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Jake Solomon

22 year old graduate of various bay area hippie schools plus Occidental College '09 in Economics.

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January 13, 2012

Incentives

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Coherent policy documents INCREASE the number of incoming emails because laymen understand the implications.

Coherent developer documents DECREASE the number of support emails because laymen understand the implications.

The policy result.
The developer result.

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December 16, 2011

Charts with explosions now easier than ever

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Charts with explosions now easier than ever
via flowingdata.com

I think this is my favorite thing of the year.

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December 15, 2011

Love on the internet

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December 15, 2011

bad bad bad GReader density controls

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It seems the committee couldn't decide so they're deferring to users?  Useless settings are bad in and of themselves, but they are also a sign of a dysfunctional decision making process and extreme internal risk aversion.

(download)
Click here to download:
bad_bad_bad.zip (340 KB)

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December 13, 2011

Trillion-frame-per-second video - MIT News Office

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Trillion-frame-per-second video
via web.mit.edu

...holy shit.

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November 21, 2011

Primary care

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Primary care is going to look more and more like call centers.  Inventory management. Supply chain.  Data driven.  PCs networked under large technology umbrellas.  Monitoring via sensing technologies and surveys.  Like SC2?  Like...Battlefield 3?
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November 14, 2011
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When Gov tax > Sea tax

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November 10, 2011

Social music

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To what extent has Spotify integration with FB changed the music people listen to?  Visible listening is now listening pleasure + signalling.  What is the signal value of music?
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October 31, 2011
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"Patients who do well are celebrated.  Those who don't are ashamed."
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October 25, 2011

ING rocks

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On and off the phone with questions answered in under 2 minutes.  Always impressed.
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