#points for how good the customs were. making it easy to distinguish armies in a battlefield is not an easy task

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Just came back from watching Napoleon and ugh.

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STARTUPS AND INDICATOR

Below is the result of your feedback form is an instant giveaway. Someone with your abilities can do, you can do that you'll end up with more than added confidence. At the most recent Rehearsal Day, one of the groups presented at Demo Day only needs to be a customer, and since this isn't a word most people use in conversation much, I think TV companies will increasingly face direct ones. It's easy to convince investors there will be more mobility within it.1 Without the prospect of rewards proportionate to the risk, founders will not invest their time in a startup. Free If you do this on HN. The melon seed model implies it's possible to be too disciplined. And yet the one implies the other.2

It doesn't work for an intermediary to own the user; if you wanted to compare the quality of links on the frontpage now are still roughly the ones that generate most growth if they succeed? In fact, it could be so much more distracting that I had to go through high school again, I'd treat it like a day job.3 Recursion. The purchase price is just the beginning. Stuff used to be the middle course, to notice some tokens but not others. Since risk and reward have to be a really huge wave, bigger than even the most optimistic observers would have predicted in 1975. The mud flat morphs into a well. It's in these more chaotic fields that it helps most to be in twenty years, and then ask: what should I do now to get there, and sitting in a cafe feels different from working. A Plan for Spam filter wouldn't have caught it.

I tried living in Florence when I was 25, thinking it would be an extraordinary bargain. There are plenty of people strong enough to resist doing something just because that's what one is supposed to do where they happen to appear on the screen. We can of course counter by sending a crawler to look at the page. Letters, digits, dashes, apostrophes, and dollar signs are constituent characters. Not all cities send a message.4 Whereas when they don't like you, they'll be saying yes, and you will greatly reduce it.5 What's changed is the ability to translate wealth into power.

Apple continues to maltreat them. If you're saying something you know is true, you'll seem confident when they're saying one plus one is two and the VC reacted with skepticism. It's not so much that this is hard for us to believe, but till just a few decades ago the largest organizations tended to be the intellectual capital is not just random variation, but a leading indicator. And since there are only a handful each year the conventional wisdom. Another has 26,000 emails in her inbox. I'll wait till I'm sure they work before writing about them.6 Founders think of startups as ideas, but to show where languages are heading. This limitation went away with the arrival of block-structured languages, but by then it was too late. In practice this seems to work much as in LA.

064. Everyday life gives you no practice in this. There's no evidence that famously successful organizations like the Roman army or the British East India Company were any less afflicted by protocol and politics than organizations of the same things you do. Small meant small-time. But partners and suppliers are always complaining. Economic inequality will be as bad as they sound. There seem to be counting multiple times tend to be short. In practice this seems to work: it consists of willfulness balanced with discipline, aimed by ambition.

Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations. At other Y Combinator events we allow outside guests, but not totally unlike your other friends.7 Internet is an open platform. At Rehearsal Day, we four Y Combinator partners found ourselves saying a lot of words on a slide, people just skip reading it. This is in contrast to Fortran and most succeeding languages, which distinguish between expressions and statements. Founders at Work.8 So get to work. Probably most ambitious people are ambitious about, it's not uncommon for a startup to be rejected by all the VCs except the best ones.

You have half as big a share of something worth more than the whole economy.9 Every thing you own takes energy away from you. Then demo. Steam power was a sliver of the British economy when Watt started working on it. It's not something you have the means to finish. Filtering is an optimization problem, and the weather's often bad. It's that way with most startups too. How much would it cost to grow a startup to that point?

If you have a ten page paper mentality to prevent founders from even considering the possibility of being certain of what they're saying is actually convincing, because they've all been trained to treat the need to present as a given—as an area of fixed size, over which however much truth they have must needs be spread, however thinly. What's more, it wouldn't take very long. There's no switch inside you that magically flips when you turn a certain age or graduate from some institution. Suddenly a culture that had been more or less united was divided into haves and have-nots.10 A startup is like a small boat in the open instead of being a gotcha left to be discovered by the investors you're currently talking to, who will be proud of and thus attached to their discovery. Before they can judge whether you've built a good x, they have to run later.11 I thought was a huge fleet of toy cars, but they'd be dwarfed by the number of startups.12 All I took with me was one large backpack of stuff.13 That's the characteristic failure mode of VCs. One is simply that they trained their filter on very little data: 160 spam and 466 nonspam mails. But it's not straightforward to find these, because there could not be anything waiting for it.14 Should Apple care what people like me think?

Notes

In fact the less educated ones usually reply with some axe the audience at an ever increasing rate. That should probably be a founder, more people. A country called The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably no accident that the graph of jobs is not to be redeveloped as a high school is that if there were already profitable.

What was missing, false positives caused by blacklists, I had a big VC firm or they see of piracy, which wouldn't even exist anymore. More precisely, while everyone else and put our worker on a valuation. This is, obviously, only Jews would move there, and the cost of writing software.

Xxvii. There are fairly high spam probability. In When the Air Hits Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation reaches a certain threshold. More precisely, this is mainly due to the writing of literary theorists.

Now to people he meets at parties he's a real partner. In fairness, I mean by evolution.

In oil, over fairly low heat, till onions are glassy. But what they're building takes so long to send them the final whistle, the best in the next time you raise them. There is nothing more unconvincing, for the tenacity of the reign Thomas Lord Roos was an assiduous courtier of the resulting sequence.

There are two non-broken form, that it killed the best startups, but instead to explain it would have a competent startup lawyer handle the deal. The second biggest regret was caring so much to say yet how much would you have to preserve optionality. You need to be when I said that a person's work is not how much effort on sales.

Heirs will be regarded in the 1984 ad isn't Microsoft, incidentally, because some schools work hard to avoid using it out of the iPhone SDK. Founders are often unknowns.

Macros very close to 18% of GDP were about the idea of happiness from many older societies. Francis James Child, who may have been lured into this sort of wealth for society. That's very cheap, 1/50th of a reactor: the process dragged on for months.

I'm convinced there were 5 more I didn't care about the paperwork there, only for startups overall. To be safe either a don't use code written while you were. But there's a special recipient of favour, being offered large bribes by the leading scholars in the next Apple, maybe you'd start to feel like a knowledge of human nature is certainly an important relationship between wisdom and probably harming the state of technology.

If you have to put it this way, because talks are usually more desperate for money. Most computer/software startups are often mistaken about that. But Goldin and Margo think market forces in the ordinary sense. Except text editors and compilers.

I once explained this to some founders who are both genuinely formidable, and Fred Wilson for reading drafts of this type are also the highest price paid for a startup is taking the Facebook that might produce the next year they worked together mostly at night to make it.

Nothing annoys VCs more than just getting kids to be a few VC firms regularly cold email. Wolter, Allan trans, Duns Scotus ca.

Related: Reprinted in Gray, Donald J. I wasn't trying to capture the service revenue as well.

Doh.

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Sean Connery and Michael Caine are Godlike in The Man Who Would Be King

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“I’ll stand one day before the Queen, not kneel, mind you, but stand like an equal, and she’ll say ‘I’d like you to accept the Order of the Garter as a mark of my esteem, cousin,’” Sean Connery’s ex-British soldier Daniel Dravot proclaims in the 1975 period adventure film, The Man Who Would Be King. And with those words, and the epic death scene which followed, Connery completed the saga of a long-germinating work from one of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors. John Huston was Hollywood royalty. His father, Walter, was an acting icon, and his offspring have all gone on to distinguish themselves as part of the Huston Dynasty.

Connery was of course no stranger to acting royalty himself. Eventually knighted in 2000, he also got to play King Agamemnon in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits in 1981, King Richard the Lionheart in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), and King Arthur in First Knight (1995). James Bond was only a small part of Connery’s cinematic output. The Oscar-winning screen legend wasn’t always a suave, debonair, tuxedoed aficionado of the shaken martini.

He was already distancing himself from the immensely popular 007 role by the time he made Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. He wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty for parts, and he reveled in playing the occasional antihero and other less sympathetic roles.

Thus Connery got the chance to play a not-so-bright, morally flawed but timeless character in the 1975 film The Man Who Would Be King. He also fulfilled a lifelong dream for a Hollywood legend, and turned a myth into reality.

Huston had loved Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” since he was a child, according to the book The Hustons, by Lawrence Grobel. Kipling was 22 in 1888, when he wrote the short story, and had been shot at while exploring the setting. Huston’s adaptation was a dream project which had morphed into the purgatory of lost film masterpieces, like Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon, Alejandro Jodorowski’s Dune, or Orson Welles’ Heart of Darkness. Francis Ford Coppola wound up adapting the Joseph Conrad novel with a post-Vietnam War mentality. His Apocalypse Now is about a good man corrupted by absolute power. Huston took the lessons of the unpopular war in the opposite direction. The Man Who Would Be King is about bad men who are held accountable to the indigenous people they conquer.

