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Re: Mocked And Misunderstood

vadadean — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:16:41 -0000

Reminds me of how Mario Livio described Galois' plight in "The Equation That Could Not Be Solved":

New ideas are judged by old knowledge.

Re: The visionary’s lament

vadadean — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:13:49 -0000

My visionary lament: "New ideas are judged by old knowledge." That's why reality distortion fields and evangelism are so important. They buy me time until my vision and reality converge. They converge as the new experiences create new knowledge. They converge as reality shapes my vision. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Re: Introducing GetGlue’s First Music Partnership: Exclusive Stickers from Maroon 5

vadadean — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:16:26 -0000

"One small step for GetGlue, one giant leap for content owners." It's great to see GetGlue helping Hollywood and the music industry harvest fan value left on the table for over a decade. Gobs of interactions occur around content and here is a new way to convert it. Res Firma!

Re: things happening in 3's and other rants....

vadadean — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:29:18 -0000

This comment does not directly address your rants but it does exemplify the need for great production.

http://embracethis.co.uk/

And you gotta love the producer's comments:
( http://www.sussexsaferroads... )

"When Daniel came to me with the idea, I thought it was brilliant and just said yes immediately. Of course I then had to sit down later and think about the realities of it. The challenge was huge as we needed state of the art camera technology, more lighting than they use on a Hollywood feature film and a team of very experienced people that knew what they were doing and could rig and shoot within the tightest of schedules."

Re: Announcing Our Investment in Venmo

vadadean — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:32:54 -0000

Implied permission is one of the biggest benefits of earning trust. My closest friends and family have implied permission to access my stuff and vice versa. Nice to see Venmo expressing this in the virtual world.

Re: 23 Rules of Thumb for Effective Blogging

vadadean — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:38:56 -0000

Yep, this crowd likes to be kept on its toes.

Re: 23 Rules of Thumb for Effective Blogging

vadadean — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:47:02 -0000

I had to laugh at #17. Sometimes, linking/commenting feels like throwing an apple of discord among my peeps.

Re: pre-spring break rant

vadadean — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:32:38 -0000

Not sure if this falls into your "rant" theme, but, after reading this letter I immediately thought you would like what Mamet has to say: http://www.slashfilm.com/20...

Re: Rewards and Monetization

vadadean — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:44:37 -0000

In the advertising world, context is the new adjacency.

Re: When There Is No Manual

vadadean — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:46:31 -0000

Leaders not only tease out tough choices they also foster accountability. In other words, managers hold team members accountable while team members hold themselves accountable to leaders (and each other).

Re: Updates to GetGlue.com: Improved Commenting and Navigation

vadadean — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:11:18 -0000

Love the comments filter. I can easily find my conversations. However, I don't know the status of my conversations because I can't see the replies from other participants in the conversation. Would love to see a "first comment" view, "current comment" view, and a verbose "all comments" view. Choosing these views locally by conversation or globally would be helpful.

Re: The Herd Instinct

vadadean — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:36:07 -0000

Billy Beane came up with counterintuitive metrics that changed baseball (*Beane Ball). His system looked beyond averages and evaluated players in the context of high leverage situations (e.g. late inning pressure situations) and in the context of raw ability (e.g. defense independent pitching stats). The lack of transparency in the VC world would make comparable stats difficult.

Perhaps your idea of capital heat maps overlaid with LP cycles can provide the situation context for metrics regarding deal flow, money deployed, teams backed, and exits. Wrap this in Monte Carlo simulations powered by DISTs (distribution strings) and some really cool tools develop.

NOTE: props to Dr. Sam Savage and his book "The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty"
http://www.amazon.com/Flaw-...

Re: The Herd Instinct

vadadean — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:06:39 -0000

Bean ball for VCs and entrepreneurs sounds intriguing. What critical situations can we observe and measure?

Re: The Herd Instinct

vadadean — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:04:36 -0000

With or without GPS, we have to DR/AH (dead reckon / alter heading) until we get there.

Love the "scan" metaphor. I've felt the flow and the rust in the cockpit, on a basketball court, on a manufacturing floor, behind a mixing board, at a negotiating table, and leading a startup.

Re: The Herd Instinct

vadadean — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:55:22 -0000

"Sheep have only two speeds: graze and stampede." -LTC (RET) Dave Grossman

Re: Enough Is Enough

vadadean — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:23:32 -0000

Twitter has been overrun by spammers and lazy sellers. It's unfortunate because updates and conversations I've had with people like you have made Twitter a wonderous tool. My friend Steffan Antonas shares our frustration on his blog: "Focusing on Value: How I'm Changing How I Use Twitter" -- http://bit.ly/3VWjc9

Re: seeing emotion

vadadean — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:22:17 -0000

Never underestimate the power of a great story:

http://jeffhurtblog.com/200...

Re: It’s Good To Be The Guru!

vadadean — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:42:53 -0000

It's encouraging to see GetGlue and Foursquare use game mechanics to reward behavior beneficial to members of communities. It's much more effective than punishing members of communities whose behavior is out-of-bounds (e.g. suing community members for sharing music with other community members).

Re: Focusing On Value: How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter

vadadean — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:23:50 -0000

If you enter Twitter-land with commercial intent then your message will likely fall on deaf ears. If you enter with connection intent then you will find a cadre of conversationalists welcoming you.

As for content crossing the line, I'll quote more eloquent writers:

"Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about." -Cory Doctorow

"We call it advertising when we're not interested in it. When we're interested in it we call it information." -Vint Cerf

Re: Focusing On Value: How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter

vadadean — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:44:39 -0000

Since I use Twitter to engage and stay connected, my follower and follow ratio has almost been 1:1. Our more famous brethren don't have this luxury. Their ratios can exceed 1000:1 because so many people are interested in what they have to say. Clay Shirky describes this phenomenon...

Fame happens: "The famous are different from you and me, because they cannot return or even acknowledge the attention they get, and technology cannot change that."

It's really cool that Twitter supports both use cases. It's tragic that many users make the fame use case a goal.

Re: Focusing On Value: How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter

vadadean — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:44:30 -0000

I've kept my follows low because I could not manage the connection. I also use TweetDeck to create priority lists of those I follow.

New followers are mostly spammers. I would estimate a 2:1 ratio.

Re: Music Sites

vadadean — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:53:10 -0000

I wonder how skewed this data might be by music site data consistency. Not only is Wikipedia a rich data store, the data tends to be predictably organized / tagged. The high MySpace ranking might throw this right out the window. However, the lower Amazon ranking could result from Amazon's uncanny ability to confuse semantic engines with granularity and unpredictable data presentation.

Re: Teaching Grit: The Growth Mindset vs. The Fixed Mindset

vadadean — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:30:24 -0000

My biggest success lessons happened on the basketball court and the wrestling mat. Sacrifice, determination, effort, and teamwork were quickly rewarded with victory. Once addicted to victory, grit was a given.

Re: Motion City Soundtrack

vadadean — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:57:18 -0000

Are you sure you want your Disqus avatar to be that one? LOL

Re: Motion City Soundtrack

vadadean — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:56:40 -0000

The branding line says "blog comments powered by DISQUS". I wonder if we can drop the word "blog"?