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Ed Zitron's Where's...
They're Looting The Internet Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram...
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10 months ago
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period....
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Google’s social strategy It is widely believed that Facebook presents a significant competitive threat to Google. Google...
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over a year ago
It is widely believed that Facebook presents a significant competitive threat to Google. Google itself seems to believe this – Larry Page…
Rest of World -...
China’s EV giant BYD is picking up speed in Jordan How Jordan became a battleground for Chinese EVs.
a year ago
Noahpinion
The Democrats are a strong party, the Republicans are a weak party It's Boss Tweed vs. Boss Tweet.
4 months ago
Working Theorys
When founders outgrow their startups On the rise of personal power and the new founders' dilemma.
6 months ago
Platformer
Elon Musk's creep show Caught in a series of lies about his willingness to fight Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Caught in a series of lies about his willingness to fight Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire's disturbing spiral accelerates
Noahpinion
We’re entering a golden age of engineering biology A guest post by Joshua March and Kasia Gora
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
Work is a Place My buddy Luke recently started a band called Tattoo Mustache. While we were chatting, his eyes lit...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
My buddy Luke recently started a band called Tattoo Mustache. While we were chatting, his eyes lit up talking about jamming in the studio with his bandmates - his arms were flailing and you could feel the energy coming off him like steam from a hot pan. These weekly jam sessions...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Don’t worry, that’s still coming, but given the recent drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Scarlett Johansson, I felt the need to write something. Don’
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
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“It is the human friction that makes the sparks” From Jonah Lehrer, Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work (via Stowe Boyd): Building 20 [a scene of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From Jonah Lehrer, Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work (via Stowe Boyd): Building 20 [a scene of incredible innovation at MIT] and…
Platformer
Utah's war on social networks is a symptom of a larger problem Congress failed to act — and now a patchwork of bad state laws is eroding our privacy
a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
Working notes for Summer of Protocols I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s...
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a year ago
I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aims to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and their social implications. I plan to focus on protocols as...
Platformer
Substack's new fundraising pitch Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
a year ago
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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is:  how secretive...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is:  how secretive should I be about my idea?  My answer…
AVC
Funding Friday: Crowdfunding Restaurants Via Blackbird It has been a long time since I did a Funding Friday here at AVC. I used to do them every Friday. We...
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a year ago
It has been a long time since I did a Funding Friday here at AVC. I used to do them every Friday. We have funded a lot of bars, restaurants, coffee shops, and bakeries here over the years. Here are a few examples. L’Appartement 4F Land To Sea There is a new wrinkle in...
Nothing Human
Andrew Rose on building communities and institutions yes, Nothing Human now has a podcast!
a month ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
Paul Graham: Essays
Beating the Averages
over a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft's gaming strategy we are exactly like Polaroid. We are core gaming which isn't growing its TAM (analogous to film...
a year ago
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a year ago
we are exactly like Polaroid. We are core gaming which isn't growing its TAM (analogous to film photographers) while mobile gaming MAU is growing WW at a significant rate (like digital photography was growing).
Unpacked
Zoom's AI policy backlash & customer data in model training Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in a way that allows use of customer data (read your video and audio recordings) for training Zoom features. In this episode, we unpack the timeline of events that followed, Zoom's...
Rest of World -...
A step counter, but for your prayers At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people repeat prayers and holy phrases.
Tech + Economics +...
WeWork files for bankruptcy amid office market downturn. On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”....
a year ago
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a year ago
On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”. “It has been challenging for me to watch from the sidelines since 2019 as WeWork has failed to take advantage of a product that is more relevant today than ever before,” ...
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Chinese factory owners are becoming TikTok comedians to find new business partners Factory influencers are producing actually funny videos on TikTok, Instagram, and WeChat to increase...
7 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
The Concorde Jet vs. Boeing 747 PLUS: The Matrix's 25th Anniversary.
11 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs emails Adobe's CEO One of us must change our policy. Please let me know who.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Economic Inequality
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities...
a year ago
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a year ago
Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they… “If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
over a year ago
Dustin Curtis
It is link winter on X We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without telling you, and by a lot—and it makes the experience there worse. Without links, information on X is headlines without stories, commentary without context, magic without the...
Unpacked
Instagram Threads: The Problem With The "Everything for Everyone" Approach In recent times, Twitter has been through a roller coaster of events. What started with Elon Musk's...
a year ago
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a year ago
In recent times, Twitter has been through a roller coaster of events. What started with Elon Musk's turbulent acquisition has now been followed up by a series of controversial product decisions. To list a few: Twitter limited the number of daily tweets
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#21) Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian...
a year ago
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a year ago
Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian industrialization, and Chinese urbanism
Rest of World -...
