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000 A Sci-Fi Short Story
13th Jun 2023
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000

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jun 2023
A Sci-Fi Short Story
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Counting at scale How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a...
12th Apr 2016
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Counting at scale

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Apr 2016
How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a new feature? One way to answer that…
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"I wonder if we should consider buying Instagram" I'm worried we're so far behind that we don't even understand how far behind we are
8th Mar 2026
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"I wonder if we should consider buying Instagram"

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Mar 2026
I'm worried we're so far behind that we don't even understand how far behind we are
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The Exponential Life Have you ever wondered why some people are able to achieve so much?
1st Apr 2026
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The Exponential Life

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2026
Have you ever wondered why some people are able to achieve so much?
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When you’re extremely unmotivated Like everyone, I get those times when I’m unmotivated to do anything. Brain dead. No...
2nd Aug 2016
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When you’re extremely unmotivated

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Aug 2016
Like everyone, I get those times when I’m unmotivated to do anything. Brain dead. No energy. Everything feels like, “Why bother? What’s the point?” Like everyone, I have a list of boring chores that need to be done but that I’ve been putting off for years. I never do them...
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The New American University I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president,...
4th Aug 2021
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The New American University

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2021
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president, earlier this year, and I so enjoyed his thoughts on knowledge production that I immediately wondered how his philosophy would translate to ASU as an organization. Turns out,...
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The Self Is The Platform On Consumer AI, and why individual leverage is eating collective coordination.
18th Sep 2025
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The Self Is The Platform

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Sep 2025
On Consumer AI, and why individual leverage is eating collective coordination.
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Biden should run on a message of abundance Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.
1st Feb 2024
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Biden should run on a message of abundance

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Feb 2024
Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.
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Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean? Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean? I have a little category theory library I've been dragging...
16th Feb 2026
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Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean?

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Feb 2026
Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean? I have a little category theory library I've been dragging around for about a decade now. It started life in Haskell, got ported to Agda, briefly lived in Idris, spent some time in Coq, and has now landed in Lean 4. I call it Kitty Cats....
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OpenAI Is A Bad Business OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year,...
2nd Oct 2024
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OpenAI Is A Bad Business

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Oct 2024
OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after
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Be independent. Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent...
1st Dec 2021
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Be independent.

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2021
Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent on income, people, or technology, you would be truly free. The only way to be deeply happy is to break all dependencies. People think we live in a world of politics, society,...
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My favorite fable A farmer had only one horse. One day, his horse ran away. The man just said, “We’ll see.” His...
28th Feb 2009
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My favorite fable

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Feb 2009
A farmer had only one horse. One day, his horse ran away. The man just said, “We’ll see.” His neighbors said, “Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!” One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. The man just said,...
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How I grew from 1,000 to 25,000 daily readers. Updates on growing a newsletter business.
7th Aug 2023
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How I grew from 1,000 to 25,000 daily readers.

from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Aug 2023
Updates on growing a newsletter business.
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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift "humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
19th Jan 2026
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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Jan 2026
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
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The Rise of the 149-Person Company @SemiAnalysis_ recently found something bizarre in the economics of AI coding subscriptions. If you...
22nd Jun 2026
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The Rise of the 149-Person Company

from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Jun 2026
@SemiAnalysis_ recently found something bizarre in the economics of AI coding subscriptions. If you run them at max usage limits, you’re actually paying 20x-70x cheaper than you would buying tokens through the API. Many people looked at this and said: oh my god, look how much the...
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Usefulness grounds truth Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what...
7th Jul 2024
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Usefulness grounds truth

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2024
Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what LLMs can or cannot do. To a limited extent, the original question is useful because it creates an opening for people to go into specific. But, beyond that initial use, the question...
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How I build and run behavioral interviews This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral...
25th Feb 2024
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How I build and run behavioral interviews

from benkuhn.net [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Feb 2024
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral interviews were basically useless, because it was too easy for candidates to bullshit them and too hard for me to tell what was a good answer. I’d end up grading every candidate as an...
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musk twitter quitter, bitter? I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a...
1st Nov 2022
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musk twitter quitter, bitter?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2022
I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a net-positive effect on my life. But now with Elon’s takeover, Twitter is in the hands of a man whose behavior I find reprehensible.
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What’s this about? This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective...
12th Dec 2025
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What’s this about?

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Dec 2025
This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective that’s useful to you right now, whether or not it’s universally true. This narrow definition is important because whatever you consider true is closed. No questioning. But when...
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Asking questions Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly...
30th Mar 2020
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Asking questions

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Mar 2020
Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. If you spend time with 2-5 year olds, you’ll find yourself answering a near infinite series of progressively more challenging questions. This is one of the main paths by...
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MLIR Part 7 - Transformers Transformers The transformer architecture revolutionized the field of natural language processing...
11th Apr 2025
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MLIR Part 7 - Transformers

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Apr 2025
Transformers The transformer architecture revolutionized the field of natural language processing when introduced in the landmark 2017 paper Attention is All You Need. Breaking away from traditional sequence models, transformers employ self-attention mechanisms (more on this...
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Hiring With AI We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).
30th Jun 2026
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Hiring With AI

