Paul Graham at Startup School 08

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a_d · 2018-04 · Recommendation

Bret Victor - Inventing on principle [LINK] Alan Kay - Power of Simplicity [LINK] Steve Jobs - Marketing (unveiling Think Different) [LINK] Robert Cialdini - On Influence [LINK] Peter Thiel - On Zero to One (Notes on Starts Ups or How to Build the Future) [LINK] Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty and More (Farnam Street podcast) [LINK] Josh Wolfe - On "This is who you are up against" podcast [LINK] Richard Feynman - Fun to Imagine [LINK] Paul Graham - Startup school (2008) [VIDEO] James Burke - Connections (BBC documentary) <No link> Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the Atom (BBC) [LINK] Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture [LINK] Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity? [LINK] Paul Stamets on mycology, bioremediation and fungi- Joe Rogan Experience [LINK]

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darushimo · 2013-08 · Recommendation

I think you're right here, but the qualifier "all things being equal" can't be taken lightly. Rarely if never are "all things equal." I also don't think a shift in the market context is necessary. We already have a market place where people who feel tricked or duped will have a lower opinion of the company doing the duping. dark patterns have a bad edge to them too--very few of them, when noticed by the user, leave the user actually feeling good about how they were duped. This kinda reminds me of the talk PG gave at 2008 start up school titled "Be Good." ( [LINK] or [VIDEO] ) He outlines many ways why it's not merely ethically appropriate to be good, but also a strategically superior approach to running a startup. Ease of use, simplicity, trustworthiness--these are important qualities of a biz's reputation, both internally and in public perception. And Dark patterns tend to harm that reputation. Edit: Addendum--obviously there are monopolies or monopoly-like situations where reputation isn't important.

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mindcrime · 2011-07 · Recommendation

[LINK] - (Steve Blank / Eric Ries - part 1) [LINK] - (Steve Blank / Eric Ries - part 2) [LINK] - (Steve Blank / Eric Ries - part 3) [LINK] - (Steve Blank at the Startup Lessons Learned conference) [LINK] - (Steve Blank: The Democratization of Entrepreneurship) [LINK] - (Alexander Osterwalder speaking @ Google) [LINK] - (Eric Ries speaking @ Google) [VIDEO] - (pg at Startup School '08) [LINK] - (Peter Norvig at Startup School '08)

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