Worldcoin has a problem India already has a Worldcoin competitor, and other countries are taking note.
a year ago
Data Boutique
Web Scraping Legal Context As the need for data grows, so does the need for clearer regulation
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Argentina’s OnlyFans stars are becoming coaches for a new generation of performers Lessons include tips to attract customers with provocative poses and seductive words, and how to...
8 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Options The financial term “derivative“ refers to a security whose value is a function of another security...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The financial term “derivative“ refers to a security whose value is a function of another security such as a stock or bond.  The most common…
David Perell
Chrisman Frank and Ana Lorena Fabrega: How Childhood Education Will Change This week, I have two guests. Both are affiliated with Synthesis, a new kind of online school where...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week, I have two guests. Both are affiliated with Synthesis, a new kind of online school where kids learn through games and simulations. One is Chrisman Frank, the CEO of Synthesis. The other is Ana Lorena Fabrega, who is their Chief Evangelist. Here’s the backstory: A few...
SatPost by Trung...
Apple's M&A Strategy, Explained PLUS: Chick-fil-A, Duolingo, Bitcoin rally.
3 months ago
Noahpinion
Why on Earth does Trump want to cancel the CHIPS Act?? A second Trump presidency would truly be a gift to Xi Jinping.
4 months ago
Roberto's blog
Decision matrices as a thinking tool Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best....
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8 months ago
Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best. One common way of doing that is to list the pros and cons of each option. For example, option A lists low latency as a pro, while option B lists high throughput as a pro. But do...
Noahpinion
Too many Americans still fear the future Some progress is being made, but politics is getting in the way.
a month ago
Noahpinion
A Nobel for the big big questions Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson win a prize for their grand unified theory of development.
4 months ago
Rest of World -...
In-home beauty service in Pakistan: the woman sweet-talking tough clients Though gig work gives respite from the grind of working in a salon, choosy clients make a...
a year ago
Noahpinion
Feeling strangely optimistic about Egypt It has many of the building blocks for a successful industrialization story.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Global TikTok creators depend on U.S. viewers. A TikTok ban would be devastating Without Americans on the app, advertising dollars are at risk.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Security through diversity Someone asked me the other day whether I thought the United States was vulnerable to a large scale...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Someone asked me the other day whether I thought the United States was vulnerable to a large scale “cyber” attack. While I have no doubt…
Blog posts of...
How I think about Code Management You might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or didn’t care about code quality. H...
Paul Graham: Essays
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
over a year ago
Noahpinion
America is being sold out by its leaders If Trump and Elon think they can forge a grand right-wing alliance with China and Russia, they're...
a week ago
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a week ago
If Trump and Elon think they can forge a grand right-wing alliance with China and Russia, they're heading for trouble.
Noahpinion
How not to be fooled by viral charts Part 1: How to spot misinformation, mistakes, and meaningless data
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🛰️ Starlink Plus
5 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Copy What You Like
over a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Inside Apple's Marcom meeting To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running...
a year ago
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a year ago
To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running our company is a shocking response.
David Perell
Learning to Actually Listen I’ve been listening the wrong way my entire life — with just my ears. True listening is a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been listening the wrong way my entire life — with just my ears. True listening is a totalizing, full-body experience. The post Learning to Actually Listen appeared first on David Perell.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Movie stars, matchmakers, and aunties: How WhatsApp became an unstoppable cultural force The world’s most popular messaging platform is synonymous with the internet for millions of people.
2 months ago
Rest of World -...
Why one of the world’s major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia Jürgen Schmidhuber says the whole world can benefit from the kingdom’s funding of futuristic AI...
a week ago
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a week ago
Jürgen Schmidhuber says the whole world can benefit from the kingdom’s funding of futuristic AI initiatives, and lead to a new golden age for science.
Roberto Vitillo's...
I am writing a book I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you working on a video class?" - I hear you…
Noahpinion
On immigration, what Americans want is democratic control Nations - even democratic ones - are exclusive clubs. And that's OK.
4 months ago
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #2: Volume Discounts The volume-related pricing system explained
11 months ago
XO Capital - Field...
Getting Smaller To Get Bigger 💡 We have another fresh round of capital to deploy into 1 business at up to $1.8M purchase price....
5 months ago
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5 months ago
💡 We have another fresh round of capital to deploy into 1 business at up to $1.8M purchase price. Must be b2b SaaS, low customer concentration, 80%+ gross margins, 50k+ MRR. If you have a tip, pass it along! We're underway with xo 2.0. That means,
Stephen Diehl
Functional Programming, Abstraction, and Names
over a year ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
Spark best practices Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and still manage to write jobs that eventually…
Rest of World -...
This Chinese startup believes it can take augmented reality glasses mainstream Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his...
a year ago
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a year ago
Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his product will revolutionize the display experience.
