Gary Basin  

@garybasin

Always Learning 📖 // Finance💹+💡Technology // 🧠Psychology ➡️ My best ideas in 140 words/week:

Chicago, IL
Joined January 2014

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    Feb 1
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  2. Rules change slower than people's minds. Before the 2000s, demand for housing was absorbed by suburban sprawl. Nothing in their way. Now everyone wants to live in cities, but the cities aren't changing zoning quickly enough. For better or worse, a lot of pain is created.

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  3. Jan 31

    What does it mean to be Smart? Just because I can do things that require thinking in abstractions doesn't mean I make good decisions

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  4. Jan 31

    Free startup idea: Privacy and Speed-oriented web browser for business users. B2b SaaS model Chromium base, Strip all ads and trackers (Brave minus crypto junk), don't allow extensions except from a pre-approved list, built-in (or rebuild functionality), etc.

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  5. Jan 30
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  6. Jan 30

    This is very cool Like Medium for How to do a job

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  7. Jan 28

    What's your biggest gripe with Google Search? What should it be able to do but can't? It's a fun exercise to identify the little frictions in day-to-day experiences.

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  8. Jan 27
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  9. Jan 27

    "The sooner you have a brand strategy, the sooner you’ll have both your North Star and your rudder. With the overwhelmingly numerous possibilities for your business right now, your brand strategy shines the spotlight on the ones worth your while so that you can ace those."

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  10. Jan 27

    “Brand is in this sense like your culture. Whether you deliberately craft it or not, you have culture, whether intentional or not. Same with brand.”

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  11. Jan 26
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    "What is the future of operating systems?" Is a great question that comes up quite a bit (like yesterday). "Future of" is always tricky but one thing is always the case in software, which is everything interesting in tech moves "up the stack". Thoughts… 1/

    What is the best computer for you? magazine cover with bill gates.
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  13. Jan 26

    “A brand is who you are, what you bring to the world, and how you do it...if you aren’t going to go through the trouble to define it, how can you expect customers to take the trouble to see you and care about you?”

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  14. Jan 24

    Why are there no search engines that I can pay $20/mo for that will be ad and spam free?

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  15. Jan 23

    "Do I have some advice on how they could manage their time better? My answer is always a version of “no, but I don’t think time is your problem, focus is”. " - 👏👏👏🎯

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  16. Jan 23

    Request for Startup: Rubber duck yourself 🐥 "Talking to Myself or How I Trained GPT2-1.5b for Rubber Ducking using My Facebook Chat Data"

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  17. Jan 23

    Much of our anxiety is generated by choosing to feel like a victim. "What I’ve learned is that most of our problems occur when we don’t see our own power anymore. When we’ve become small and think we’ve gotten the shorter end of the stick."

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  18. Jan 22

    When considering something new, ask yourself: Why now? What technological or cultural shift makes this the right time? If none, why doesn't it exist already? Why did it fail before?

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  19. Jan 22

    "What's not being said?" - That Scary Thought you have is probably shared by the people around you. It's worth it to bring it up asap.

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    Jan 20

    Most people underestimate the number of steps needed to reach their goal, but overestimate their difficulty. If life was a video game, there would be few bosses, but many levels

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