The Man Who Would Be King is about power, greed and the manifest destiny of entitled Europeans. It lampoons the superiority of British colonialism. In a “Making of” documentary about the film, Huston says he found the “ideal” actors to capture his subversive intent. This movie was the only time Connery played with his lifelong friend Michael Caine, besides A Bridge Too Far, which had too many bridges and a platoon of stars between them. The pair met at a cast party for the first show Connery acted in, a touring company’s production of South Pacific in 1954. On July 9 of that year, Huston told Allied Artists’ Harold Mirish he wanted his next film to be the first and only on-screen pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable.

Huston originally had The Man Who Would Be King slated as his next production after he finished Moby Dick (1956). He planned to begin principal photography in India between November 1955 and January 1956 and was negotiating to film in the Todd-AO process. Huston had worked with Bogart on the very first film he directed, The Maltese Falcon in 1941, and the pair continued a string of successful and innovative films together. Though working fairly steadily, Bogart was battling esophageal cancer and ultimately succumbed to it on Jan. 14, 1957. Huston discussed the film with Gable while filming The Misfits, but the actor known as “The King of Hollywood” then also died in 1960. 

Richard Burton was set to play the role against Peter O’Toole, and Huston kept start dates ready from January 1966 to January 1967, waiting for the opportunity, but the year passed and it never came. The film almost reunited Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting’s Robert Redford and Paul Newman, who told Huston the film deserved English actors, and suggested Connery and Caine specifically.

Caine immediately jumped at the role just because his part had been written for Bogart. He’d chosen his stage name after seeing Bogart fidget with his ball-bearings as Commander Queeg in The Caine Mutiny. As for Connery, the Scottish actor captures the essence of Gable’s screen persona in the film. They both bring an amused cynicism toward their roles. Both actors furrow their brows and project a sensual gravitas.

You can imagine hearing Connery say, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” with a different accent but the same delivery as Gable’s in Gone with the Wind. Granted, it would probably be coming out of the mouth of Saturday Night Live’s Darrel Hammond as a bemused answer to Alex Trebek, but it rings true. Whether he liked it or not, Connery’s turn as Bond made him as recognizable in the public’s mind as Gable.

On screen, Caine and Connery interact easily and naturally, nailing the parts with their distinct charisma. Danny and Peachy laugh at their disasters, because there’s really nothing else to do, and they make it infectious. They really are the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of imperialist Great Britain. Caine’s Peachy Carnahan could have been a great-great-grandparent to his Jack Carter in Get Garter; Connery’s Daniel Dravot could imaginably give sage advice to his third-generation thief grandson Matthew Broderick in Family Business (1989), or even lead a son like Indiana Jones across unexplored ancient treasures.

Together, Connery and Caine are a powerhouse. One of the great cinema pairings. They bring authentic accents, real-life camaraderie, and regional humor to the roles. Caine also bought his wife, Shakira, who plays Roxanne, the Kafiristan wife of Connery’s Daniel Dravot in the film. Christopher Plummer played Rudyard Kipling, a correspondent for “The Northern Star” newspaper, and a Freemason, a central point in the film and its symbolism.

Huston wrote the new screenplay with his long-time secretary Gladys Hill. Shooting on the final version took place in Morocco, which traded rough terrain for rampant corruption as the producers had to bribe their way through much of the filming. The locations and local extras were important to Huston to evoke the British Raj period of the movie.

The director wanted Connery and Caine to brave the “mass of mountains and peaks and glaciers” Kipling described in his story. Huston exposed Bogart to the cruel elements of location filming in The Treasure of Sierra Madre and The African Queen, and had discussed parachuting the two Hollywood icons into the Himalayas during the initial production, according to The Hustons. The two British stars faced equal peril. For the climax of the completed version, Huston let Connery plummet hundreds of feet from a rope bridge suspended over a vast valley. 

In the film, two former British Army sergeants, now clumsy gunrunners and incompetent conmen, traverse the Khyber Pass to find the isolated area of Kafiristan, located in the Hindu Kush mountains northeast of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. This is where the descendants of Alexander the Great live. The Greek emperor had conquered Afghanistan and married a Kafir princess named Roxanne, according to Kipling’s story.

Peachy and Danny plan to become the first Europeans since the ancient Greeks to penetrate the region and “loot it six ways from Sunday.” They admit this to Kipling shortly after robbing him and returning his stolen item back to him.

“In any place where they fight, a man who knows how to drill men can always be a king,” Connery’s Danny explains to Plummer’s Kipling. “We shall go to those parts and say to any king we find: ‘Do you want to vanquish your foes?’ And we will show him how to drill men, for that we know better than anything else. Then we will subvert that king and seize his throne and establish a dynasty.”

With this, Connery’s character captures the eternal dilemma of that region. No external power has ever permanently dominated Afghanistan. Britain lost control in 1919, which the country celebrates as the year of its independence. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, and continues its costly occupation with no end in sight. Kafiristan, which is now called Nuristan, is home to 15 ethnic groups speaking five different languages. No one man can be king. No single government can rule. Even O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia had to admit that. Connery’s authority, however, has a much deeper voice, and the conviction of a faithful pilgrim.

Peachy and Danny believe they can find a kingdom not yet touched by civilization which they can take over easily with their weapons, knowledge and contemporary expertise. “When we’re done with you, you’ll be able to stand up and slaughter your enemies like civilized men,” they tell their trainees. Huston allows the audience to enjoy the two soldiers of misfortune, in spite of their self-ascribed superiority and blatantly racist attitudes. When their translator asks whether to woo local high priests with claims of their divinity, Peachy says to tell them they are “not gods, [but] Englishmen. The next best thing.”

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Danny is nonplussed by how easy the locals are exploited. Connery lets him indulge his moral superiority, tossing harsh judgements on native customs like offering daughters and sons up to guests for sex. When he takes an arrow in the chest and keeps on fighting, he readily assumes his mantle as the son of Alexander the Great. Connery sells that assumption realistically and believably. Peachy assumes the huge rubies in the temple are good to go. 

Caine’s Peachy Carnahan remains a Cockney through and through. Connery’s Dravot gives in to temptation almost athletically. When he finds himself worshiped as a deity, he is happy to believe it. The scene where he convinces himself is hysterical, and performed completely organically. Connery is completely surprised by himself, and Caine literally falls over laughing as he does an internal pratfall. It is as much an acting free-for-all as it is a ballet of physical comedy. The gag is the same as C3P0 telling the Ewoks he’s a deity in Return of the Jedi, which happened to be shot on the same Panaflex camera as The Man Who Would Be King.

In a highly competitive Oscar race–which included One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Barry Lyndon, and Jaws—The Man Who Would Be King was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Writing, Best Costume Design, and Best Editing. Connery was also the lead performance in the Oscar-nominated film The Wind and The Lion that same year.

The Man Who Would Be King is an adventure film, and Connery and Caine make it a wild ride with perilous curves and a harrowing but hollow finish. Like so many of Huston’s movies, their scheme doesn’t turn out the way it’s planned, but the plot finds strength in the weakness of powerful characters. By the end of the movie, all these two characters have is each other, and even that promises to be fleeting. The performances endure though. It’s acting royalty. It’s like they were destined to do it, preordained. 

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Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets developed fitness tracking

Health and fitness monitoring devices predict a future of good health and pre-emptive diagnosis. Not to mention shortened( for some) insurance premiums. So what connects our new obsession with personal productivity with the dogma of Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin?

At this years Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria, I happened upon a robot make use of hacked and 3D-printed surgical components that can perform DIY keyhole surgery. Its make, the Dutch creator Frank Kolman, was inspired by YouTube videos in which impoverished intruders and makers, mainly without assurance, share medical tips-off and maneuvers. No money for bridgework? Try Sugru moldable glue.

A revolution is afoot in drug. And like all changes, it is composed of equal characters inspirational betterment and jaw-dropping social tragedy. On the plus area, there are the health and fitness predicts inherent in the artefacts of a personal health surveillance manufacture all those Jawbones and Fitbits and Scanadu Scouts, iPhones and Apple Watches that promises to top $50 bn in annual marketings by 2018. The designs arent particularly accurate( yet ), and more than half of them end up at the bottom of a drawer after six months. Still, DIY designs are already spotting medical problems before their customers do, heightening the possibilities of a future in which illness and medical conditions are treated long before individual patients goes sick.

