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Re: Ecclesiastes figured this out first

AbeMurray — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:11:15 -0000

Of course, I don't ascribe to the full sense of this book in the bible; there is meaning to life, and if none attempted to succeed likely none would.

Re: Decentralizing work

AbeMurray — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:43:33 -0000

Update - thinking more on this topic - put another post up at my personal site: "Worry about winning, not stickiness"

Companies such as Disqus should win my business through winning, not through holding on to my data.

Re: What is hidden evidence?

AbeMurray — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:20:16 -0000

Thanks Tijan - I agree that luck favors those prepared to take advantage of it. Even Taleb, more skeptical than I, agrees that you need to at least be in the game and above some minimum quality bar to be able to succeed randomly.

I also agree that the bigger loss / problems are those of opportunity cost. It just seems silly to me that the current system results in both financial and professional failure to the entrepreneur who didn't realize her dreams - the professional failure and lost opportunity cost weigh heavily enough as is.

Thanks for joining the discussion - looking forward to many more!

Re: What is hidden evidence?

tijan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:44:38 -0000

i like the theme abe. its definitely a bit annerving to dedicate several years of your life to something with an outcome, as you suggest that may have more to do with luck than your own effort (taleb's basic argument). that being said, luck favors the prepared, so i would say that being in the game means that you can seize upon opportunities as they present themselves. if you're stuck at some j.o.b, might be tough to get involved.

there's something interesting about entrepreneurship is that doing one thing often excludes doing other things. so the biggest thing an entrepreneur has to weigh is opportunity cost. perhaps a key skill of an entrepreneur is to be able to identify which ventures to undertake and which to keep in the fridge.

as an investor however, i want to make sure i am investing alongside of the entrepreneur. the entrepreneur, not having much cash, invests his opportunity cost in the activity. if not, im not investing... congrats on the blog! looks like a very promising theme

Re: Decentralizing work

AbeMurray — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:18:29 -0000

This is me - testing the Disqus integration. My biggest concern is longevity - I appreciate that the network effects of Disqus will make my comments easier to use for others; but I am also depending upon Disqus to (1) remain free and (2) persist.

I guess if they go down I could export the comments. It really comes down to data portability - I would happily use Disqus everywhere if I could (a) move all my existing Wordpress comments to Disqus retroactively (as in my personal blog) and then move back from Disqus to Wordpress if I ever desired.

Disqus would then need to keep me by being the best at what they do, not because my data is stuck on their servers.