brian_spiering

I taught a flipped classroom online. Students had to successful pass a quiz on the before class materials to get the join link to the session.

I worked at a small VC-backed startup that tried to create a marketplace for algorithms in a small niche. We were the platform that enterprise customers trusted, and we standardized access to proprietary algorithms. We subsidized the marketplace by implementing algorithms ourselves and offering steep discounts to early enterprise customers.

I saw right away that it would take years to build up a two-sided marketplace, and we did not have enough money for that runway. I created a skunk works that did product-based consulting. That generated meaningful cash flow but was not respected as strategic by the board.

The company became a zombie for a long time. In the end, it was forced to be acquired to make the initial VC money whole.

My advice is to build fast to get to a critical level. Then be prepared to drip-feed it for a long time to see if it becomes self-sustaining.

In the USA, there was a person who was traveling around removing bolts. The person showed up in our local area. A couple of members of the climbing community had a conversation with the local police. The police had a concern about him creating a potentially dangerous situation of people trying a climb and expecting to find bolts only to find the bolts missing. The police went out of their way to arrest him. They got him on probation violation and had him extradited to his home state. The climbing community replaced all the removed bolts, and people went back to enjoying the rock climbing.

The local climbing community chose to take care of this quietly without media or internet drama.

I signed up for it (took about 5 minutes). I'm cautiously optimistic about it having positive return on that investment.

One of the best things I have done is sign up for DMAchoice and optoutprescreen.com which has completely stopped junk mail for me.

I got a the highest paid job I could find with the skills I have that I enjoyed "well-enough". I spent less than I earned. I made mostly low risk investments (with a handful of high risk investments). I consistently did those behaviors for many decades. I also got lucky that nothing bad happened to me.

The Art of War by Steven Pressfield. It addresses the fears associated with any new endeavor and how to create systems to dance with the fears.

The Sierra Nevada region has a similar history of using the "checkerboard" pattern to promote railroad building. Organizations like the Trust for Public Land and the Truckee Donner Land Trust that are systematically acquiring many of these checkerboard inholdings to preserved them from future development and open them to low-impact public recreation.

That is interesting because of the Halo effect. There is a cognitive bias that if a person is right in one area, they will be right in another unrelated area.

I try to temper my tendency to believe the Halo effect with Warren Buffett's notion of the Circle of Competence; there is often a very narrow domain where any person can be significantly knowledgeable.

Yes, there is hope to fully own a self driving vehicle as a consumer. One example is comma.ai, inc.

You are correct that those concepts are interrelated. It works well not to get caught up in precise definitions. Instead, reflect on your current level and take the next best step.

The Lindy effect can be a useful heuristic. Something invented 30 months probably has less long-term value something that was invented 10 years ago and is being used.

Given the current rate of development, it probably won't be an issue for a while.

In Japan, houses are presumed to have a limited lifespan and depreciate in value over time.

Try David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD), part of which is the Natural Planning Model.