Comments on: Why I Can’t Read Novels Anymore

By: SKMurphy » Information That’s Not Written Down

SKMurphy » Information That’s Not Written Down — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:14:16 +0000

[...] “Ideation on social media, venture capital and startups”) in response to his “Why I can’t Read Novels Anymore Post” that I thought I would rescue from the obscurity of the comments and post here for the half [...]

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:21:48 +0000

We're all doomed :)

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:21:04 +0000

@Sean

The law of 10,000 hours is one I have studied. While it's interesting, it's not the law.

Knowing how to assess people is definitely very important, but without blogs and the internet you are not exposed to nearly as many people.

I use blogs as a 'foot-in-the-door" to learn about new people, companies and ideas. If I find something truly scintillating, I always follow-up in person.

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:21:48 +0000

We're all doomed :)

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:21:48 +0000

We're all doomed :)

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:21:04 +0000

By: Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:03:02 +0000

I am not a venture capitalist but have some experience working with them and I would think much of the key or differentiating information in they rely on is not on the web. It seems to me it's more about being able to judge people rather than encyclopedic knowledge of technology and financial trends. As an analogy: it's the difference between knowing the probability distributions of poker hands--necessary but not sufficient--and knowing how to assess people. The deep trends are visible in the "long nose of innovation." What society will do with them is harder to predict.

The latest data on developing expertise is that it takes approximately 10,000 hours (or 10-12 years) of practice, and actually requires "deliberate practice" so that you don't experience the same year over and over. See for example http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsso...

I don't fault your goals, but I do question your methods.

By: Dara

Dara — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:39:13 +0000

That is something that I fear will soon happen to me. I find the more I spend my day on the computer reading blogs and sucking up information like a sponge, the less pages of my novel-for-fun-reading I consume before bed at night…

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:45:24 +0000

@Sean…Well the know-how I want to develop is expertise in the social media and venture capital industries. IN our current era, information and knowing where to access information (quickly) is a major asset, especially in the technology space.

I agree that none of those are the 'world' but the way things are going, I have lots of multiple worlds and each has varying priorities.

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:41:37 +0000

@Henry I will definitely give these a whirl and then update this post. Thanks for pointing them out!