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Jun 2026
We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).
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Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate,...
2nd Mar 2026
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Anthropic and Alignment

from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2026
Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.
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Historical data now available on DataBoutique.com Web scraped historical data access
3rd Jun 2024
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Historical data now available on DataBoutique.com

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jun 2024
Web scraped historical data access
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After fifteen years of practice Since the age of fourteen, I was determined to be a great singer. But my pitch was bad, my tone was...
15th Jun 2010
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After fifteen years of practice

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Jun 2010
Since the age of fourteen, I was determined to be a great singer. But my pitch was bad, my tone was bad, and everyone said I was just not a singer. At eighteen, I started touring, performing two to four shows a week, always as the lead singer. Often they were outdoor shows,...
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How to run a mastermind group Thinking about starting a business mastermind group? Here are resources for finding members, running...
5th Apr 2019
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How to run a mastermind group

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Apr 2019
Thinking about starting a business mastermind group? Here are resources for finding members, running your meetings, and getting the most out of it.
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Happy, Smart, and Useful There are three things to consider when making life-size decisions: What makes you...
3rd Mar 2016
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Happy, Smart, and Useful

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Mar 2016
There are three things to consider when making life-size decisions: What makes you happy What’s useful to others We have a tendency to forget one of these. For example: This is the stereotype of the strict parent who says, “You will go to the best school, get perfect...
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A Broken Heart You always know it’s a good bug when your first reaction is, “How could this even happen?” The other...
31st Jan 2026
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A Broken Heart

from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups

31st Jan 2026
You always know it’s a good bug when your first reaction is, “How could this even happen?” The other day, I was refining the dashboard of a web app we’re working on – as you do – and I noticed it was taking forever to load. Like, it had been loading in a single second, but now it...
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Why didn't you launch last year?
17th Dec 2013
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Why didn't you launch last year?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Dec 2013
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How to keep clients happy
22nd May 2012
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How to keep clients happy

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd May 2012
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This is what starting small looks like
13th Dec 2016
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This is what starting small looks like

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Dec 2016
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Berries are America’s top-selling fruit — and every parent’s grocery bill nightmare Berry spending topped $12B in the last year. Many parents felt like their own kids accounted for all...
3rd Oct 2025
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Berries are America’s top-selling fruit — and every parent’s grocery bill nightmare

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Oct 2025
Berry spending topped $12B in the last year. Many parents felt like their own kids accounted for all of it.
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Proprietary services vs open protocols
12th Apr 2015
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Proprietary services vs open protocols

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Apr 2015
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Naïve Quitting My first real job was as the librarian at Warner/Chappell Music. After 2½ years, though, I...
24th May 2010
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Naïve Quitting

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

24th May 2010
My first real job was as the librarian at Warner/Chappell Music. After 2½ years, though, I decided to quit to be a full-time musician. (Partially because I was too happy there! I was scared that if I didn’t force myself to quit, I’d never leave. Too comfortable.) (It...
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Fundraising isn't predictable I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying...
16th Nov 2016
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Fundraising isn't predictable

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Nov 2016
I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying conversations with investors. The founder's company was growing well, had crossed $1mm ARR, but still couldn't raise money. According to conventional wisdom, that should have been enough to...
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Will a college degree get you a programming job?
7th Sep 2012
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Will a college degree get you a programming job?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Sep 2012
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Seeking inspiration? The word “inspiration” usually means “something that mentally stimulates you.” breathe...
14th Apr 2013
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Seeking inspiration?

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Apr 2013
The word “inspiration” usually means “something that mentally stimulates you.” breathe in. People surf the web, reading pithy articles, looking for inspiration. People listen to hours of podcasts, looking for inspiration. Musicians, writers, artists, and everyone else, all...
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How To Improve QA With Data Boutique For In-House Web Scraping Independent data help you get to 99% reliability
5th May 2023
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How To Improve QA With Data Boutique For In-House Web Scraping

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th May 2023
Independent data help you get to 99% reliability
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Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment;...
4 weeks ago
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Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

4 weeks ago
AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment; Cyber risk
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Contribution and abundance Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent:...
4th May 2021
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Contribution and abundance

from Dustin Curtis [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th May 2021
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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Mark Zuckerberg: "Please Resign" This was an act of betrayal.
19th Mar 2023
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Mark Zuckerberg: "Please Resign"

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Mar 2023
This was an act of betrayal.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.
13th Jul 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jul 2025
Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.
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Ideas aren't cheap
8th May 2020
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Ideas aren't cheap

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th May 2020
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Apple's AI Strategy Explained What is Tim Cook cooking?
17th Jul 2023
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Apple's AI Strategy Explained

from Devmoh [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Jul 2023
What is Tim Cook cooking?
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🤠 Democratize Luxury
9th Sep 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Sep 2024
🤠 Democratize Luxury
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The unannounced updates to Facebook’s Social Plugins and how to use them! Since the launch of platform, Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They...
11th Jan 2012
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The unannounced updates to Facebook’s Social Plugins and how to use them!

