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The Time Devil: A Very Depressing Look at How Time Discounting can Ruin Us | Ozzie Gooen
https://bowlabs.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/the-time-devil-a-very-depressing-look-at-how-time-discounting-can-ruin-us
Currently working at 80,000 hours. The Time Devil: A Very Depressing Look at How Time Discounting can Ruin Us. This was originally my final research paper for The Economics of Technology and Growth class at Claremont Mckenna College. I spent lots of time thinking about it, eventually handing it in several days late, but was quite satisfied with the result (it was totally worth it). Or download the PDF. Depiction of Devil in Negotiation (Unknown). You’re walking through the woods and a devil appears. ...
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The Opportunity Cost of Events | Ozzie Gooen
https://bowlabs.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/the-human-cost-of-meetings-and-group-events
Currently working at 80,000 hours. The Opportunity Cost of Events. For a while I’ve been considering the costs of putting together large numbers of people. The cost scales roughly linearly, but sometimes it’s difficult to remember that. Putting together a mediocre presentation for 3 people is almost exactly half as bad as putting together one for 6 people. And when it’s for a few hundred, you should seriously be on top of your content. Cost Per Minute of Meeting. Meeting Cost = Time Money Destroyed = (co...
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How to Tell if a Web Company is Evil | Ozzie Gooen
https://bowlabs.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/how-to-tell-if-a-web-company-is-evil
Currently working at 80,000 hours. How to Tell if a Web Company is Evil. I’m sick of companies cherry picking specific features to explain how they help people. Specific features will always exist, and the existence of them ruins the point. The big question is, is it really the purpose of the company to help people, or is helping people an occasional externality of other goals they are trying to achieve? If a company were optimizing for people, it’s actions may look like this. It may be that most existin...
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Don’t Bash Entrepreneurs for Not Being Ambitious Enough | Ozzie Gooen
https://bowlabs.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/dont-bash-entrepreneurs-for-not-being-ambitious-enough
Currently working at 80,000 hours. Don’t Bash Entrepreneurs for Not Being Ambitious Enough. Seriously, please stop bashing entrepreneurs for not being ambitious enough. It’s like bashing nonprofit workers for not working hard enough to help people in need. 8220;If only these people were more ambitious, then our economy would be doing well.” ( photo. The basic argument, that I’ve heard time. For not caring enough. A short list of reasons not to demand entrepreneurs to be more ambitious:. 3) Photo apps sel...
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Designing the Feedhaven Ecosystem | Ozzie Gooen
https://bowlabs.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/feedhaven-ecosystem
Currently working at 80,000 hours. Designing the Feedhaven Ecosystem. We’ve been working a lot recently to figure out what the Feedhaven. System should look like. Right now it’s relatively simple, but to properly work in an ecosystem of applications it would need some additional complexities. In this case a Feedhaven Instance / Server is shown to the right. A user can set up their own Feedhaven instance, or can use a company’s hosted instance (like Feedhaven.com. Of course, the system still needs to be b...
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New Blog | Ozzie Gooen
https://bowlabs.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/new-blog
Currently working at 80,000 hours. I’ve ported my blog to ozziegooen.com. I’ve kept most of the content but will continue there. The main reasons for this were:. A) Bow Labs is not currently active. B) This blog was only me anyway. C) I wanted to try out Octopress/Jekyll. In a few weeks I’ll just forward this domain to that location. Goal Factoring: Silent Meeting Attendees. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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Goal Factoring: Silent Meeting Attendees | Ozzie Gooen
https://bowlabs.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/goal-factoring-quiet-meeting-attendees
Currently working at 80,000 hours. Goal Factoring: Silent Meeting Attendees. You know all of those people hanging around during a discussion while 1-3 people debate something? I think they’re likely a sign that something is wrong. Let’s look at the benefits and costs of having non-speaking entities in a meeting or discussion. How useful have these spare comments actually been in the past, specifically those that can’t be emailed to a specific party? Support for the speakers. The Opportunity Cost of Events.
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Plotting Capability Vs. Ambition | Ozzie Gooen
https://bowlabs.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/plotting-capability-vs-ambition
Currently working at 80,000 hours. Plotting Capability Vs. Ambition. When I was in school (up to college), I was often frustrated by a lack of ambition in students around me. The main problem in my area, to me, was a lack of ambition. Surely, all these people could have much more awesome and useful lives if they strived for more? 8221;) but very little capability. Heroes have lots of ambition and the capability to make it happen. “Genius slackers” are people who have lots of resources...Theoretically, we...
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Morality is Still on Very Flaky Foundations | Ozzie Gooen
https://bowlabs.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/morality-on-flaky-foundations
Currently working at 80,000 hours. Morality is Still on Very Flaky Foundations. Most people I know consider themselves to be relatively moral individuals, no matter what kind of morality they ascribe to. Almost every single piece of literature we read and a large majority of politics hangs onto the ideal of moral righteousness in one form or another. So when people like Peter Singer. Goes out and states that conventional morality is bullshit. And a moral standing upon them is difficult to de-couple from ...