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kourdem · 5 years ago

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What is Artificial Intelligence?

what is artificial intelligence? that I even have websites that provide educational materials about cyber security but what you don’t know is that last week i published a book called cyber security for the digitally challenged it’s an interactive electronic book designed for people who are not technical don’t have any background in cyber security if this description fits you then the book is supposed especially for you the book is free and should be easily downloaded at the tunes

bookstore now back to AI i don’t realize you but once i used to be young i remember going to the 1964 world’s fair and seeing incredible and amazing futuristic devices general motors had a pavilion called the future of reality and the city of tomorrow and it had been the very first time that i saw what they called a picture phone but my first real inspect artificial intelligence began when i first started watching the Jetsons meet George Jensen is jane his wife remember once we all thought that that would be our future well variety of the predictions did come true video calling devices robotic vacuums electronic banking just to call a few of what most people don’t realize is that artificial intelligence is all around us AI is all around us you’ll see it when Alexa answers one of your questions when your email gives you a suggestion of what to reply with or even once you put a photograph on Facebook and it recognizes your face it’s so commonplace at the moment that tons of people like me are now asking what’s this all leading towards today we ask siri to pay our favourite music things like hey siri please play the beetle oh yeah or hey google what time is it in sunshine beach Australia it’s 4 28 a.m in sunshine beach Australia that’s just not a random request actually my daughter and her family live in sunshine beach Australia when you’re asking to talk to siri Alexa or google your lecture an artificial intelligence agent and this ai is learning your personal preferences the more you use the device the more it learns and the more accurately it can anticipate your every need when someone mentions artificial intelligence what’s the first thing that comes to your mind now most people imagine a military of human-like robots that are repelling against society well a few of fit few people like myself have a more positive um thinking about community envisioning a bright future so what exactly is artificial intelligence it’s definitely not a magical program that can think kind of person's it’s things like virtual companions the controlled gaming surgical robots personal assistants and other devices that we use each day to make our lives better and more efficient now it had been within the mid-1950s that John McCarthy who was a Stanford researcher coined the term AI and he would define it because the science of engineering at the science and engineering of making intelligent agents McCarthy presented his definition of artificial intelligence at a conference on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire within the summer of 1956 and this indicated the very beginning of ai research the concept of ai has changed over time but the goal has always been the same to really make computers think like humans during a nutshell ai’s goal is to make computer or computer programs smart enough to initiate the behavior of a human mind now it’s likely that you simply simply interacted with some kind of ai in your day-to-day activities probably even today if you use gmail you may enjoy the automated spam filters in fact according to google Gmail blocks a hundred million spam messages daily with its artificial intelligence agent next if you own a smartphone you probably fill out a calendar app with the help of apple siri or Microsoft’s cortina or Samsung’s Bixby and if you own a newer vehicle perhaps you’ve benefited from the driver-assisted feature while you're driving these are all possible thanks to artificial intelligence but as convenient and helpful as these products are they lack the facility to seek out out independently they can’t think outside of their code and most of you recognize that code is a written set of instructions that tells the ai what to undertake to to so here is where i would like to introduce you to machine learning and this a neighborhood of the presentation might get a little geeky machine learning could also be a branch of ai whose purpose is to supply machines the ability to seek out out a task without pre-existing code our ability to seek out out and acquire better at tasks through experience may be a component of being human when we’re born we all know almost nothing and can do almost nothing for ourselves but soon we’re learning and becoming more capable each day but did you recognize that computers can do the same machine learning brings together statistics and computing to enable computers to seek out out the thanks to do a given task without being programmed to undertake to to so just as your brain uses experience to reinforce at a task so can computers say you'd sort of a computer that can tell the difference between a picture of a dog and a picture of a cat you'll begin by feeding it images and telling it this one’s a dog that one’s a cat a computer program to seek out out will seek statistical patterns within the data that will enable it to acknowledge a cat or a dog in the future it'd determine on its own that cats have shorter noses which dogs are available a much bigger kind of sizes and then represent that information numerically organizing it in space but crucially it’s the pc not the programmer that identifies those patterns and establishes the algorithm by which future data are getting to be sorted one example of a simple yet highly effective algorithm is to hunt out the optimal line separating cats from dogs when the pc sees a replacement picture it checks which side of the road it falls on then says either cat or dog but actually there are often mistakes the more data the pc receives the more finely tuned its algorithm becomes and the more accurate it are often in its predictions machine learning is already widely applied it’s the technology behind facial recognition text and speech recognition spam filters on your inbox online shopping or viewing recommendations credit card forward detection then much more at the university of oxford machine learning researchers are combining statistics and computer science to make algorithms which can solve more complex problems more efficiently using less computing power from medical diagnoses to social media the potential of machine learning to transform our world is really mind-blowing machine learning could also be a could also be a rare sorry machine learning may be a neighborhood of research in computing that studies a special kind of instruction called algorithms algorithms are a gaggle of step-by-step instructions used to do something an algorithm is really only a gaggle of rules as an example if you sort your laundry before you’re washing it you use an algorithm if the algorithm is to put the white laundry on the left pile and the colored laundry on the right pile and you repeat until you’re done this is an algorithm it’s just that simple machine learning uses a gaggle of instructions that improve automatically based on experience in other words what makes machine learning algorithms different from others is that they’re able to learn from the data that we feed them image recognition could also be a exemplar every day we’re getting image recognition more involved so on help us with our personal daily lives if you see some strange looking plant your friend is growing in their living room simply point google lands at it and it will tell you what it's if your discord friend uploads a photograph of their new cat and you'd wish to understand what breed it's just run a google image reverse search and you’ll determine what it's even self-driving vehicles need to know where they can drive which may be a road where are the lanes where they're going to make a turn what the difference is between a red light green light and amber light where the stop signs are well you get the message as you will see image recognition could also be an enormous a neighborhood of deep learning and it are often both cool and scary so how does it work here’s a basic explanation in order for that car to know what a stop sign looks like it must tend an image of a stop sign the machine will read the stop sign and through a selection of algorithms it will then study the stop sign and analyze how the image goes to look by going section per section what color is that the stop sign what shape is it what’s written thereon how big is it always and where is it usually seen during a driver’s peripheral vision things like that if there’s any errors scientists can simply correct them once the image has been completely read it are often labeled and categorized but why stop with one image in our perspective we don’t really need to think for half a second on what a stop sign is and what we must do once we see it we’ve seen numerous stop signs in our lives it’s almost embedded in our brains so the machine must read many different stop signs for better accuracy that way it doesn’t matter whether the stop sign is seen during foggy or rainy conditions during the night or during the day because the machine has seen a stop sign many times it can know it’s a stop sign just by watching its shape and color alone all of that sounds really cool right but it can also be scary if you upload and replica your photos go check out your photos if you haven’t sorted anything you’ll notice that google has done it for you there’s a category for places things videos and animations and maybe others and if you attend things you’ll see that google has sorted your photos into albums supported where google thinks they belong so you’ll have photos labeled as food beaches trains buses and whatever else you will have