The bribery angle is where it appears questionable to me.
And I'm not at all happy with needing to rely on contacts. These companies should not be able to get away with potentially destroying other businesses or adversely impacting peoples personal lives and just handwave the reasoning to be "the algorithm". People should have recourse.
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As you said you need more time to think about it. You need to do it during the meeting as the opportunity to argue your point may be lost afterwards. I think the best thing is to help you understand and clearly see the points you can argue and provide a good cost/benefit analysis. By drawing/sketching you make it easier for you to visualise all the points and then make a solid counter argument. You also gain some time to think about the problem.
You should be then able to articulate your position in a few short clear statements that everyone in the meeting can remember and even the note take can easily jot down an email everyone later
I would then use a whiteboard if available or even a marker and an A3 sheet will do.
I found the Forbes article unconvincing, especially this bit:
> applying the same strictures to Standard Oil would have left that company alone rather than breaking it up. And that’s a conclusion that I’m entirely happy with too.
So it would have been fine far Standard Oil to take over the entire US economy as long as it reduced prices far consumers?
As Rockefeller's biography "Titan" points out, Standard Oil's market share declined throughout the period of the anti-trust trial, and Rockefeller was unable to stem the slide.
Most people don't have such a high degree of intuitiveness to themselves to know what behavioural variations make any difference.
Google does not interpolate those suggestions from your personal data, that's where the fitbit etc. apps shine.
- Having a glass of water
- Going for a short walk
- Having a glass of wine
- Watching a movie/tv show with your partner
- Telling a bedtime story to your kids
- Washing the dishes while thinking about your day
- Talking to your mum/dad/bro/sis
- listening to some calming music
- having a shower
How would you know what contributed to your good night sleep?
Having an app/tool tracking these for you and telling you that your best sleep is when you do A C and F not E or G is very valuable.
If you are smart enough to track and figure it out, then heck, I think you have too much free time or you are highly intuitive of yourself
Read the article twice and quite a bit suprised that the author did not touch at all on the fact that his acceptance and welcoming into the Berlin scene could be to do with this success at Heroku.
By all means, Adam is most certainly an exceptionally talented individual and his personality and drive must have contributed to his success in Berlin.
However not even touching the subject that he had such a warm welcome might be related to Heroku and therefore not freely available to everyone seems quite an oversight.
Agreed. Who you are has a ton to do with how successful you are in whatever your endeavor is. He may believe he's just an average joe, but that is far from the case.
Quite a sad view of humanity. I don't think people are stupid, I think they just don't care and shouldn't care about the browser. It's a tool used to get access to the information they need.
I am reading HN on chrome, but unless I go looking for what browser I use, I wouldn't know.
Decoupling the concept of "you don't intimately know what I have spent my entire life playing with" from "stupidity" seems to be really difficult for the tech crowd.
Always sad. People willing to discount countless hours of expertise and knowledge because a user doesn't know what the name of their browser is. As if that means anything.
For example, I really don't give a shit if my neurosurgeon is aware of what his browser is named. Nor would I dream of calling him stupid if he didn't. Chances are he knows leaps and bounds more about me on most topics, just not casual desktop computing.
Likewise, discounting someone entirely because they're uncomfortable with or uninterested in computers is one of the most ridiculous, ignorant, and self-absorbed things you can do.
This is about maturity and empathy, and it's certainly not exclusive to the tech crowd. [Insert half-baked pseudo-psychiatric idea about the link between tech people and empathy and Asperger's and so forth]
Stupid is a harsh word. But it's short and simple and easy to understand.
"Assume the user is stupid" isn't really being mean to users. It's just shorthand for "make everything as easy as possible. Sane defaults; great design; remove ambiguity; correct documentation; and so on."