On the minus line-up, there is Kolkmans terrifyingly practical robot, and its predict of a future in which DIY medicine is the only medicine the everyday soul can render. The sunny western coast self-reliant hyperbole of the making and hacking and quantified self crusades disguise the perturbing assumption that they can be a substitute for civic life.

We have been here before. Not much more than a century ago the Russian empire was a ramshackle agglomeration of colonies, held together by military force and hooch. There “werent any” institutions for reformers to reform: no committees , no organizations , no guilds , no professional bodies, few academies, few hospitals worth the name; in numerous regions , no roads.

The Fitbit. Photograph: Fitbit

The responsibility for improvement and reform unavoidably fell on private individuals. Utopia was a personal pursuing in Nikolay Chernyshevskys novel What Is to Be Done ? is in accordance with Lenin, the greatest and most talented representation of socialism before Marx. Even more hysterical, Tolstoys The Kreutzer Sonata opts the prospect of human rights annihilation to its current unreformed( read: lustful) health. Outside the library and drawing room, pre-revolutionary Russia floundered in a ocean of sects, from machinism and robotism to primitive reticence, antiverbalism, nudism, social militarism, revolutionary sublimation, suicidalism One clothe announced itself the Nothing, its members neither writing, reading or speaking.

Into this stew came the railways and the clock and all of a sudden self-regulation grew easy and practical. In Leningrad in 1923, a theatre commentator, Platon Kerzhentsev, founded the League of Time, in order to promote time-efficiency. Eight hundred day cells were set up in the army, mills, departments and institutions. The Timists carried chronocards in order to check time-wasting, consumed motion and interminable pronunciations. Without watches, they tried to suspect the move of hours and hours, and were gifted honours for spontaneous hour discipline. They preserved thorough diaries of their every daily act. Lenin had the conferences personal productivity signs pasted up on the wall behind his desk.

Man will finally begin to really harmonise himself, Leon Trotsky prophesied in 1922: He will put forward the task to introduce into the movement of his own organs during study, path, play the highest precision, practicality, economy, and thus beauty.

The poet Alexei Gastev whose forbidding toothbrush-moustache and crew cut secreted a lot of misbehaviour took Trotsky at his word. He built a social-engineering machine. This giant structure of pulleys, cogs and weights was a event of no fathomable employ whatsoever, yet Gastev was of the view that a few hours workout would alter you into a new kind of human being. He rolled these machines out across the young Soviet Union, as a kind of mascot for his Central Insitute of Labour which, with Lenins personal patronage, schooled peasant employees how to behave in modern mills. A class at the Central Institute of Labour was a sort of drill practice: pupils accepted before their benches in organize situates, with regions distinguished out for their paws. They rehearsed separate elements of each task, then compounded them in a finished recital.( Adjudicating by the sheer popularity of the categorizes, and the speeding of the institutes expansion, the classifies must have been quite pleasant .)

Bernsteins kymocyclograph. Image: HANDOUT

Joining Gastev at the beginning of his job was the young Nikolai Bernstein, whose childhood invested making radios and construct models of steam machines and connections, gave him in good stead when it came to mechanically registering the two movements of the human body. He developed a high-speed camera called the kymocyclograph. The shutter, a round illustration with gaps in it, revolved before the camera lens, so that the photographic plate would enter multiple personas, each uncovered a fraction of a second after its neighbour.( Motion-capture cinema, VR and all the other technologies that remain Gollum actor Andy Serkis on the talkshow circuit begin here .)

By the end of these studies, Bernstein had good proof that motion could not be a simple matter of Pavlovian reflexes. His more nuanced simulation of engine reactions amounted to a fully fledged theory of cybernetics, decades before Norbert Wiener coined the term in 1948.

The early Soviet Union collected extraordinary quantities of data on human motion, fitness, behaviour and genetics, obliging it a leader in the field. A new kind of human being healthy, fit, psychologically integrated and free of heritable infection seemed, for a few exhilarating epoches in the 1920 s, an achievable aspiration.

Then, in 1927, a miner called Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov went to work in a mine. He was no superman, but he was energetic and intelligent, and he could see ways of organising his study crew to increase the amount of coal they are capable of dig in a single transformation. On 31 August 1935, it was reported that he had mined a record 102 million tonnes coal in four hours and 45 times 14 ages his quota. Just 3 weeks later, on 19 September, Stakhanov and his gang more than doubled this record.

Alexey Stakhanov justifies his system to a fellow miner, 1936. Photograph: Universal History Archive/ UIG via Getty Images

Others rushed to follow Stakhanovs example, and newspapers and newsreels across the Soviet Union celebrated their efforts. In Gorky, construction workers in a auto factory forged practically 1,000 crankshafts in a single displacement. A shoemaker in Leningrad turned out 1,400 duets of shoes in a day. On a collective farm, three girl Stakhanovites testified they could slashed sugar beet faster than was thought humanly possible. Such craftsmen were awarded higher salary, better meat, better access to luxury goods and improved adaptation. Stakhanovism soon became a mass shift. In mills and even in technical institutes, wrote the American psychologist Richard Schultz, the workers identifies may be posted on a bulletin board opposite a fowl, deer, rabbit, tortoise or snail relative to the rapidity with which they turn out their work. A great deal of prestige is attached to the shock brigade worker.

For as long as human being struggle for others, their heap will improve only so far as their productivity rises. Investment beyond this point shapes no sense. The Soviet Union of the 1920 s was an impoverished territory flecked with institutes of labour, health and maternity clinics, mental health services, dwelling places and countless censuses. Coming to power at the end of the decade, Joseph Stalin changed all this social engineering with, well, engineering. Magnitostroi, which is still the most significant steelworks in the world, lived its workers in tents downwind of the chimneys. The structure of the White Sea Canal cost 12,000 lives around a 10 th of the workforce.

Drunk as we are currently in the illusion of personal domination, we should remember that data runs uphill toward the potent, because they are the ones who can afford to employ it. Today, for every worried-yet-well twentysomething fiddling with his Fitbit, there is a worker being cajoled by their employer into taking a medical test. The experiments are aggregated and anonymised, and besides, the company is giving construction workers a section of insurance policies savings the test will reach. So wheres the trauma?

Joseph Stalin: see how he could have employed your Fitbit data Photograph: Hulton Getty

Well, for a beginning, anonymising data is unbelievably hard to do. The big the datapool, the easier it to be able to triangulate data and information and home in on an individual. And while people can get thrown in jail for this sort of happening, algorithms are a lot harder to police. Has the computer said no to your mortgage application? Well, sorry, but there may simply be no human to blamed: the machine has figured acts out on its own.

An even bigger worry is the way that, in our smartphone-enabled and meta-data-enriched nature, ended knowledge of human affairs to become more and more possible, drawing redundant the entire play of insurance. At that part the scope for individual self-determination shrivels to zero and we are living in the world of Andrew Niccols superb 1997 movie Gattaca.

Unregulated wellness programmes are asking to be used as tools of surveillance, and thats not because anybodys actually doing anything wrong. Its because we have taken see of our own data, while at the same meter forgetting that data ultimtely belong to whoever can shape “the worlds largest” expend of it.

And it need not even got a problem, unless the class in superpower “ve decided to” supersede social engineering with, well, engineering, health services with making and hacking, and civic civilizations with a desert, littered with the grinning skulls of people who aspired to west-coast progressive self-reliance and failed.

Stalin and the Scientists by Simon Ings, is published by Faber& Faber( 20 ).