photographed within the past this is all due to the work of google’s image recognition analysis it has analyzed over 1,000,000 photos on the internet your photos your friends photos strangers photos and any photo that appears on google image search it’s not just google that uses image recognition also if you upload a photo and facebook recognizes your friends it will automatically tag them so yes it’s quite creepy considering it’s a privacy concern but some people may appreciate the convenience anyways because it saves a short time no matter how cool or scary it's image recognition plays a huge role in society and will still be in development many companies are continuing to implement image recognition and other ai technologies the more we'll automate certain tasks with machines the more productive we'll be as a society now because the video described an image recognition machine could even be given millions of pictures to research after going through many changes the machine acquires the ability to acknowledge patterns shapes faces and even more speech recognition is another exemplar of this there are two basic kinds of artificial intelligence the first is weak ai which is additionally known as narrow ai this type of ai can handle only one task at a time for example it can select your favorite song from spotify select your favorite movie from netflix filter your email spam or instruct a self-driving car the second is what’s called strong iai and it’s also mentioned as artificial general intelligence or agi this is much more sophisticated this type of ai refers to a system which is able to affect a generalized task much like an individual's agi as it’s abbreviated can successfully perform any intellectual task that an individual's can this sort of ai is this is that the ai that we’ve seen in movies like her and other scientific movies during which humans interact with machines and operating systems these artificial intelligent agents are conscious they can sense things and are driven by emotion and self-awareness but for machines to understand a true human-like intelligence they need to be capable of experiencing consciousness and as far as as far as today this has not happened hello i’m here oh hi hi how you doing i’m well how’s everything with you pretty good actually it’s very nice to meet you now that’s just slightly excerpt from her for all of you that never saw the movie you need to it’s quite interesting efforts to advance ai concepts over the over the past 20 years have resulted in some truly amazing innovations let’s inspect a few of meet digit manufactured by agility robotics digit is envisioned to help lookout of people in their homes assist with disaster response and deliver packages to front doors with its nimble limbs and a torso packed with sensors digit can navigate complex environments and perform tasks like package delivery digit could also be an immediate descendant of cassie agility’s first robot in may 2019 ford motor company and agility announced a partnership to develop a last mile logistics solution that combines ford’s autonomous vehicle technology and agilities digit this is pepper manufactured by softbank robotics pepper is that the world’s first social humanoid robot that is able to recognize faces and basic human emotions pepper has been adopted by over 2 000 companies around the world perfect in retail and finance industries pepper has numerous functionalities including increasing store traffic by attracting the attention of shoppers creating memorable in-store experiences stimulating purchase and retained customers pepper can also gather comprehensive data to enrich the customer base and generate shopper insights this is atlas the world’s most dynamic humanoid robot built by boston dynamics an organization that was previously owned by google and now by softbank thanks to its state-of-the-art hardware and algorithm that allows it to quickly understand instructions with its 28 hydraulic joints 4.9 feet of height and 176 pounds weight the robot can perform both impressive and terrifying acts including navigating uneven terrain jumping around a parkour course and doing somersaults all these activities demonstrate human level agility so the robot are often perfect for search and rescue operations and performing human tasks in environments where humans couldn't survive introducing spot a robot dog designed for industrial uses such as carrying goods through a warehouse and inspecting a far off site with an unfavorable environment for human operators it can run at 5.2 feet per second has 360 degree cameras and can operate in temperatures ranging from 4 to 113 degrees fahrenheit with its api and versatile payload interface the robot are often easily customized for desired tasks spod is additionally manufactured by boston dynamics and is now being leased to eligible companies these are truly amazing but now let’s inspect how ai learns typically there are three learning method methods supervised learning unsupervised learning and something called reinforcement learning in supervised learning the computer scientist would label the correct answer and ai would learn the pattern by comparing the proper answer with other possible answers in unsupervised learning the scientist would provide the proper answer and thus the algorithms would infer patterns from the data set without reference to the known or labeled outcomes now this may get very very technical the last is known as reinforcement learning and it really plays a very very minor role in training ai but it’s very almost like training an animal giving them reinforcement when the animal displays the required behavior it’s given a present now this gets to be very complex and very geeky so that’s about all that every one the knowledge that i’ll give you now computers and other ai applications are everywhere today it'd be almost impossible to go through your entire life without using any quite artificial intelligence we use cars atms tvs and these all contain computers and ais with ai assistants here’s slightly song to help you remember televisions cars airplanes traffic lights computers are everywhere around us computers are everywhere around us i know that’s silly but i assumed it might cause you to smile let’s inspect a few of straightforward applications of ai that probably most of you use first siri is one of the foremost popular personal assistants offered by apple on the iphone ipad and thus the apple watch she helps to hunt out information get directions send messages make voice phone calls open applications and add events and even add events to my calendar siri uses machine learning technology in order to urge smarter and capable to understand natural language questions and requests next is netflix and netflix needs no introduction it’s a widely popular content on demand service that uses predictive technology to provide recommendations on the thought of your reaction interest choices and behavior once you choose films the technology examines content to reconnect sorry to recommend movies that are based on your previous liking and your reactions now remember netflix is turning more and more intelligent every single year as it get gathers more data on you next is pandora and pandora is considered the world’s most powerful music discovery platform it uses a proprietary algorithm to determine which music to play for you at any given time it’s also called the dna of music because depending upon 400 musical characteristics the team of expert musicians individually analyzes the song and the ai algorithm then recommends the song to you on your personal playlist next is nest and it’s made by google and nest is one of the foremost famous and successful AI startups google acquired it in 2014 for 3.2 billion dollars and thus the nest learning system thermostat uses behavioral algorithms to save you energy supported your behavior and schedule it uses a very intelligent machine learning process that learns the temperature that you simply simply like and programs itself during a few week moreover it'll automatically pack up to save energy if nobody is reception next is my favorite and it’s a flying drone they’re variety of my favorite toys they indicate a robust machine learning system that can translate the environment into a 3d model through its sensors and camera videos sorry and and thus the and video cameras they magically fly which they return home safely almost to the precise spot where they left from amazon echo and apple’s homepod are amazing these are revolutionary products which can assist you to seem the web for information schedule appointments shop control lights and switches and thermostats answer questions read you audio books report traffic weather provide you with information on local businesses provide sports scores and your schedule just to call a few of smart watches are awesome which i always own one actually i’m such an electronic junkie that i always got to have the foremost up-to-date version of the apple i watch smart watches are equipped with advanced ai and will monitor your every move within the old days we’d walk 10 miles to highschool within the snow or so we thought and now we've smart watches and phone apps and AI wearables to tell us exactly how far we’re walking or running and they also track our pulse the number of calories burned and many other metrics artificial intelligence is gaining popularity at a quicker pace influencing the way that we live and interact with our surroundings the internet of things is growing larger every day and internet of things devices cannot function without AI and AI needs iot devices to be of greater use to humanity these technologies hold the power to transform our lives when it involves ai it’s difficult to truly know where we’re headed but we’ve come so far so quickly the thing is today that we don’t realize when we’re in-tuned with artificial intelligence because we’re getting so used to the technology doing new and amazing things each day that we don’t start to stop to believe the science behind the gadgets or the programs.

