Interesting writing style.

I really like the quote; "It's always the meta-game that gets you." (which is the whole point of the essay really).

Basically, if you think that you've found a way to win the mini-game that you're playing - you're being a coyote - so watch out! Because when that mini-game ends, the bigger, meta game is going to blow up and end your fun.

It's basically the concept of "finite" vs "infinite" games: Don't play an infinite game like a finite game. You'll think that you're clever and winning while you're playing - but the game will always get you in the end.

Somehow this reminds me of quarterly results and technical debt vs long term success.

“Somehow”

:)

Seth Godin has a great line about how the first person to put a urinal in an art museum was an artist, but the second person to do it was a plumber.

It makes an interesting thought experiment about what makes art, what it means to be "creative", and how the world may (or may not) appreciate your work...

I strongly suspect art museums had sanitary plumbing long before it moved to the gallery area.

Grayson Perry has a far more insightful critique.

https://www.windsorflorida.com/app/uploads/2017/11/Grayson-P...

If you have £15,000 to spare you can buy a print and hang it on your wall.

Its the common conversation "I could have done that" "But you didn't do that"

Most things are easy to copy, coming up with the idea in the first place is the hard part.

I'm confused. Does this mean that the "real plumber" was an artist; or the art museum didn't have WC before putting a urinal art piece.

Yeah, I can see how that's confusing. My take is that the first person to display a urinal (as an art piece) was an artist - but the second person to _try_ to display a urinal (as an art piece) was just a plumber (meaning: not an artist).

Succinctly, it's the same as telling a joke a second time to the same audience.

Note that they are only shutting down pop-up stores that feature (it sounds like) all Amazon products like Kindle, etc. NOT their cashierless "Go" stores. It sounds like they figured out that dedicated physical locations for Amazon products don't make sense like it does for Apple, etc.

I was scared for a second. I'm really loving the amazon go store (though, it also happens to be downstairs from where I work).

Same here! Super jealous though because the closest one is a 20 min drive. I wish I had one closer because they're such a great shopping experience.

Amazon devices aren't premium. In fact, they're more the opposite.

People are less excited to come and play with them because they're (for many people) easily affordable unlike Apple products where a try before you part with a lot of money is a bigger 'thing'.

Makes more sense to have them in go stores, whole foods, etc...

I bought my parents an echo because they had them on sale at whole foods around christmas.

As a dedicated Apple user, the Apple stores are invaluable for fixing hardware issues or diagnosing them.

I think pytorch is more popular in research, but TF is the most popular for commercial applications right now