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I had a grad school mentor William Wells who taught us something similar. A good research publication or presentation should aim for "just the right amount of surprise". Too much s…

A friend and I built a proof-of-concept of using a variation of Latent Semantic Analysis to automatically build up conceptual maps and loadings of individual words against the late…

I recall in the late 70s that my high school also had a teletype terminal and an IBM card reader that connected to a mainframe for the whole school district. As a student I had som…

Different recession. Spring of 2008 I was in a corporate job within a fairly new business unit. Over the space of 3 years we had grown the new business unit from nothing to a unit …

This reminded me of a conversation I had with a business owner in southern Florida. I was showing him a demo of some mapping technology I had played around with and mentioned that …

I lift Monday through Friday at about 11 AM each day. One week I will do pressing exercises such as bench press, squat and leg press on MWF and pulling exercises such as deadlift, …

Weightlifting as a consistent form of exercise. I love to run but I have had issues with my feet. With weightlifting I have been able to work around any injuries and keep consisten…

My son is at the other end of the spectrum having just graduated with a BS in Computer Engineering and started his career as Software Engineer I. He is working as a software engine…

Start-up 1 (2000): Too early and inadequate access to technically sophisticated investors (located in the Midwest rather than Silicon Valley). Proof of concept in semantic knowledg…

It all depends.... if we were having a private conversation I would be asking about all of the following. But I wouldn't really recommend getting too specific about some of these o…

I am not sure if Jason Roberts was the first to use this phrase but here was his take on Luck Surface Area back in 2010. That was the first I personally heard of the term Luck Surf…

I went to buy something on eBay and found that my account had been suspended. I have never sold anything on eBay. However, I had signed up for an eBay developer account and then ne…

Oh, I totally agree with you. And, there are times when it is not useful to try to come up with a solution because the other person just needs to be heard. It is not really about p…

Your comment reminds me of the following. My wife and I have been married over 30 years now. Our total household is 7 persons. A couple years ago, my wife was complaining once agai…

Some great points AlDante2. There is also the issue of how open-ended the engagement is versus clear confined specification. I work with clients on an hourly basis because of the o…

One of my good friends spent a couple of years selling grain silos to farmers in the American Midwest. I heard about this some years later when we were living in the same community…

Trustworthy - they will have access to sensitive information. Articulate - they will communicate on your behalf. A good dose of common sense. Comfortable in the role of follower bu…

The distinctions between self-control and grit as articulated in this paper speak to one of the fundamental issues that start-up founders face. Defining a superordinate goal that w…

From this comment it seems you are intending to pursue the masters while working. So the opportunity cost is not lost salary. Your opportunity cost would be measured more in time a…

You are correct that this is very difficult to untangle. But remember features that initially excite and please customers because they were new and provided even unexpected benefit…

In an organization that size there should be a whole team of internal experts as well as independent, external customer and product research resources devoted to understanding cust…

I am surprised by the results of this study. My own experience is that Time-Restricted Eating helps with weight loss when I decide to lean out. I tighten down the eating window. An…

A family story. My father-in-law (now in his 80s) began to stutter when he was very young, somewhere around 4 years old. Teachers, and I think his step-mother were trying to force …

Does Kipsu do internships? I have a son who is starting his junior year at U of Minnesota, Twin Cities in the Computer Engineering program. This past summer he had applied for a bu…

Changeling (The Dark Fae Series Book 1) Faery Tales (The Dark Fae Series Book 2) By McKenzie Rae Book 2 was just released last week. I sat down this morning to read and as of this …