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Dominating a new category is not necessarily about being the first to market a product. It is about being the first company to have your definition of a problem and, therefore, the solution, tip at scale. For example, Apple did not create the mobile phone category (that accomplishment goes to Motorola). But Apple did redesign the category with a
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Schedule a time in the day for memory training and practice—whether you feel like it or not.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
Next, consider the scale of the features. What are the largest and the smallest values? Do they span several orders of magnitude? Models that are smooth functions of input features are sensitive to the scale of the input.
Alice Zheng, Amanda Casari • Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
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I understand it, but I don’t see how it’s useful. I see how it could be fun for rich people, but not me. I use it, but it’s just a toy. It’s becoming more useful for me. I use it all the time. I could not imagine life without it. Seriously, people lived without it? It’s too powerful and needs to be regulated.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
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“Big goals work best when there’s an alignment between an individual’s values and the desired outcome of the goal. When everything lines up, we’re totally committed—meaning we’re paying even more attention, are even more resilient, and are way more productive as a result.”
Steven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
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The problem of distribution, on which all the stress is being put today, is after all more easily solved the more there is to distribute.
Henry Hazlitt • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Lets walk through a step-by-step of how to use the framework. We'll go through 5 steps:
• Spell Out Your Variables
• Give Each Variable A Score
• Identify What Matters Most
• Evaluate Your Ability To Change The Variable
• Understand The Time Horizon Of Change
Bangaly Kaba • Impact = Environment x Skills: How to Make Career Decisions
But this was just the beginning. Many in the managerial class saw the success of social media and wondered how they could use gamification for their own ends. The Chinese Communist Party was among the first to apply the principles of social media to the real world. In several towns and cities, it began trialing social credit schemes that assign
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How to Create Instant Authority with Your Audience
Marco Polo, a Venetian explorer born in 1254, is famous for being the first to explore the Silk Road to China. At least, that’s how he is remembered.
There is only one small problem: he wasn’t an explorer at all. Like all good Venetians of the time, he was a merchant.
Long before Marco Polo, plenty
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