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jan 2012
Since the launch of platform, Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They ship first, ask later and doc...
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Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms In the last blog post,...
11th Jul 2016
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Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jul 2016
Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms In the last blog post, we Parsing Renaming Typechecking Desugaring Simplification Code Generation Passes The following functions are the main passes are that are used inside of the HscMain . -- Parse a module. parseModule :: GhcMonad m =>...
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Steve Jobs's drafts | Elon Musk's coinvestors For your eyes only. Thoughts?
14th Sep 2025
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Steve Jobs's drafts | Elon Musk's coinvestors

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Sep 2025
For your eyes only. Thoughts?
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Bet the farm Or risk losing it all
2nd Dec 2025
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Bet the farm

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Dec 2025
Or risk losing it all
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Never Forget What They've Done Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance  Listen to my podcast Better Offline...
9th Jun 2025
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Never Forget What They've Done

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Jun 2025
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance  Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already. I want my fucking tech industry back.  Maybe you think I sound insane, but technology means a lot to me. It’s the way that
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How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
13th Jun 2024
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How to do the jhanas

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jun 2024
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
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The iPad is a family device
29th May 2010
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The iPad is a family device

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th May 2010
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What would you do differently?
26th May 2018
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What would you do differently?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th May 2018
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Featured on People & Blogs Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of...
22nd Aug 2025
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Featured on People & Blogs

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Aug 2025
Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of this blog and how (and why) I write online…
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Watch for mind gremlins
12th Jan 2017
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Watch for mind gremlins

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Jan 2017
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We’re drowning Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a...
10th Mar 2022
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We’re drowning

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Mar 2022
Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, we’re drowning. We slap together rickety rowboats and toss them out on PyPI Ocean and npm...
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Using libjit in Anger Using libJIT in Anger LibJIT is a Just-In-Time compilation library, aimed at providing a flexible...
1st Jan 2013
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Using libjit in Anger

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2013
Using libJIT in Anger LibJIT is a Just-In-Time compilation library, aimed at providing a flexible and efficient environment for generating and executing machine code from C, C++, or other source languages. Here’s a simple tutorial on creating a basic JIT-compiled function using...
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Why thousands of Chinese young people use a pink dinosaur as their alias Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal...
2nd Oct 2023
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Why thousands of Chinese young people use a pink dinosaur as their alias

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Oct 2023
Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal privacy on Douban and Xiaohongshu.
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A better urbanism
5th Nov 2009
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A better urbanism

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Nov 2009
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Does intelligence need a hard cap? Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
3 weeks ago
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Does intelligence need a hard cap?

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 weeks ago
Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
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CDO stories #4 Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
3rd Nov 2025
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CDO stories #4

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Nov 2025
Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
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AI’s metrics question With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure....
9th Jun 2025
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AI’s metrics question

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Jun 2025
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure. That’s partly a problem of data and definitions, but it’s really a question about what this is going to be.
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Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined...
1st Jul 2024
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Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2024
Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined or having their vehicles impounded.
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Where does libertarianism go from here? Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
1st Jun 2023
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Where does libertarianism go from here?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jun 2023
Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
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Bi-Directional EV Charging EV sales in the US are on the rise, reaching 7% of all car sales in Q1 2023, up from 4.6% a year...
3rd Jul 2023
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Bi-Directional EV Charging

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jul 2023
EV sales in the US are on the rise, reaching 7% of all car sales in Q1 2023, up from 4.6% a year earlier. If that rate of growth continues, EVs will be 10% of the US car market by next year. Most people who own an EV charge it at home, using an EV […]
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What happened to Paul Jarvis? I hadn't heard from my friend Paul Jarvis in a while, so I sent him a message.
4th Aug 2023
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What happened to Paul Jarvis?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2023
I hadn't heard from my friend Paul Jarvis in a while, so I sent him a message.
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How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
1st Aug 2024
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How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2024
PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
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Turning $300k into $1.3M (2022 Annual Review) 2022 proved XO's business model. We were able to source deals, close them, grow them, and in some...
30th Dec 2022
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Turning $300k into $1.3M (2022 Annual Review)

from XO Capital - Field Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Dec 2022
2022 proved XO's business model. We were able to source deals, close them, grow them, and in some cases sell them. We grew to 6 full time people (not including myself and Henry). We joined the 6 figure club and proudly bootstrapped our way to low six figures
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Building new worlds Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We...
15th Oct 2019
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Building new worlds

from Dustin Curtis [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Oct 2019
Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism, by Aaron Bastani: To say the present era is one of crisis borders on cliché. We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages,...
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Paralyzed by the Perfect Resume Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
3rd Sep 2026
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Paralyzed by the Perfect Resume

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Sep 2026
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
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How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
2nd May 2023
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How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2023
A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
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Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively The greats in every field follow this mantra to perfect their craft. The post Practice...
31st Jan 2025
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Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

31st Jan 2025
The greats in every field follow this mantra to perfect their craft. The post Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively appeared first on David Perell.
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The art of selfishness David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters. But his mother was on...
18th Nov 2018
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The art of selfishness

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Nov 2018
David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters. But his mother was on her death bed. An undiagnosable illness seemed like it was going to take her at any time. All of her children were visiting her every day. He was very conflicted and felt...
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Shed your money taboos Everyone has weird mental associations with money. But after knowing thousands of musicians for...
5th Feb 2018
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Shed your money taboos

