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The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages "Chatbots like ChatGPT are utterly broken or useless for these languages."
over a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug. Imagine a philosophy so focused on the ends that it becomes blind to the means. This is the...
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Imagine a philosophy so focused on the ends that it becomes blind to the means. This is the seductive trap of Effective Altruism (EA), a doctrine born to the rationalist cradle, promising to solve the world's woes through a calculator. Into this world stepped Sam...
Inverted Passion
Notes from the book “Decoding the Why” Finished (well, skimmed) the book “Decoding the Why: How Behavioral Science is Driving the Next...
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Finished (well, skimmed) the book “Decoding the Why: How Behavioral Science is Driving the Next Generation of Product Design”. It’s a decent introductory book if you have not delved into behavioral science before, but if you have, most of the ideas in the book won’t come across...
Working Theorys
Ping Minimalism OR: "Personal firewalls" or "Few may disturb"
a year ago
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Malaysia’s new data centers create thousands of jobs — and worries about power and water shortages Data centers for companies like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia are transforming Johor state, with locals...
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Data centers for companies like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia are transforming Johor state, with locals bracing for higher real estate costs and resource shortages.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#43) Slop wars; Poland and Ukraine; AI bubble; MMT reversal;
a year ago
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"Bitcoin is the currency the internet deserves and needs" George Gilder discusses the importance of Bitcoin in a very interesting interview: To have a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
George Gilder discusses the importance of Bitcoin in a very interesting interview: To have a civilization you need more than just bits and…
David Perell
Annual Review 2020 Writing this Annual Review, I realize that I’m incredibly fortunate.  While some people spent the...
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over a year ago
Writing this Annual Review, I realize that I’m incredibly fortunate.  While some people spent the quarantine alone, I moved into my childhood home and spent five months with family. While America saw the worst unemployment spike in recent history, my business grew because the...
Unpacked
Zoom's AI policy backlash & customer data in model training Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in a way that allows use of customer data (read your video and audio recordings) for training Zoom features. In this episode, we unpack the timeline of events that followed, Zoom's...
Rest of World -...
Global TikTok creators depend on U.S. viewers. A TikTok ban would be devastating Without Americans on the app, advertising dollars are at risk.
over a year ago
Noahpinion
How to have friends past age 30 A quick and simple guide.
2 months ago
Articles
2014: a year of making stuff
over a year ago
Dustin Curtis
Contribution and abundance Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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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If you asked people in 1989... "If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
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"If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said that a decentralized…
SatPost by Trung...
So Much "Succession" The Murdoch family succession drama is as succession-y as "Succession" could ever succession.
4 months ago
Articles
We sell saddles here
over a year ago
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"Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn't mean they're optimal" Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic...
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over a year ago
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with…
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Working Theorys
Second Nature Skills What can you do without trying that hard?
11 months ago
haseeb qureshi
Another decade I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a...
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over a year ago
I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a college dropout, and deeply unhappy. What did I believe I’d be doing a decade later? I don’t think I knew, only that I definitely wouldn’t be playing poker anymore. I’d be doing...
Articles
SaaS is ripe for disruption
over a year ago
Noahpinion
A Nobel for the story of women in the workforce How Claudia Goldin brought all the threads together.
a year ago
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China’s EV giant BYD is picking up speed in Jordan How Jordan became a battleground for Chinese EVs.
over a year ago
Articles
What podcasters get wrong about advertising
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Build Something, Dammit! (#56) Power vs. abundance; Chinese espionage; U.S. manufacturing woes; the growth of good jobs; Milei's...
6 months ago
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Venezuelan migrants helped build Colombia’s tech scene. Now the country is kicking them out New rules make getting a visa more difficult, even as Colombia struggles to find enough tech...
over a year ago
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Non-linearity of technology adoption When I was in business school I remember a class where a partner from a big consulting firm was...
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over a year ago
When I was in business school I remember a class where a partner from a big consulting firm was talking about how they had done extensive…
Unpacked
Apple Watch pulls blood oxygen feature, and how big a deal is the GPT Store really? Listen now | In the second episode of this year, we peel a few layers beneath Apple's decision to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now | In the second episode of this year, we peel a few layers beneath Apple's decision to pull the blood oxygen feature after losing a patent battle against Massimo. We then pivot to understanding the GPT Store and our analyses / hot takes on how big a deal this really...
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The default state of a startup is failure If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to...
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over a year ago
If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to happen, that’s because the world wants…
Aaron's Essays
I and We Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego...
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over a year ago
Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego component is even larger. This is a good thing. Ego is what gives the founder the confidence to create something new. Ego powers the belief that the new thing the founder creates will...
Articles
Do I look dumb?