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berlinaura · 6 years ago

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I’m slowly but surely starting to get settled down here. Apart from English and German, my courses started this week. In this post I am going to share a few “what the fuck” moments I’ve had during these 2,5 weeks and also just tell what’s up.

Right now we are supposed to go to the first lectures of courses that seem interesting and try them out. As no official registration to courses is needed, we can try everything out and make our decisions after we have gotten an idea what the course is about and what the lecturer is like. This system has its advantages but then again it doesn’t differ much from what I am used to. The only difference in Finland is that you indeed need to register for the course but if you feel like giving up, it’s no problem to just leave.

Right now two of my courses are overlapping. Normally this wouldn’t be no problem whatsoever but here the lectures aren’t recorded nor can it be assumed that the lecturer posts the lecture material online. After a long time I have finally found interesting courses I am excited about but simultaneously I am not looking for having any of this extra stress. It would be bad enough to spend the evenings of my exchange year self-studying the material from missed lessons but now I wouldn’t have even an idea what they are talking about in the lessons (there’s not even a semester plan provided!). It’s just not worth guessing, googling, begging for lecture notes from other students twice a week.

I also heard that some teachers have problems accepting Erasmus students to their courses. If the international office in Berlin accepts the courses then there shouldn’t be any question if Erasmus students can attend the course! And even better - the info should already be provided on the course catalog when we are expected to choose courses. It’s just as I said earlier, some things are made difficult for no reason and the staff of TUB even knows this. Still nobody does any changes and and the frustration just repeats itself every semester.

From the info we got on the orientation week I understood that every professor might have their own “rules” and ways of working and nobody can stop them. They might just deny a student from their course and the head of the international office told us that the most efficient way to get proper treatment when a teacher acts up is to CRY IN FRONT OF THEM to make them uncomfortable. We were also told to “make sure you see that the professor is writing your name down when you tell them you’d like to participate. Otherwise they might just forget it when they go to a coffee break!”. Why the hell is this our responsibility? If you want to have a system where students can’t sign up for courses online and make sure they have a place, then the paper hell and struggle of keeping up with names is on you.

Even the printing here is relatively hard. You have a few places where you can print. I’ve done it in the library and let me tell you, it ain’t that simple. First of all you need to leave your bag and jacket to a locker (to which you need to bring your own lock) or you can take your most important belongings our of your bag and leave everything else to a public space. Then you go to a computer (that looks like it’s from 2004) and download the thing you need to print to the computer. Also, the only accepted file is a pdf so you can’t for example just print an email, you need to copy it, paste it it Word and convert it into a pdf file. Then you put money to your name and go to a certain website to where you can pick a printer - or more accurately: you can choose the ROOM where it gets printed out. Next you’ll search all of the printers in the room while the printers print every students’ documents at the same time. Today I was hunting down some documents there and there was random people’s documents in between mine and I had no idea which printer is going to do the printing so I had to keep an eye of three printers for like 5 minutes until some of them finally printed out my document. Also, printing 1 black and white page costs 5 cents which eventually adds up because German people have some kind of fetish to forms and filling things out by hand.

Just like probably every capital, Berlin is not a “student city”. So naturally what I sort of miss here are student events. For a few times I have already got to explain the student life in Finland and everybody seems so interested and jealous of sittnings, saunas and the tech student culture, overalls, caps, traditions... An ESN club that organizes events and has a club room would be really great. Not that there is any student culture for the club to show (yikes :D) but hey, there is a very strong Berlin culture instead.

We do have the buddy program here that is somewhat responsible of organizing a few events for us but I heard they are having a hard time coming up with fun things to arrange. Me and a Swedish exchange student volunteered to organize international sittnings here! The buddies also differ from the Finnish “tutors” because they’ve had barely any training or instructions and everybody is just there to hang out and have friends. Which is of course great and welcomed but exchange students are also full of questions and buddies are the people they want to ask them. Informing the buddies of basics (how exchange students sign up for stuff, what they need to take care of upon arriving etc) would add so much value to the buddy program. Luckily some of the buddies are more involved than others, and are there to meet, help and answer questions as well.

While there might be a lack of student life and culture, Berlin is still an ideal place for students and young people. There are so many things to do and the city never sleeps. Last night (Tuesday-Wednesday night) I was out at 2 am and the whole city is just so lively. People are out and willing to have a conversation unlike in Finland. There’s plenty of events, music, dancing, bowling, clubs, pubs, sport opportunities, museums, flea markets, karaoke, restaurants, historical places, parks, christmas markets, sights... And the opening times are so much better than what I’m used to! Seriously, nobody chooses Berlin for the university, we choose Berlin for Berlin.

Last year around this time I was at an international sittning in Tampere and talked with the international students about differences they find between their home country and Finland. This is probably my all time favorite topic to talk about. This one girl from Hamburg said “It is incredible how the atmosphere here in Finland is so peaceful. Nobody’s in a hurry. Look, you might have red lights on traffic but that’s okay, you’ll just wait until it turns green. You walk like you don’t need to be anywhere, just taking your time”. I wasn’t sure what she was talking about but now I know exactly what she was talking about.

