrepreneurs . Depending on your  Choice Architecture , you could rearrange the same library of things differently based on thecustomer or the reader. Some like it color coded. Some like it theme coded. Some like it author coded.

High Performance NLP  

    Fundamental intuition of an industry is challenged by disruptors. This buys them time. Having that different fundamental intuition can help you avoid competition and grow uninterrupted. How much room for growth? Growing vs mature companies.

 You can't do away with  managers  as found in Google study but you can do away with  General managers  like Apple.

 Have you ever come across tools that summarise text or graphs? Resoomer  reduced a text to 30%. Try it out. You be the judge.

  Trade  is a technology. Capitalism  is a technology.

Some products like the  photoconductor drum  cant be shipped. To function properly. they are sent by air freight. This is a good white space for local manufacturing industries.

  Light sockets, battery powered bicycle lamps

 Telecommunication being cheaper in America in 1980s. It provided "untold advantages and benefits not only for American industrial activity but to the lives of American people". 

 "Like most companies that grow quickly on the basis of a single product, it ran a substantial risk" -  Kazuo Inamori, From Zero to Kyocera .

  Cool - there's a new NIH R01 mechanism for Early-Stage Investigators where the grant must not include any preliminary data. The idea is to make it easier for new PI's to change directions or take on a different research project. https://t.co/r7EdHKfHDy — Jason Sheltzer (@JSheltzer) November 12, 2020 If the idea is going to change 70%  , why ask for it. But without an idea.. whats next.

 Barks up other branches of the ROI decision tree to see if something already done can be accomplished at a lower cost. Eg  Discovering Fosterite

 Spotify has  Company Bets  " large-scale initiatives that we believe will have a significant impact on the business within a relatively short period of time." Spotify arrives at these bets using the  DIBB framework . It is similar to the  DIKW pyramid . Spotify's balance score card  generation. Fairly warned Thinking about the DIKW a bit, data is available plenty. One researcher Douglas Hubbard  thinks there's more data than needed. All the smart but fewer people than those compromised by the data, who write newsletters, have an insight. There will be fewer with knowledge and the wisdom of the eagle. This is an amazing way to introduce  your book chapter by chapter  in a tweet thread. while reading the second chapter about fake articles on company's performance intended to boost the stock value, I wondered how the size of an organisation depends on the communications it can get right or not mess up. This is kind of like how the dinosaurs got...

  Things that matter

  How a Rolls Royce Trent XWB, the world's most efficient aero engine, is assembled https://t.co/HQwDvbykGq pic.twitter.com/HBsaECfVHD — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 11, 2020 There is quite a bit of manual effort involved. Comparing with automation-first Tesla production system and  efficient manual use of Toyota production system, would be interesting to see when the aero engines shift to more machines.  When volume of smaller engines kick off...

  Traits of innovation  according to Michael Canic, Author of  Ruthless Consistency . - " a  dissatisfaction  with how things are, the  inquisitiveness  to ponder “what if,” the  initiative  to take action, and the  persistence  to transform the what-if into a viable reality. " Insightful leaders and innovation  from Kellogg.  Webinar  from professor Benjamin Jones.

  Air bag dropping  started due to budget constraints. Space Ramen  an innovation from the instant noodle maker Momofuku Ando. Momofuku  invented flashfrying precooked  noodles so that one does not have to wait too long for the noodles to be cooked. It is ironic that we save time on things that take time, so we can be in the rat race and then miss out on the noodlekind sorry mankind lessons of patience.

  Questions for a company

Unbundling  Harvard University  

  I just had to check out Mosaic. "What's that?" I asked, "I don't know," he said. "I guess it lets you look at the internet."   Geoff Ralston  in Future Founders Welcome track. Failure is faster. Startup Pricing 101 by YC partner Kevin Hale pic.twitter.com/hwvVp1z9sL — Ububele 🇿🇦 (@_ubsta) May 20, 2020