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When disaster strikes, the world opens WhatsApp Meta's messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis areas.
3 weeks ago
Stephen Diehl
The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban
over a year ago
David Perell
A Divine Intuition Under a secular mindset, intuition is all about you — your wants, needs, passions, and desires. A...
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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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China’s EV giant BYD is picking up speed in Jordan How Jordan became a battleground for Chinese EVs.
a year ago
David Perell
Imitate, then Innovate Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.  It’s counterintuitive, but the more...
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Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.  It’s counterintuitive, but the more we imitate others, the faster we can discover our unique style. The post Imitate, then Innovate appeared first on David Perell.
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Content negotiation considered harmful Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers...
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Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers return, different content types based on the request’s Accept header. Sounds great, right? Well, no. Content negotiation is the classic example of an idea that sounds good in theory, but...
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This Hajj VR simulator helps Muslims prepare for the holy pilgrimage The pilgrimage can be hard to navigate for first-timers, so Pakistan’s Labbaik VR offers a chance to...
3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
What I've Learned from Users
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
When big tech buys small tech ‘Big tech’ buys hundreds of startups, but what are they, what does that mean for competition, and...
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‘Big tech’ buys hundreds of startups, but what are they, what does that mean for competition, and how does this fit into the broader market? How many more Instagrams are there, and how many DAOs?
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Half of Singapore’s e-commerce scams now happen on WhatsApp, Facebook, or Instagram After a 50% increase in scams in 2023, Singapore authorities say Meta isn’t doing enough to stop the...
6 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
An Alternative Theory of Unions
over a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
Portfolio careers are the future of work. The traditional idea of sticking to one career path for life, once seen as the golden standard of...
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The traditional idea of sticking to one career path for life, once seen as the golden standard of work success, is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Now, we're moving towards the paradigm of the "portfolio career." Think of a portfolio career like a patchwork quilt of jobs....
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Bedrock programming “Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code...
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“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code from the ground up versus reusing…
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Disney Loves (and Hates) Public Domain Disney lost copyright on the "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey Mouse. It's the culmination of...
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Disney lost copyright on the "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey Mouse. It's the culmination of decades in which the company used a ton of public domain but prevented others from doing so.
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The new economy According to the Business Insider, Facebook is “‘Beating The S— Out Of Its Numbers’ Thanks To...
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According to the Business Insider, Facebook is “‘Beating The S— Out Of Its Numbers’ Thanks To Zynga’s Virtual Goods.”  I wanted to try to…
Noahpinion
Is it time for the Revenge of the Normies? An optimistic take on technology and inequality.
a year ago
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11 types of cross-industry innovation PLUS: AI spam, Disney vs. BuzzFeed.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Web3 is Bullshit
over a year ago
Articles - Alex...
The errors of efficiency We live in the era of efficiency. The advertising industry is infatuated with it. Intoxicated by...
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We live in the era of efficiency. The advertising industry is infatuated with it. Intoxicated by it. Enamoured and enthralled by it. We want our teams to be lean. Our processes to be agile. And our output to be optimised. Instead of focussing on making our work bigger, we...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#14) Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP...
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Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP numbers, phonics, and Russian nationalism
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Why i am leaving my own company. Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post...
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Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post might help to clarify and simpl...
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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.
a year ago
Tom Blomfield
Automate Everything Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a...
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Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (or hope) that this behaviour is inherent in being human. But being able to hack together scripts simply makes it much easier to go from a state of...
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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...
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Skype and Joost are interesting companies to compare – they are about as close as you can get to one of those sociological studies that…
Platformer
Google unveils Gemini CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product...
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CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4
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How translator-influencers bring banned foreign videos onto China’s internet On social media platform Weibo, influencers curate, translate, and edit content from the outside...
a year ago
Noahpinion
Why aren't we taking every Chinese refugee we can? Let's be the City on a Hill again.
a year ago
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Founder vesting The most important term in a startup term sheet that no one seems to think carefully about is...
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The most important term in a startup term sheet that no one seems to think carefully about is founder vesting.   There are two key points…
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While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core Google is fighting battles on almost every front:  social networking, mobile operating systems, web...
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Google is fighting battles on almost every front:  social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.  Much…
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For South Africa’s female ride-hailing drivers, customers are the biggest hazards Desperate to make ends meet, female Uber and Bolt drivers say abuse and attacks are a constant part...
a year ago
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Instagram account hacked? “Ethical hackers” will get it back Meta’s account recovery process is so complicated that people are paying experts to do it for them.
a year ago
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Why decentralization matters The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the...