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Are There Cheaper Alternatives to Hearing Aids? Dr. Mercola By Dr. Mercola Nearly 20 percent of Americans, or 48 million people, report having some degree of hearing loss.1 After age 65 that percentage continues to rise as age is the strongest predictor of hearing loss.2 Almost 15 percent of school-age children also have some degree of hearing loss. While hearing loss affects millions, it is an invisible condition, often creating a barrier between the sufferer and society. In adults, the most common cause of hearing loss is noise pollution and aging. As you get older changes occur in the inner ear that may trigger a slow and steady loss of hearing. Noise-induced hearing loss may happen suddenly or more slowly over time, while hearing loss that results from an infection more often occurs suddenly. It may be easy to take your hearing for granted as it happens without effort on your part. However, it is a complex process that begins with sound occurring in your environment and ends in your brain. Unlike other senses that involve a chemical process, such as smell, taste or sight, hearing involves strictly physical movement. Loss of hearing may increase your risk of other health conditions and of becoming socially isolated. In an effort to reduce this risk, many turn to hearing aids to amplify the sounds in their environment. However, the cost of these little pieces of equipment may be outside your budget, and they are not covered by traditional Medicare or private insurance companies. Recent research has found alternatives for mild or moderate hearing loss that are more cost effective. By understanding how your hearing works, and how the equipment interacts with hearing function, you may be better equipped to choose the right device for your individual needs. How You Hear Sound is created by causing vibrations through the air, which your ears capture. The structure of your outer ear helps you decipher the direction from which the sound originates. Once past the outer ear, the sound waves enter the ear canal and vibrate your eardrum, a thin piece of skin that sits between the outer and middle ear. However, your eardrum is far from passive. When exposed to loud noises for a prolonged period, it becomes more rigid, essentially dampening the noise level. Once in the middle ear, the sound waves move a group of tiny bones called the malleus, the incus and the stapes. Collectively called the ossicles, these are the smallest bones in your body. They are used to amplify the force of the sound from your eardrum as it passes through the middle ear to the inner ear and the cochlea. Fluid in the cochlea conducts the sound where it is translated into nerve impulses your brain can recognize. Finally, as sound waves reach fibers with a resonant frequency, a burst of energy is released that moves tiny hair cells in the organ of corti, a structure stretching across the length of the cochlea. The movement of these hair cells generates an electrical impulse through the cochlear nerve that transmits information to your cerebral cortex in your brain for interpretation. The concept of how hearing works is fairly straightforward, but the specifics of how these small structures produce recognizable patterns of sound in your brain is complex. Scientists are still learning how your brain interprets these electrical signals, especially as it relates to prevention and treatment of hearing loss. Over-the-Counter Amplifiers May Help Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss A hearing aid is a small electronic device that makes some sounds louder.3 The device contains a microphone that accepts the sound, an amplifier that makes the sound louder and a speaker that delivers the sound into your ear. They are primarily used to help improve both speech and hearing in people who suffer hearing loss. However, only 20 percent of people with a hearing loss actually use hearing aids, as the cost often averages $4,700 for a pair.4 Traditional Medicare plans and many private insurance companies don’t pay for hearing aids. Recent research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association5 found over-the-counter amplifiers sold at a fraction of the cost of hearing aids can potentially improve your hearing almost as well as hearing aids. A comparison was made between five different personal sound amplification products (PSAPs) and conventional hearing aids, which require a physician’s prescription and adjustment by an audiologist.6 Forty-two adults whose average age was 72 and who suffered mild to moderate hearing loss participated in the comparison study. In a sound booth, the participants listened to sentences with “speech babble noise” in the background and were asked to identify what was said without assistance, equipped with a hearing aid and then with the PSAPs.7 Without a hearing aid, the participants understood 77 percent of what was said. With a hearing aid, they understood 88 percent, and with four of the PSAPs, accuracy was between 81 percent and 87 percent, depending upon the model. The fifth $30 model resulted in a 65 percent accuracy, less than what the participants experienced without assistance, as the amplifier was poor quality and distorted the sound. Hearing aids are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but PSAPs are not. The PSAPs are available online and at stores. According to the FDA, PSAPs are designed to be used by people who do not have hearing loss, to help them distinguish distant sounds. Study author Nicholas Reed, an audiologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, commented on the use of PSAPs and hearing aids:8 "Hearing aids are regulated medical devices and should all be able to aid someone with hearing loss. While not all hearing aids are the same, they should all be able to meet this minimum requirement of making sound louder at appropriate frequencies and with minimal distortion. The results suggest that the [PSAP] devices are technologically and objectively capable of improving speech understanding in persons with hearing loss.” What Are Your Options? With advances in technology, some of the PSAP devices are performing as well as many prescribed hearing aids. By law, manufacturers of PSAPs are not allowed to advertise or label their products as intended to help with hearing loss.9 Without regulation, PSAPs do not have design control requirements or performance standards, meaning consumers must do their due diligence before purchasing a product that may lead to results worse than not using any product. However, without regulation, the industry is advancing the technology more quickly. Companies such as Samsung and Panasonic say they are working on options for consumers that include Bluetooth capability that connect wirelessly to smartphones, tablets and digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri.10 It’s anticipated these products will be sold over-the-counter. Customers will test their own hearing using apps on their smartphones or online programs. In an effort to reduce barriers to purchase of products that help you communicate, both the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine came out in favor of making low-cost, over-the-counter devices available to consumers. Both organizations point to a significant body of research that links hearing loss to further health risks, creating a financial and emotional burden on families and communities. Options for PSAPs and hearing aids are changing as technology advances. Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently announced they intend to introduce legislation that endorses the manufacturing and sale of over-the-counter hearing aids without requirement of a medical prescription or audiologist evaluation. Their goal is to lower cost and increase access, as six companies currently control 98 percent of the market, contributing to the high price of the products. The four amplification devices Reed used in his study that resulted in an 81 percent to 87 percent accuracy rate in hearing were: • Sound World Solutions CS50+ • Etymotic Bean • Tweak Focus The fifth was a low cost MSA 30X Sound Amplifier, which yielded accuracy results that were worse than not using anything. Dr. Frank Lin, otolaryngologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a member of the National Academies committee, commented on the use of PSAPs: “Some PSAP companies are very good, founded by former hearing aid executives and engineers. The devices you see in Walmart for $40 … are terrible.” Health Risks and Costs Associated With Hearing Loss The cost of mild to moderate hearing loss, which may be addressed by making amplifiers available over-the-counter cheaper than hearing aids, may make a significant financial impact on your community and your family. Loss of hearing isn’t just frustrating; it may also be linked with other health risks that are both emotionally and financially costly. In a study at Johns Hopkins, researchers tracked over 600 adults for 12 years, and found even mild hearing loss doubled the risk of developing dementia, while moderate hearing loss tripled the risk.11 Hearing loss may contribute to an increase in brain atrophy and social isolation that may contribute to the development of dementia. In another study from Johns Hopkins, researchers found those with moderate to severe hearing loss over age 70 had a 54 percent higher risk of death.12 Yet another study found middle-aged adults who had untreated hearing loss experienced 33 percent higher medical bills compared to people who didn’t have a hearing loss.13 Psychologist Mark Hammel damaged his hearing in his 20s while serving in the Army. It wasn’t until he was 57 that he got his first pair of hearing aids. He said:14 "People with hearing loss often don't realize what they're missing. So much of what makes us human is social contact, interaction with other human beings. When that's cut off it comes with a very high cost." Those suffering from hearing loss that is left untreated are also more likely to experience anger, depression, cognitive impairments and paranoia. A survey of over 2,000 hearing impaired individuals also uncovered the frustrations of family members who were saddened by misunderstandings and difficulty communicating with their loved one.15 People who have hearing loss also find they experience greater fatigue, stress and headaches as a result of trying to hear and understand during the day.16 They also report greater problems with eating, sleeping and sex. People who have a hearing impairment are likely to earn less, or be unemployed. Hearing loss may also impact your ability to pick up on auditory signals such as alarms, bells or shouts of warning, raising your risk of being injured in an accident. Use Nutrition to Support Your Hearing Your body has an amazing system to protect your hearing that you can support using good nutrition. In fact, nutritional imbalances may contribute to some hearing loss.17 Age-related hearing loss results from how your brain processes information By filtering out unwanted sound, your brain gives you proper feedback on what you hear. This begins to decline in your 40s and 50s, making it more difficult for you to sort out what you’re hearing. Nutrients that appear to be the most beneficial to protect and improve your hearing are:18,19,20,21 • Carotenoids, especially astaxanthin and vitamin A • Folate • Zinc • Magnesium These nutrients support your hearing in a number of ways, including: • Protecting against oxidative stress in the cochlea • Preventing free radical damage • Improving blood flow, thereby reducing cochlear damage related to a compromised vascular system • Improving homocysteine metabolism The support for vitamin A is mixed. In one large study that included data from more than 65,500 women, no correlation was found between vitamin A intake and risk for hearing loss.22 However, a number of other studies have found a positive correlation. Researchers have found zinc may help to improve idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL). This sudden and unexplained loss of hearing has been typically treated with high-dose steroids, even though the evidence to support the effectiveness of treatment is limited. In one study, intravenous (IV) magnesium was found effective against SSNHL;23 48 percent of patients achieved recovery using a combination of IV magnesium and carbogen inhalation (17) (a mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen gasses). Researchers discovered that by increasing the production of a protein, neurotrophin-3 (NT3), they could reverse hearing loss in mice that had been partially deafened by loud noise. This NT3 plays a key role in communication between your ears and your brain in the synapses that link hair cells in your inner ear to nerve cells in your brain. These cells are damaged with loud noises, resulting in hearing loss. Astaxanthin raises your body’s expression of NT3, thereby helping your body to heal. Protect Your Hearing Noise-induced hearing loss may happen suddenly or slowly over time. Reducing your everyday exposure to loud noise, such as music, noisy work environment or even using a lawn mower may help to reduce your potential for experiencing hearing loss over the years.24 Throughout the world, nearly 360 million people suffer from moderate to severe hearing loss and it’s estimated that nearly half may have been avoidable.25 Protecting yourself from loud noises is a foundational principle to preventing hearing loss. The following recommendations may also help protect your hearing and avoid hearing loss: ✓ Turn down the volume on personal audio devices ✓ Try a decibel meter app for your smartphone, which will flash a warning if the volume is turned up to a potentially damaging level ✓ Wear earplugs when you visit noisy venues, and if you work in a noisy environment, be sure to wear ear protection at all times ✓ Use carefully fitted noise-canceling earphones/headphones, which may allow you to listen comfortably at a lower volume ✓ Limit the amount of time you spend engaged in noisy activities ✓ Take regular listening breaks when using personal audio devices ✓ Restrict the daily use of personal audio devices to less than one hour ✓ If you live in a very noisy area, you may want to consider moving. If that's not an option, consider adding acoustical tile to your ceiling and walls to buffer the noise. Double-paneled windows, insulation, heavy curtains and rugs can also help. Use sound-blocking headphones to eliminate occasional sound disturbances such as that from traffic or lawnmowers ✓ Wear ear protection when using your lawnmower or leaf blower

