I did exactly that in 2001 – got laid off by the collapsing dot-com I was working for, went to university for a few years to wait out the crash Helped that I was young and completely free of responsibilities though!
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Social Welfare and Competence: The AI Economy Paradox
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i strongly believe in social welfare, investing in education, and universal healthcare. i also believe the only the way we can have those things is if we get serious about celebrating competence and winning.
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Physical Manipulation: The Harder Problem Than AI Judgment
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Most work on the impacts of automation hasn’t considered what happens if solving for basic judgement & creativity was the easy problem, but actually moving around & touching stuff was the hard problem.
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Elite Knowledge Workers Drove Industrial Revolution Growth Not Mass Education
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A puzzle about the Industrial Revolution: unlike now, there seemed to be little correlation between the education of workers & early industrial growth. This paper shows why: it was the presence of highly educated elite knowledge workers (& their inventions) that powered growth.
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Trust Erosion: How Minor Disappointments Compound Over Time
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Interesting model here for thinking about how it can feel like people suddenly, irreversibly stop trusting a product, when it was usually the outcome of a multi-year sequence of minor disappointments accumulating over time
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Stock Buybacks and SBC Compensation in Tech Companies
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Yes that is true. On the other hand they have also been buying back stock to compensate for SBC, which will obviously no longer happen as well. Anyhow, this:
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Tech Stock Movements: Amplitude, Confluent Rise; Roku, Qualcomm Fall
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Eye of the Storm: Amplitude, Confluent rising, Roku, Qualcomm tumble // $AMPL $CFLT $ROKU $QCOM $FTNT $ZI https://
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Measuring Willingness to Pay: Methods for Pricing Strategy
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I assume this is mostly being done for fun (right?) but entrepreneurs & marketers should know that you cannot assess willingness to pay with a poll. This paper gives a menu of methods to figure out pricing, plus a useful chart of pros & cons for each. https://
researchgate.net/publication/24
2382759_A_Review_of_Methods_for_Measuring_Willingness-to-Pay
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Artificial Intelligence Reshaping How We Shop Online
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Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping How We Shop https://
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End of Employment Era Demands New Social Protections for Workers
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Absolument. Je ne comprends pas tous ces sujets pour attirer et fideliser les talents, motiver les salariés, etc etc Alors que le vrai sujet c'est la fin du salariat Il faut organiser la transition vers un monde avec moins de salariés et créer de nouvelles protections sociales