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“Otherwise do something else” I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in your stomach and feel nauseous for years…
Noahpinion
The debt ceiling deal: What was the whole point? A manufactured crisis leads to an ineffectual "solution"
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
Tech + Economics +...
Internet access is a human right. Fast, reliable and independent internet access is no longer a luxury or a convenience. It has...
a year ago
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a year ago
Fast, reliable and independent internet access is no longer a luxury or a convenience. It has become a necessity and a function of modern society. The digital divide, the gap between those with and without internet access, has profound implications for an individual's...
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"It's pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years" Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused. Imagine you're running Exxon, what do you…
Paul Graham: Essays
Disconnecting Distraction
over a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Sundar's meeting with Tim Tim’s overall message to Google was “I imagine us as being able to be deep deep partners; deeply...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tim’s overall message to Google was “I imagine us as being able to be deep deep partners; deeply connected where our services end and yours begin and sees no natural impediment to us doing more together. Knows there is a past but doesn’t feel encumbered by it and wants to figure...
Rest of World -...
African universities are failing to prepare tech graduates for jobs in AI Dozens of new AI training startups are filling the gap, offering online courses, hackathons, and job...
10 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Founder Visa
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Stuff
over a year ago
Entrepreneur's Edge
Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Beating the Auction Duopoly Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple this duopoly?
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The default state of a startup is failure If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to happen, that’s because the world wants…
Noahpinion
Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program! Fun!!
5 months ago
XO Capital - Field...
2023 sucked 2023 was a tough year for us. A pure grind. What worked: The business model Our Team Raising $ +...
a year ago
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a year ago
2023 was a tough year for us. A pure grind. What worked: The business model Our Team Raising $ + deploying it What didn't work: Growth was tough We got bit by platform risk Too many small portfolio companies is death by a thousand cuts We have two relatively passive
Rest of World -...
TikTok follow-up Lemon8 is flopping in the U.S. Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers...
a year ago
Steve Blank
The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS...
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over a year ago
The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS Act, our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC, China, etc. But despite all this talk about chips and semiconductors, few understand how the industry is structured. I’ve found the best way to...
Rest of World -...
Shein overstock is getting a second life in Latin America’s street markets Resellers are buying garments from Shein’s suppliers in China that would have ended up in a dump.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Scale AI is on a hiring spree for speakers of under-represented languages But some languages pay a lot better than others.
a year ago
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies" "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is...
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over a year ago
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal…
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Selling pickaxes during a gold rush There is a saying in the startup world that “you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes.” This...
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over a year ago
There is a saying in the startup world that “you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes.” This is of course an allusion to the…
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A few points about the “tech bubble” debate Pretty much every day now a major blog or newspaper writes an article asking whether we are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Pretty much every day now a major blog or newspaper writes an article asking whether we are experiencing another tech bubble (e.g. see today…
Inverted Passion
Don’t sell your soul to the algorithm The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to...
a year ago
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a year ago
The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to big tech companies. This is how it works: This loop has two sinister effects: All this to make the richest companies and their shareholders even richer. This is why we must refuse to...
Stephen Diehl
The Joy and Agony of Haskell in Production
over a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
There is a deep rot at the heart of Australian tech. Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record...
a year ago
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a year ago
Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record as saying that I am a man pretending to be a woman. It's an old, outdated, obsolete and uninteresting transphobic trope. In itself, it's almost not worth mentioning. But...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Startup Hubs Work
over a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
"[Steve Ballmer] thinks we ought to admit that Windows 98 will be a yawner" Since the press gave Billg & Steveb a hard time this week at the press retreat, Steveb is panic’d...
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over a year ago
Since the press gave Billg & Steveb a hard time this week at the press retreat, Steveb is panic’d that we are setting expectations too high on Windows 98. He thinks we ought to come out and admit that Windows 98 will be a yawner.
Folklore.org:...
What Hath Woz Wrought The first product I developed for Apple
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
What Startups Are Really Like
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Meta is training its AI with public Instagram posts. Artists in Latin America can’t opt out Latin America lacks robust data protection laws that would allow Meta users in the region to...
7 months ago
Rest of World -...
Alibaba.com’s U.S. expansion hinges on wooing mom-and-pop shops President Kuo Zhang tells Rest of World in an exclusive interview that the company is bullish about...
5 months ago
Noahpinion
The best-case scenario for Trump's second term An optimistic Thanksgiving post.
