Sleep is also key to creativity: the creativity variation from day-to-day for a single entrepreneur was 3x greater than the difference between different entrepreneurs! The biggest boosts to creativity were sleep & mulling over ideas after work (meaning you had to leave work)
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Sleep deprivation impacts founder productivity and startup success
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If founders don’t sleep, bad stuff happens, in 4 studies:
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2) Lack of makes you think the bad ideas you develop are good
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MidJourney Improvements Show Rapid Generative AI Progress
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The pace of change in generative AI, as reflected in my viral tweets. I just took a bunch of AI art prompts I had used in various tweets over the past two months (one from just a couple of days ago) & put them into the newest version of MidJourney. Higher quality, less weird.
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Human verbal communication exchanges at 39 bits per second
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We exchange verbal information with each other at 39 bits/second.
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Human Sensory-Motor Processing Bandwidth and Perception Delays
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Human sensory-motor processing seems to operate at 10 bits/second. It takes 1/3 of a second before our brain registers how heavy an object we are lifting actually is, replacing the less accurate judgement we had previously made just by looking at the object.
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Navigating Startup Pivots While Keeping Stakeholders Engaged
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Startups often pivot, but changes in direction can seem a betrayal to stakeholders who believed in the venture early on (like customers or user communities) How to navigate this? Bring them along! Exposing stakeholders to the struggles that led to the pivot rebuilds the old bond
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Schadenfreude in workplace culture: building cooperation over competition
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Schadenfreude can lead you to tacitly support bad outcomes. Abusive bosses persist in part because people take secret pleasure when a rival has a bad boss, so no one calls them out. The solution is to build a company culture focusing on cooperating with rivals, not crushing them
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Twitter’s Risk Calculus Shifts After Going Private
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I would also add that the risk calculus for Twitter has changed. At a large public company, risk is avoided (which can be a good & safer thing, but slows change). Private companies, and especially entrepreneurial ones, make bigger bets with higher risk of failure or big returns.
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Sharing Scholarly Articles Without Reading Them Undermines Credibility
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Feel smarter, retweet scholarly articles you haven’t read! https://
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Private Equity Takeovers: Higher Prices, Lower Service Quality
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By taking firms private, funds can do all sorts of changes without having to tell anyone much about it. The result is often higher prices & lower services, as private equity funds try to maximize profit. It is just very unusual to see the process play out so publicly.