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Chinasplaining will backfire A review of "China's World View", by David Daokui Li
a year ago
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Shoehorning startups into the VC model Tech startups go in an out of fashion. When they’re in fashion, as they are now, entrepreneurs and...
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over a year ago
Tech startups go in an out of fashion. When they’re in fashion, as they are now, entrepreneurs and VCs get lots of attention. Most of this…
Articles
How I price products
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: The new conservative era (#53) Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better teachers; the AI slowdown; consumer confidence
Noahpinion
America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
9 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Filters that Fight Back
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Second Winds Why are so many famous YouTubers quitting? A legendary essay by Václav Havel — a Czech playwright...
a year ago
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a year ago
Why are so many famous YouTubers quitting? A legendary essay by Václav Havel — a Czech playwright and former President — helps to explain this trend.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Japan Trip edition (#61) Trump and Social Security; San Francisco corruption; Phones making us dumb; Ukraine and drones;...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Trump and Social Security; San Francisco corruption; Phones making us dumb; Ukraine and drones; Abundance stuff; Indian industrial policy; Steve Glinert on CHIPS reform
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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...
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over a year ago
By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots back into any app that imports photos…
Noahpinion
If you think Americans are mad now, just wait a few months Some guesses as to how long it will take the real pain to arrive.
2 months ago
AVC
Etsy Lens I am the Chair of the Etsy Board and have been an investor and board member at Etsy since the...
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over a year ago
I am the Chair of the Etsy Board and have been an investor and board member at Etsy since the mid-2000s. It is a company that I love and get great joy from being part of. Last year Etsy quietly launched a feature that has completely changed the way I use Etsy. It is called […]
Articles
Send your users this welcome email
a year ago
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Keybase: bringing public-key cryptography to mainstream users Today I’m excited to announce that a16z is leading a $10.8M Series A financing of Keybase, a company...
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over a year ago
Today I’m excited to announce that a16z is leading a $10.8M Series A financing of Keybase, a company that is trying to make the internet…
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What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten... Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent...
over a year ago
Noahpinion
If Trump loses the election, our nation can finally rest Let's not bring back the wacky 2010s.
8 months ago
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A former fish farmer’s startup is flourishing during a tech downturn Gibran Huzaifah’s eFishery made a case for tech companies solving rural issues.
a year ago
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New York City needs a tech startup blog At first it seemed like Silicon Alley Insider would be this, but they seem to have moved away from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At first it seemed like Silicon Alley Insider would be this, but they seem to have moved away from covering NYC startups. The New York Times…
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Online sports betting in South Asia has a new target: Archery Teer, a century-old game in India, is now attracting gamblers from Bangladesh and Bhutan.
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Do Great Work
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Startups in 13 Sentences
over a year ago
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Who will control the software that powers the Internet? Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over...
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Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually…
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🇮🇳 India in 2024 In February I made my first business trip to India. Three weeks deep in the Indian tech ecosystem....
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a year ago
In February I made my first business trip to India. Three weeks deep in the Indian tech ecosystem. My summary is simple: I feel like the world needs an update how we view India
Rest of World -...
The TikTok ban is bigger than just ByteDance The U.S. clampdown on Chinese-owned companies won't end here.
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Have We Reached Peak AI? Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with journalist Joanna Stern asking a series of thoughtful yet straightforward questions that Murati failed to satisfactorily answer. When asked about what data was used to train...
Paul Graham: Essays
Microsoft is Dead
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Happy fun Cold War 2 update It's getting a little warmer out there.
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Rot-Com Bubble If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter...
a year ago
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If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter that further expands on the Rot-Com Bubble, coming out Wednesday and Friday. The noxious growth-at-all-costs mindset of the Rot Economy sits at the core of every issue that I'
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Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail? Skype and Joost are interesting companies to compare – they are about as close as you can get to one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Skype and Joost are interesting companies to compare – they are about as close as you can get to one of those sociological studies that…
Internal Tech Emails
Google considers buying stake in Epic investment was the only way people could realistically think of to sway them on Epic's approach to...
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried...
6 months ago
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In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest&
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India’s richest man can’t crack e-commerce, even with Shein Early data shows the partnership is off to a slow start, as Reliance’s retail machine struggles to...
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Early data shows the partnership is off to a slow start, as Reliance’s retail machine struggles to cement its place in a market dominated by Amazon and Walmart.
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The music streaming app for those who can’t pay for downloads Ad-driven Trebel has scooped up 13 million users across Latin America who don't want to pay for...
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
A month of the Vision Pro The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass...
a year ago
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The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass market. And if it gets there, how much will it matter?
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How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with...
a year ago
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a year ago
Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest soccer leagues in the world.
