"elaborate foot guns" -- HN is a high signal environment, but I could read for a week and not find a gem like this. Props. Destiny visits me on my 18th birthday and says, "Gart, your mediocrity will result in a long…
Manufacturing was hard to do 2 decades ago, and is harder now. I started, grew, and exited a modern manufacturing-based business, and I can confirm that almost everything about modern capitalism in this cycle is biased…
I've always loved being confounded by unexpected stories like this. 20 years ago, I was working to build a self-publishing company - lulu.com - that would open up the world of book publishing. It was not an easy…
Is this an empathy test?
The Canadian government drove its primary aerospace company, Avro Canada, not just into bankruptcy/reorganization, but to completely shutdown operations. The country lost 14,000 aerospace professionals, but more…
a_bonobo.... I think you're digging in the right vein here, but to perhaps to make the point clearer we could separate the discussion into two: In an AI laden world 1) How are artists relevant 2) How are artists fairly…
One way to think about this is that color is information. We have a processing capacity for this information that became fully saturated somewhere between 1967 and 1973, and since then we've been creating a surplus that…
Brexit was about UK nativism. As the USA steps out of its own nativist administration, the UK has fewer like-minded global partners with real shared interests. I'm an American that lived in London for 2 years in the 90s…
Lulu.com - book self publishing. Discussions between Amazon & Lulu led to the reproduction of every use case over the following 24 months. I worked at Lulu.
While I appreciate the sentiment of this RFS with regards to the sclerotic dysfunction of the legal system of copyright (and the business models that perpetuate it), truth be told, as a life-long citizen of startupworld…
"elaborate foot guns" -- HN is a high signal environment, but I could read for a week and not find a gem like this. Props. Destiny visits me on my 18th birthday and says, "Gart, your mediocrity will result in a long…
Manufacturing was hard to do 2 decades ago, and is harder now. I started, grew, and exited a modern manufacturing-based business, and I can confirm that almost everything about modern capitalism in this cycle is biased…
I've always loved being confounded by unexpected stories like this. 20 years ago, I was working to build a self-publishing company - lulu.com - that would open up the world of book publishing. It was not an easy…
Is this an empathy test?
The Canadian government drove its primary aerospace company, Avro Canada, not just into bankruptcy/reorganization, but to completely shutdown operations. The country lost 14,000 aerospace professionals, but more…
a_bonobo.... I think you're digging in the right vein here, but to perhaps to make the point clearer we could separate the discussion into two: In an AI laden world 1) How are artists relevant 2) How are artists fairly…
One way to think about this is that color is information. We have a processing capacity for this information that became fully saturated somewhere between 1967 and 1973, and since then we've been creating a surplus that…
Brexit was about UK nativism. As the USA steps out of its own nativist administration, the UK has fewer like-minded global partners with real shared interests. I'm an American that lived in London for 2 years in the 90s…
Lulu.com - book self publishing. Discussions between Amazon & Lulu led to the reproduction of every use case over the following 24 months. I worked at Lulu.
While I appreciate the sentiment of this RFS with regards to the sclerotic dysfunction of the legal system of copyright (and the business models that perpetuate it), truth be told, as a life-long citizen of startupworld…