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Ash Maurya • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))
The future Sociopath must be an under-performer at the bottom. Like the average Loser, he recognizes that the bargain is a really bad one. Unlike the risk-averse loser though, he does not try to make the best of a bad situation by doing enough to get by. He has no intention of just getting by. He very quickly figures out – through experiments and f
... See moreVenkatesh Rao • The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2)
WHEN MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE REQUIRES INTELLIGENCE AND COURAGE
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
This explains the idea of promoting a Greater Safety Net for networked individuals rather than for corporations—a hedge designed to cover us against all critical risks and empower us in our many interactions with other economic agents, all without the intermediation of the proxies (large corporations, the state) on which the Great Safety Net 1.0 ha
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Watch Sam Altman furiously backpedal. It won’t be long before the rest of… | Simon Wardley | 104 comments
Generating Extras: Procedural AI with Statecharts
Procedural AI for game characters using Statecharts, improving player immersion. Techniques demonstrated through a case study of squirrel AIs in a virtual environment.
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