Thanks, this was the first time I came across this study. Will have to look more carefully into it - but, coming from an engineering background, I just love the engineer's approach behind this study:"... the intellectual effectiveness of a human can be significantly improved by an engineering-like approach toward redesigning changeable components of a system." (page 128)

How convenient!

And what would the artist, or sociologist, or musician say?

I'm especially interested in natural-language user interfaces in the closed up ecosystems (such as Siri, Google Assistant, or Alexa), and then those solutions that are more open.

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core is open.

Congrats on the new book. How come the ebook (Kindle) is more expensive than the physical one? With higher commissions (and no printing or logistics costs) for the ebook, I'd expect the other way around.

For me, on Amazon, I see the ebook as $14.99, hardcover as $19.60 and paperback as $24.87.

I'm surprised the hardcover is cheaper than the paperback.

It's $5 for me. Can you confirm if the price has been updated since you posted or maybe it's because I am from India.

Pre-ordered paperback for approx $8 from India

I'm not sure -- it's being set by the publisher, Penguin Portfolio (their business imprint).

Quite often ebooks (a "luxury" digital product) are taxed at full rate, whereas physical books are taxed at a lower educational rate, so that explains some of the difference.

Great start! I hope this is developed further. The issue always remains, what to include and what to leave out.

Yes, as with every model. Thanks for the acknowledgement!

The topic is highly interesting but the article lacks structure and the content isn't aligned with the heading.

I'd headline this "Some of my experiences with and thoughts on crowdfunding", instead of a "How-to."

Another option would be "What not to do when you seek to crowdfund your startup," as most of the subheads are "Don't do X."

I hope Joe writes more on the topic.

Thank you. You bring up a great point and I really debated over the title. I think the mechanics for D&R are pretty well known and most people are aware that it's a marketing effort that needs the extra work. I also think that once we connect the mechanics of Investment Crowdfunding to traditional fundraising, those steps become clearer too. So I didn't want to rehash a lot of what was already out there. The questions I get all the time come down to "How do I get started on this?" So I tried to couch it as that. Hopefully, an entrepreneur who is interested will then choose their Kickstarter or whatever or find the right IC platform like the one I linked to. I will write more on the subject. Thanks again!

kudos!

Great business model combination by these companies. The one focuses on hacking, the other on protecting from hacking.

I would think that the different national intelligence agencies would have high interest in infiltrating such companies.

> I would think that the different national intelligence agencies would have high interest in infiltrating such companies.

I bet in general non-governmental companies, especially with distributed offices, distributed sales teams, are especially easy to hack/infiltrate.

But NSO Group's target has never been other countries, it has been focused on helping governments infiltrate their citizen's and opponent's phones, which is a much softer target.

It's quite clever actually, why spend resources to try and infiltrate them - which is not a guarantee, when you can pay a fraction of the cost for their capabilities so you can focus your efforts on other nation states or your own citizens.

Good point: I think the cost of buying the service is much lower than the cost of any covert operations or infiltration. (This is a pure guess.)

I'm interested in this, too.

I wonder how long it'll take for Medium to block this? :)

We've emailed to Medium's security department about this issue, and the reply says that the method is intended.

https://github.com/swapagarwal/mediumship#disclaimer