Articles
Stop screen sucking
over a year ago
Articles
Product traction is like waiting in line at the grocery store
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Nike’s Marketing Blindspot What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
a year ago
Articles
Be real.
over a year ago
XO Capital - Field...
Everything I've learned about buying small software businesses over the past 4 years 💡 We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase...
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💡 We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase price. So my notes below relate to a mostly linear path from $25k to ~$2M. XO has been a tough ride. We had some wins, some losses and overall haven&
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
Articles
People want the basics done well
over a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🪄 Growth Magic
11 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing...
10 months ago
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The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing it at that valuation. I am curious to know at what valuation you would do this, and then I can just let you know whether we'd do that.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The global stakes of the U.S.-China AI rivalry A focus on “who’s winning the AI race” can overlook key concerns around safety, governance, and...
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4 weeks ago
A focus on “who’s winning the AI race” can overlook key concerns around safety, governance, and equity, experts tell Rest of World.
Rest of World -...
Vietnam’s made-to-measure fashion brands are thriving in the TikTok era As shoppers sour on Chinese fast fashion, more sustainable Vietnamese brands — loved by K-pop...
a year ago
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As shoppers sour on Chinese fast fashion, more sustainable Vietnamese brands — loved by K-pop artists and Western celebrities alike — are booming online.
Paul Graham: Essays
Mean People Fail
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Give away the diagnostic, sell the remedy Companies that employ the “freemium” business model give away a product or service for free and then...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Companies that employ the “freemium” business model give away a product or service for free and then charge for additional features. The…
Articles
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
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Tablets
over a year ago
Articles
How to make money from your tiny podcast
over a year ago
Stephen Diehl
The Case Against Crypto
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Apple’s biggest gamble isn’t the Vision Pro — it’s India Don’t be distracted by this week’s gadget hype cycle.
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Lots of interesting discussions after Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI. One of the interesting...
a year ago
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a year ago
#1 💡 Lots of interesting discussions after Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI. One of the interesting themes: What does the guy actually do? Is he actually important for the company? Surely other people, the technicians, are responsible for the breakthroughs, right?
AVC
Coming Back Up For Air The last time I posted was May 23rd, three weeks ago. There was a time when I wrote every day. When...
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over a year ago
The last time I posted was May 23rd, three weeks ago. There was a time when I wrote every day. When I had not yet posted on any day, I felt like something was missing, like I had not yet had my cup of coffee. Clearly, I have moved on from that need to write […]
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The fastest-growing shopping app in the world Meesho is taking on Amazon and Walmart with its focuse on cheaper goods for small-town consumers.
a year ago
Aaron's Essays
In defense of exploding term sheets There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set amount of time, whether or not they’re accepted—are bad. Some of this comes from founders who do not appreciate the pressure; some if it comes from VCs who want to emphasize their...
Essays - Benedict...
Stepping out of the firehose What does a mailbox with 351 thousand unread emails say about Bauhaus, the Arts and Crafts...
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over a year ago
What does a mailbox with 351 thousand unread emails say about Bauhaus, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the Metaverse?
Rest of World -...
Parents turn to AI tablets after China’s tutor crackdown Tech companies iFlytek, Baidu, and BKK are cashing in on parents who fear their child will fall...
a year ago
essay – snarfed.org
New job, hello climate tech I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to prevent deforestation and sequester more carbon in trees. A few years ago, I looked around for a side project on the climate crisis. Nothing big, maybe 5-10 hours a week, but I was ready...
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E-commerce startups Very few successful e-commerce companies were started in the 2000s. Since then, e-commerce startups...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Very few successful e-commerce companies were started in the 2000s. Since then, e-commerce startups have enjoyed a revival. Dozens of…
Rest of World -...
The regional flavors of labor-on-demand A new report digs into the social dynamics of gig work.
a year ago
AVC
Read Write Own Chris Dixon, who leads the A16Z crypto fund, and has been an entrepreneur, VC, and friend of mine...
a year ago
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a year ago
Chris Dixon, who leads the A16Z crypto fund, and has been an entrepreneur, VC, and friend of mine for over twenty years, has written a book called Read Write Own that is available for pre-order now and will start shipping at the end of the month. Chris gave me a copy right before...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Anthropic Is Bleeding Out Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling...
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15 hours ago
Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, please subscribe and support my independent brain madness. Also, thank you to Kasey Kagawa for helping with the maths on this. Soundtrack:
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Disagree
over a year ago
AVC
The Freedom To Innovate Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over...
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over a year ago
Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately landed me in public testimony in front of the DFS staff. In my testimony, I explained...
AVC
The Heist On Saturday, September 9th, the Gotham Gal and I arrived at JFK airport after an eight-hour flight...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Saturday, September 9th, the Gotham Gal and I arrived at JFK airport after an eight-hour flight from Paris. While waiting for our luggage, I got pushed a notification in my web3 wallet that there was an NFT drop underway that I could participate in. So I clicked on the link,...
