‘More Dakka’ by Zvi starts as a review on Eliezer Yudkowsky’s book Inadequate Eqilibria, and then turns to apply ideas of The Thing and the Symbolic Representation of The Thing by Zvi, and Scott Alexander’s Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible To Notice to expand on whys and hows of the problem that I can only vaguely name as “Why don’t we try really doing things”. I do recommend reading all three posts, it was a feel-good delta knowledge for me. Here I will focus on ‘More Dakka’ which expands on why we do not try seemingly obvious solutions, or attempt and never finish.
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Avichal Garg on Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed — an interesting article from the guy who co-founded one in 2001.
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Basically, Facebook is bad - their goal is maximize the time you use the site (↑ad revenue). That means not allowing for efficient means of getting value out of the site’s main feature: a lot of people. Not allowing you control what and how you see (sort, search, The Zvi also wrote about it here)
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From time to time I Pocket articles that seem like they would help me when I’ll start working toward my own business.
As I see it now, that time wouldn’t come in 2018 2019, so I’ll make a handy stash of these articles here.
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