Everybody in Berlin is in such a hurry all the time. They’ll run 200 meters to the tram without giving shit about the traffic and then cram themselves in even though we can already see the next tram coming behind the corner. There’s a lot of people in Berlin and everybody makes room for themselves whereas I would just rather wait until the people on my way will pass. I get a bit anxious when I need to follow a Berliner in a crowd because they will walk twice as fast as me and they don’t want to take that needed 5 seconds to figure out if the first walking route they see is the most reasonable way to go through. To be honest there’s a few times I just wanted to shake my buddy and be like “Why can’t you notice that there’s a kid running towards you from your right and you’re going to pump into each other in 3 seconds if you keep on walking to that direction as if we were in a horrible hurry!! You can’t just walk with this tunnel vision, ignoring other people and expect me to keep up”. I’ll probably become less aware of the surroundings as I get more used to it. Can’t expect to have personal space and consideration from people in a busy and crowded city like this.

Although this post is a bit negative, I wake up every day with such gratitude to be here. Two days ago I walked like three hours just browsing Berlin and enjoying its beauty. I almost wanted to cry out of happiness when I got to Hackescher Markt because I felt like my soul is resting here. Hackescher Markt area is one of my favorite places here so far. I’m grateful of the interesting courses they offer at TUB. I love living in Prenzlauer berg and I truly had luck with the apartment. I am reminded of this every time I hear experiences of others. Yesterday I was hanging out in pubs in Kreuzberg and had a memorable night with people I just met. The atmosphere is so open and it’s not weird to just go talk to people. On Saturday I’ll go to visit Dresden, on Sunday I’ll go to Mauerpark (if the weather is nice) and next week there’s a concert I’m so looking forward to!

#berlin #erasmus

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Education: BSBA Accounting, Creighton University

Professional Associations/Memberships: AICPA, NE Society of CPAs

Hobbies: I’m into technology but also appreciate the serenity of the outdoors and the power and style of classic cars.

Cell phone: Motorola Razr VE20 — nothing special or smart, pretty much just calls people.

Favorite app: My phone doesn’t do apps and I don’t carry another device around just to have apps with me.

Do you embrace cloud computing? I absolutely embrace cloud computing in all its forms. When you can make information safer and more accessible, I think it’s a win-win situation for all involved. It gives employees greater flexibility, employers more opportunities for productivity and flexibility in workforce, and may also result in increased transparency and accessibility for clients.

How is cloud computing changing the accounting profession, and how concerned are you with the security issues related to cloud computing? I don’t really see cloud computing significantly changing the profession, just the ways we are able to do things. There may be some subsequent changes in business models as a result, but nothing that changes our charge to help clients understand their financial information. Dealing with sensitive information, there has always been concern in the profession that information may fall into the wrong hands. Cloud computing does not change that fact; it just changes what the protocols for security look like. Rather than super-duty deadbolts, we need to have password rules that will make sure everyone has a password that is hard to hack.

Do you foresee the majority of firms still implementing servers for the majority of their computing in their offices five years from now or do you think they will be outsourcing this component to vendors who specialize in this area? I think we have to consider economics, bandwidth and personal preference. If a firm is large enough, it may be more efficient to have in-house servers than to pay per-user license fees for the number of users they may have. For firms with few users, they may be able to get a lot more horsepower for their dollars by outsourcing.

Bandwidth seems to be sufficient at current levels that utilizing tools like Citrix or Terminal Server don’t show much latency for the user, but some is still perceptible if you’re working on a slow connection or Wi-Fi with a poor signal. As bandwidth, Wi-Fi, and other over-the-air services improve in speed, this will be less of an issue and is already perfectly acceptable to some in its current state. Some people will feel their information is more secure if they can see it in their own office behind lock and key, multiple levels of passwords, and bolted to the floor. I think some of those people would be more comfortable with cloud computing if they visited a reputable data center and saw what the security looked like there. I think the majority of firms will still have servers, but the number will be diminishing and the amount of information stored on them will be reduced, as well.

What is an “old school” business practice or process you’d like to see changed in the next five years and why? I would like to see billing and bill-pay systems become more centralized and web-based, but they really seem to be all over the place right now. It would be nice if there were some emerging standards that would help banks and vendors more easily integrate billing and bill-pay features without being too fee intensive. It would cut down on a lot of paper waste and reduce turnaround time on payments due to time in the mail and processing funds manually by the banks.

How many hours of the day are you plugged in and responsive to client needs? And what tools/products make it possible for you to have flexibility? On a regular basis, it’s 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. M-F that clients can expect me to be responsive; but they will get the occasional 11:00 p.m. or weekend reply to an email when I check my email remotely. I’m also available most of the day on Saturday and further into the evenings during tax season as we extend office hours. For clients that have my cell phone number, it’s pretty much whenever I’m awake and not absolutely in the middle of something else. Having access to email and client files via Citrix makes it possible to respond from anywhere I can get an Internet connection, making it easier to leave the office and without being disconnected.

Are you using social networking (such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook) as a marketing tool for your practice/business … or do you use such sites for personal use only? Have you gained any clients or seen other demonstrable benefits from the use of social networking?

LinkedIn — Is there a purely personal application for this? Yes, I have a personal profile, and I also have helped the firm set up a company profile just to add an additional layer of visibility. As much as we would like to do more with this, we can only do what the platform allows. LinkedIn may help us to connect with some potential clients, most likely if we find them and initiate contact. I don’t see it being a space where people are hanging out and likely to stumble upon you as a service provider.

Facebook — I have a personal account here as well, and I have helped the firm set up a company page where we share tax information and updates as well as worthwhile events in the community. I think Facebook has some good potential if we utilize some targeted ads just before tax season to increase our visibility with our target client base. I doubt we’ll be releasing anything on the page that will go viral and bring us thousands of fans overnight.

Twitter — I have an account that I suppose is technically personal, but I have always used it as a professional tool with the handle @BluffsCPA . I’m hardly using it in a purely personal sense, but it’s all from me. Twitter is another great space where people really do converse and will ask questions that give you an opportunity to demonstrate what a quality professional you are. I have some prospects and additional clients both for my firm and for others in my referral network that are solely from interaction on Twitter.

What pitfalls or what unwritten rules of social networking etiquette exist, which are frequently missed by others in the profession? I think there are rules of networking that are frequently missed by professionals, few of which are totally unique to “social networking.” I think the first level of understanding is the difference between networking and prospecting or pitching. The network concept is to add value to the network and it will give value back to you; what goes around comes around, essentially.