3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Age of the Essay
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#12) The college shakeout, China vs. its developing neighbors, Chinese zombie companies, more fun YIMBY...
a year ago
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a year ago
The college shakeout, China vs. its developing neighbors, Chinese zombie companies, more fun YIMBY stuff, and the victory of the Melting Pot
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Showing up Mark Twain famously quipped that “80 percent of life is showing up.” Running a startup, I’d say it’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mark Twain famously quipped that “80 percent of life is showing up.” Running a startup, I’d say it’s more like 90 percent. For example, I…
SatPost by Trung...
The Dorito-fication of Media How the evolution of media created ultra-processed junk food for our mind.
4 months ago
Platformer
The states sue Meta over child safety Everyone agrees there's a teen mental health crisis. Is this how you fix it?
a year ago
haseeb qureshi
Another decade I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a...
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over a year ago
I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a college dropout, and deeply unhappy. What did I believe I’d be doing a decade later? I don’t think I knew, only that I definitely wouldn’t be playing poker anymore. I’d be doing...
Paul Graham: Essays
If Lisp is So Great
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How Art Can Be Good
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
A horrific video sparks a national reckoning in India The northeastern state of Manipur has plunged into violence since May as the two major ethnic groups...
a year ago
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a year ago
The northeastern state of Manipur has plunged into violence since May as the two major ethnic groups fight over identity, land, and influence.
Rest of World -...
The Mexican senator building a plan for artificial intelligence Alejandra Lagunes leads Mexico’s National Artificial Intelligence Alliance.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
A buy-now-pay-later company is behind the explosion of EVs in Kenya In just two years, M-Kopa has become the biggest financier for EVs in East Africa’s largest market.
7 months ago
Rest of World -...
The company building AI dubbing that preserves original voices Seamus McAteer, the founder of Speechlab, discusses AI-generated speech and the importance of...
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Argentina’s dictatorship abducted babies in the 1970s. An AI project imagines them today “Our search is real, but these images aren’t.”
a year ago
Rest of World -...
How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment...
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Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.
Noahpinion
No, NEPA really is a problem for clean energy A guest post by Aidan Mackenzie and Santi Ruiz
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
over a year ago
AVC
Machine Learning and Schools I read last week that the NYC Department of Education has banned ChatGPT from its networks and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read last week that the NYC Department of Education has banned ChatGPT from its networks and devices. I understand that reaction and mentioned the issues that AI/ML create for educators in a post a few weeks ago. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders...
Rest of World -...
The winners of Rest of World’s photography contest From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries around the world,...
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From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries around the world, featuring everything from sprawling mines to biometric facial scans.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Online advertising is all about purchasing intent A while ago I dug up this quote from Business Week from 2000: But how will Google ever make money?...
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over a year ago
A while ago I dug up this quote from Business Week from 2000: But how will Google ever make money? There’s the rub. The company’s adamant…
Rest of World -...
The deepfake election nightmare hasn’t happened. Singapore still wants to ban them Following South Korea’s lead, Singapore intends to ban deepfakes ahead of upcoming elections,...
6 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei and Manufacturing Intelligence at Scale PLUS: SpaceX's Starship miracle, Taco Bell's franchise model.
4 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
9 Best Things of 2023 My favourite book, film, podcast, meme, investment and more for the year.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Firing Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious mistakes. Here are a few things I’ve observed…
Noahpinion
Energy Bell: The sketch of an idea How can we get America back to the forefront of energy research?
8 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What’s strategic for Google? Google seems to be releasing or acquiring new products almost daily. It’s one thing for a couple of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Google seems to be releasing or acquiring new products almost daily. It’s one thing for a couple of programmers to hack together a side…
Rest of World -...
New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They’re already online.
3 months ago
Working Theorys
Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business | Theory No. 7 In 2023, we’ll see more Silicon Valley startups that operate like small businesses. And some of them...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2023, we’ll see more Silicon Valley startups that operate like small businesses. And some of them will have big outcomes. Perhaps even billion-dollar ones. I call this phenomenon the Silicon Valley small business (an SV-SB for short).
Steve Blank
Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and...
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This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and Polaroid, the two most famous camera companies of the 20th century, had a great partnership for 20+ years. Then in an inexplicable turnabout Kodak decided to destroy Polaroid’s...
Working Theorys
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"Smart" kids are always praised for their high potential. They’re deemed inherently capable of so much, largely because of their natural talents. They can do anything they want, if they just try.
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Forget Quibi. Chinese streamers are hooking Americans with werewolf love triangles Billionaire werewolf love triangles, that is.
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The reverse OPEC maneuver Pricing power in the oil industry is shifting, and will shift more.
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Thanks… I got my first computer (TRS-80 Model 1) in 1980 at the age of 8.   I got my second computer – an...
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I got my first computer (TRS-80 Model 1) in 1980 at the age of 8.   I got my second computer – an Atari 800 – two years later.   I was…
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The most important question to ask before taking seed money There is a certain well respected venture capital firm (VC) that has a program for fledgling...