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The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were…
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Entrepreneurs need to learn some law I recently wrote a post where I said entrepreneurs need to understand term sheets on their own,...
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I recently wrote a post where I said entrepreneurs need to understand term sheets on their own, without the assistance of lawyers.  I got…
Stephen Diehl
FTX: Greed, Grift and Grandiosity
over a year ago
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Twitter killed RSS (and that’s a bad thing) I’ve used Google Reader religiously since it launched.  I’m a few days away from quitting it...
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I’ve used Google Reader religiously since it launched.  I’m a few days away from quitting it forever.  Pretty much every blog I read tweets…
Noahpinion
Skilled immigration is a national security priority A joint blog post by Noah and Minn Kim on America's need for a national skilled immigration...
5 months ago
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The “LadyGrab” program was meant to protect women drivers. It backfired Quick-fix policies have accidentally left female drivers open to harassment and affected their...
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Bradley's Ghost
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
5 Good Evergreen Podcasts Baller topics include food, explorers, record labels, Vietnam War films and iconic sounds.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Present to Investors
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Some Heroes
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Who cares about tech regulation? Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but most people in tech don’t...
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Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but most people in tech don’t seem to care much. It’s boring, and years away, but more fundamentally, it really doesn’t affect what people spend their time working on.
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Critics and practitioners “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get...
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“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy…
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Pop Culture A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too...
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A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. And yes, that sound you hear is the slow deflation of
Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about a metaverse Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does metaverse even mean?...
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Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does metaverse even mean? If we strip away the noise, what can we say about this, and what can we predict?
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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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...
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft execs on TikTok, Nintendo, Apple, and more At some point, getting Nintendo would be a career moment and I honestly believe a good move for both...
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Sam Altman emails Elon Musk The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the...
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The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the distributed version of the future that seems the safest.
Aaron's Essays
Raise less money Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves...
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Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves in their seed and A rounds. Counterintuitively, dilution seems to rise along with price. One would expect the opposite correlation. Strong founders who command high prices should...
Working Theorys
Two Shticks Everyone needs two shticks.
2 weeks ago
Nadia Asparouhova
Working notes for Summer of Protocols I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s...
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I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aims to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and their social implications. I plan to focus on protocols as...
Aaron's Essays
Generative AI Might Just Save Venture Capital Originally published in The Information on November 2. For the past nine months, nearly every...
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Originally published in The Information on November 2. For the past nine months, nearly every investor with a Twitter account, blog or board seat has been beating a unified and constant refrain: The go-go days are done. Founders were being pushed to build 36 months of runway,...
Platformer
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
a year ago
Noahpinion
Why do economists get paid more than sociologists? An economic explanation.
a year ago
Blog posts of...
Managing Remote Teams - A Crash Course Hey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i...
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Hey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i thought this article might be u...
Noahpinion
Six reasons chipmakers should put their fabs in Japan It has every resource the semiconductor industry needs.
a year ago
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Movie stars, matchmakers, and aunties: How WhatsApp became an unstoppable cultural force The world’s most popular messaging platform is synonymous with the internet for millions of people.
3 weeks ago
Steve Blank
The Venture Mindset – Worth A Read Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture...
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Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative just came out with a book that should be on your reading list – The Venture Mindset. The books premise is that Venture Capitalists (who were responsible for the...
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Options The financial term “derivative“ refers to a security whose value is a function of another security...
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The financial term “derivative“ refers to a security whose value is a function of another security such as a stock or bond.  The most common…
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The exclusive network behind India’s global tech success How IIT school degrees became a fast track to tech royalty.
a year ago
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South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
a year ago
Steve Blank
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that...
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This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue growth than those that are solely remote. Let the discussion begin. During the...
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Nike’s Marketing Blindspot What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
a year ago
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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...
a year ago
Noahpinion
Toward a shallower future Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
a year ago
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Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world? “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” –...
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“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” – Steve Jobs I sometimes wish that instead…
Paul Graham: Essays
A Student's Guide to Startups
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How You Know
over a year ago
XO Capital - Field...
What business are you really in? I spoke with an entrepreneur recently who, after 5 years of running a successful and growing...