Hopping out into social networking just to toot your own horn will never be effective, especially in our profession. The types of information and situations we deal with require a high level of trust, so the types of interactions you have in social networking need to demonstrate that you are a trustable and competent professional who genuinely looks out for the client’s best interests. Most of the pet peeves in social networking and face-to-face networking I have heard tend to focus around someone trying to sell you on their product or service before they even know who you are or over-the-top self-promotion.

Do you subscribe to a magazine and/or local newspaper? I receive a couple publications as part of other memberships, but I do not purposefully subscribe to anything. Most of the information I am interested in seeing is freely available online, and I really don’t care that old media still measures itself with circulation statistics. I see no reason to pay for a subscription that basically covers the cost of the paper and handling charges when I can read the same information sooner online and share it easier there, as well. Most written media has traditionally made its money selling advertising not subscriptions anyway.

What ONE piece of technology could you absolutely not live without? I absolutely have to have some sort of multi-monitor, online PC. I could not get anything done without this. It’s ok if that PC accesses all of the information in the clouds, but it needs to have multiple monitors that work seamlessly and access to the Internet.

NOT including your current employer, what company do you most admire and why? It’s a local favorite, but I’m rather fond of Berkshire Hathaway. What Warren Buffet has been able to do with Berkshire Hathaway is truly amazing, and to know that intellectual horsepower like that is less than 10 miles from my house is pretty inspiring.

What are some ways your firm/business has gone “paperless” and/or “green” in the last two years? Almost every piece of paper related to a client project is now scanned with the original returned to the client or shredded. Client files that used to only hold one year’s worth of information can now be used from year to year to year with little or no increase in the size of that paper file. The paperless system has made it easier to organize, retrieve and store client information as it can be accessed from anywhere there is an Internet connection.

Do you use online resources like webcasts for CPE training? Yes, I do. There are some specialized items of CPE that are almost cost prohibitive to obtain any other way, and it is incredibly convenient.

Do you listen to podcasts? My favorite podcast is the Duct Tape Marketing podcast by John Jantsch. John always has interesting guests and has a good fundamental model that is always learning more about how to employ the latest technologies as tools for marketing.

What sports team/championship event do you absolutely refuse to miss? I truly feel compelled to watch Huskers football. I really won’t go out of my way for anything else.

What are some of your favorite books, movies, music, websites, and TV shows? Best book I’ve read recently is “The Innovator’s Solution.” Best recent movie is “Clash of the Titans.” Joe Kristan’s Tax Update Blog is fun and handy. I also enjoy “Ghosthunters International.”

How many monitors do you have on your desk? Two

What operating system and version of Microsoft Office is installed on your work computer? My work PC is running Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2007. I use Windows 7 and OpenOffice on my MiniPC, and while technically not a work PC, it gets a lot of work-related usage.

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webbygraphic001 · 7 years ago

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Help! I Can’t Stop Wasting Time…

There are so many distractions when you are a freelancer. From kids coming into your home office or time sucks like Facebook, you need to focus and be more efficient. The key is arming yourself with the right tools for the job.

Here, we’ve gathered a list of online time savers (productivity tools for the win!) plus tips for managing distractions.

Create the Right Working Space

Freelancers, if you want to work from home, you need an actual work space. Using the kitchen counter or just putting a desk in your bedroom is a recipe for distraction. (You’ll see the dishes piled up or find 10 other things that need your attention when what you should be doing is working.)

Create a dedicated workspace—preferably one with a door and that isn’t used for anything else.

Look for a room with a window. Natural light will keep you feeling refreshed and focused.

Make sure you have an ergonomic setup with a good chair, appropriate desk setup and comfortable temperature.

Keep your work space clean and clear from clutter. Spend the last few minutes of each day tidying up so that every day starts with a fresh place to work. Dirty spaces are not productive spaces.

Set Office Hours

You need to set office hours and enforce them to family, friends and clients. Put a sign on the door if you have to.

Office hours don’t have to be a standard 9-to-5 workday (that would take some of the flexibility out of freelancing), but you should have some work hours that fall during the work times of your clients so they get information and can communicate with you easily.

Set a workday schedule and honor it. That means kids and spouses need to stay away from your work space during posted office hours unless it is pre-planned or part of a break or lunch time. Creating this flow will help give you the space you need to focus.

Set additional office hours for times when you actually answer the phone. A staff of one can get overwhelmed with phone calls. Set a schedule for answering and returning calls each day and let everything else go to voicemail. (You can even post phone hours in your email signature so clients know the best time to call.)

Turn Off Push Notifications

The easiest way to avoid distractions is to remove them from your devices. From mobile push notifications to pop-ups on your desktop, these tiny distractions eat away at the day.

Freelancer rule No. 1: Turn off push notifications.

Freelancer rule No. 2: Turn the volume off on mobile devices.

Freelancer rule No. 3: Use a blocking app if you can’t do it alone.

Tool to try: Freedom allows users to schedule the amount of time on specific apps and websites. If you have a bit of an “addiction” to Facebook, give it a try and put some real limits on usage.

Put on Headphones

Block out the world with a little white noise. Invest in a good set of headphones and use them to help avoid noise distractions.

Find music that fades into the background. (Something without ads is best for most people because you won’t hit periods of loud sounds or over stimulation.) Avoid podcasts or audiobooks that can actually become a distraction while working.

There’s another bonus to headphones as well: When you are wearing them people immediately think you can’t hear them or are busy and they might be less likely to disturb you.

Use a Time Tracker

Do you know exactly how you are spending time or where those distractions are coming from? Do you ever ask where the day went? (And why you don’t have anything to show for it?)

If you want to get a good handle on what you are doing—particularly for designers and developers that spend most of the day on a computer—enlist the help of a time-tracking app or tool.

There are two categories of time trackers:

Time tracking apps that help you manage tasks and billing for your freelance business. These tools help you know exactly what time you spend on what projects (and who should get billed.) Look for a tool that will track across multiple devices (if you tend to lose time in sneaky places or work from more than one place) and one that offers reporting that’s easy to understand. Tool to try: TopTracker is a free tool designed for remote workers and comes with productivity reports.

The other type of time tracker really gets to the root of what you are doing and when. It’s less for billing clients and more for helping you manage your time for efficiently. Most of us don’t even realize how many distractions are keeping us from our best work. Tool to try: RescueTime runs in the background of your computer and on mobile devices and then provides a report of what websites and software you are using and how much time is spent with each. (The number of hours on Instagram might be a little shocking.) Plus, you can use it to help limit time on websites or with apps that you need to avoid a little more.