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The new AI assistants may not speak your language Mind the language gap.
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Shein’s hottest item in Latin America is its plastic bags The reusable packaging often ends up outliving the garments it once transported.
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Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out First let me say I love Google.  I think Google created one of the greatest inventions of the past...
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First let me say I love Google.  I think Google created one of the greatest inventions of the past century and continues to give back much…
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The company's app store monopoly has been ruled illegal, and the ramifications will extend well beyond Fortnite
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Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software—and with it, Silicon Valley.
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The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital "How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The...
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Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
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Chris Sacca on the implied user contract Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what...
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Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what each company has promised its users…
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What is this thing? Guess Temu’s weirdest gadgets Chinese e-commerce site Temu uses its most bizarre products in online ads. Rest of World tested them...
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“Gig reviewers” are endorsing fake products for quick cash in Brazil For a few dollars, paid reviewers will record a video vouching for anything. Scammers love them.
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Apple and Foxconn lobbied India to relax its labor laws. Unions are fighting back The business-friendly change extends factory shifts from nine to 12 hours, and allows women to work...
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The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for large-scale upheaval and the reordering of societal structures is significant. We are already witnessing the dismantling of long-standing institutions and the rise of new paradigms. The struggle between...
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The everything app has to work for everyone. Building an "Everything" app — encompassing payments, commerce, messaging, etc — hinges critically...
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Building an "Everything" app — encompassing payments, commerce, messaging, etc — hinges critically on universal appeal and acceptance. The concept is predicated on inclusivity, which means the app must cater to a diverse user base with varying beliefs, backgrounds, and...
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Yes, reshoring American industry is possible Americans can make stuff, after all.
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Influencers are getting young Nigerians hooked on online gambling While sports betting is legal in Nigeria, experts say the government should have more oversight on...
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Decoupling is just going to happen Chinese policy and geopolitical risk are doing a lot of the work here.
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Traditional sellers in Vietnam still aren’t sold on e-commerce As online shopping booms, local merchants are struggling to adapt, despite government help.
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Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in most cases, the distance was estimated lower than Google Maps’ estimate.
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Why Decentralization Isn’t as Important as You Think If you’ve spent any time at all on crypto Twitter, you’re familiar with the web3 narrative. It goes...
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If you’ve spent any time at all on crypto Twitter, you’re familiar with the web3 narrative. It goes like this: in the beginning, the web was “truly decentralized.” Against all odds, the World Wide Web won against the corporatist designs of companies like Microsoft, and cyberspace...
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Amid a surge in violence in Tijuana, ride-hailing apps and authorities implement new safety measures Uber launched a panic button linked to state-run emergency centers to keep drivers and users safe —...
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A shared burden: rethinking cybersecurity post the 23andMe breach. TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached But in a...
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TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached But in a letter sent to a group of hundreds of 23andMe users who are now suing the company, 23andMe said that “users negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords...
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iMessage for Android I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families...
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I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.
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Mike boastfully reads 100 books per year. He listens to audiobooks at 3x speed whenever he drives and swears he can remember it all. His browser has a plugin that lets him speed up YouTube videos, and for a while, he listened to podcasts on a special app because of its unique...
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Blumhouse: The Hollywood Horror Hit Machine How Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
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What Happened In 2022 I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending...
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I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending and one looking forward to the year ahead. This is the first of these two posts. The second one will run tomorrow. What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital...
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The computing deployment phase Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment...
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Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Here’s a chart (from this excellent…
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A former fish farmer’s startup is flourishing during a tech downturn Gibran Huzaifah’s eFishery made a case for tech companies solving rural issues.
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Introducing: Better Offline Episodes 1 and 2 Out Now Hello everybody! A short newsletter today to announce the launch of my new...
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Episodes 1 and 2 Out Now Hello everybody! A short newsletter today to announce the launch of my new podcast Better Offline - my new tech show from iHeartRadio and Cool Zone Media. It's a weekly exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society -
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Fake news verification tools fail the test during elections in India Rest of World tested 11 leading WhatsApp-based chatbots that promise to help Indian voters identify...
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Rest of World tested 11 leading WhatsApp-based chatbots that promise to help Indian voters identify misinformation. There were long delays and inconsistencies in responses even for content that can easily be identified as AI-generated and fake.
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The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs to huge... From Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle in today NYTimes: Innovation is an important new product...
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Muzz, the world’s largest Muslim dating app, is struggling in India India is home to 172 million Muslims, and the world’s second-largest market for dating apps. But...
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India’s ambitious lithium dreams have stalled Last year, India touted the discovery of a huge reserve of valuable lithium in Kashmir. Experts say...
