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  1. Apr 2022
    1. It is still truly possible for one person to make a website, without asking permission of any of the giant tech companies, and create an experience that touches millions of people.

      How does one multiply the sentiment?

    1. If supply lines were running, a soldier could eat almost four pounds of food, or 5,000 calories, a day. American generals believed that this was the best diet for building bone, muscle, tissue, and endurance.

      It's extraordinary how nutrition science is relatively young compared with other sciences. This was the line of thought in WW1.

    1. Priority inversion within organizational decision-making harms making the correct decision.

      The author's solution argues a primitive approach: the greater good for the greatest number.

      1. Customer
      2. Company
      3. Product
      4. Group
      5. Project
      6. Team
      7. Individual Contributor
  2. Feb 2022
    1. I’m willing to argue that the reach, imprint, pageviews, and followers; the eyeballs that your work generates, is the prinicipal source of status within the modern journalist community.

      Human service work has a similar challenge. When one is highly educated but low paid, perhaps status is the only thing left.

    2. Put another way, its gotten easier to reach people, but harder to get paid to reach people.

      The Internet has brought distribution costs down to near zero, however, you don't compete with your competitors, you compete with everyone.

    1. Theoretical uses abound, but no ordinary person is choosing a blockchain-based technology over its traditional counterpart.

      Fiat currency is stable, has 100% penetration, and is fee-free. These are competitive advantages the dollar has over any crypto.

    2. Being able to separate an artist’s initial creation from mere copies confers power, and in 2014 it was genuinely new.

      Asserting power to the artist is indeed, valuable. I still have to be convinced how it's anything more than a speculative market using technology which moves power away.