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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jul 2018
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    Has anybody written anything about the art of throwing money at a problem?

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      2. David Taggart-PDMacro.com‏ @DavidTaggart 18 Jul 2018
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        sunk cost effect. Lots of pieces written about that

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jul 2018
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        No that’s throwing good money after bad. I’m not talking about sunk costs but money as a substitute for strategy

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      2. Simon Wardley‏ @swardley 19 Jul 2018
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        Well, if you send me bathtubs of cash ... I will.

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      3. Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理‏ @littleidea 19 Jul 2018
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        I would probably solve this for a mere bathtub of cash.

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      2. Elizabeth Franklin‏ @e_frankl 18 Jul 2018
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        This is a great topic Venkatesh. Sometimes you're in a situation where the best solution really is to throw money at something, usually quickly. When you need to do it, you need to do it well.

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      3. Andy Raskin‏ @araskin 19 Jul 2018
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        A Japanese cameraman once told me, as I filled our rental car with gas near the airport—thereby forcing us to rush for our flight—お金で解決できる問題は、お金で解決しろ: If your problem can be solved with money, solve it with money

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      1. 🅂🅃🄾🄿‏ @StopAndDecrypt 18 Jul 2018
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        Every ICO whitepaper.

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      1. strangeattractor‏ @strangeattracto 18 Jul 2018
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        That's sort of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's approach to international development. They write things occasionally. Jeffrey Sach's book The End of Poverty and his approach to the Millennium Development goals, though less self-aware. And the Give Directly people.

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        For $100, I'll write about my experiences throwing quarters at people.

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