We must be reading different books, because the one I read clearly discusses the mechanics of large-block trades, and specifically calls out the fact that traders exist because you can't unload 100k shares of XYZ as easily as 10 shares of AAPL (unless you like screwing up the market and losing a ton of money).
Resonance with potential customers, co-founders, and employees. It's fine if many people don't get it, but if nobody gets it, I'm probably fooling myself.
I'm an Evernote Premium user, but I convinced my wife not to start using it because of this apparent misallocation of resources. I've had data loss within the (slow) core app, and the editor frustrates me; thus I find it kind of frustrating that as near as I can tell, most of the development effort is focused on very marginally useful features.
I also find the sentence Aaron faced to be excessive.
For additional context, David Headley received a 35 year sentence for his active participation in the Mumbai bombings which killed 160 people.[1] The median sentence for murder and non-negligent manslaughter in the US (effective 2000) is 24 years, 3 months.[2]
I can't help but find Aaron's prospective punishment to be far more abhorrent than his crimes. It continues to sadden me that MIT used their influence in such a hurtful manner.
The dedicated work-only office was my most important productivity enhancement. It helped me prevent burnout (where I'd just work every single hour), and it also helped my spouse understand when I was "at work" and should be treated thusly.
As an added bonus in the US, a dedicated work-only workspace can be eligible for a Home Office tax deduction.
That's an interesting catch. I'm guessing the gap was because the attacker commissioned the software at low cost, and didn't spot the problem. That said, the attack would still work well because Jeans plays nosebleed stakes[1], so he's not likely to be playing a huge number of games at a time, and he travels regularly for live games so he's likely to be on a standalone laptop.
Multi-monitor setups are very common in the poker world, but the primary monitor would get you a long way. After all, if you sit with him and realize your table isn't on his main screen, you could sit out.
I'm quite glad he thought to drop his computer at F-Secure.
I also have a pair of the Bose QC15s. They're fantastic for my open-plan office. Even very quiet music, when combined with their noise cancellation, will silence nearly all background noise.
An MBA in entrepreneurship has business classes adapted for an entrepreneurial audience.
A typical MBA involves the study of topics such as marketing, finance, risk management, accounting, economics, statistics, operations, HR, organizational dynamics, business law, and strategy.
Many of these can easily be adapted to be more useful for entrepreneurs. A finance class can focus on venture capital more than the bond market. A marketing class can focus on new product development more than the promotion of existing products. A law class can deal with the issues most relevant to startups. The accounting needs of a startup exec are different than those a future partner at Deloitte. etc.
As a clear example of the type of content that an entrepreneurial class could cover, Steve Blank's book Four Steps to the Epiphany originated not as a book, but as the notes for his class at Haas.
Why T-Mobile made the change is unimportant to me. I care that they made the change, and that they committed to it via zero lock-in contracts. If I feel that I'm not getting sufficient value at some point in the future, I can simply walk away from T-Mobile without spending $325/line in termination fees.
And as for the network, I'm fortunate that it's not a trade-off for me. T-Mobile's coverage has proven superior to AT&T's for my precise work/home/travel combination.
We're using StatusPage and we host on AWS. We decided this was acceptable because they're in multiple AZs in a datacenter that isn't our primary.
The (minor) risk presented by that is softened further by the fact that it's a communication tool, and we have other ways to communicate status with the team and with customers.
I agree with you. It's perfectly reasonable for a firm to pour money into its customer acquisition machine so long as the return is greater than the cost of capital plus a risk premium.
Failure to reinvest every dollar under those circumstances is a Type I error.
Perhaps the "intense pace of work" is the organizational equivalent of the myriad situations where the marginal returns of an additional hour of work are negative, but it feels like they should be positive, so we work/hack/study a bit more.
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