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Feb 2018
Everyone has weird mental associations with money. But after knowing thousands of musicians for over twenty years, I’ve learned this: The happiest musicians are the ones who develop their value, and confidently charge a high price. There’s a deep satisfaction when you know...
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Small actions change your self-identity When we think about what’s worth doing, we usually think of big things. Approaching a...
10th Sep 2008
1

Small actions change your self-identity

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Sep 2008
When we think about what’s worth doing, we usually think of big things. Approaching a celebrity Having taken that one step, you start to think of yourself as brave, or an achiever, or a bit of an expert on a subject. You do just one thing that makes you feel like a...
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YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia  The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
6th Jan 2025
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YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia 

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jan 2025
The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
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MLIR Part 13 - Running GPT-2 Running GPT-2 We now have a Python tensor language, an MLIR builder, a transformation pipeline and a...
19th Jun 2026
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MLIR Part 13 - Running GPT-2

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Jun 2026
Running GPT-2 We now have a Python tensor language, an MLIR builder, a transformation pipeline and a native execution boundary. The remaining task is to connect those pieces to the pretrained model and check that the result agrees with our original NumPy implementation. The...
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We need more calm companies
5th Apr 2024
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We need more calm companies

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Apr 2024
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Slopulism is taking over America Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological...
2nd Aug 2026
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Slopulism is taking over America

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Aug 2026
Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological reasons.
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What's Next For Software The software development industry is moving faster than ever before.
14th May 2025
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What's Next For Software

from Throwable [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th May 2025
The software development industry is moving faster than ever before.
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Unlikely places and untangled goals I once went without food for ten days, and that was fine. But the two things I can’t do without for...
11th Dec 2017
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Unlikely places and untangled goals

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Dec 2017
I once went without food for ten days, and that was fine. But the two things I can’t do without for long are solitude and silence. (Freedom from people and their noises.) An Irish friend suggested that I stay at Mount Melleray Abbey, home of the Cistercian Trappist monks,...
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What are Executive Off-Sites Good For? A blessed Q4 be upon you. And you as well.
6th Oct 2022
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What are Executive Off-Sites Good For?

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Oct 2022
A blessed Q4 be upon you. And you as well.
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Brian “That’s so thoughtful,” I thought to myself. “And so mature.”
5 days ago
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Brian

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

5 days ago
“That’s so thoughtful,” I thought to myself. “And so mature.”
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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...
9th Feb 2024
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Notes on my Remarkable Tablet

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Feb 2024
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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The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality Pius Uzamere argues that virtual reality will succeed first in business applications instead of...
1st Jan 2015
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The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2015
Pius Uzamere argues that virtual reality will succeed first in business applications instead of gaming: The most interesting virtual reality…
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A player myth, building the biggest thing you can, as software gets commoditized… as software gets commoditized…
27th Oct 2025
1

A player myth, building the biggest thing you can, as software gets commoditized…

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Oct 2025
as software gets commoditized…
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Crypto token roundup Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred...
6th Jun 2017
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Crypto token roundup

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jun 2017
Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here, Ethereum in 25 minutes, Polychain Joel Monegro ...
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Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
23rd Aug 2022
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Cultivating agency

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Aug 2022
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
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You don’t have to be local You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole...
2nd Dec 2012
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You don’t have to be local

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Dec 2012
You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole world. But this means you have less time to be part of your local community. I lived in Woodstock, New York for three years. There I started my company, entirely online. I never...
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The Greatest Meme Template Ever Why does Juan Joya Borja (aka El Risitas aka “Spanish Laughing Guy”) always put a smile on our...
1st Mar 2024
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The Greatest Meme Template Ever

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2024
Why does Juan Joya Borja (aka El Risitas aka “Spanish Laughing Guy”) always put a smile on our faces.
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of...
11th Jan 2022
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jan 2022
This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to give our students insights on how commercial technology (AI, machine...
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Some thoughts on mobile People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people...
1st Jun 2013
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Some thoughts on mobile

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jun 2013
People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people who run internet companies and they’ll…
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How to build a simple HTML landing page using Tailwind CSS The easiest way to configure Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI so you can build a simple HTML site
12th Feb 2021
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How to build a simple HTML landing page using Tailwind CSS

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Feb 2021
The easiest way to configure Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI so you can build a simple HTML site
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How distributed systems fail At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes,...
5th Dec 2020
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How distributed systems fail

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2020
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
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Keep in touch When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good...
5th Mar 2018
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Keep in touch

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Mar 2018
When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good conversation with somebody in the music business, then quite often they would send an opportunity my way within a day or two. Yes I just said this twice to emphasize it. This is...
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The VR winter continues Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices...
8th Jul 2024
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The VR winter continues

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Jul 2024
Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices aren’t good enough or cheap enough and the user base is flat. But no matter how good the devices get, how many people will care?
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The Millennial myth It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the...
16th Mar 2018
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The Millennial myth

from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Mar 2018
It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the shortcomings of the Millennial generation. It seems we are obsessed with the concept of demographic cohorts. Or, to put it more specifically, we are obsessed with the idea that...
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Nike’s Marketing Blindspot What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
4th Aug 2023
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Nike’s Marketing Blindspot