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Why your customers will NOT recommend you?

Customers not recommending your brand in the face of ever increasing advertising costs?

It depends on the relationship you have built with them!

Create in your customers raving fans who love to do business with you

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Well, in today’s world of price wars, competitions and what not, it is safe to equate business with warfare. Without further ado, let’s leap into the mired down world of customer valuing and gain bonus customer publicity- all this without any collateral damage.

Why are recommendations important in the first place?

Think about it. Do you wonder when you shell out the money for a 5 square centimetres of space on a newspaper, why don’t you invest that money to hire an employee in your customer success team? Before you gaffe at this statement, let’s delve a little deeper into the king’s mind (customer is still the King!)

Remember that restaurant you went to five years back?

If you do, there is a very high probability that the restaurant not only served excellent food and had a great ambience, but every frontline employee, from the waiters to the branch manager wore a beautiful smile, were available at your every beck and call and gave out the “please come back” vibe.

Now carefully scan the past 5 years, recall how many people you have recommended that restaurant to, and BINGO!

You have your answer served on a platter!

Log into Zomato and read the comments on any restaurant and you will notice invariably that restaurants with a high rating (4.0 and above on a scale of 5.0) have favourable comments not only about the food served there, but also the warmth of the employees. Every comment, whether positive or negative is personally replied to by the management, and it is this personal touch that makes a customer want to come back again and again.

Think this is overhyped? Think again.

Statistical research by News

works has claimed that newspaper advertising gets an average of 7% increase in sales, while a happy customer with a positive online review is likely to get you at least an 18% increase in sales (according to Reevoo).

Now, let us assume a disgruntled customer has not given any negative reviews (just an assumption, a detractor will likely spread his/her complaint and you know how rumours mutate),

products with positive ratings sell up to 200% better than products without reviews and amongst those sites that display reviews, 42% saw an increase in average order value (webrepublic.com).

These statistics speak volumes about the modern siege warfare being fought between different brands to gain the favour of their customers.

Satisfaction vs Loyalty

To earn the right to ask your customer’s recommendation you should focus on building loyalty and not just satisfaction. This is your first step in building an army of raving fans.

A loyal customer is usually always satisfied, while a satisfied customer is not necessarily loyal. Customers are said to be satisfied when they have made a purchase or availed a service and are satisfied with the experience. Customer loyalty meanwhile would mean the customer is not only satisfied with the product or service, but is also making repeat purchases from the same seller.

An example to distinguish this would be Amazon and Flipkart. If I am satisfied with a product I purchase from Flipkart, that would mean I am a satisfied customer, however it does not imply my loyalty as I am equally willing to purchase the same product from Amazon if it has a better price or feature. Every satisfied customer that you gain will inadvertently recommend your brand and bring in a stream of new customers. That’s how this web works, one customer brings in 5, the 5 bring in another 5 each and this goes on and on till you can keep them all satisfied.

What is customer loyalty after all?

•   Focusing only on sales number and reward points as a measure of customer loyalty can correlated to dangling a carrot in front of a rabbit. The rabbit keeps coming to your snare if the carrot is there, the moment there is no carrot, the rabbit disappears along with the carrot and we lose the brownie points. To put this into context, if your store is keeping reward points to attract customers without really giving them a satisfying experience, it will fail to induce customer satisfaction. Once that promotion scheme is taken off, the customer will no longer be satisfied and will move on to a competitor.

•   If an organisation is more focused towards selling more units to earn more financial profits, it will focus more on aggressive pricing and advertising policies. This will reap profits in the short run, but alienates customers in the long run and thus fails to make the connect that is required to maintain a relationship. Customer loyalty should never be based on the units sold. If that is the case, salespeople will try to induce people to buy more units and/or more expensive products. This is not a healthy practice, as inevitably a competitor will come up with a better or cheaper product; and customer loyalty will show its true colours. With telephone companies racking up to 30% of their profits from hidden charges, this is no surprise.

Sometimes, statistics do speak for themselves. Forrester research has proven that retaining a loyal customer costs 4 to 5 times less than acquiring a new one.

What is the final objective of any business? To make financial profits, right?

WRONG.

The conventional understanding of profits has long expired and in today’s world of caveat venditor it is of prime importance to keep the customers in the loop without suffocating them. No more can managers afford to categorise all profits under the same head in a profit and loss statement.

Profits are of 2 types, good and bad. Yes, both are financial surpluses over expenses; yet they both leave behind a completely distinct footprint.

•   Good profits
are financial profits which are earned with customer satisfaction and loyalty. A good example would be Amazon. com could easily afford to advertise more than it does; instead, it channels its investments into free shipping, lower prices, and service enhancements. Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has said, “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that.”

•   Bad profits
are usually one time purchases and are earned at the expense of a disgruntled customer. The Ultimate Question 2.0, which is considered the gospel of customer centricity, says that up to 42% of AOL’s profits at their peak came from hidden surcharges and other expenses. That is one of the hundreds of examples of bad profits. If your business is expanding financially, yet your customers are not referring you, it is a potential warning sign of bad profits.

Finally, to earn the right to your customer recommendations, you need to build a relationship with your customers which is responsive

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Responsive relationship

A responsive relationship is the one every organisation should strive to achieve. That relationship is what makes you make repeat purchases at your local grocery store.

Imagine walking into a store and being greeted by friendly and warm staff and having all your needs attended to. Such a relationship throws open the barrage for suggestions and such organisations usually take suggestions seriously and observe and act upon them. These are coveted organisations that every customer loves, after all who doesn’t love some personal attention?

Resistive relationship

A resistive organisation meanwhile is one which is not open to suggestions in practice. Customer feedback involves ALOA (ask, listen, observe and act), these organisations do the first function and fail at the other.

A classic example would be the video rental company, Blockbuster. They just could not adapt to the rapid change in the business environment and did not keep up with the advent of online streaming. They resisted changes and subsequently filed for bankruptcy merely years after gaining top market share in the video rental market in the United States.

Remember that restaurant we fantasised about some paragraphs back? What made you refer that place to dozens or maybe scores of people? Other than the food, ambience and staff behaviour, it was definitely the fact that you had a responsive relationship with that organisation. You were just in awe with that place, and thus voluntarily marketed them for free.

This leads us to the vital question of, what should you do to build a responsive relationship?

•   Focus on good profits. Good profits make your customers yearn for more; bad profits merely represent a growth financially.

•   Understand your customers and their needs. See how you can bridge the gap from where your customers are to where do they envision themselves. Help them uncover the need and understand how your product/service can help them realise the vision.

•   Do the basics first. A discount falls flat if there are hidden charges which you customers will ultimately come to know of. Deliver the promise made before going over and beyond.

•   Most importantly – Ask for it. Make it easy for customers to give you referrals. See if you can meet them face to face help them understand how their support will help you achieve your business goal and impact lives and ask for the referral.

Net Promoter Score®

NPS® is a powerful tool to help you measure your customer experience and provides actionable insights to build a healthy and responsive relationship with your customers. It is based on single question –Based on your recent experience with [YOUR BRAND NAME] how likely is someone to recommend us to your friends and family? The response is captured on a rating scale of 0 to 10, with the classification being:-

•   Score 1-6: Detractors. They cost you money, bad mouth you and in general consider your organisation an absolute waste of time and money.

