outsized

Can I suggest that you focus on ways to create outsized value with software? This puts you several steps ahead of the game.

My great work would produce outsized results, and all of my quiet toiling would be vindicated. That day never came.

A survey with a small sample size, outsized extrapolations and numbers that don't match the accompanying conjecture. There should be consequences for the people who publish these things.

Germany did not have a property bubble and hence it did not have an outsized building sector crashing, taking huge numbers of jobs with it. German households have been saving like crazy forever.

The best way to be happy is to be grateful for what you have, not to constantly anticipate becoming famous or rich or having an outsized impact on the world when you haven't even made a tiny, local impact first. Have perspective.

The good news: if you wanted to become a millionaire on the web with reasonable but not outsized risk, ecommerce has pretty much been your best bet for the last 15 years or so. Getting an ecommerce businesses to the $1m-$50m revenue range has been done by many folks during that time.

This would be to compensate me for the additional risk, the additional workloads, plus the fact that I would be helping them add outsized value in terms of building the company for them.

He mentions that a lot of the money men involved were annoyed by hordes of small investors making seemingly outsized returns on their initial investments. I don't think he quiiiiite understands that they're not wrong: their outsized returns were essentially large gifts of surplus value from the founders to them.

So instead of paying a decent wage to the people who actually comprise the "college experience" for their students, they pay outsized amounts to further improve their already glittering campus so that it looks better on the 15 minute admissions tour that prospective students take. Somewhere the priorities are out of whack.

Sooner or later, I think all of us who are entrepreneurially inclined encounter the paradox of outsized ambition. Big dreams seem necessary to keep yourself motivated, and to overcome the crushing loneliness and uncertainty that comes with striking out on your own.

If you don't want to work at a company where a pencil-pushing meeting-dwelling financier is going to earn an outsized reward compared to your efforts as a software developer, don't work for VC-funded startups. On the other hand, VC-funded startups tend to work on fun speculative problems, because they're powered by other people's money.

There's fairly attractive options in angel investing these days, but taking any outside money would have an outsized effect on the character of my business at the moment, and I'm not ready to pull that trigger yet. Also, like consulting, raising an investment round is a very distracting event -- it basically commits you to months of doing near no productive work.

> one that has unfortunately attracted outsized attention and investment before correcting any number of glaring security issues. [links to bitcoin's own wiki about issues of which a small subset are security] bitcoin has fixed many, many security issues over the years.

Compared to working at 10 person startup where you have no idea if the company will be able to pay your salary six months from now, but where you can have a huge outsized impact on the product, sure. But if you compare how many users will get impacted by your work at Google, compared to at a typical startup, impact is also relative and it all depends on what you are comparing against.

From a cost-benefit perspective for the people involved, it's very easy for someone relatively unimportant to get an outsized influence on social interactions if they can easily reach people who actually matter with harassing comments, at virtually no cost to themselves. So why don't we use tools to shape the online discussion and feedback mechanisms, the same way we do with our email inboxes?

If it turns out that C02 will have an outsized impact on global warming, that alone, will likely suggest that Coal powered energy systems are fairly bad for the environment - in a much greater way than the discretely managed radioactive waste put off by nuclear power plants - which can be buried underground without changing the earths environment.

And while we might agree that it's logically possible for efficient and effective government to correct mistakes like those, the "money is speech" reality in the US gives such outsized power to lobbying interests that even an optimist has to rate effective "steering" of any definition of "essential services" as "unlikely". Never mind the basic question of whether it's at all desirable to force a youth from an underprivileged family to "buy" government-guaranteed education, instead of allowing him to spend even a fraction of the equivalent on a laptop, smartphone and developer tools -- or a 3d printer and amazon hosting services.