Roll Over Pareto And Make Way For Sturgeon
Common wisdom regularly references Pareto - even while not knowing who the hell Pareto is. A humorist might even say that 80% of people who quote the 80/20 rule have never heard of Pareto.
Turns out it might even be worse.
Sturgeon has 90% of everything is crap .. and Andreesen agrees (Apple News Link to WSJ)
Seemingly even about his own fund.
”But doesn’t Sturgeon’s law also apply to investing in startups? A typical venture fund has a home run, a few companies with middling returns and lots of smoking holes in the ground. “We have a limited partner that has comprehensive data,” Mr. Andreessen explains. “For top-end venture funds, the good news is that it’s not 90% failure rate, it’s 50%. This is for top-decile venture.” So maybe Sturgeon’s law doesn’t apply. But wait. The 90% of funds below the top decline do worse. Sturgeon’s law rules. Mr. Andreessen pauses, raises an eyebrow, and nods in agreement.”
True Dat
In fact coincidentally just about to put out three different offers over the next two weeks.
Consolidation
Web Sites
Bit by bit I have been consolidating the ‘Wor(l)ds of John’ and putting everything under a single, smaller roof. So when I say ‘single’ … less?
My Blot site is not just thoughts that somehow never made it to MicroBlog - but also includes the archives of 5 old Wordpress sites;
- Beyond Bridges
- Hidden In Plain Sight
- Quotespace
- And Another Thing
- Just Good Music (the old MicroBlog JGM - sadly my original JGM site only exists in the Wayback Machine.
Only JGM is linked since I figure that is the only blog that MicroBloggers might even want to click through to.
… and a whole lot more.
Gah - that just made me realise that I need to spend a bit of time in better organizing blot.
The oldest post in there dates back to September 2010.
Meanwhile my Micro Blog site has another several thousand posts entries … the oldest dating back to April 2005.
The Micro Blog collection includes an old humour site that got moved before I came up with the blot consolidation. It is a post from this blog that holds the the oldest post ‘title’.
It also includes some of my Instagram world. I resisted pulling in what is really a pile of rubbish.
My Computer Software
Meanwhile, I am also moving my main computer to a new machine. No automatic ‘restore from previous machine’ for me. I have built (am building?) it from scratch. About three weeks in ans 71 apps from the old world still have not yet made it over - and they still might not - ever.
My iPad
… deinstalling software to bring more focus to how I use the iPad and when.
More to come as I think about it.
Expanding Readwise niceties into articles …
100!
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I still need to write more about this - but no more dilly-dallying - time to share regardless. The image speaks volumes.
Credit Tim Urban via Chris Hladczuk
“As I've said a bunch before, I think that crypto will have a place in the future, but I think the applications of it right now feel like they're solving solved problems worse than the existing solutions.”
Source : Solving Solved Problems
“I like any company that’s focused on making the best, not the most.”
German Police Caught Using COVID-Tracing Data To Search For Crime Witnesses.
As the article says:
“I guess the only surprise is that it took this long to be abused.”
I wonder how many other countries are doing this and have not yet been caught?
Answers on a postcard!
Paying for everything twice. … the second price is basically your time … that you will invest in ‘going to the gym’, ‘reading the book’, ‘learning how it works’, setting it up.
I think this has a lot to do with people not valuing their time.
Darwin in action.
Apple to buy Peleton?
I don’t see it.
[Another Report Shows U.S. 5G Isn’t Living Up To The Hype.](https://www.techdirt.com/articles go/20211222/07165348163/another-report-shows-us-5g-isnt-living-up-to-hype.shtml)
“A number of recent studies have already shown that U.S. wireless isn’t just the most expensive in the developed world, U.S. 5G is significantly slower than most overseas deployments. “
But we all knew that - didn’t we?
In the old days, we couldn’t be heard because gatekeepers curated who and what we could read and listen to.
Now we can’t be heard above the noise of everyone wanting to be heard.
So ‘curators’ are back.
Real curators. Not algorithms. Real human curators.
I am heading in the same direction as @rnv original post. I won’t get as deep as he did, but bit by bit my blot site is becoming my historical archive and micro blog is my personal / observations site.
There are other spaces out there, but they are gradually folding into Blot.
I forgot that Apple removed the ‘Save As’ menu item several OS versions ago. I just had to remind myself how I added it back.
Much as I like this glossary … I do feel that there is an opportunity for an Ambrose Bierce approach to this topic.
🎵🎼 🎶 Thinking about (and playing some) Free, went to check something and disappeared down a Rabbit Hole. I never knew that it was Alexis Korner that gave them their name.
“Twitter launches special hexagonal NFT profile pictures, so now you don’t even have to check a username for “.eth” to know who to avoid”
😭😭😭😭😭