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Jean-Maxime Riviere
Jean-Maxime Riviere

Jean-Maxime Riviere

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From Startup Annual Planning 3: Performance Reviews and Individual Goals by Kwindla Hultman Kramer

I have never found it useful to set quantitative goals, or even to have specific quarterly goals, for most individuals at early stage companies. If you haven’t found product-market fit, yet, and don’t know what marketing and sales channels will really work for you, it’s very hard to set meaningful quantitative goals.

From The Logic of Risk Taking by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

As we saw, a situation is deemed non ergodic here when observed past probabilities do not apply to future processes. There is a “stop” somewhere, an absorbing barrier that prevents people with skin in the game from emerging from it –and to which the system will invariably tend. Let us call these situations “ruin”, as the entity cannot emerge from the condition. The central problem is that if there is a possibility of ruin, cost benefit analyses are no longer possible.[i]

From Stop Trapping Yourself with To Do Lists by Elouise

erpromise ourselves w… hard-wired to get a high off things like this and have trouble following through with the hard part. It’s easy to get carried away and overpromise ourselves while chronically underdelivering.

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“Neo Banks” vs “Neo Insurers”

Paul Morgenthaler

Creating an Opera Booking Bot in Node.js

Fabien Rahaingo

The Logic of Risk Taking

Nassim Nicholas Taleb