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I spoke with an entrepreneur recently who, after 5 years of running a successful and growing business, said "After 5 years I finally know the real business we're in.". It means they outwardly do X but on the inside the hard part is Y. As an
Essays - Benedict...
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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Deep piano Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old...
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Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old Brooke started learning, and we suddenly had a keyboard in the house again, so I joined her. It’s been great! I’m playing scales and exercises, diving into Rachmaninoff and Debussy,...
Tom Blomfield
Making something people want - The GoCardless story I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our...
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I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our first two years and the people we’ve met along the way. Making something no-one wants One startup I know very well in San Francisco was started by 3 ex-financiers. Their idea...
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Man and superman There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The...
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There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The first one is sometimes called the Great…
Paul Graham: Essays
The Fatal Pinch
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Where to See Silicon Valley
over a year ago
Working Theorys
Big TAM Founders, Small TAM Startups | Theory No. 19 What's one way to maximize your startup's chance of success? Be a big TAM founder working on a...
a year ago
Platformer
A visit to TikTok's transparency center Few companies have ever made their code so available for inspection. How much will it matter?
a year ago
Noahpinion
Price controls: Too early for a victory lap Narrative-driven triumphalism does not make for sound policy.
a year ago
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Forget Quibi. Chinese streamers are hooking Americans with werewolf love triangles Billionaire werewolf love triangles, that is.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Interview: Dan Wang, China specialist We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and...
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We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and lots more.
Paul Graham: Essays
The Island Test
over a year ago
Business Brainstorms
No agenda cold emails, dealership visits as a service, prompt money, the doing game. Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
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 Prompt Base has a list of the
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The slow decline of Meta’s Trusted Partner program Who trusts the trusted partners?
a year ago
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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.
a year ago
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Building an app that uses AI to interpret dreams Pandemic isolation inspired Coco Chen to work on the spiritual health platform Dreamore.
a year ago
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Three types of acquisitions There are three types of technology acquisitions: - Talent. When the acquirer just wants the team...
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There are three types of technology acquisitions: - Talent. When the acquirer just wants the team (generally just engineers and sometimes…
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The political power of an unlikely Tesla factory How Elon Musk plays politicians from Monterrey to Buffalo.
a year ago
AVC
What Will Happen In 2023 I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because...
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I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been...
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Indonesia has more than 700 languages. Can AI save them? Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian...
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Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian firms are focusing on Bahasa Indonesia and other regional languages.
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Stack Exchange Today we are announcing that A16z is leading a $40M investment in Stack Exchange, along with earlier...
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Today we are announcing that A16z is leading a $40M investment in Stack Exchange, along with earlier investors USV, Bezos Expeditions, Spark…
David Perell
Thoughts on Montreal I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks...
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I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks around town and casual conversations with friends: Culture: My favorite thing about Montreal is its commitment to culture. French is the dominant language, which is partially why it...
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Why Southeast Asia became a spyware hotspot A new Amnesty International report raises difficult questions.
7 months ago
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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...
4 months ago
Essays - Benedict...
Generative AI and intellectual property If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns...
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If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns that and who gets paid? This is a completely new problem that we’ve been arguing about for 500 years.
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Virtual tomb-sweeping keeps a Chinese tradition alive As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are...
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As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are helping them pay respects from afar.
AVC
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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Mexico’s women gig workers are making a dangerous job safer Women delivery workers are pushing for protection from gender-based violence, creating safe meeting...
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Women delivery workers are pushing for protection from gender-based violence, creating safe meeting spots and WhatsApp support groups, and fighting for legal protections.
David Perell
Against 3X Speed Mike boastfully reads 100 books per year. He listens to audiobooks at 3x speed whenever he drives...
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Mike boastfully reads 100 books per year. He listens to audiobooks at 3x speed whenever he drives and swears he can remember it all. His browser has a plugin that lets him speed up YouTube videos, and for a while, he listened to podcasts on a special app because of its unique...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Make Wealth
over a year ago
Articles - Alex...
The pitfalls of purpose Purpose is polarising. There are those who promote it as a paragon of positioning and a...
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Purpose is polarising. There are those who promote it as a paragon of positioning and a silver-bullet strategy for success. Then there are those who refute purpose’s power and dispute its capacity to connect with consumers. It is clearly a debate that divides. For every...
Noahpinion
New Industrialist Roundup 2024 What people are writing about rebuilding America.
4 months 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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a year ago
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...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
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
David Perell
What I Got Wrong About Business Too many people waste years in hollow ‘entrepreneurship’ classes. Instead, we need to develop the...
