Contrarian Creative who tweets about ugly reality of innovating in crowded markets. Also posts satire @TailWagDogCom
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ALT Why do large corporations disrupt their own business more than their markets? Why do startups crash against the realities of scaling, no matter how well they are funded? Why do leaders mistake noise for progress? Packed with sharp insights, humor and no-nonsense wisdom, The Disruption Fallacy explains why most breakthroughs do not come from reckless reinvention but from smart, strategic evolution. Whether you are in consumer goods, tech, or any industry balancing ambition with reality, this book will help you disrupt the right thing and nothing more.
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Lasagna is a monoid. Stack two lasagnas, you get one tall lasagna. This is in contrast to e.g. a pizza. Stacking two pizzas does not make a new pizza, the top pizza merely becomes a topping of the bottom pizza
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if “chances are slim” and “fat chance” both mean the odds are stacked against you, what is the ideal BMI of fate
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First attempt at home made muesli was a success.
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Today is Stanislav Petrov Day.
Be like Stanislav, think things through in times of chaos.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis…
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Jim Henson would’ve been 99 today. The boys miss ya
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From gate D85 to the train platform in 9 minutes, breaking only a little sweat. That's why I ❤️ @Schiphol and Schengen passage.
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I had Sculpt4D on my Amiga in 1988 and would start a render, go to school and return 7 hours later only to find I accidentally had placed a few pixels worth of glass in front of a mirroring surface which stalled the rendering from hours to weeks.
Legendary days.
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99 years ago, they made a film about 2026:
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Start-ups: don't tell me about a $50Bn SAM/TAM/whatever if you cannot tell me who will order your first 100k shipment.
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Nu nog de cruciale infrastructuur beschermen tegen de grootste bedreiging, het regeringsbeleid.
"De geopolitieke dreigingen zijn de afgelopen jaren fors toegenomen. Dat raakt ook de Rotterdamse haven."
Onze minister @vincentkar over het belang van extra maatregelen bij de Rotterdamse haven om zo onze cruciale infrastructuur beter te beschermen tegen sabotage, spionage en andere dreigingen.
fd.nl/economie/1613082/stren…
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Is therapy just secularized confession
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Most people are not artists, this is trivially true, but the danger is in AI destroying a lager ecosystem where a craft and skill can be developed. An art needs this, it needs enough practitioners and enough critics and well educated enough audience to be able to produce genius
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Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.
- Hippocrates
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‘Venn diagram’ was named after English logician John Venn (1834-1923).
The first known use of ‘Venn diagram’ was in 1918.
Therefore:
ALT Venn diagram circle 1: 'Venn diagram' being a word circle 2: John Venn alive Middle: 1918-1923
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Exceptionally heavy El Niño rains have triggered millions of dormant seeds beneath the soil, transforming vast stretches of one of the world’s driest regions into a spectacular carpet of flowers. 🌸🌸🌸
The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, has been dramatically transformed following heavy rainfall in northern Chile. Areas that are typically barren and parched are now covered in vibrant violet and white blossoms, a rare natural phenomenon known as the “flowering desert.”🏵️🏵️🏵️
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