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Last year, India touted the discovery of a huge reserve of valuable lithium in Kashmir. Experts say optimism around the discovery was overblown.
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft exec: "my recent discussions with Steve [Jobs]" some stuff has been tense, as I have really been pushing them on a few issues, and I am forcing...
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some stuff has been tense, as I have really been pushing them on a few issues, and I am forcing Apple to do a lot of stuff they'd rather not do (using Office as leverage)
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Your Platform Is as Strong as Its Identity Layer Analyzing platforms through a layered cake of identity, social networking, and super apps.
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Amazon fends off calls for takedown transparency in message to shareholders The company does not currently disclose government orders to remove specific products.
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Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing...
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The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing it at that valuation. I am curious to know at what valuation you would do this, and then I can just let you know whether we'd do that.
XO Capital - Field...
Fresh Cheddar Couple of announcements: We've got some fresh cheddar! We just got access to up to $2M to deploy....
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Couple of announcements: We've got some fresh cheddar! We just got access to up to $2M to deploy. We're looking for 1-2 businesses: b2b saas $30k+ MRR This is about 2x what we've already deployed so far which is a big deal. We will
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Virtual tomb-sweeping keeps a Chinese tradition alive As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are...
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As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are helping them pay respects from afar.
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that...
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It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…
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The errors of efficiency We live in the era of efficiency. The advertising industry is infatuated with it. Intoxicated by...
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We live in the era of efficiency. The advertising industry is infatuated with it. Intoxicated by it. Enamoured and enthralled by it. We want our teams to be lean. Our processes to be agile. And our output to be optimised. Instead of focussing on making our work bigger, we...
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The EU's war on behavioral advertising Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by...
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Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.
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What jobs are users hiring your product to perform? One of Clay Christensen’s favorite concepts is that instead of dividing your customers into segments...
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One of Clay Christensen’s favorite concepts is that instead of dividing your customers into segments and asking which features each segment…
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Apple's (reluctant) App Store changes, and Semafor tries AI news This week, we dive into two meaty topics. First, we dig into Apple’s recent App Store changes to...
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This week, we dive into two meaty topics. First, we dig into Apple’s recent App Store changes to support third party payments in the US (sort of), and additionally support side-loading of apps (i.e. supporting non-Apple app stores) in the EU. Spoiler: Apple is pushing the limits...
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Scott Forstall emails Steve Jobs | Elon Musk on tweeting He mentions third party developers. I do think at some point we will want to enable third parties to...
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The secret sauce of Chinese social media apps Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment.
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CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4
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Facebook’s response to Yahoo’s patent lawsuit Like many in tech, I believe all software patents should be abolished. That said, I think Facebook...
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Like many in tech, I believe all software patents should be abolished. That said, I think Facebook made the right move by filing a lawsuit…
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Trump and inflation There are several good reasons to be worried.
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How RRR’s success brought a wave of Telugu-language movies to Netflix Netflix in the U.S. now has more content in Telugu than in German, Russian, or any dialect of...
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Things that aren't progress A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to...
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A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that the behaviors were largely a function of bad goal setting. When founders choose bad...
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Nobody knows how many jobs will "be automated" Whatever that even means.
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How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday The high cost of cutting expenses
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19 books to read in 2023 Rest of World's staff favorites, from around the globe to add to your must-read pile.
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Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
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Latin Americans’ social feeds are being flooded with AI-generated ads Brands and politicians are getting mixed results.
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Drafting your first investment round. The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
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The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
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40 companies that are beating the West Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley...
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Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley for global domination.
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Bubble Trouble As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street...
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As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street Journal piece from this week has sounded the alarm that some believe AI models will run out of "high-quality text-based data" within the next two years in what an AI researcher called...
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The chatbot answering modern-day questions about an ancient religion JainGPT answers inquiries ranging from “What is Jainism?” to “What happens after we die?”
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AI and the automation of work ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other...
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ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?
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Tech pace layers I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
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I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
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US politicians proposed five tech antitrust bills in June. They’re aggressive and ambitious, and contain some important concerns and ideas. Unfortunately, some of them are also pretty naive - case studies in not doing the work.
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Singapore’s gig workers worry new benefits could mean lower pay A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some...
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A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some workers fears the higher costs will be passed on to them.
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The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of control and hurting the brand's "premium" vibe.
Tom Blomfield
Customer churn can kill your startup Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user...
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Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user growth - if people aren’t using your new product or service in greater and greater numbers, it’s a good sign that you’re not on the right track. And, as long as your business-model...
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Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving...
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Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving them access to better wages, benefits, and profit participation.
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The ideal startup career path For most people I know who join or start companies, the primary goal is not to get rich – it is to...
