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Dmitri Brereton

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  • Kuhn posited two kinds of scientific change: incremental developments in the course of what he called "normal science," and scientific revolutions that punctuate these more stable periods. He suggested that scientific revolutions are not a matter of incremental advance; they involve "paradigm shifts."
    What Is A Paradigm Shift, Anyway? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
  • could be interrupted at any time by the death of a parent or child.
    Ancient Legal Innovations | Huey
  • I could understand translating this as "honk honk" if "beep beep" were not a standard car sound in English. But English-speaking cars do say “beep beep”, so why change the original?
    The Universe of Discourse
  • it does seem to be true that you can expect anything worthwhile to take a long time and jumping around from project to project (or shiny object to shiny object) is a sure recipe for long-term failure.
    Antifragile Planning: Optimizing for Optionality (Without Chasing Shiny Objects)
  • “Pushing button: $1 Knowing which button to push: $3999″
    KNOWING WHICH BUTTON TO PUSH
  • What all these things have in common is that after the fact, you find yourself in possession of completely useless text. That is, completely useless until today.
    When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Random Numbers
  • That’s what I want from my products. I want to putter about, feel connected to the process, and have fun doing so. I want to make things that don’t scale. To see people tuck into them and enjoy them as people, not as stats.
    My product is my garden
  • This article is for the middleground of people who have had to touch CSS a few times here and there but ultimately don't feel like they know what they're doing, or struggle with making basic layouts.
    A Complete Guide to CSS Concepts and Fundamentals
  • Conventional startup and business wisdom has become “there are plenty of good ideas, all that matters is execution.” We don’t buy it. Empirically, all our aspiring founder friends are desperate for startup ideas, with few managing to land on something worthwhile, and all our scientist friends are desperate for research ideas.
    Ideas not mattering is a psyop
  • I remember sitting at demo day in 2011 and marveling at the fact that the combined capital of all the VCs in the room was less than that controlled by the hedge fund at which I had worked. But the model is wrong. Venture capital is abundant, and that fact should fundamentally change how founders fundraise.
    Abundant Capital - Aaron's Essays
  • I am proposing an idea for a missing part of the Web’s infrastructure, namely a searchable index. The idea is to separate the infrastructure part of the search engine (the index) from the services part, thereby allowing for a multitude of services, whether existing as search engines or otherwise, to be run on a shared infrastructure
    [1903.03846] The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an Open Web Index
  • Blogs are still important to those invested in their specific subjects, but not to a more general audience, who are more likely to turn to Twitter or Facebook for a quick news fix or take on current events.
    The Rise and Fall of the Blog
  • In software, especially, it usually works best to get something in front of users as soon as it has a quantum of utility, and then see what they do with it.
    Do Things that Don't Scale
  • Since P probably does not equal NP, m
    Markets are Efficient if and Only if P = NP by Philip Maymin :: SSRN
  • . I also prove the converse by showing how we can “program” the market to solve NP-complete problems. Since P probably does not equal NP, markets are probab
    Markets are Efficient if and Only if P = NP by Philip Maymin :: SSRN
  • If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
    Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young
  • Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
    Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young
  • The broad technology to achieve it was also not a secret, and DC fast charge networks already existed, although there was plenty of room to improve on the things I mentioned – execution, context, determination and appetite for risk – especially as one of the early movers. Broadly, I agree with the premise that any outsized success involves either or bot
    Book Review: Zero To One
  • I have been tracking happiness for over three years, and this week's average of 7.03 / 10 is a full 0.22 points higher than the week I first started writing my book and learned to skateboard. Now, probably the best weeks are weeks when I wasn't at my computer consistently recording happiness pings, like the week I got married which was pretty much the best ever.
    The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse
  • But in the future I think we'll see more indie hackers stick with content, and treat their writing as a valuable service itself rather than a means to an end. In many cases, they'll make more money that way, and they'll make it much faster.
