On Friday 06 September 2002 06:16 am, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> I don't know what exactly is wrong, but something is definitely wrong.
> This is way too important to be left to just our intuition of what is
> right and what is wrong.
This is one of those formally difficult points from a philosophy
perspective.   You can't really throw out intuition and emotion because
reason really only gets you answers that reflect the genome and the
ancestral environment.   Going forward requires creativity and experiment.
Eirikur

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Re: Startups, Bubbles, and Unemployment (fwd)
From fork-admin@xent.com  Wed Aug 28 10:50:16 2002

> Ultimately, there was a big
> disagreement about how to sell the product (sales guys wanted to sell
> the thing for a gazillion dollars to megaclients, but we thought it
> would make more sense to get more people using it so we could get more
> feedback from many different places).  The bottom line was that the
> route we wound up going (megaclients for megabucks) had a megalong
> sales cycle.  The sales force staffed up and tried to sell the
> earliest releases of the software -- even succeeding in a few
> significant cases -- but couldn't get enough to cover their own
> expenses, much less the actual development of the product.
Now where have I seen that before.... oh yeah... its happening to me right
now...