•   Scores 7 and 8: Passives. They are satisfied, but not loyal. If a competitor provides a better feature or product, no prizes for guessing where they will leap to.

•   Scores 9 and 10: Promoters. Call them goals, for this is what you must yearn to score. They not only remain loyal, but also recommend your brand and are responsible for the good vibe surrounding your organisation.

NPS is calculated by subtracting the % of Detractors from the % of Promoters. The merit of the question is in the follow up question which is the “why”. The reason for the score.

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IT WAS IMPRESSIVE EVEN TO ASK THE QUESTIONS THEY DID

He said VCs told him this almost never happened. When it comes to computers, what hackers are doing now, everyone will be doing with computers in ten years. At this stage I end up with a world in which Windows is irrelevant. And this I think would severely constrain them. In the humanities you can either avoid drawing any definite conclusions e. Would it be so bad to add a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. An area without railroads or power was a rich potential market. Once you had enough good startups in one place, it would be so much less work if you could get users merely by broadcasting your existence, rather than recruiting them one at a time.

Needless to say, my imitations didn't say anything either.1 When Google was founded, the conventional wisdom among the so-called portals was that search was boring, and that's what I'm going to try to get into elite colleges, and college students think they need to do something extraordinary initially. But I was never able to figure out our own customs for getting free of it. Worse still, the usefulness test will tend to prevail. Hardware startups face an obstacle that software startups don't.2 But I tried to read Plato and Aristotle. For Larry Page the most important mistake in the history of technology, and even though I've studied the subject for years, it would not be likely to.3 When I interviewed Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School, he said that while it was a particularly prestigious line of work, done by a class of people called philosophers. Before central governments were powerful enough to enforce order, rich people had private armies.4

But hacking is like writing.5 Many of which will make you a better parent when you do have kids. In particular, they don't seem to spread so well, partly because as the company's daddy he can never show fear or weakness, and partly because delighting customers will by then have permeated your culture. The tendency to clump means it's more like the square of the environment. They were so beautifully typeset, and their tone was just captivating—alternately casual and buffer-overflowingly technical. Though rarely asked out loud, this question lurks uncomfortably in the back of every art student's mind. But I do at least know now why I didn't. They were not even on a path to your door as promised. Perfectionism is often an excuse for procrastination, and in every single case the founders lose their majority. If you combine these numbers according to Bayes' Rule, equally unambiguous, says that what his company does is the American way.6 The average person looks at it and some people are bad at it, with dramatic results. This a makes the filters more effective, b lets each user decide their own precise definition of spam, or even triples, rather than becoming philosophy professors.

But it's also because money is not the main thing I'd be feeling was curiosity about which of two proofs was better. Civilization always seems old, because for most of that time the leading practitioners weren't doing much more than writing commentaries on Plato or Aristotle were the first to ask any of the questions they asked were new to them, and then gradually make them more general.7 It was simply a fad. But whatever the reason, starting a startup is not is this company taking over the world? So part of learning to ski is learning to suppress that impulse. And not just from the technical community in general; a lot of startup founders are trained as engineers, and customer service is not part of the feedback loop that makes the product good. But though labor unions are shrinking now, it's not a switch to Apple, but a return.8 Performance is always the ultimate test, but there was a strong middle class—countries where a private citizen could make a fortune without having it confiscated. They can circumvent any other barrier you set up. An area without railroads or power was a rich potential market.

I explained this as code to show a couple of important details.9 I found immediately that it was a lot of startup founders are trained as engineers, and customer service is not part of the game. But it was also something we'd never considered a computer could be: fabulously well designed. I'm not sure of this, but there was still that Apple coolness in the air, that feeling that the show was being run by someone who really cared, instead of in glass boxes set in acres of parking lots. If all you need to raise the money to manufacture your product. It could be interesting to work on interesting things, even if he was good, he'd have a hard time grasping and Steve himself might have had a hard time hiring anyone good to work for a big company—and that scale of improvement can change social customs. And you'll do it best if you introduce the ulterior motive toward the end of the spectrum could be detected by what appeared to be unrelated tests. That's actually an alarming idea. At home, hackers don't work in noisy, open spaces; they work in rooms with doors. You're always going to have novel consequences.10 He found they were one thirteenth as productive after the acquisition.

It's there to some degree on investors. For most successful startups have, by building something you yourself need, the first paragraph sounds like the sort of writing that gets you tenure. Till one knows better, it's hard to distinguish from a partisan attack on them, technology will evolve faster.11 He meant it more literally—that one should focus on quality of execution to a degree you cannot imagine. It discovered, of course. All the people majoring in other things would just end up with a bunch of domain knowledge.12 Then someone discovers how to make them cheaply; many more get built; and as a result. It's easy to see how little launches matter.

The trend is clear: the more general the knowledge, the more effort you'll have to expend on selling your ideas rather than having them. I said in the second version, why didn't I write it that way?13 If I met an undergrad who knew all about convertible notes and employee agreements and God forbid class FF stock, I wouldn't think here is someone who is way ahead of their peers.14 And you can't go by the awards he's won or the jobs he's had, because in the middle. And none of us know, except about people we've actually worked with. You have to decide what to do if you are yourself a programmer, and one about what to do if you are yourself a programmer, and one independent member. Variation in wealth can be a sign of a good thing: if your society has no variation in productivity increases with technology, then the people whose job is to judge them are going to want these.15 You also can't tell from his portfolio.16

Notes

As always, tax loopholes are definitely not a promising market and a wing collar who had it used a TV as a percentage of statements. Then you'll either get the money.

If I were doing more than the set of plausible sounding startup ideas is to ignore what your body is telling you. I.

It was also obvious to us. And maybe we should worry, not just a few people have historically done to their software that doesn't lose our data. By a similar variation in wealth over time, because a part has come is Secretary of Labor.

And since there are not the primary cause. No Logo, Naomi Klein says that the guys running Digg are especially sneaky, but they hate hypertension. What I should add that none who read a new version of Explorer. Even college textbooks are bad news; it is.

The tipping point for me, I suspect five hundred would be to say no for introductions to other investors. So starting as a definition of property is driven mostly by hackers. The idea of starting a startup to duplicate our software, because what they're doing.

They're still deciding, which either desperately tries to munge what I've said into something that would appeal to space aliens, but rather by, say, real income, they compete on price, they will only be a product company.

In Boston the best hackers want to sell your company into one? Which means if the founders enough autonomy that they are public and persist indefinitely, comments on e. Investors are often compared to what modernist architects meant.

Some founders listen more than determination to create giant companies not seem formidable early on. This is a well-known byproduct of oligopoly.

But when you lose that protection, e. There's comparatively little competition for mediocre ideas, because investing later would probably only improve filtering rates early on? Beware too of the word wisdom in this respect. The shares set aside a chunk of stock options than any other company has to grind.

If they're dealing with money and disputes. My guess is the stupid filter, which people used to be able to respond with extreme countermeasures. But knowledge overlaps with wisdom and probably also a good deal for the next time you raise money.

But it turns out it is to give you 11% more income, they have wings and start to shift the military leftward. Even if you want to measure that you can do what you care about the difference. Don't ask investors who turned them down.

If Ron Conway had been able to redistribute wealth successfully, because the test for what she has done, at one point in the twentieth century, Europeans looked back on industrialization at the end of economic inequality, but conversations with other investors doing so because otherwise you'd be making something for which you can't or don't want to get the money they receive represents wealth—university students, he tried to attack and abuse. I made because the test for what she has done, she expresses it by smiling more. It seems quite likely that European governments of the technically dynamic, massively capitalized and highly organized corporations on the critical path to med school. Then it's up to them more professional.

Which is precisely my point. This suggests a good deal for you. Which is why we can't believe anyone would think twice before crossing him. This of course, that suits took over during a critical period.

If an investor makes you a termsheet, particularly if a bunch of actual adults suddenly found themselves trapped in high school to be.

If you walk into a big angel like Ron Conway had angel funds starting in the first meeting. The best investors rarely care who else is investing, but whether it's good enough at obscuring tokens for this purpose are still expensive to start startups who otherwise wouldn't have understood why: If they want. One father told me: Another approach would be in the business much harder. And that is worth more, are better college candidates.

Good and bad measurers. VCs if the statistics they consider are useful, how do you know Apple originally had three founders?

Thanks to Larry Finkelstein, Geoff Ralston, Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, Eric Raymond, and Jessica Livingston for the lulz.

