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Why Tim Cook left Compaq in 1998 for Apple, even though it made little sense on paper (at the time, Apple was almost broke): He trusted his intuition just after five minutes into his interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who can be very convincing when he hires. – [VIDEO]

Chris F. Masse — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:02:00 +0000

Apple COO and acting leader Tim Cook has addressed the Auburn University students at their 2011 commencement.

Tim Cook believes in precognition ( ). “Intuition has the potential to direct or redirect you in a way that is best for you.” – (8:24 into).

Tim Cook talking about Apple starting at 3:45:

REMINDER: Steve Jobs’s 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University:

Dan Pink on motivation – Money (for mechanical tasks) – Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose (for cognitive tasks) – [VIDEO]

Chris F. Masse — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:47:56 +0000

Philippe Kahn: Luck has more importance for your career/startup than skills and hard work.

Chris F. Masse — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:10:33 +0000

But here’s the twist: The more you work, the luckier you become.

CrowdCast wanna hire “kick ass Ruby engineers”.

Chris F. Masse — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:58:16 +0000

I saw that on Mat Fogarty’s LinkedIn page. Contact CrowdCast, if you feel your IT ass is “kicking”.

[List of their competitors.]

Super Freakonomics, prostitution, and feminism

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:57:31 +0000

How I make at least $1,000 a month working on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:20:16 +0000

“How I make at least $1,000 a month working on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.”

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Via the 2 NYC research scientists.

A stealth prediction market company seeks a CTO.

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:57:35 +0000

A stealth prediction market company seeks a CTO. This C-level team member will have considerable freedom to develop an already successful product. You will be compensated via a mix of cash and equity.

While we have not revealed the product to the public, we are already working with several major media companies, particularly in television and advertising.

You should have an interest in:
– Fulfilling a product vision already begun by former CTO
– Background / interest in trading or market technologies
– Expanding the product with new features of your own design
– Finding ways to integrate the product into Twitter, vice versa.
– Developing (or overseeing development of) Facebook / iPhone apps

All interested applicants encouraged to apply at stealthpm@gmail.com. We’re looking for someone who wants to hit a home run and is ready to make it happen.

Your LinkedIn group on Prediction Markets now has a job board.

Chris F. Masse — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:54:32 +0000

Companies,

You are welcome to use it to make your “help wanted” announcements.

333 members —growing every day.

InTrade.Net’s free workforce: Calling a spade… a spade.

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:39:50 +0000

Here’s my answer to Jamie Burrows:

Midas Oracle is an independent publication —independent from InTrade, and from the other prediction market organizations. We say what we want, here.
As I explained in my comment, there are 2 situations. Case #1 is Inkling Markets and HubDub who ask for volunteers and make it clear that there is no compensation for managing the play-money prediction markets. Case #1 is as clear as spring water. Case #2 is InTrade.Net who ask for volunteers and lure them by floating a “compensation“ who would be made up of proceeds from Google AdWords/AdSense. The problem is that it is well known that this program brings peanuts for the sites and pages that receive a low web traffic. (And for the high-traffic sites, the revenue collected from ads doesn’t pay for the time spent on writing for the web publication. See #4.)
Luring small people into thinking they can get “compensated” by working for InTrade.Net is thus highly un-ethical —to say the least.
My dear Jamie, isn’t the role of independent publications to inform readers about things that big corporations want to hide from the public?

InTrade put up a help wanted sign: WE WANT SLAVES.

Chris F. Masse — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:20:23 +0000

Here is the e-mail they are sending out:

Dear [Chris F. Masse of Midas Oracle],

We want to give interested people the ability to direct the development of Intrade.net. We are looking for people to list and settle markets, write and update content, publish videos, and moderate the community, in a similar way to a Wiki.

What’s in it for you?

* Recognition. You will be recognized as the person who listed a killer market on Intrade.
* Affiliation. Connect with like minded people in your area using our Prediction Market map.
* Compensation. You will get 40% of the Google Adwords revenue from “your” markets. [*]

Why are we doing this? We believe the “wisdom of our crowd” of members is greater than that of our small team.

If you are interested in being some of the very first directors of Intrade.net I am eager to hear from you on john.delaney@intrade.net.

Best regards,

John Delaney
CEO
Intrade.com

Twitter: JDelaneyIntrade
Youtube: John Delaney
Telephone: 011 353 1 685 4401
E-Mail: john.delaney@intrade.com

[*] = peanuts

P.S.: Google AdSense, actually.

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