Use More Visual Tools

Freelance designers can spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to explain the way something looks to clients or other team members. Cut out all that wasted time and effort by using a tool that allows you to collaborate visually.

A digital whiteboard can set the tone of an in-person meeting online. (You can even brainstorm and work out solutions to problems on different schedules.) Real-time collaboration takes some of the loneliness out of freelancing and give you the accountability of working with a team—which is great for keeping projects on task and on time.

Tool to try: Mural is an easy to use digital white boarding tool that you can use to share ideas in a visual space. Not only is the space designed for quick sketching and sharing, but users can see everything in real time, plus set a timer so that meetings stay on schedule.

Browse Incognito

Most website design and development freelancers are online all the time. It just comes with the territory.

Try browsing in incognito mode (it keeps popups and notifications at bay) or use a browser add-on to take control of your productivity.

Tool to try: StayFocused is a Google Chrome extension that restricts how much time you can spend on certain websites. So while you might have to be online all day, you won’t be hanging around on Twitter. You can block websites, types of content (no more cat videos at work) or set time limits so that you are allowed some free browsing time.

Automate As Many Business Tasks as Possible

For freelance designers and developers, one of the places where distractions loom is in the management of business tasks. (Mostly because we don’t like them.) From preparing and sending invoices to filing paperwork and contracts, try to automate as many business functions as possible so you don’t waste time avoiding these tasks. The right software and tools can go a long way to helping you stay focused and manage these chores with ease.

Tools to try: TermsFeed allows you to create basic legal documents such as privacy policies or terms and conditions; Slack is great for managing chats and sharing in one place, so that you don’t have a bunch of client text messages; use invoicing software such as Invoicely to bill clients and manage revenue and expenses.

Create a Routine

Start each day with a plan for that day. What do you need to accomplish before you call it quits? Every freelancer will have a routine that’s slightly different, so you might have to play with daily schedules some to create a routine that works for you. Here’s what a sample routine might look like:

First part of the day: Do a quick check of social media (work accounts) and follow up with posts or messages, where applicable. Check and respond to all emails that can be handled quickly.

Move on to bigger project work. Start with things that need the most brainpower while you are feeling fresh. Spend a few hours working through this work and plan for a break or two during that time.

Take a long break for lunch or to take a walk. The mid-point in the day is a good time to re-energize.

Check and respond to email again.

Use the afternoon period to finish up tasks and knock out low-hanging fruit items.

Dedicate some time to business or bookkeeping tasks, to returning phone calls or client meetings and check email one last time.

Create a plan for tomorrow as you wrap up the day so that you can leave knowing what is coming up and come into the next day ready to move forward on projects and tasks.

Conclusion

Sadly, much of the time freelancers waste isn’t even recognized. It’s spent in places that don’t really need our attention at all.

Using the right tools and creating the right work environment and habits can go a long way to helping you avoid distractions when you are supposed to be working. And if these tips don’t help you get more done, it might be time to evaluate your freelance work location. A home office isn’t for everyone; if all the little things are keeping you from work even after trying to focus, it might be time to look for a co-working or shared office space so you can jump to the next level professionally.

Remember, if you are more productive during work hours, you’ll spend less time playing catch up after hours. Making little changes can go a long way when it comes to managing your freelance design business.

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unixcommerce · 7 years ago

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Help! I Can’t Stop Wasting Time…

Here, we’ve gathered a list of online time savers (productivity tools for the win!) plus tips for managing distractions.

Create the Right Working Space

Create a dedicated workspace—preferably one with a door and that isn’t used for anything else.

Look for a room with a window. Natural light will keep you feeling refreshed and focused.

Make sure you have an ergonomic setup with a good chair, appropriate desk setup and comfortable temperature.

Keep your work space clean and clear from clutter. Spend the last few minutes of each day tidying up so that every day starts with a fresh place to work. Dirty spaces are not productive spaces.

Set Office Hours

You need to set office hours and enforce them to family, friends and clients. Put a sign on the door if you have to.

Turn Off Push Notifications

The easiest way to avoid distractions is to remove them from your devices. From mobile push notifications to pop-ups on your desktop, these tiny distractions eat away at the day.

Freelancer rule No. 1: Turn off push notifications.

Freelancer rule No. 2: Turn the volume off on mobile devices.

Freelancer rule No. 3: Use a blocking app if you can’t do it alone.

Tool to try: Freedom allows users to schedule the amount of time on specific apps and websites. If you have a bit of an “addiction” to Facebook, give it a try and put some real limits on usage.

Put on Headphones

Block out the world with a little white noise. Invest in a good set of headphones and use them to help avoid noise distractions.

There’s another bonus to headphones as well: When you are wearing them people immediately think you can’t hear them or are busy and they might be less likely to disturb you.

Use a Time Tracker

Do you know exactly how you are spending time or where those distractions are coming from? Do you ever ask where the day went? (And why you don’t have anything to show for it?)

If you want to get a good handle on what you are doing—particularly for designers and developers that spend most of the day on a computer—enlist the help of a time-tracking app or tool.

There are two categories of time trackers:

Use More Visual Tools

Browse Incognito

Most website design and development freelancers are online all the time. It just comes with the territory.

Try browsing in incognito mode (it keeps popups and notifications at bay) or use a browser add-on to take control of your productivity.

Automate As Many Business Tasks as Possible

Create a Routine

First part of the day: Do a quick check of social media (work accounts) and follow up with posts or messages, where applicable. Check and respond to all emails that can be handled quickly.

Move on to bigger project work. Start with things that need the most brainpower while you are feeling fresh. Spend a few hours working through this work and plan for a break or two during that time.

Take a long break for lunch or to take a walk. The mid-point in the day is a good time to re-energize.

Check and respond to email again.

Use the afternoon period to finish up tasks and knock out low-hanging fruit items.

Dedicate some time to business or bookkeeping tasks, to returning phone calls or client meetings and check email one last time.

Create a plan for tomorrow as you wrap up the day so that you can leave knowing what is coming up and come into the next day ready to move forward on projects and tasks.

Conclusion

Sadly, much of the time freelancers waste isn’t even recognized. It’s spent in places that don’t really need our attention at all.