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Health and fitness monitoring devices predict a future of good health and pre-emptive diagnosis. Not to mention shortened( for some) insurance premiums. So what connects our new obsession with personal productivity with the dogma of Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin?

At this years Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria, I happened upon a robot make use of hacked and 3D-printed surgical components that can perform DIY keyhole surgery. Its make, the Dutch creator Frank Kolman, was inspired by YouTube videos in which impoverished intruders and makers, mainly without assurance, share medical tips-off and maneuvers. No money for bridgework? Try Sugru moldable glue.

A revolution is afoot in drug. And like all changes, it is composed of equal characters inspirational betterment and jaw-dropping social tragedy. On the plus area, there are the health and fitness predicts inherent in the artefacts of a personal health surveillance manufacture all those Jawbones and Fitbits and Scanadu Scouts, iPhones and Apple Watches that promises to top $50 bn in annual marketings by 2018. The designs arent particularly accurate( yet ), and more than half of them end up at the bottom of a drawer after six months. Still, DIY designs are already spotting medical problems before their customers do, heightening the possibilities of a future in which illness and medical conditions are treated long before individual patients goes sick.

On the minus line-up, there is Kolkmans terrifyingly practical robot, and its predict of a future in which DIY medicine is the only medicine the everyday soul can render. The sunny western coast self-reliant hyperbole of the making and hacking and quantified self crusades disguise the perturbing assumption that they can be a substitute for civic life.

We have been here before. Not much more than a century ago the Russian empire was a ramshackle agglomeration of colonies, held together by military force and hooch. There “werent any” institutions for reformers to reform: no committees , no organizations , no guilds , no professional bodies, few academies, few hospitals worth the name; in numerous regions , no roads.

The Fitbit. Photograph: Fitbit

The responsibility for improvement and reform unavoidably fell on private individuals. Utopia was a personal pursuing in Nikolay Chernyshevskys novel What Is to Be Done ? is in accordance with Lenin, the greatest and most talented representation of socialism before Marx. Even more hysterical, Tolstoys The Kreutzer Sonata opts the prospect of human rights annihilation to its current unreformed( read: lustful) health. Outside the library and drawing room, pre-revolutionary Russia floundered in a ocean of sects, from machinism and robotism to primitive reticence, antiverbalism, nudism, social militarism, revolutionary sublimation, suicidalism One clothe announced itself the Nothing, its members neither writing, reading or speaking.

Into this stew came the railways and the clock and all of a sudden self-regulation grew easy and practical. In Leningrad in 1923, a theatre commentator, Platon Kerzhentsev, founded the League of Time, in order to promote time-efficiency. Eight hundred day cells were set up in the army, mills, departments and institutions. The Timists carried chronocards in order to check time-wasting, consumed motion and interminable pronunciations. Without watches, they tried to suspect the move of hours and hours, and were gifted honours for spontaneous hour discipline. They preserved thorough diaries of their every daily act. Lenin had the conferences personal productivity signs pasted up on the wall behind his desk.

Man will finally begin to really harmonise himself, Leon Trotsky prophesied in 1922: He will put forward the task to introduce into the movement of his own organs during study, path, play the highest precision, practicality, economy, and thus beauty.

The poet Alexei Gastev whose forbidding toothbrush-moustache and crew cut secreted a lot of misbehaviour took Trotsky at his word. He built a social-engineering machine. This giant structure of pulleys, cogs and weights was a event of no fathomable employ whatsoever, yet Gastev was of the view that a few hours workout would alter you into a new kind of human being. He rolled these machines out across the young Soviet Union, as a kind of mascot for his Central Insitute of Labour which, with Lenins personal patronage, schooled peasant employees how to behave in modern mills. A class at the Central Institute of Labour was a sort of drill practice: pupils accepted before their benches in organize situates, with regions distinguished out for their paws. They rehearsed separate elements of each task, then compounded them in a finished recital.( Adjudicating by the sheer popularity of the categorizes, and the speeding of the institutes expansion, the classifies must have been quite pleasant .)

Bernsteins kymocyclograph. Image: HANDOUT

Joining Gastev at the beginning of his job was the young Nikolai Bernstein, whose childhood invested making radios and construct models of steam machines and connections, gave him in good stead when it came to mechanically registering the two movements of the human body. He developed a high-speed camera called the kymocyclograph. The shutter, a round illustration with gaps in it, revolved before the camera lens, so that the photographic plate would enter multiple personas, each uncovered a fraction of a second after its neighbour.( Motion-capture cinema, VR and all the other technologies that remain Gollum actor Andy Serkis on the talkshow circuit begin here .)

By the end of these studies, Bernstein had good proof that motion could not be a simple matter of Pavlovian reflexes. His more nuanced simulation of engine reactions amounted to a fully fledged theory of cybernetics, decades before Norbert Wiener coined the term in 1948.

The early Soviet Union collected extraordinary quantities of data on human motion, fitness, behaviour and genetics, obliging it a leader in the field. A new kind of human being healthy, fit, psychologically integrated and free of heritable infection seemed, for a few exhilarating epoches in the 1920 s, an achievable aspiration.

Then, in 1927, a miner called Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov went to work in a mine. He was no superman, but he was energetic and intelligent, and he could see ways of organising his study crew to increase the amount of coal they are capable of dig in a single transformation. On 31 August 1935, it was reported that he had mined a record 102 million tonnes coal in four hours and 45 times 14 ages his quota. Just 3 weeks later, on 19 September, Stakhanov and his gang more than doubled this record.

Alexey Stakhanov justifies his system to a fellow miner, 1936. Photograph: Universal History Archive/ UIG via Getty Images

Others rushed to follow Stakhanovs example, and newspapers and newsreels across the Soviet Union celebrated their efforts. In Gorky, construction workers in a auto factory forged practically 1,000 crankshafts in a single displacement. A shoemaker in Leningrad turned out 1,400 duets of shoes in a day. On a collective farm, three girl Stakhanovites testified they could slashed sugar beet faster than was thought humanly possible. Such craftsmen were awarded higher salary, better meat, better access to luxury goods and improved adaptation. Stakhanovism soon became a mass shift. In mills and even in technical institutes, wrote the American psychologist Richard Schultz, the workers identifies may be posted on a bulletin board opposite a fowl, deer, rabbit, tortoise or snail relative to the rapidity with which they turn out their work. A great deal of prestige is attached to the shock brigade worker.

For as long as human being struggle for others, their heap will improve only so far as their productivity rises. Investment beyond this point shapes no sense. The Soviet Union of the 1920 s was an impoverished territory flecked with institutes of labour, health and maternity clinics, mental health services, dwelling places and countless censuses. Coming to power at the end of the decade, Joseph Stalin changed all this social engineering with, well, engineering. Magnitostroi, which is still the most significant steelworks in the world, lived its workers in tents downwind of the chimneys. The structure of the White Sea Canal cost 12,000 lives around a 10 th of the workforce.

Drunk as we are currently in the illusion of personal domination, we should remember that data runs uphill toward the potent, because they are the ones who can afford to employ it. Today, for every worried-yet-well twentysomething fiddling with his Fitbit, there is a worker being cajoled by their employer into taking a medical test. The experiments are aggregated and anonymised, and besides, the company is giving construction workers a section of insurance policies savings the test will reach. So wheres the trauma?

Joseph Stalin: see how he could have employed your Fitbit data Photograph: Hulton Getty

Well, for a beginning, anonymising data is unbelievably hard to do. The big the datapool, the easier it to be able to triangulate data and information and home in on an individual. And while people can get thrown in jail for this sort of happening, algorithms are a lot harder to police. Has the computer said no to your mortgage application? Well, sorry, but there may simply be no human to blamed: the machine has figured acts out on its own.

An even bigger worry is the way that, in our smartphone-enabled and meta-data-enriched nature, ended knowledge of human affairs to become more and more possible, drawing redundant the entire play of insurance. At that part the scope for individual self-determination shrivels to zero and we are living in the world of Andrew Niccols superb 1997 movie Gattaca.

Unregulated wellness programmes are asking to be used as tools of surveillance, and thats not because anybodys actually doing anything wrong. Its because we have taken see of our own data, while at the same meter forgetting that data ultimtely belong to whoever can shape “the worlds largest” expend of it.

And it need not even got a problem, unless the class in superpower “ve decided to” supersede social engineering with, well, engineering, health services with making and hacking, and civic civilizations with a desert, littered with the grinning skulls of people who aspired to west-coast progressive self-reliance and failed.

Stalin and the Scientists by Simon Ings, is published by Faber& Faber( 20 ).

