Author Archives: daveatrice

In the 10+ NIH study sections that I attended in my past life as an academic, one failure mode that repeatedly arises is the False Negative due to the Curse of Experience.  The Reviewers in the Study Section, being experts in their field, are so used to thinking about problems in a particular way thatContinue reading “False Negatives due to the Curse of Experience”

Those that settle, do not settle,Those who pan cannot be those who plan.Those who are gild, have their own guild,But those appearing pure, one can’t be sure. Water washes away the porous, leaving only the dense.Few resist the chorus, nearly no one has any sense.Acid melts away the reactive, leaving only the noble.But do youContinue reading “Gold (poem)”

Every artist must create his own art. The world has through all of history had an extreme paucity of true artists.

All successful startups are alike, all failed startups fail in their own unique ways.

Some people say that “Times flies when you’re having fun.”  That is utter bullshit.  Time flies when you’re not being productive.  When you’re being highly productive, you are also having fun, but time dilates and each day feels like three because you’ve done the work a lesser man would have taken as long to complete. 

To be very successful, one has to be both extremely reasonable, and reasonably extreme. The opposite of a good strategy is often another good strategy.  The opposite of a bad strategy is often just common sense. Punctuated equilibrium.  In business, as in evolution, there are long periods of small, predictable change follow by short periodContinue reading “TotD”