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For most people I know who join or start companies, the primary goal is not to get rich – it is to work on something they love, with people…
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Can someone please make an iPhone-theft thriller already? Forget the Apple store heist in Seattle; South Asia has a pretty riveting script on cross-border...
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Forget the Apple store heist in Seattle; South Asia has a pretty riveting script on cross-border smartphone theft waiting to be written.
Noahpinion
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The speed of information Putting social media coverage of Israel-Palestine into historical context.
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The Apple Vision Pro: A Review I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re...
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I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re reading and one of the first two episodes of my upcoming iHeartRadio podcast Better Offline. I wrote the majority of this newsletter on the Vision Pro itself, though
Tom Blomfield
Startup Series Part 2: Attracting great engineers This is the second in a series of articles on the operational side of running startup - once you’ve...
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This is the second in a series of articles on the operational side of running startup - once you’ve found product-market fit and raised VC cash, how do you go about building a business? The first post in this series, on the hiring process, assumes you have a sufficient number of...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Copyright is both vital and obsolete. The New Yorker: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? For you (probably) and me (definitely), the rights...
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The New Yorker: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? For you (probably) and me (definitely), the rights to our creations are not worth much money to anyone but ourselves. But, if you are the guy who wrote “Born to Run,” it is prudent to assign your rights to an entity...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Project of One's Own
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Business Brainstorms
Operational Minimalism, Zero shame in pulling the plug, OpenAI blog posts, ... Welcome to another edition of Business Brainstorms - your weekly dose of invaluable insights, trends...
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Welcome to another edition of Business Brainstorms - your weekly dose of invaluable insights, trends and opportunities served up fresh from the cerebral kitchen of Jakob Greenfeld. Time to brainstorm! 💡 Opportunities “Whoever can find out how to crack the operational hurdles of...
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
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DeepSeek: Links and Memes (So Many Memes) How a Chinese AI lab spun out of a hedge fund shook up the entire tech industry.
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TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest...
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Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the US, with no stores. US pay TV subscribers have fallen by a third. Where do ad budgets go, where does rent go, and how many brands will there be?
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Six companies making it easier for Africans to send money globally Africa is the most expensive region to send money, but these companies are making it faster,...
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Inverted Passion
Games are problems people pay to solve Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me...
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Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense. He defines games as problems that people pay to solve with either their time or money. Unlike movies or books, games are...
Working Theorys
Unbundling Cash & Equity | Theory No. 15 a heretical take on "total compensation"
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Lithium is only as dirty as we make it We’re building a new supply chain for electric vehicles. Are we building the right one?
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BRICS is fake It's not an anti-NATO, it's not going to replace the dollar, and it's not going to control global...
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It's not an anti-NATO, it's not going to replace the dollar, and it's not going to control global economic growth.
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“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the… “Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the...
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You're not going to like what comes after Pax Americana Welcome to the jungle.
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Non-Western founders say DeepSeek is proof that innovation need not cost billions of dollars The Chinese app has just “blown the roof off” and “shifted the power dynamics.”
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The unbearable slowness of Meta's Oversight Board A 234-day wait to get a ruling in a case about incitement to violence suggests that something...
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Vietnam’s made-to-measure fashion brands are thriving in the TikTok era As shoppers sour on Chinese fast fashion, more sustainable Vietnamese brands — loved by K-pop...
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As shoppers sour on Chinese fast fashion, more sustainable Vietnamese brands — loved by K-pop artists and Western celebrities alike — are booming online.
essay – snarfed.org
COVID was bad for the climate William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled...
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William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled travel plans, cut down overall consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions fell drastically. It’s great for the environment! Let’s keep it up! With apologies to H. L. Mencken, I...
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YouTube: The Learning Machine Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of...
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Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of sports footage on the platform helps to explain why.
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Monopoly Money Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something...
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Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something incredible happened. On Monday, a Federal Judge delivered a crushing ruling in the multi-year-long antitrust case filed against Google by the Department of Justice. In 300-pages of...
Steve Blank
Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story...
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I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to mid-1942 it was Vannevar Bush (and his number 2, James Conant, the president of...
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Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud Local cloud startups offer data sovereignty at a time when the debate about who has access to a...
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What I Got Wrong About Business Too many people waste years in hollow ‘entrepreneurship’ classes. Instead, we need to develop the...
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Too many people waste years in hollow ‘entrepreneurship’ classes. Instead, we need to develop the domain expertise that leads to entrepreneurial ideas. The post What I Got Wrong About Business appeared first on David Perell.
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Rwanda’s homegrown EV leader sets its sights on Kenya Ampersand hopes to replicate its small-market success in East Africa’s largest economy.
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Mexico City has an earthquake alarm system. Millions trust an app more SkyAlert users turn their phones into personal quake monitors rather than rely on the government’s...