Noahpinion
The elemental foe Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Revenge of the Nerds
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Two trophies, one meme How the World Cup and the Golden Globes united Argentina through a single viral image.
over a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Should we buy Instagram, Foursquare, or Pinterest? It's really expensive -- probably ~$1 billion.
5 months ago
David Perell
Annual Review 2022 This year was an emotional odyssey. At times, it was tormenting, at others intoxicating. Here, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This year was an emotional odyssey. At times, it was tormenting, at others intoxicating. Here, I share my joys and struggles, my dreams and regrets. 2022 completely changed my life. The post Annual Review 2022 appeared first on David Perell.
Articles
2019 year in review
over a year ago
Articles
My workplace fantasies
over a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
Taking Blogging Seriously It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons firing in our brains as the conversation sparks.
Working Theorys
Membership clubs & desktop apps are back. And more things I talked about over coffee & dinner this week.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
What global investors need to know about funding Pakistani startups Hasib Malik is the co-founder and CEO of Tiger Global-backed financial services startup CreditBook.
a year ago
Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 3 Books as athleisure, Twitter/X goes Substack, and oh yeah, Apple's Vision Pro
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Purely Narrative-driven Bubbles
over a year ago
Inverted Passion
What bootstraps intelligence? A musing on how intelligence comes to be. The bedrock of intelligence is abstractions – the thing we...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A musing on how intelligence comes to be. The bedrock of intelligence is abstractions – the thing we do when we throw away a lot of information and just emphasise on a subset of it (e.g. calling that thing an apple instead of describing all its atoms and their x, y, z positions)....
Internal Tech Emails
"Thoughts on OpenAI" To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
a year ago
Noahpinion
Four years of Noahpinion What happened to the world in 2024, and what I wrote about it
7 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Who Will Run Berkshire After Buffett? PLUS: Group Chat Rules, 5 Banks in Disguise, Chipotle's Memo.
a year ago
David Perell
What I Got Wrong About Business Too many people waste years in hollow ‘entrepreneurship’ classes. Instead, we need to develop the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Too many people waste years in hollow ‘entrepreneurship’ classes. Instead, we need to develop the domain expertise that leads to entrepreneurial ideas. The post What I Got Wrong About Business appeared first on David Perell.
Rest of World -...
Venture capital’s cold war ...or how I learned to stop worrying and love decoupling.
a year ago
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Chris Sacca on the implied user contract Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what each company has promised its users…
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Be an Angel Investor
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#22) Test score collapse, triumph of the vibes, U.S. dependence on China, the benefits of upzoning,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Test score collapse, triumph of the vibes, U.S. dependence on China, the benefits of upzoning, immigrants and jobs, and a world at war
Aaron's Essays
Goodbye YC I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Rest of World -...
Kenya’s bus fleets want to go electric, but manufacturers can’t meet demand Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
6 months ago
Articles
No one wants to buy my sneakers
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
over a year ago
Noahpinion
How we could return to the productivity growth of the 1990s A guest post by Preston Mui.
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
9 Best Things of 2023 My favourite book, film, podcast, meme, investment and more for the year.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Exclusive: Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft’s willingness to comply with...
a year ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
Monoids for analytics This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is a set that is closed under an…
Paul Graham: Essays
Stuff
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Casualties of the Chip War The biggest threat to Nvidia isn’t coming from China
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
We asked for flying cars and all we got was the entire planet communicating instantly via pocket... Benedict Evans has a new presentation about the explosive growth of internet-connected smartphones....
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Getting a job in venture capital Getting a job in venture capital is extremely hard.  There are a lot of really smart, well...
over a year ago
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Getting a job in venture capital is extremely hard.  There are a lot of really smart, well qualified, eager people who want to work in VC…
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Refactoring larger legacy codebases This article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to...
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This article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to explain it here a bit more in d...
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Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for...
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If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs…
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Throwable
AI is Coming for Software Engineers (I'm a Software Engineer) There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should...
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There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should worry as much as software engineers.
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The enterprise: buyers versus users Why does most enterprise technology feel like it is a decade behind consumer technology? For the...
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Why does most enterprise technology feel like it is a decade behind consumer technology? For the same reason our health care system is…
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There are two ways to make large datasets useful I’ve spent the majority of my career building technologies that try to do useful things with large...
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I’ve spent the majority of my career building technologies that try to do useful things with large datasets.* One of the most important…
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DeFi in Eth2: Cities, suburbs, and farms Ethereum today is incredibly congested—it’s even more congested now than it was during the height of...
