In an October 2019 interview with Jasper Kuria , Brad Smith; Microsoft President and co-author of a New York Times bestseller explained why the world urgently needs a Digital Geneva Convention and a Hippocratic Oath for software engineers. Today, what Smith had to say on the ethics of technological progress at last year’s Capital & Growth + Hacker News meetup is more relevant and urgent than ever. Read more
Re-sharing this pic from Lex Fridman and additional context by Dimas Rahardja In September 1946, Albert Einstein called racism America’s “worst disease.” Earlier that year, he told students and faculty at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the oldest Black college in the Western world, that racial segregation was “not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people, adding, “ Read more
Image courtesy of: Mail-Order-Brides.com The famous direct-response copywriter Dan Kennedy amassed a fortune crafting offers for blue-collar workers, and specifically truck drivers (I believe he consulted on one of the more successful “mail order brides” offers) Dan had a simple test for determining whether he had a winning offer. He would buy a round of drinks for a small group of truck drive Read more
Below is a summarized excerpt from the book Obviously Awesome by April Dunford, which every startup founder and product manager should read: --------- In short, It says that biggest tell-tale sign that you have a positioning problem is: your current customers love your product but new prospects can’t seem to figure out why they would need it. The story below helps make the point clear. I once received a c Read more