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Inbox 0 — Startup Hacks by Alex Iskold

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We all love tweets because they are short, but emails are not. What they are is stress. Counterintuitively though, the stress is NOT cause by sheer volume of emails. It is caused by chaotic way that we typically process them, and by the fact that new emails arrive while we are answering existing ones.

Jim Collins on The Stockdale Paradox

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Because despite all those circumstances, I never ever wavered in my absolute faith that not only would I prevail—get out of this—but I would also prevail by turning it into the defining event of my life that would make me a stronger and better person. Not only that, Jim, you realize I’m the lucky one.”  

I said, “No, I don’t.”  

He said, “Yes, because I know the answer to how I would do, and you never will.”

Robot dog enforces social distancing in city park

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A robot dog is patrolling one of Singapore’s parks as part of coronavirus-related trial.

The machine - made by US-based Boston Dynamics - is fitted with a camera to monitor how busy Bishan-Ang Moh Kio Park becomes.

It also carries a loudspeaker to broadcast social-distancing messages.

This seems completely safe.

Permanence

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The only way to preserve something is to make multiple copies and distribute them. The problem with digital is that it makes it just as easy to accidentally delete or lose copies as it is to create them. Evolving file formats and storage devices require constant supervision and maintenance, pushing files up each technology bump from floppies to CDs to Zip disks to DVDs to hard drives. It never ends.