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Ethereum today is incredibly congested—it’s even more congested now than it was during the height of the ICO bubble. This is impressive, but also worrying! Ethereum 2.0 is still a ways away, but the tiny island of Ethereum 1.0 is already populated to the point of...
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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...
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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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Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft Greg, Here is a review of the terms we last discussed, as well as some issues I have encountered....
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Greg, Here is a review of the terms we last discussed, as well as some issues I have encountered. Please ping me to let me know that you received this email.
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The problem of AI ethics, and laws about AI Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a technology that will be used...
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Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a technology that will be used in entirely different ways, for different purposes, in different industries? How about if it’s changing entirely every 18 months?
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Epic Games, Google and App Store Monopolies In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive...
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In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by suppressing other app stores and banning alternate payments
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Some thoughts on where the war in Ukraine is headed And some perspective on what's happened already.
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Understanding America's New Right Fighting for Western Civilization in someone else's back yard
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OpenSea slashes NFT marketplace staff by 50% OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the...
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OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the company confirmed to Decrypt on Friday. A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company. The company would not ...
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The reverse OPEC maneuver Pricing power in the oil industry is shifting, and will shift more.
over a year ago
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Inferring intent on mobile devices [Google CEO Eric] Schmidt said that while the Google Instant predictive search technology helps...
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[Google CEO Eric] Schmidt said that while the Google Instant predictive search technology helps shave an average of 2 seconds off users…
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The Twilight of the Securities Act
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Chinese internet trolls are adopting American racism to taunt Black users Users are harassing Black creators with profile pictures of white police officers.
over a year ago
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Careless People: Facebook insider’s memoir reveals more in what it omits Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir is a courageous feat, but it glosses over her own indifference to...
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Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir is a courageous feat, but it glosses over her own indifference to warnings from policymakers, civil society, and internal teams outside the U.S. about serious harm to communities from Facebook.
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Don't trust default timeouts Modern applications don't crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that...
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Modern applications don't crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn't. When…
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Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
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The TikTok bans are accelerating With a key vote scheduled for tonight, the company's options are growing limited
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2023 is when the empires strike back Cold War 2 won't be decided by the opening moves.
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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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How Chinese e-commerce fuels counterfeit fashion in Nigeria “Fake originals” make their way from sites like AliExpress and DHgate to a market in Lagos.
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Don't Build a Social Network, Build a Social Utility | Theory No. 21 We often think of “social products” as synonymous with “social networks,” but they’re not. Social...
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We often think of “social products” as synonymous with “social networks,” but they’re not. Social networks are just a subset of social products, though arguably the most popular and lucrative kind that we’ve become used to hearing about. But I think it’s the wrong time to build a...
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Why are we so obsessed with the multiverse? Why are we so drawn to the idea of multiple realities? More than a trend, it seems to come from a...
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Why are we so drawn to the idea of multiple realities? More than a trend, it seems to come from a deep emptiness within us—a longing for a place where our world's limits don't exist, where anything is possible. From the alternate timelines and worlds of Scott Pilgrim Takes...
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Why you can't trust Twitter's encrypted DMs A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new...
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Putin is a rest stop on the road of post-Soviet collapse The narrative of Russian revitalization is more hype than reality.
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Are We Watching The Internet Die? Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered...
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Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual
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App store shenanigans I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps.  One thing that I’ve noticed is that...
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I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps.  One thing that I’ve noticed is that many of the top rated and ranked apps…
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Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes As Brazilian law clashes with Meta’s policies, illegal vapes flood social media and the streets.
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Becoming the Tuna King What are the table stakes for a profession? Do you want to pay it?
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Why Mexico is tweeting at its third- richest citizen to delete his tweets On August 11, Mexico’s election authority made an unexpected announcement via its official account...
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On August 11, Mexico’s election authority made an unexpected announcement via its official account on X, formerly known as Twitter: It called for Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Mexico’s third-richest man, to...
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The slow transformation of Facebook in India As the general election approaches, there are few spaces where the opposition can be safe online
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Managing Up Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the...
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Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making technology products manifestly worse, this transformation was only possible thanks to...
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Apple is propping up a fundamentally broken payments industry Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of...
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Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of breathless pronouncements on a “revolution" in mobile payments. To be clear - Apple Pay is a step forward in terms of end user experience - but it simply entrenches a...
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ByteDance shuts down its WhatsApp clone in Africa TikTok’s owner launched LetsChat in 2021, aimed at young Africans and boosted by heavy marketing,...
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TikTok’s owner launched LetsChat in 2021, aimed at young Africans and boosted by heavy marketing, but it couldn’t crack WhatsApp’s dominance.
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The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed The efficient market hypothesis is a widely taught financial theory that states, roughly, that under...
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The efficient market hypothesis is a widely taught financial theory that states, roughly, that under certain generally-held conditions…
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We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.