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2023
What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
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The Disneyland Dilemma Disney's cash cow is the theme parks division. Can new CEO Josh D'Amaro milk Disneyland to complete...
2nd Apr 2026
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The Disneyland Dilemma

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Apr 2026
Disney's cash cow is the theme parks division. Can new CEO Josh D'Amaro milk Disneyland to complete the cable-to-streaming transition?
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Naming a company Great company names are worth millions. In fact, choosing a name is one of the most important...
1st Mar 2023
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Naming a company

from Articles - Brett_Adcock [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2023
Great company names are worth millions. In fact, choosing a name is one of the most important decisions you will make as an entrepreneur. Your company's name could be a lever that separates you from your competition. It could be the key element that helps your customers...
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No one wants to buy my sneakers
4th Nov 2012
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No one wants to buy my sneakers

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Nov 2012
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America is ruled by gangsters now Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
2nd Mar 2025
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America is ruled by gangsters now

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2025
Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
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Ignore advice that drains you My music career was derailed when I took some advice from an expert. I walked out of his office...
7th Sep 2000
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Ignore advice that drains you

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Sep 2000
My music career was derailed when I took some advice from an expert. I walked out of his office sad, but acknowledging that he was right. That was the smartest thing to do to be a big success. So that’s what I did. I stopped putting my full attention into my own music,...
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initialize I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
22nd Sep 2019
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initialize

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Sep 2019
I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a...
13th May 2025
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th May 2025
This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from...
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Justin's world
13th Aug 2008
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Justin's world

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Aug 2008
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Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much...
5th Dec 2025
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Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2025
I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense. NVIDIA claims to have shipped six million Blackwell GPUs in
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Why you’re more likely to buy something for $4.99 than $5.00 Charm pricing has endured for centuries.
1st May 2026
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Why you’re more likely to buy something for $4.99 than $5.00

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2026
Charm pricing has endured for centuries.
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SGLang on AMD MI300X SGLang on AMD MI300X The best kept secret these days is that new AMD GPUs are incredibly cost...
4th Mar 2025
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SGLang on AMD MI300X

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Mar 2025
SGLang on AMD MI300X The best kept secret these days is that new AMD GPUs are incredibly cost efficient for doing inference. If you want the cliff-notes on getting an extremely fast inference server running on a fleet of AMD MI300X, here you go: If you're serving high-throughput...
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This is a classy move
6th Dec 2010
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This is a classy move

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Dec 2010
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Tech questions for 2022 Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of...
2nd Jan 2022
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Tech questions for 2022

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jan 2022
Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open. These are the questions I wonder about today, from crypto to cars to fast fashion - there are others.
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What explains the rise of AMMs? Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run...
22nd Jul 2020
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What explains the rise of AMMs?

from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Jul 2020
Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run a market making bot. I’ll always quote a price no matter who’s asking, and for my pricing algorithm I’ll use x * y = k. That’s pretty much it. Want to invest?” You’d run...
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Nine reasons screenshots are awesome By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots...
13th Nov 2015
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Nine reasons screenshots are awesome

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Nov 2015
By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots back into any app that imports photos…
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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...
5th Jun 2023
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Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the MVP of physical businesses.

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Jun 2023
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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3,573 Days On The Road Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent...
3rd Sep 2024
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3,573 Days On The Road

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Sep 2024
Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent consulting. This would have been my 10th issue, but is instead a special issue, for reasons that will become apparent.
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Samsung Galaxy S24 Unpacked Event Set for Jan. 17 PCMag.com: The company says it will show off "the newest additions to the Galaxy mobile...
3rd Jan 2024
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Samsung Galaxy S24 Unpacked Event Set for Jan. 17

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jan 2024
PCMag.com: The company says it will show off "the newest additions to the Galaxy mobile device portfolio." In its teaser video, the company goes a step further and explicitly states that "Galaxy AI is coming," so get ready for some form of on-device,...
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Goodbye YC I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t...
12th Feb 2021
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Goodbye YC

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Feb 2021
I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t many people around. PG and Jessica were still running things. We had offices in Mountain View, Palo Alto, and on Kearny street, but they were nearly always empty. The only meeting...
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NFTs and A Thousand True Fans In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform...
27th Feb 2021
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NFTs and A Thousand True Fans

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Feb 2021
In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To…
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Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition...
3rd Feb 2026
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Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Feb 2026
This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by people from private capital (venture capital and private equity.)  Deputy...
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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives. 2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private...
6th Aug 2020
1

$250K books sold. $250K to save lives.

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Aug 2020
2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private email list with a secret link to buy my new books. I made 5000 limited edition hardcover copies of each, but those have sold out now. Then I thought about what to do with the...
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The computing deployment phase Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment...
9th Feb 2013
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The computing deployment phase

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Feb 2013
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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More warm bodies Independent thinking continues to be the greatest edge
3 weeks ago
3

More warm bodies

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 weeks ago
Independent thinking continues to be the greatest edge
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Getting Old 👴🏼
23rd Jan 2023
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Getting Old

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Jan 2023
👴🏼
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Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an...
1st Dec 2025
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Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI

from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2025
OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
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How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics....
2nd Dec 2025
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How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Dec 2025
A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics. PLUS: The David Sacks discourse, and Claude Opus 4.5 debuts
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How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost) It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
1st Aug 2023
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How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2023
It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
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Pricing to the demand curve Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students...
4th Jul 2012
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Pricing to the demand curve

