Are you sure it’s necessary to know about competitor moves the instant they happen? I’m a salesman not a PM but I don’t feel the least bit embarrassed about hearing of a competitor feature from a customer. In fact now I have an opportunity to ask them questions about their need.
Why should they if they’re buying some commoditized item on amazon, for example? I bought an ergonomic ice pack for my knee this morning, something I couldn’t find in the store near
my house. Why should I scroll past the first, cheapest, decent looking item that meets my
needs? As a moral duty, perhaps. At any rate, advertisement doesn’t necessarily mean scam.
In that scenario I can understand paying attention to ads, even though I personally don't. But normals will stay tuned in and eyes glued even for television ads pitching things they have no interest in. Hypnotized by the machine, indifferent to the commercial propaganda. Even asking them to mute the ads is met with puzzlement.
When you pay for an advertised product you're also paying for their advertising budget hence most likely not the best price/quality. Sure, not 100% true all the time, sometimes there's a liquidation of stock or something like that.
I don’t know if you’ll see this but I followed your lead, bought an ipad+pencil, subscribed to math academy, and have been using the “math notes” feature on the iOS calculator. This is the self-study workflow I’ve been dreaming of. Thank you!!!
>> “You keep holding on to hope, then breaking it, and moving forward by picking up ideas from the ashes,” [Baek] said in an interview with a web magazine published by Korean Institute for Advanced Study.
“I’m closer to a daydreamer by nature, and for me mathematical research is a repetition of dreaming and waking up.”
Professional mathematician here. Jin's description is spot on. Each repetition of the cycle he describes above feels like you're able to see things in progressively higher resolution. Then one day you wake up and realize you're now an expert.
I think they probably mean “article that’s meant to share research but mostly shares anecdotes”. It’s a common framing for this kind of thing though, so they probably have to close a lot of articles after the first sentence.
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