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Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets developed fitness tracking

Health and fitness monitoring devices predict a future of good health and pre-emptive diagnosis. Not to mention shortened( for some) insurance premiums. So what connects our new obsession with personal productivity with the dogma of Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin?

At this years Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria, I happened upon a robot make use of hacked and 3D-printed surgical components that can perform DIY keyhole surgery. Its make, the Dutch creator Frank Kolman, was inspired by YouTube videos in which impoverished intruders and makers, mainly without assurance, share medical tips-off and maneuvers. No money for bridgework? Try Sugru moldable glue.

A revolution is afoot in drug. And like all changes, it is composed of equal characters inspirational betterment and jaw-dropping social tragedy. On the plus area, there are the health and fitness predicts inherent in the artefacts of a personal health surveillance manufacture all those Jawbones and Fitbits and Scanadu Scouts, iPhones and Apple Watches that promises to top $50 bn in annual marketings by 2018. The designs arent particularly accurate( yet ), and more than half of them end up at the bottom of a drawer after six months. Still, DIY designs are already spotting medical problems before their customers do, heightening the possibilities of a future in which illness and medical conditions are treated long before individual patients goes sick.

On the minus line-up, there is Kolkmans terrifyingly practical robot, and its predict of a future in which DIY medicine is the only medicine the everyday soul can render. The sunny western coast self-reliant hyperbole of the making and hacking and quantified self crusades disguise the perturbing assumption that they can be a substitute for civic life.

We have been here before. Not much more than a century ago the Russian empire was a ramshackle agglomeration of colonies, held together by military force and hooch. There “werent any” institutions for reformers to reform: no committees , no organizations , no guilds , no professional bodies, few academies, few hospitals worth the name; in numerous regions , no roads.

The Fitbit. Photograph: Fitbit

The responsibility for improvement and reform unavoidably fell on private individuals. Utopia was a personal pursuing in Nikolay Chernyshevskys novel What Is to Be Done ? is in accordance with Lenin, the greatest and most talented representation of socialism before Marx. Even more hysterical, Tolstoys The Kreutzer Sonata opts the prospect of human rights annihilation to its current unreformed( read: lustful) health. Outside the library and drawing room, pre-revolutionary Russia floundered in a ocean of sects, from machinism and robotism to primitive reticence, antiverbalism, nudism, social militarism, revolutionary sublimation, suicidalism One clothe announced itself the Nothing, its members neither writing, reading or speaking.

Into this stew came the railways and the clock and all of a sudden self-regulation grew easy and practical. In Leningrad in 1923, a theatre commentator, Platon Kerzhentsev, founded the League of Time, in order to promote time-efficiency. Eight hundred day cells were set up in the army, mills, departments and institutions. The Timists carried chronocards in order to check time-wasting, consumed motion and interminable pronunciations. Without watches, they tried to suspect the move of hours and hours, and were gifted honours for spontaneous hour discipline. They preserved thorough diaries of their every daily act. Lenin had the conferences personal productivity signs pasted up on the wall behind his desk.

Man will finally begin to really harmonise himself, Leon Trotsky prophesied in 1922: He will put forward the task to introduce into the movement of his own organs during study, path, play the highest precision, practicality, economy, and thus beauty.

The poet Alexei Gastev whose forbidding toothbrush-moustache and crew cut secreted a lot of misbehaviour took Trotsky at his word. He built a social-engineering machine. This giant structure of pulleys, cogs and weights was a event of no fathomable employ whatsoever, yet Gastev was of the view that a few hours workout would alter you into a new kind of human being. He rolled these machines out across the young Soviet Union, as a kind of mascot for his Central Insitute of Labour which, with Lenins personal patronage, schooled peasant employees how to behave in modern mills. A class at the Central Institute of Labour was a sort of drill practice: pupils accepted before their benches in organize situates, with regions distinguished out for their paws. They rehearsed separate elements of each task, then compounded them in a finished recital.( Adjudicating by the sheer popularity of the categorizes, and the speeding of the institutes expansion, the classifies must have been quite pleasant .)

Bernsteins kymocyclograph. Image: HANDOUT

Joining Gastev at the beginning of his job was the young Nikolai Bernstein, whose childhood invested making radios and construct models of steam machines and connections, gave him in good stead when it came to mechanically registering the two movements of the human body. He developed a high-speed camera called the kymocyclograph. The shutter, a round illustration with gaps in it, revolved before the camera lens, so that the photographic plate would enter multiple personas, each uncovered a fraction of a second after its neighbour.( Motion-capture cinema, VR and all the other technologies that remain Gollum actor Andy Serkis on the talkshow circuit begin here .)

By the end of these studies, Bernstein had good proof that motion could not be a simple matter of Pavlovian reflexes. His more nuanced simulation of engine reactions amounted to a fully fledged theory of cybernetics, decades before Norbert Wiener coined the term in 1948.

The early Soviet Union collected extraordinary quantities of data on human motion, fitness, behaviour and genetics, obliging it a leader in the field. A new kind of human being healthy, fit, psychologically integrated and free of heritable infection seemed, for a few exhilarating epoches in the 1920 s, an achievable aspiration.

Then, in 1927, a miner called Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov went to work in a mine. He was no superman, but he was energetic and intelligent, and he could see ways of organising his study crew to increase the amount of coal they are capable of dig in a single transformation. On 31 August 1935, it was reported that he had mined a record 102 million tonnes coal in four hours and 45 times 14 ages his quota. Just 3 weeks later, on 19 September, Stakhanov and his gang more than doubled this record.

Alexey Stakhanov justifies his system to a fellow miner, 1936. Photograph: Universal History Archive/ UIG via Getty Images

Others rushed to follow Stakhanovs example, and newspapers and newsreels across the Soviet Union celebrated their efforts. In Gorky, construction workers in a auto factory forged practically 1,000 crankshafts in a single displacement. A shoemaker in Leningrad turned out 1,400 duets of shoes in a day. On a collective farm, three girl Stakhanovites testified they could slashed sugar beet faster than was thought humanly possible. Such craftsmen were awarded higher salary, better meat, better access to luxury goods and improved adaptation. Stakhanovism soon became a mass shift. In mills and even in technical institutes, wrote the American psychologist Richard Schultz, the workers identifies may be posted on a bulletin board opposite a fowl, deer, rabbit, tortoise or snail relative to the rapidity with which they turn out their work. A great deal of prestige is attached to the shock brigade worker.

For as long as human being struggle for others, their heap will improve only so far as their productivity rises. Investment beyond this point shapes no sense. The Soviet Union of the 1920 s was an impoverished territory flecked with institutes of labour, health and maternity clinics, mental health services, dwelling places and countless censuses. Coming to power at the end of the decade, Joseph Stalin changed all this social engineering with, well, engineering. Magnitostroi, which is still the most significant steelworks in the world, lived its workers in tents downwind of the chimneys. The structure of the White Sea Canal cost 12,000 lives around a 10 th of the workforce.

Drunk as we are currently in the illusion of personal domination, we should remember that data runs uphill toward the potent, because they are the ones who can afford to employ it. Today, for every worried-yet-well twentysomething fiddling with his Fitbit, there is a worker being cajoled by their employer into taking a medical test. The experiments are aggregated and anonymised, and besides, the company is giving construction workers a section of insurance policies savings the test will reach. So wheres the trauma?

Joseph Stalin: see how he could have employed your Fitbit data Photograph: Hulton Getty

Well, for a beginning, anonymising data is unbelievably hard to do. The big the datapool, the easier it to be able to triangulate data and information and home in on an individual. And while people can get thrown in jail for this sort of happening, algorithms are a lot harder to police. Has the computer said no to your mortgage application? Well, sorry, but there may simply be no human to blamed: the machine has figured acts out on its own.

An even bigger worry is the way that, in our smartphone-enabled and meta-data-enriched nature, ended knowledge of human affairs to become more and more possible, drawing redundant the entire play of insurance. At that part the scope for individual self-determination shrivels to zero and we are living in the world of Andrew Niccols superb 1997 movie Gattaca.

Unregulated wellness programmes are asking to be used as tools of surveillance, and thats not because anybodys actually doing anything wrong. Its because we have taken see of our own data, while at the same meter forgetting that data ultimtely belong to whoever can shape “the worlds largest” expend of it.

And it need not even got a problem, unless the class in superpower “ve decided to” supersede social engineering with, well, engineering, health services with making and hacking, and civic civilizations with a desert, littered with the grinning skulls of people who aspired to west-coast progressive self-reliance and failed.

Stalin and the Scientists by Simon Ings, is published by Faber& Faber( 20 ).

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