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jul 2012
Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students an imaginary trip to Hawaii, and asks…
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things i learned about contracting Always sign a contract for any job Charge by project, not by hour Give a quote properly Charge 1/2...
20th Sep 2025
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things i learned about contracting

from Shilin typing [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Sep 2025
Always sign a contract for any job Charge by project, not by hour Give a quote properly Charge 1/2 upfront Don’t start until the payment goes through or is wired and in transfer Do your work well. Go the extra mile. Underpromise but overdeliver Never complain to the people you...
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The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
28th Jun 2025
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The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Jun 2025
against efficiency and accountability
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Working notes for Summer of Protocols I participated in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It was...
27th May 2023
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Working notes for Summer of Protocols

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th May 2023
I participated in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It was an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aimed to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and their social implications. I decided to focus on protocols as...
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agility, get luckier, quitting entrepreneurship, irl agility
9th Sep 2025
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agility, get luckier, quitting entrepreneurship, irl

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Sep 2025
agility
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Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work? A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our...
11th Jun 2023
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Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work?

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jun 2023
A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our early days of launching my SaaS. You see, In 25 years of consulting to small businesses, I had learned that business owners and managers were faced with the challenge of recording...
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Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
23rd Aug 2022
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Cultivating agency

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Aug 2022
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
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How the Domino’s pizza tracker conquered the business world One cheesy progress update at a time.
22nd Aug 2025
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How the Domino’s pizza tracker conquered the business world

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Aug 2025
One cheesy progress update at a time.
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2019 year in review
1st Jan 2020
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2019 year in review

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2020
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
2nd Jul 2026
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jul 2026
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
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A Haskell Implementation Reading List A Haskell Implementation Reading List A reading list for those interested in the implementation...
14th Dec 2014
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A Haskell Implementation Reading List

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Dec 2014
A Haskell Implementation Reading List A reading list for those interested in the implementation internals of Haskell more , these are simply Typeclass Inference A Theory Of Qualified Types Type Inference For Parametric Type Classes Type Reconstruction For Type Classes Constraints...
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From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that...
25th May 2024
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From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey

from Roberto's blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th May 2024
I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
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"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)
6th Jul 2017
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"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jul 2017
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Testing and operating distributed systems I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally...
7th Feb 2021
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Testing and operating distributed systems

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Feb 2021
I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
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Saying no to everything else Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a...
23rd Sep 2015
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Saying no to everything else

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Sep 2015
Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a book. Eventually, the psychological pain of not finishing kept building until he couldn’t stand it anymore. He decided to finally beat the devil he calls “The Resistance”. He said, “I...
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Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at [email protected] if you're ever feeling...
7th Jul 2025
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Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2025
Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at [email protected] if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, I'm sorry that I paywalled this, but it took me so much effort and drove me a little insane. Back
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Don't focus on the NASDAQ While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the...
11th Feb 2016
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Don't focus on the NASDAQ

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Feb 2016
While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the world started relative to NASDAQ. At first, I thought I'd find no correlation between how well the index was doing and when successful companies were founded. I love...
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Garmin's ~$40B Pivot The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
17th Jan 2025
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Garmin's ~$40B Pivot

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Jan 2025
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
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Helium Mobile USV has been an investor in the Helium network since 2019. I have always loved the idea of using...
6th Aug 2023
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Helium Mobile

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Aug 2023
USV has been an investor in the Helium network since 2019. I have always loved the idea of using web3 technologies to let consumers to “peer produce” a communications network creating a people-powered network. Helium started out powering communications between low-power “Internet...
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COVID was bad for the climate William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled...
28th Mar 2021
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COVID was bad for the climate

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Mar 2021
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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Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian... It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot...
8th Apr 2022
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Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Apr 2022
It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.  (Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief Operating Officer of a company – but in this case the company has 3 million...
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232 sand dollars When I was twenty-two, I lived alone on the Oregon coast for a year, just practicing, recording,...
15th Nov 2011
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232 sand dollars

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Nov 2011
When I was twenty-two, I lived alone on the Oregon coast for a year, just practicing, recording, dreaming, and going for long runs on the beach. sand dollar shell. It had happened maybe five times in my life. By the time I got home I had collected 232 unbroken sand dollar...
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Aquatic Achievements Enough to get one's feet wet
21st Jul 2025
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Aquatic Achievements

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Jul 2025
Enough to get one's feet wet
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Pro rata is a bad term For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade...
11th Oct 2021
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Pro rata is a bad term

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Oct 2021
For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade and was comfortable with it. As a partner at YC, I thought it made enough sense that I helped design an entire programmatic pro rata system that covered every investment YC made....
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How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives? summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is...
1st Mar 2024
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How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives?