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Come for the tool, stay for the network A popular strategy for bootstrapping networks is what I like to call “come for the tool, stay for...
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A popular strategy for bootstrapping networks is what I like to call “come for the tool, stay for the network.” The idea is to initially…
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The 83b Election First and foremost, this is not tax advice. I am not a tax advisor and you should never take...
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First and foremost, this is not tax advice. I am not a tax advisor and you should never take anything you read here as tax advice. If you read something here that makes you think you should take some tax-related action, please always consult your tax advisor. With that disclosure...
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The 20/20 Workweek | Theory No. 26 The 40-hour, 80-hour, and 4-hour workweek are out. What comes next?
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A coupon-crazy Brazilian app figured out how to beat Uber Eats Out-discounting competitors: iFood’s bid to become Latin America's last-mile delivery king.
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The case of the angry history postdoc Elite overproduction spotted in the wild.
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The hidden cost of cyberwarfare Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
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What's going to happen to Ukraine now? The most likely scenario is some form of Finlandization.
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Do poor countries need a new development strategy? Bangladesh and Southeast Asia are defying the economists who say industrialization is dead.
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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story...
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I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to mid-1942 it was Vannevar Bush (and his number 2, James Conant, the president of...
Noahpinion
Pakistan needs a plan The country can't go on like this. It needs stability, privatization, education, foreign investment,...
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The country can't go on like this. It needs stability, privatization, education, foreign investment, and peace.
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How to become an #Influencer in India Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a...
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Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a real struggle to monetize from Instagram.
Paul Graham: Essays
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Four types of mobile apps If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app...
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If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app has enduring value, it is helpful to…
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Why America's future could hinge on Elon Musk Iron Man, or Dr. Doom?
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At least five interesting things to start your week (#42) The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI;...
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In which we talk all about generational differences, Millennial angst, and the effects of social media and cell phones
Paul Graham: Essays
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Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to...
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Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to attack the margin trading protocol bZx, first in a $350K attack and later in a $600K copycat attack. These attacks were, in a word, magnificent. In each attack, a penniless attacker...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Noahpinion
The Democrats are a strong party, the Republicans are a weak party It's Boss Tweed vs. Boss Tweet.
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Aaron's Essays
Investors and their incentives It is incredibly important to understand the incentives of investors when you are raising money....
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It is incredibly important to understand the incentives of investors when you are raising money. This used to be fairly easy - you raised money from Venture Capitalists who wanted to see a big return on their investment. The best of these investors were incredibly focused on...
AVC
Flooding I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday with photos of the flooding at West Point. My dad and brother used to work in that grey stone building called Mahan Hall. And the same storms that did this to West Point did worse...
Noahpinion
This is called "capital flight" It usually only happens to poor countries, and it never ends well.
3 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Software Has Eaten The Media As I wrote a year ago in The Rot Economy (and as I argued on the first episode of my podcast Better...
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As I wrote a year ago in The Rot Economy (and as I argued on the first episode of my podcast Better Offline), I believe that both public and private markets have become decoupled from the concept of "good business," ruled instead by a hunger for the eternal
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America's semiconductor policy is missing a key piece A guest post by Steven Glinert.
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Q-Codes; Or… Stop repeating yourself ⌨️ I use apple’s keyboard “text” shortcodes to setup a lot of things i have to type regularly. It’s...
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I use apple’s keyboard “text” shortcodes to setup a lot of things i have to type regularly. It’s easily one of my favorite productivity hacks!
Noahpinion
Hey Democrats: Stop fiddling while Trump burns America Someone has to stop the Mad King.
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How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former...
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After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
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How to raise investment Update: I am no longer personally angel investing - I’m focussed on other things at the moment....
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Update: I am no longer personally angel investing - I’m focussed on other things at the moment. Please don’t ask me to invest in your company! 🙂 I started angel-investing in 2021, and a large proportion of the companies I put money into asked for help raising an investment...
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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
5 months ago
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"A standard protocol for machines to negotiate bitcoin payments for resources" Great idea from Brian Armstrong of Coinbase: 1/ Seems like there should be a standard protocol for...
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Great idea from Brian Armstrong of Coinbase: 1/ Seems like there should be a standard protocol for machines to negotiate bitcoin payments…
Noahpinion
How to take our country back The America you grew up in is under attack from technologies that we ourselves invented.
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The Sam Bankman-Fried Files In LA last weekend, I met with Michael Kives and his firm, K5. He is, probably, the most connected...
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In LA last weekend, I met with Michael Kives and his firm, K5. He is, probably, the most connected person I’ve ever met.  In attendance at the dinner at his house were: 1) Hillary Clinton 2) Doug Emhoff 3) Katy Perry 4) Orlando Bloom 5) Kate Hudson
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Transit Tech Lab The Partnership for NYC, alongside its partners at the MTA, the Port Authority of New York and New...