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The age of average In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market...
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In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was...
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At least five interesting things for your weekend (#49) Degrowth, real and imagined; 90s taxes; China's banks; CHIPS Act bureaucrats; YIMBY education; the...
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Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “When the Apple VR headset drops tomorrow, every social...
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Notes on my Remarkable Tablet I love my Remarkable 2. I’ve been using it pretty heavily for almost a year now. It’s my every day...
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I love my Remarkable 2. I’ve been using it pretty heavily for almost a year now. It’s my every day companion device. Here’s some notes and ideas.
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eBay vs Amazon: decentralized vs centralized e-commerce Note: The company I cofounded, Hunch, was acquired by eBay in November 2011. I am now an eBay...
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Note: The company I cofounded, Hunch, was acquired by eBay in November 2011. I am now an eBay employee. But all the opinions expressed below…
Steve Blank
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately...
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Naming your startup The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally...
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The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally right on.   Naming is so important and…
Paul Graham: Essays
Organic Startup Ideas
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Noahpinion
Biden is right that we need to raise taxes But his plan needs a lot of work.
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Uber drivers are melting amid Nigeria’s historic heat wave and record fuel prices As temperatures soar and fuel prices triple, drivers are having to choose between their health and...
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The Hour Of Code I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC. It is the highlight of the annual...
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I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC. It is the highlight of the annual Computer Science Education Week which is the first week of December, which is this week. Yesterday Marco Argenti, Goldman Sachs’ CIO, and I went with NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Way to Detect Bias
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Six strategies for overcoming “chicken and egg” problems Products with so-called networks effects get more valuable when more people use them.  Famous...
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Products with so-called networks effects get more valuable when more people use them.  Famous examples are telephones and social networks…
Platformer
Why you can't trust Twitter's encrypted DMs A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new...
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Noahpinion
Did immigration bring down inflation? I'm highly skeptical of this theory, but it's still quite interesting.
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
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How Bangladesh’s tech industry navigated an unprecedented political crisis July’s internet blackout and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s sudden exit is estimated to have cost...
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Mindshare 🧠 The hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.
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Five globally successful Chinese companies you’ve never heard of TikTok and Shein are household names, but ShareIt and Yalla aren't far behind.
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Joining hypergrowth startups 😬 I am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I...
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I am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I wrote it as bullet points as...
Noahpinion
All futurism is Afrofuturism A repost, with some optimistic updates.
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India shuts down the internet far more than any other country The country had 771 blackouts between 2016 and 2023, and there have been 51 so far this year. We...
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Dustin Curtis
Contribution and abundance Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent:...
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Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly noise. The two things are contribution and abundance. Contribution is basically...
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Stored Hashcash One of the greatest inventions in the history of computer security is Hashcash. Internet blights...
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One of the greatest inventions in the history of computer security is Hashcash. Internet blights like spam and denial-of-service attacks are…
Internal Tech Emails
Facebook vs. TikTok | Elon Musk emails Tesla's board Today we see a shift towards social media products serving as “discovery engines.”
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South Africa’s competition watchdog takes aim at Google The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the...
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The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the country’s digital economy at risk.
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Folon Early Mac art from Jean-Michel Folon
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The most surprising tech champions of 2024 From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions...
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From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
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Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes As Brazilian law clashes with Meta’s policies, illegal vapes flood social media and the streets.
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Skydio I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a...
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I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a startup developing artificial intelligence…
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Man Who Killed Google Search Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That...
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Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for...
Noahpinion
What's up with those revised job numbers? Government data revisions can be scary, but they actually aren't that hard to understand.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Slop Society In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the...
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In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've
Paul Graham: Essays
A Word to the Resourceful
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How we measured air quality for gig workers in South Asia Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could...
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Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could gather data on what they breathe.
Steve Blank
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations We just finished our 9th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for...
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We just finished our 9th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 60 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national security problems. At Stanford this quarter the 8 teams of 40 students collectively...
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How livestream realtors helped make Xishuangbanna a boom town Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming,...
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Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
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Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "speed and strategy" One way to make sure we can move quickly is for everyone to understand our strategy behind the major...
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One way to make sure we can move quickly is for everyone to understand our strategy behind the major product areas we're working on. I've tried to summarize some of the key ones here.
Dustin Curtis
Block Carefully A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
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A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
Noahpinion
Trumpism is kakistocracy A cult of personality prizes loyalty above competence, resulting in "rule by the worst".
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How well do you know global food delivery? Test your knowledge of the world’s favorite delivery apps and most-ordered dishes.
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How Indians are watching Succession after HBO ditched Disney With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of...
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With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of Thrones can no longer be streamed in the country.