    People are paying a lot to read great content
  • P.S. Sam Parr and I had a great discussion on paid content businesses on The Indie Hackers Podcast recently. He's one of the best, so check out the episode if you're curious about the model. Courtland Allen posted to Newsletter Crew POST COMMENT 10 dru_riley · 3 months ago · [+3] · REPLY 6 Nice writeup, Courtland. A few reactions from the perspective of a full time indie hacker and coder: Software takes months to develop, but content takes mere hours. One piece of content may take hours, but building a repository of content which justifies payment will take a few weeks at least. The lower the …
    People are paying a lot to read great content
  • In the past we've seen hundreds of indie hackers build audiences by creating great content, and then leverage those audiences as distribution channels for stickier, paid software services. But in the future I think we'll see more indie hackers stick with content, and treat their writing as a valuable service itself rather than a means to an end. In many cases, they'll make more money that way, and they'll make it much faster.
    People are paying a lot to read great content
  • ster. P.S. Sam Parr and I had a great discussion on paid content businesses on The Indie Hackers Podcast recently. He's one of the best, so check out the episode if you're curious about the model. Courtland Allen posted to Newsletter Crew POST COMMENT 10 dru_riley · 3 months ago · [+3] · REPLY 6 Nice writeup, Courtland. A few reactions from the perspective of a full time indie hacker and coder: Software takes months to develop, but content takes mere hours. One piece of content may take hours, but building a repository of content which justifies payment will take a few weeks at least. The lowe…
    People are paying a lot to read great content
  • pick a tiny-but-growing audience whose members have lots of money to spend; write utilitarian content that helps them make more money; charge between $500 and $1k annually; and grow your subscriber base via ads and free viral written content.
    People are paying a lot to read great content
  • Just say you're building todo-list software. That sounds harmless. People can notice you've replaced email when it's a fait accompli.
    Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
  • The strategic opportunity is less obvious and often overlooked. Every job, every role, every company you go to is an opportunity to learn how a business works and how an industry works. Learn everything you can about the business and the industry in which you find yourself.
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
  • Think strategically: how would I start a firm like this today? Or, if I were starting a company in this industry today, how would it be different than this firm? Why is this firm and other firms in this industry doing what they do? What are the assumptions underneath their behavior? Should those assumptions be changing? How might this industry work differently? Which customers are being underserved? What new technologies might change things completely? How were things working 10 years ago, versus today, versus 10 years from now? And, my favorite: if the creators of this industry were starting …
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
  • Finally, every job you take and every role you fill will always be a tactical opportunity and a strategic opportunity. The tactical opportunity is obvious: kick ass and take names -- gain skills and experiences that will be valuable to you in the future, and do so well that everyone you work with is singing your praises for decades to come. The strategic opportunity is less obvious and often overlooked. Every job, every role, every company you go to is an opportunity to learn how a business works and how an industry works. Learn everything you can about the business and the industry in which y…
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
  • Finally, every job you take and every role you fill will always be a tactical opportunity and a strategic opportunity. The tactical opportunity is obvious: kick ass and take names -- gain skills and experiences that will be valuable to you in the future, and do so well that everyone you work with is singing your praises for decades to come. The strategic opportunity is less obvious and often overlooked. Every job, every role, every company you go to is an opportunity to learn how a business works and how an industry works. Learn everything you can about the business and the industry in which y…
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
  • Learn everything you can, then get the hell out of there before it's too late.
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
  • Finally, every job you take and every role you fill will always be a tactical opportunity and a strategic opportunity. The tactical opportunity is obvious: kick ass and take names -- gain skills and experiences that will be valuable to you in the future, and do so well that everyone you work with is singing your praises for decades to come. The strategic opportunity is less obvious and often overlooked. Every job, every role, every company you go to is an opportunity to learn how a business works and how an industry works. Learn everything you can about the business and the industry in which y…
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
  • The tactical opportunity is obvious: kick ass and take names -- gain skills and experiences that will be valuable to you in the future, and do so well that everyone you work with is singing your praises for decades to come. The strategic opportunity is less obvious and often overlooked. Every job, every role, every company you go to is an opportunity to learn how a business works and how an industry works. Learn everything you can about the business and the industry in which you find yourself. Think strategically: how would I start a firm like this today? Or, if I were starting a company in th…
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
  • The tactical opportunity is obvious: kick ass and take names -- gain skills and experiences that will be valuable to you in the future, and do so well that everyone you work with is singing your praises for decades to come. The strategic opportunity is less obvious and often overlooked. Every job, every role, every company you go to is an opportunity to learn how a business works and how an industry works. Learn everything you can about the business and the industry in which you find yourself. Think strategically: how would I start a firm like this today? Or, if I were starting a company in th…
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why