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The Partnership for NYC, alongside its partners at the MTA, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ TRANSIT, and NYC Department of Transportation, launched a call for applications for the 6th annual Transit Tech Lab this week. To kick off this year’s program, the...
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MicroStrategy's $37B+ Bitcoin Bet How Michael Saylor turned a B2B software company into one of the world's largest owners of Bitcoin.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat I'm disappointed and frustrated by this. I don't know what else to say to him.
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Against Positive-Sum Thinking why conflict is necessary
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When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? As Chinese EV makers close, drivers of “smartphones on wheels” say software updates and maintenance...
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Magpie marketing We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that...
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We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that ecommerce is upending retail. Social media is uprooting advertising. Private labels are replacing brands. Advertising is dying. And TV is dead. We believe change is the new...
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Selling stuff on a busy beach It's unlikely you'll convince someone to buy something where there wasn't already existing demand.
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It's unlikely you'll convince someone to buy something where there wasn't already existing demand.
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The case makes a nuanced argument about how Amazon abused monopoly power through anti-discounting measures and tying in Prime with Fulfilled by Amazon
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This renewable energy startup helps companies decarbonize across the Pacific Bor Hung Chong from Nefin Group discusses green energy solutions beyond solar panels.
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Options on early stage companies I believe that what I’m about to say is accepted by venture capitalists as fact, even trivially...
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I believe that what I’m about to say is accepted by venture capitalists as fact, even trivially obvious fact, yet very few entrepreneurs I…
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What jobs are users hiring your product to perform? One of Clay Christensen’s favorite concepts is that instead of dividing your customers into segments...
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One of Clay Christensen’s favorite concepts is that instead of dividing your customers into segments and asking which features each segment…
Platformer
Susan Wojcicki makes her exit She had a legendary run. Will YouTube's end with it?
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Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform Nazi content violates rules against incitement to violence, the company says
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Real wages, why North Korea is poor, China's stalled catch-up, the economics of social media, AI takes some jobs, and a comic about rabbits
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A shared burden: rethinking cybersecurity post the 23andMe breach. TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached But in a...
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TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached But in a letter sent to a group of hundreds of 23andMe users who are now suing the company, 23andMe said that “users negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords...
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#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be...
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Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...
Steve Blank
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This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. We just finished the 14th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching it in both the winter and spring sessions. During the quarter the eight teams spoke to 919...
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This Chinese startup believes it can take augmented reality glasses mainstream Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his...
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Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his product will revolutionize the display experience.
Working Theorys
Background Social Theory #41: on apps that let you tell me what you're up to without telling me what you're up to.
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Before you start celebrating a possible Tesla factory in India … There are ecological and economic challenges that the Indian government must not ignore as it woos...
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There is no American Ambani A tale of two tech industries.
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Block Carefully A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
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A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
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My Year-End Playlist As usual, here are some songs that stuck with me this year. fredwilson · Backing It When No One...
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As usual, here are some songs that stuck with me this year. fredwilson · Backing It When No One Believed I hope you enjoy it.
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Uber drivers are melting amid Nigeria’s historic heat wave and record fuel prices As temperatures soar and fuel prices triple, drivers are having to choose between their health and...
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At its annual summit, the company gets bullish on AI — but feels haunted by the ghost of its past ambitions
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Under a secular mindset, intuition is all about you — your wants, needs, passions, and desires. A heavenly, God-inspired intuition is different. The post A Divine Intuition appeared first on David Perell.
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The Book of Unexpected Make way for the robot elephants: Technology is providing surprising updates to long-standing...
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Make way for the robot elephants: Technology is providing surprising updates to long-standing traditions.
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Announcing the winners of our semiconductor policy contest! Some good ideas in here.
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Expanding my horizons Everything we come up with is a mixture of what we've seen, heard, and experienced.
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Feels bad, man: how memes escape from their creators and fuel extremism. Meme content is so contextually bound and temporally sensitive that yesterday’s viral sensation is...
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Meme content is so contextually bound and temporally sensitive that yesterday’s viral sensation is today’s digital fossil. Writing about memes, then, is a delicate dance on a stage where every word and interpretation risks obsolescence as the cultural tide swiftly changes....
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The tech executive who believes AI needs more voice-based learning systems Bayo Adekanmbi explains why voice-based learning is the best way to increase AI adoption across...
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How Chinese drones could defeat America A Ukrainian drone attack shows our extreme vulnerability.
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Zohran Mamdani's policies will (mostly) not bring abundance to NYC Progressive ideas still try to defy economic realities.
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The age of average (encore) The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music getting less melodically...