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2024
summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is customer-centric - someone who has a rich mental model for what customers want and is able to step into the customer's shoes. I theorize that beyond a culture of being customer-centric it's the...
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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early...
29th Aug 2026
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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Aug 2026
The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early internet. It was slow, ugly, unreliable, and full of cranks, a strange world of wheezing dial-up modems, Usenet flamewars, <marquee> tags, and dancing babies. It was also...
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A framework for choosing what to do A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure...
28th Feb 2022
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A framework for choosing what to do

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Feb 2022
A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure they knew what I should do. But...I didn't and most of their suggestions didn’t excite me. As I thought through my possible paths, I realized that I didn't have a useful framework...
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Monads Made Difficult Monads Made Difficult This is a short, fast and analogy-free introduction to Haskell monads derived...
7th Jul 2013
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Monads Made Difficult

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2013
Monads Made Difficult This is a short, fast and analogy-free introduction to Haskell monads derived from a categorical perspective. Categories We have a abstract category $\mathcal{C}$ which consists of objects and morphisms. Objects : $●$ Morphisms : $● \rightarrow ●$ For each...
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What has technology done to us? All this technology, in everyone's hands, has just produced so much stuff. It's had so many effects,...
19th Apr 2026
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What has technology done to us?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Apr 2026
All this technology, in everyone's hands, has just produced so much stuff. It's had so many effects, in every direction.
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Everybody stop
4th Aug 2011
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Everybody stop

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2011
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The thin layer problem Outperforming your manager without getting fired
6th Oct 2025
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The thin layer problem

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Oct 2025
Outperforming your manager without getting fired
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What’s inside this book Welcome to my book about getting your music to people, into people, and through people. Marketing...
1st Jan 2000
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What’s inside this book

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2000
Welcome to my book about getting your music to people, into people, and through people. Marketing is an extension of your art. Business is just as creative as music. All opportunities come from people. Stay in touch with everyone. Use a database. Be resourceful. Ask...
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The small businesses trying to prop up the tandem bike industry A small company in Southern California popularized tandems in the US and outlasted Trek,...
1st Jun 2026
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The small businesses trying to prop up the tandem bike industry

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jun 2026
A small company in Southern California popularized tandems in the US and outlasted Trek, Specialized, and other giants. But can bicycles built for two survive an anti-social age?
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Warren Buffett and the Reading Unlock One Buffett lesson I'll share with my kid: read, read, read.
16th Jan 2026
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Warren Buffett and the Reading Unlock

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Jan 2026
One Buffett lesson I'll share with my kid: read, read, read.
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Changed my mind: AI is actually good for coding
6th Jun 2025
1

Changed my mind: AI is actually good for coding

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jun 2025
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Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic Last Friday was my last day as CTO at Wave, capping an incredible ~8 years filled with more...
1st Feb 2023
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Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic

from benkuhn.net [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Feb 2023
Last Friday was my last day as CTO at Wave, capping an incredible ~8 years filled with more professional and personal growth, joy, and meaning than I could have hoped for. This was the hardest decision I’ve made. I’m still just as excited about Wave’s mission and trajectory. And...
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Second Encounters Firsts are overrated
10th Mar 2024
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Second Encounters

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Mar 2024
Firsts are overrated
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If you're from Edmonton, you'll remember Happy Pop soda
2nd Jun 2011
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If you're from Edmonton, you'll remember Happy Pop soda

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2011
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Metabrand Has Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook, or rebranded VR? What is the metaverse? And can any...
7th Nov 2021
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Metabrand

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Nov 2021
Has Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook, or rebranded VR? What is the metaverse? And can any company decide to build the future anymore?
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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1 Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a...
10th Oct 2023
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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Oct 2023
Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to...
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Things I've been thinking about - I can’t believe it's the end of March.
26th Mar 2025
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Things I've been thinking about -

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Mar 2025
I can’t believe it's the end of March.
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Some mistakes I made as a new manager This post was adapted from a “management roundtable” I gave at Anthropic. I had an unusually hard...
23rd Apr 2023
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Some mistakes I made as a new manager

from benkuhn.net [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Apr 2023
This post was adapted from a “management roundtable” I gave at Anthropic. I had an unusually hard time becoming a manager: I went back and forth three times before it stuck, mostly because I made lots of mistakes each time. Since then, as I had to grow my team and grow other...
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Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market A guest post by Coby Lefkowitz
2nd Mar 2024
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Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2024
A guest post by Coby Lefkowitz
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Why you will skim this article Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then...
23rd Jul 2023
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Why you will skim this article

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Jul 2023
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then you’re likely to scan through a few paragraphs in this article and then give up. (Unless, you’re a long-time reader and trust that my writing is worthy of your time. More on this...
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2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including Amazon and AI, the future of...
1st May 2026
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2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions

from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2026
The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including Amazon and AI, the future of AR devices, and Beijing's myopia.
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Hello World... Meet Devin. If you’re anything like me — you can think back to countless memories of coding sessions running...
11th Dec 2024
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Hello World... Meet Devin.

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Dec 2024
If you’re anything like me — you can think back to countless memories of coding sessions running deep into the night.
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How To Monitor Retailer's Prices A Practical Data Boutique Use Case
9th Jun 2023
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How To Monitor Retailer's Prices

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Jun 2023
A Practical Data Boutique Use Case
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Business is like a game of Frogger
4th Feb 2016
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Business is like a game of Frogger

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Feb 2016
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Google looks at acquiring YouTube can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
17th Oct 2022
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Google looks at acquiring YouTube

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Oct 2022
can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
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9 Years on the Road October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I...
4th Jan 2024
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9 Years on the Road

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jan 2024
October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I write a set of reflections about this strange and magical journey.
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What Game Are You Playing? Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.
7th Jan 2026
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What Game Are You Playing?