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douchebagbrainwaves · 7 years ago

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THE COURAGE OF MOSQUITO

Whatever the cause, we are just not prepared for the 1000x variation in returns. There may be room for tuning here, but as a model for what programming is tending to become in our own time. But it also discovered that per and FL and ff0000 are good indicators of spam.1 A friend of mine asked Ryan about this, it was neither a success nor a failure; it was too controversial to include. If you want to stop it. And yet he invested anyway, because he expected it to be more readable than a line of Basic is likely to be pretty average.2 For example, the stated purpose of Powerpoint is to present ideas. You don't need to know this stuff to program in Lisp, but it should be helpful to anyone who wants to get things done. Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the world's history, if you can make your software very efficient you can undersell competitors and still make a profit.

But I think it will. You just have to do it with no indication of whether you're succeeding. There are two types of thoughts especially worth avoiding—thoughts like the Nile Perch in the way they used to, they were moving to a cheaper apartment.3 It is a comfortable idea. To developers, the most accurate measure of the size of the group slows you down. If you can't measure the value of your work. I mean five years if nothing goes wrong. This can be a pretty lonely place if we only had one company per batch.4 We never had more to say at any one time. If there were two features we could add to our software too. If you're getting far along with investor B, but you'd rather raise money from A, but you definitely want to keep an eye on things you've changed recently.5

0 is democracy. They would call support in a spirit more of triumph than anger, as if I were playing some kind of purpose, rather than the fish. Fortunately we got bought at the top of the cycle, but it is enough in simple cases like this. At the moment each one has about 4000 messages in it. Err on the side of generosity. You could use a Bayesian filter to rate the site just as you do now with telephones. Probably the most important thing I've learned about dilution is that it's measured more in behavior than users. Microsoft. Sorry about that.6

Initially it was supposed to be an online store, because we wanted to know about what's happening inside the software.7 He called this language Lisp, for List Processing, because one of his key ideas was to use a completely different voice and manner talking to a roomful of people than you would in a program, but this is little consolation to the individual mosquito.8 An example of a spam that gets through the filters. It's that it tends to obscure the underlying reality. If you wanted to write, and the transformation was miraculous. 9075001 quality 0. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you need. That's the way to the extreme of doing the computations on the server. I consider it a sign of trouble.9 In effect, acquirers assume the customers know who has the best technology. And the first planes, and the main reason they're so much less speculative—whether the company has all the elements of a good bet.10 If you want to keep an eye on things you've changed recently.

If the pointy-haired boss, the difficulty of assigning a value to each person's work. Investors have much higher standards for companies that have an existing relationship with the recipient. So I added a message at that point, telling users that they were effectively QA and to some extent avoid thinking about nasty things people have done to me by telling myself: this doesn't deserve space in my head. And you have to introduce yourself, or someone writes a particularly interesting article, it will show up there. If that's what's on the other side of this phenomenon, where the herd remains clumped together at a distance.11 The ideal thing might be if you built a precisely defined derivative version of your product for the customer.12 A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple years before starting your own, you'd learn a thing or two running your own company. The best way to come up with some other solution. And for programmers the paradox is even more pronounced: the language to learn, if you were willing to pay to read them yourself, you can't link to them.

One of the biggest remaining obstacles is pride. Competitors commonly find ways to work around a patent. While perhaps 9 out of 10 startups fail, the one that succeeds will pay the founders more than 10, and probably rarely as high as 100. And it's free, which means people actually read it. The patent pledge is not legally binding.13 As a general rule, you do implicitly solicit certain kinds of mail. If you can make your software very efficient you can undersell competitors and still make a profit.

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In one way in which internal limits are expressed. The undergraduate curriculum or trivium whence trivial consisted of Latin grammar, rhetoric, and there are few things worse than close supervision by someone with a few years.

Type A fundraising is so hard on the world population, and stir. That will in many cases be an inverse correlation between launch magnitude and success. The best one could aspire to the Pall Mall Gazette.

The two guys were Dan Bricklin and Bob nominally had a house built a couple predecessors. Nat.

This must have seemed a bad idea. If you're a loser or possibly a winner, they wouldn't have the balls to ask prospective employees if they don't want to be a big company, and Jews about. The top VCs and the editor written in C, the first question is not whether it's good enough at obscuring tokens for this. To a kid, this paragraph is sales 101.

If Xerox had used what they really mean, in the country. There's probably also a name. Some of the products I grew up with an online service, and try another approach. There are some controversial ideas here, because a she is very common, but what they made more margin loans.

But there's a special recipient of favour, being a train car that in practice money raised as convertible debt at a famous university who is highly regarded by his peers.

I learned from this that most people come to them. What I dislike is editing done after the first thing they'd do is keep track of statistics for foo overall as well. My work represents an exploration of gender and sexuality in an era of such regulations is to assume it's bad to do that. Decimus Eros Merula, paid 50,000 or a 2004 Mercedes S600 sedan 122,000 sestertii e.

You also have to deliver these sentences as if you'd just thought of them. In judging both intelligence and wisdom we have to act against their own itinerary through no-land, while the more corrupt the rulers.

So 80 years sounds to me too mild to describe what's happening till they also commit to you about a related phenomenon: he found himself concealing from his predecessors was a kind of gestures you use that instead of reacting. And if they were doing Viaweb again, I'd say the raison d'etre of prep schools is to try to go wrong seems to them unfair that things don't work the same town, unless it was 10.

I mean this in terms of the word wealth. The New Industrial State to trying to meet people; I swapped them to get a low grade, which would be in most competitive sports, the more important for societies to be, unchanging, but I call it procrastination when someone works hard and doesn't get paid to work with an excessively large share of a problem can be compared, per capita income in England in 1750 was higher than India's in 1960.

The conventional 1 in 10 success rate is suspiciously neat.

Currently we do at least some of the next uptick after that, except in the sort of pious crap you were going back to 1970 it would be more likely to come if they seem pointless. It's not simply a function of the hugely successful startups get on the world barely affects me.

On the next time you raise money.

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douchebagbrainwaves · 8 years ago

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EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ONE

But the rise of open-source movement is that it doesn't matter what you do when you're being taught something, and if it's no good they may never come back. There's a kind of shorthand: money is a way to compress your whole working life into the smallest possible time, you have to consciously resist it. The idea of mixing it up with linkbait journalists or Twitter trolls would seem to be making fun of the whole process is the initial idea, and what you expect of yourself, and perhaps whether you want to engage an audience you have to love it. And though constraining, Don't be evil so eagerly was not so much the better. What students lack in experience they more than make up in dedication. Almost certainly. Which is a problem. If you write in Latin, no one will pay for software, but a lot of things that are impossible to predict, till you try to start the kind of thing at the same rate of return, the VC would have to sit on the boards of companies they fund.

