Aug 13, 2008
Develop products where the interactions of every user improve the site for the next user.

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Aug 13, 2008
When times are tight, we want to overfund.

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Aug 13, 2008
81 percent of us say we have a book in us. A coincidental 81 percent of young people think they have a business in them.

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Aug 13, 2008
Most corporations doing business in the United States pay no federal income taxes, despite trillions of dollars worth of sales.

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Aug 13, 2008
One of the chief values of print library research is its poor indexing. By drawing researchers into a wider array of articles, print browsing and perusal may have facilitated broader comparisons and scholarship.

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Aug 6, 2008
For a while after UIC was built, its environs were a sort of residential no-man’s-land, dangerous at night and unattractive to the young academics who taught there. Today, assistant professors at UIC generally don’t live there either, but for a different reason: They can’t afford it.
Alan Ehrenhalt on the ongoing demographic inversion between cities and suburbs

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Aug 5, 2008
I’m all for rewarding the originator – provided we don’t do that to the detriment of those enabling and propogating the evolution. Or, indeed, at the cost of restricting that very evolution. We should be encouraging the wider variety of possibilities, the mutations, that evolution allows.

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Aug 5, 2008
Analytics are a 25-40% tax on your product development process. They take engineers lots of time and development effort, produce numbers that people argue about, and require additional infrastructure.

Having 1 in 4 engineers working on analytics may seem like a ton, but it helps validate assumptions, pinpoint key features and bottlenecks, model the business during decision-making. At the cost of building fewer features, learn as much as you can so that you can “run up the score” on the features that work.

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Aug 2, 2008
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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Aug 1, 2008

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