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jan 2026
Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.
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F1, Sport and Reality TV It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi...
15th Dec 2021
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F1, Sport and Reality TV

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Dec 2021
It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi with my sons. Full disclosure, we are all team Hamilton fans here, and were excited to watch the final deciding race as to who would take out the 2021 World Driver’s...
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Useful is forever
17th Feb 2012
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Useful is forever

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Feb 2012
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Industry roundup #11 Vercel testing AGENTS.md vs Skills
2nd Feb 2026
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Industry roundup #11

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Feb 2026
Vercel testing AGENTS.md vs Skills
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I love being wrong Most of the time, I feel smart, successful, and driven — like I’ve got it all figured out. But last...
9th Sep 2014
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I love being wrong

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Sep 2014
Most of the time, I feel smart, successful, and driven — like I’ve got it all figured out. But last month a bunch of stuff knocked me on my ass. I’ve never felt so wrong. Whenever something has gone wrong in my life, I’ve asked myself, “What’s great about...
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Women in South Africa’s gig economy feel forced to work extra hours for free Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask...
4th Jan 2024
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Women in South Africa’s gig economy feel forced to work extra hours for free

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jan 2024
Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask them to do unpaid work, and the company hasn’t responded to their complaints.
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Call the destination, and ask for directions Most of us don’t know what to do next. We know where we want to be, but we don’t know how to get...
1st Aug 2000
1

Call the destination, and ask for directions

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2000
Most of us don’t know what to do next. We know where we want to be, but we don’t know how to get there. Work backwards. Just contact someone who’s there, and ask how to get there. If you want to play a concert at the biggest club in town, show up on a weekday...
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Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language...
27th Jun 2023
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Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Jun 2023
How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language models?
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Experiments in music and life One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too...
7th Nov 2019
1

Experiments in music and life

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Nov 2019
One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too free. It’s anti-inspiring because having infinite options is overwhelming. So my favorite approach to music is in-between. You make up your own rules, and apply them to a piece of...
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How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast,...
4th Jun 2019
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How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront

from Dustin Curtis [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jun 2019
Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. I host several sites using the method described below, and it costs me pennies per month. The only problem is that getting things set...
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Founder Stories: Li Lu of Himalaya Capital A story of survival, success and advocacy
20th May 2026
1

Founder Stories: Li Lu of Himalaya Capital

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th May 2026
A story of survival, success and advocacy
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MLIR Part 11 - Matrix Multiplication and Attention Matrix Multiplication and Attention We have GELU, softmax and layer normalization expressed as...
1st May 2026
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MLIR Part 11 - Matrix Multiplication and Attention

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2026
Matrix Multiplication and Attention We have GELU, softmax and layer normalization expressed as Python functions over our tensor language. Most of a transformer's arithmetic, however, comes from matrix multiplication. Adding it will let us assemble attention without introducing a...
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The Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream has a water problem Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital...
4th Aug 2025
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The Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream has a water problem

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2025
Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital ambitions.
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Can anything stop Kalshi? The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember...
3rd Apr 2026
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Can anything stop Kalshi?

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Apr 2026
The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember what happened then.
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Musk v. Altman begins This is a bait and switch
2nd May 2026
3

Musk v. Altman begins

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2026
This is a bait and switch
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Supersaturate, Recharge *With one hand!*
10th Feb 2026
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Supersaturate, Recharge

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Feb 2026
*With one hand!*
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Second Nature Skills What can you do without trying that hard?
14th Aug 2024
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Second Nature Skills

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Aug 2024
What can you do without trying that hard?
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The Everything Bagel Problem The Everything Bagel Problem Okay, let me try to put this into words. It’s something I’ve been...
2nd May 2023
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The Everything Bagel Problem

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2023
The Everything Bagel Problem Okay, let me try to put this into words. It’s something I’ve been wrestling with, but having trouble articulating. Over the last few years I've been on left-leaning cryptocurrency policy activism, and the experience has been a perfect exemplar of what...
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Materialist Conceptions of God yet another attempt at bridging religion and rationality
25th Feb 2024
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Materialist Conceptions of God

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Feb 2024
yet another attempt at bridging religion and rationality
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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.
1st Nov 2024
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Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2024
It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
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2014: a year of making stuff
30th Dec 2014
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2014: a year of making stuff

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Dec 2014
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The Season Finale of TBPN On the show, the meta-show, and stocking up on cultural power.
14th Apr 2026
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The Season Finale of TBPN

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Apr 2026
On the show, the meta-show, and stocking up on cultural power.
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There’s no such thing as data Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own...
31st May 2022
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from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

31st May 2022
Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own our data, and be paid for it. But really, there is no such thing as data, it’s not yours, and it’s not worth anything.
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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS In this post I'll describe the tools and services I use to run my SaaS business. From programming...
22nd Nov 2020
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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS

from anthonynsimon.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Nov 2020
In this post I'll describe the tools and services I use to run my SaaS business. From programming languages to open source libraries to Kubernetes tools for easy deployments.
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