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The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music getting less melodically diverse and lyrics getting more repetitive. Or to put it another way, just as our visual culture has become more homogeneous, so too has the music that accompanies it. Let’s run...
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Thank You Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)  Thanks so much...
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Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)  Thanks so much to everybody that has supported me in the last year. This newsletter started as a way for me to process the complex feelings I have about the technology industry, and still...
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OpenAI is making a risky bet on live translation The company has a stunning demo — but can the product live up to the hype?
a year ago
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The surgeon general's warning is a wake-up call for social networks A growing body of evidence suggests that social products pose significant risks to teenagers
over a year ago
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Don’t shop your term sheet There are all sorts of protocols in the VC world. Most of them make sense upon further examination,...
over a year ago
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There are all sorts of protocols in the VC world. Most of them make sense upon further examination, but if you’re a first time entrepreneur…
Inverted Passion
2024 wrapped This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right...
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This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right now for a holiday and I don’t feel like being in front of a screen for long. I mean, just look at this view and tell me that you’d rather be in front of a screen writing… Read...
Noahpinion
My sci-fi novel recommendations A repost with some updates, just in time for the holidays.
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
11 Creative Lessons from Brian Eno The legendary composer on the creative process, importance of deadlines, problem with software in...
a year ago
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a year ago
The legendary composer on the creative process, importance of deadlines, problem with software in arts and what is art actually for?
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Why African governments must prioritize affordable internet and smartphones Lacina Koné of Smart Africa discusses the continent’s digital transformation and potential.
a year ago
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The winners of Rest of World’s first photography contest From images of solar cooking to snake radio telemetry, we received 548 entries from around the...
over a year ago
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Let Tim Cook Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next...
a year ago
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Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next version of the iPhone’s software) in a presentation that FastCompany called “uninspired,” Futurism called “boring,” and Axios claimed “failed to excite investors.”  The
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The sex and cash theory
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Decade of the Battery A repost with some updates.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Europe's fate is in Germany's hands now That's a scary thought, but not for the reason it used to be.
12 months ago
tomcritchlow.com
How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives? summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is...
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a year ago
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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Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out First let me say I love Google.  I think Google created one of the greatest inventions of the past...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
First let me say I love Google.  I think Google created one of the greatest inventions of the past century and continues to give back much…
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
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“Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform… “Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform...
over a year ago
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Why you should go after a market with strong demand Building a new product is an enormous risk. You're risking your time, energy, and resources. Look...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Building a new product is an enormous risk. You're risking your time, energy, and resources. Look for a evidence of demand!
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Can you change customer behavior?
over a year ago
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How we measured air quality for gig workers in South Asia Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could...
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Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could gather data on what they breathe.
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Amazon needs to be clear about removing items on behalf of authoritarian governments It's too easy to quietly order the removal of pages or products.
over a year ago
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As elegantly produced as movies and as engaging as great novels MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is misguided: We decided to assume that the…
Articles - Alex...
The ageism in advertising The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and possessed. We crave it in our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and possessed. We crave it in our agencies and we covet it in our audiences. We believe younger staff are more creative and younger consumers are more valuable. But this is nothing more than received wisdom....
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The betting app fueling fantasy cricket’s rise in India On Dream11, Indian sports fans create groups, participate in tournaments, and win millions by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On Dream11, Indian sports fans create groups, participate in tournaments, and win millions by picking their favorite players.
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Why does it matter that Twitter is supplanting RSS? The other day I claimed that Twitter is supplanting RSS, and that long term that’s a bad thing....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I claimed that Twitter is supplanting RSS, and that long term that’s a bad thing.  Andrew Weissman had a very reasonable…
David Perell
Tiago Forte & Will Mannon: Building Cohort-Based Courses I have two guests today: Tiago Forte and Will Mannon. Tiago is my business partner and the creator...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have two guests today: Tiago Forte and Will Mannon. Tiago is my business partner and the creator of an online course called Building a Second Brain. The two of us record a podcast like this every year to reflect on what we’ve learned about the online education industry. And...
Articles
Do entrepreneurs create demand? How demand for products gets created, amplified, and destroyed
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Progressives take their best shot at Abundance (but it falls short) A review by Sandeep Vaheesan fails to discredit Abundance, but it points to what the movement could...
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A simple way to validate your startup idea
over a year ago
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Clickworkers are turning against each other Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are...
a year ago
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a year ago
Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are increasingly wary of newcomers.
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Catching a break: How gig workers find rest Rest of World asked over 100 gig workers across 10 cities how they take a break between tasks.
a year ago
Noahpinion
How Brazil built a world-beating aircraft manufacturer A guest post by Pedro Franco.
3 months ago
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As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally… As Edwin Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his polarized headlight system was fatally...
over a year ago
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Let’s make some stuff
over a year ago