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Invention is concerned with things and ideas, innovation is all about people and relationships.

New blog: Bootstrapping Your Way from Services to Scalable Products. Ellen Grace Henson explains how many companies bootstrap from services to scalable products. skmurphy.com/blog/2026/02/1…

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The saddest two word phrase: in mice.

If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting for a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it has more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.

We spend $1 million per person to reduce homelessness in LA. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again & expecting a different result.

"Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge." Erwin Knoll

“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Gig economy → Creator economy → Founder economy. Each wave gave more people leverage. This one gives domain experts the tools to build companies, not just audiences. The Creator Economy needed followers. The Founder Economy needs customers. We're early.

@Observer_124 @TrentTelenko Apparently not by the Iranians. They still have heat seeking SAMs and were able to use at least one of them somewhat effectively. It almost certainly had to be launched from rear quarter which means they needed to hold fire until they had the angle.

Radar stealth isn't stealth against passive visual or imaging heat sensors.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." Kurt Vonnegut in "Mother Night" (1962)

Websites are dead, your agents will talk to their agents, is the daftest idea ever. Even in the areas people assume it will work, like procurement or contract negotiation. Real life just doesn't work like this.

How LLMs Really Do Arithmetic

"There's a fundamental connection between seeming and being. We all become what we pretend to be. Everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story." Patrick Rothfuss in The Name of the Wind (2007)

@porlando In my very limited experience with top tier consulting teams retained for a business analysis, the result they needed to deliver was often explained and agreed to verbally up front. It does not appear in the statement of work but it's nonetheless quite clear.

@porlando There is always a market for sweet and soothing words of praise. If I were less of a grumpy jackass I might be able to pursue that opportunity with more success, so I am forced to fall back on painful need to deliver results. Choose wisely within your limits to adapt.

“Our estimate of the metaverse’s potential impact by 2030 is based on a bottom-up view of consumer and enterprise use cases, derived from discussions with around 20 internal and external experts...

@porlando It's hard to tell the king he is buck naked.

“Metaverse may be $800 billion market, next tech platform” -- Bloomberg Intelligence forecast December 2021

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🧵 1/14: Just days after Paul Ehrlich (the man whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted billions would starve) passed away, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the scientist who proved Ehrlich and other doomsayers spectacularly wrong. Meet Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy who launched the Green Revolution and quite literally saved a billion lives. This is the ultimate story of human ingenuity triumphing over scarcity.