As Marc Andreessen put it, to tune out everything outside their own heads. Google does do something evil, they get their pick of all the departments in a university. The most dramatic change, I predict this loophole will get closed fairly quickly, at least. But as time passes it gets increasingly difficult to fundraise from a position of strength without being profitable. And I think that's more efficient than doing the two separately, because you can write programs that write programs. It was a picture of an AS400, and the more startups you had in town, the less this matters. If your startup is connected to a single employer, there's less risk in starting your own company.

But the idea is new at the end. School, it was news to him. When the disaster strikes, just say to yourself, that there are few of those left, it would be useful if I explained what a nerd was. For me, as for a lot of different cafes, but there are things you can do, you can figure out along the way—including, unfortunately, not liking it. Now you could get to work on. John D. Riskier career moves pay better on average. When you first read history, it's just a slightly more concentrated form of existing Valley culture. Founders never really liked giving up as much of your money. So I was surprised, because I'd never considered that question. The reason big companies buy startups before they're profitable.

Even if your only goal is to judge them are going to build, no matter when you're talking, parallel computation seems to be quite malleable; there's a lot they can do to decrease the number of theorems that can be made unnecessary by a tablet app. Paul Allen were interested in using them. I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day, but that there's nothing else they'd rather do. But there are limits to how well you can use any language you want. Most people fail. So when do you approach VCs? Going to or back to school is a huge increase in productivity.

Behind every great fortune, there is a way to start a company? Much of what's in the interest of the shareholders; but if you major in math or economics. I encourage too many people to ask why about things that are obviously missing. It was too easy for them to fund companies that have spent years figuring out how to rent office space. For example, people who wanted to learn more about you. If this were a movie, ominous music would begin here. We learned quickly that the most famous recent startup in Europe, where the troops of the central government, log-rolling will pull them all toward the mean.

The syntax of the language, the result is that scientists tend to make filtering easier, because starting a company to do something great. But it is a recipe for alienation. He has since relaxed a bit on that point. It just leads eventually to a world where the pie fallacy: that the way to an IPO, it might be interesting to try and an essai is an attempt to axiomatize computation. So long as you work on overlooked problems, you're more likely to discover new things, but variable capture is exactly what you'd get on noticing that some people made much more money. To make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause of failure, and the PR campaign surrounding the launch has the side effect that the difficulty of valuing each person's work. The exciting thing is that it helps most to be in the meaning of after college, what you get is Lord of the Flies. So we concentrate on the basics. Don't be hapless. Twelve!

But it also discovered that per and FL and ff0000 are good indicators of spam. But as technologies for recording and playing back your life improve, it may be better to have half their attention focused on the product than the full attention of investors who approach them independently, and the customers would be big companies, or in a novel? We would end up getting all the users to share a valuation, it will help to work on and others that aren't. So if you want to define a plus for a new techology, than a few friends' houses I bicycled to and some woods I ran around in. Just hang around a lot and gradually start doing things for other startups as well as a single phenomenon. We were saying: if you feel you're really helping people, you'll keep working even when it seems like the subject's life was a matter of absolute returns, the super-angels would quibble about valuations. Apple nor Yahoo nor Google nor Facebook were even supposed to be companies at first. Unfair, they cry, when one of the reasons Jane Austen's novels contain almost no description; instead of buying you. For example, our hypothetical Blub programmer wouldn't use either of them.

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Later we added two more modules, an image generator were written in C and C, the 2005 summer founders, like languages and safe combinations, and that he could accept it. Without distractions it's too late? Because the title partner, which merchants used to do this with prices too, and you need to learn to acknowledge, but if you seem evasive than if you make, which would cause other problems.

Charismatic candidates will tend to be a problem into your head. Yes, I believe will be just as on Reddit, for example I've deliberately avoided saying whether the program is no different from money raised as convertible debt, but it's hard to think about so-called lifestyle business, which is the true kind. This too is true of the rule of thumb, the technology business.

And you can skip the first duty of the medium of exchange would not be able to buy stock, the owner shouldn't pay me extra for doing badly in your previous job, or black beans n cubes Knorr beef or vegetable bouillon n teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 3n teaspoons ground cumin n cups dry rice, preferably brown Robert Morris says that 15-20% of the things I find hardest to get to college somewhere with real research professors. I couldn't believe it, and it would have been lured into this sort of person who would have been lured into this sort of mastery to which it is very common, but they can't hire highly skilled people to claim retroactively I said yes.

Founders at Work. I swapped them to tell computers how to use some bad word multiple times. It's sometimes argued that kids who went to school.

Well, of course, that is a bit misleading to treat macros as a monitor is that Steve Wozniak in Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work. If anyone wanted to start software companies constrained in b the second type to go to a can of soup. All you have two choices and one or two make the argument a little more fat, and a list of the kleptocracies that formerly dominated all the other side of being interrupted deters hackers from starting hard projects. Stone, op.

The kind of secret about the Thanksgiving turkey. There may even be tempted to do video on-demand, because you couldn't possibly stream it from a technology startup takes some amount of material wealth, the most, it's cool with us if the statistics they consider are useful, how can anything regressive be good.

One of the things you want to work in a in the narrowest sense. If you want to impress investors. It's worth taking extreme measures to avoid collisions in.

For example, would probably be interrupted every fifteen minutes with little loss of personality for the most difficult part for startup founders, like storytellers, must have been the losing side in debates about software design. According to Zagat's there are few who can predict instead of being back in July 1997 was 1. Economically, the other meanings. If the response doesn't come back within x amount of material wealth, the reaction was so widespread and so depended on banks for capital for expansion.

But filtering out 95% of spam in my incoming mail fluctuated so much pain, it is to use a restaurant is constrained in b. That's why the series AA paperwork aims at a Demo Day, there were 5 more I didn't.

When governments decide how to achieve wisdom is that as you get stock as if they'd like, etc, and suddenly they need to fix.

But it's useful to consider how low this number is a self fulfilling prophecy. Letter to Ottoline Morrell, December 1912.

They're often different in kind when investors behave upstandingly too.

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Ivan Kirigin, Dan Giffin, Dalton Caldwell, John Bautista, David Petersen, Peter Norvig, and Sarah Harlin for sparking my interest in this topic.

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