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anyway here is my answer a year ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443008
That said, I think that one of the biggest entrepreneurial opportunities on the web is recommendation of content. I sometimes think about how much stuff there is to experience, from books to movies to music, and it depresses me that I'll only ever be able to enjoy a tiny, tiny fraction of it all before I die. With that in mind, I'd like to know I'm experiencing the best this world has to offer. It's a complicated problem, but I have my wallet ready for the person who solves it.
I am not sure if I can watch TED again, after reading the article on HN about how TED seems to run, its appeal is lost. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268336
"The Paradox of Choice" has a couple good insights, especially for entrepreneurs selling, but I think it misses one very important thing. Yes, the unknowledgeable shopper will feel overwhelmed if you ask them what spice you want to buy out of 40 different spices, but the world would be much worse if there was a mandate that you could only buy pepper and garlic. It would be easier for the unskilled cook, but serious c…
Spices are a hopeless example of the paradox of choice, since they're all genuinely different things. The kinds of choices I hate are the ones that have been deliberately and often artificially cooked up between things that are in essence the same -- or that I'd benefit from really being the same. Two examples: (1) Washing powder. My local supermarket has a whole aisle filled with essentially identical products in di…
How can a source on knowledge like TED, thriving conferences that are entertaining and full of knowledge, be unknown by so many people. I mean they have access on TV to so many brain melting content, but a source of knowledge and idea like TED, is burried on the internet.... What a world !
I am not sure if I can watch TED again, after reading the article on HN about how TED seems to run, its appeal is lost. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268336
I feel the same way. I'm disappointed that social status and elitism permeates throughout a forum that is supposed to be about advancing human knowledge and the human condition.
Having said that... Why Julia Sweeney is always at TED is still a mystery to me. When one of her videos come up, I can't find the skip button fast enough.