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Too many people waste years in hollow ‘entrepreneurship’ classes. Instead, we need to develop the domain expertise that leads to entrepreneurial ideas. The post What I Got Wrong About Business appeared first on David Perell.
Platformer
OpenAI's alignment problem The company's board failed the institution. But did it have a point?
a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
WeWork files for bankruptcy amid office market downturn. On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”....
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On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”. “It has been challenging for me to watch from the sidelines since 2019 as WeWork has failed to take advantage of a product that is more relevant today than ever before,” ...
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"A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket" Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the...
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Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the inception of the wireless system, I saw that…
Raw Thought (from...
Lean into the pain
over a year ago
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The problem with online “local” businesses One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business...
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One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business plans a week that involve local search…
Data Boutique
Stop Scraping H&M (And Other Things Live on Data Boutique) Web Scraped Data Catalog June 2023
a year ago
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There are two kinds of people in the world You’ve either started a company or you haven’t.  ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early...
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You’ve either started a company or you haven’t.  ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping…
Paul Graham: Essays
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
What I Did this Summer
over a year ago
Working Theorys
Angel Investing | Theory No. 28 A 5-year reflection & predictions on the practice of writing small checks into early-stage startups.
11 months ago
Noahpinion
Realistically, how much damage could Trump do to the U.S. economy? The biggest risks are all about debt and inflation.
2 months ago
Blog posts of...
How global media communication changes in a transparent world These are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media publisher inbetween. Authenti...
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The chilling power of Gaza’s internet blackout Ongoing bloodshed makes the territory’s digital ties even more important.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Startup = Growth
over a year ago
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Pakistan’s mass transit is failing. BusCaro thinks it has the solution After the failure of Airlift and Swvl, this startup is stepping in to provide an alternative to...
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After the failure of Airlift and Swvl, this startup is stepping in to provide an alternative to Pakistan’s unreliable public transport system.
Noahpinion
How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost) It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
The block button is the ultimate source of dopamine. Use it. I’m seeing this debate pop up on Threads and Mastodon, and I’ve speed-run the whole discourse so...
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I’m seeing this debate pop up on Threads and Mastodon, and I’ve speed-run the whole discourse so many times from Twitter to Bluesky that I’m exhausted. But let me be clear. It's perfectly okay to use the block function on any and every single platform. Block whoever you...
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Comparing "Morning in America" with 2023 Are we better off?
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Domestic work in Vietnam: The 5-star butler who naps on the steps She cooks, cleans, and has a key. But she also naps in stairwells and eats in hallways.
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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 NYC tech scene is exploding The pace of innovation in the New York area is very impressive right now. Some of the top...
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The pace of innovation in the New York area is very impressive right now. Some of the top entrepenuers in the country are building and…
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How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment...
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Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.
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Protobufs Explained, and why Google, Apple, and LinkedIn use it over JSON Faster than JSON, clearer than XML, cross-language, type-safe, and backwards compatible.
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Essays - Benedict...
When tech says ‘no’ The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does...
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The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is, sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is it? Well, there are three ways that people say...
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To connect disparate tech scenes, Brazil, Mozambique, and Angola show language is a great unifier As Africa and Latin America form closer links between their tech scenes, similar challenges,...
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Revenge of the Nerds
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Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially...
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A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially hurting content creators and broadcasters in Indonesia.
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Gordon Bell R.I.P. Gordon Bell passed on this month. I was a latecomer in Gordon Bell’s life.  But he made a lasting...
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Gordon Bell passed on this month. I was a latecomer in Gordon Bell’s life.  But he made a lasting impact on mine. The first time I laid eyes on Gordon Bell was in 1984 outside a restaurant in a Boston suburb when he pulled up in a Porsche. I was the head of Marketing for […]
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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is:  how secretive...
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A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is:  how secretive should I be about my idea?  My answer…
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What’s Next in Computing? The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles....
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The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing…
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A Nobel for the big big questions Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson win a prize for their grand unified theory of development.
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Apple and Foxconn lobbied India to relax its labor laws. Unions are fighting back The business-friendly change extends factory shifts from nine to 12 hours, and allows women to work...
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Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial... “These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”
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The Middle East is getting older Why I'm optimistic about the waning of conflict in the region.
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Organizational Design: Balancing Technology and Operations Understanding the Three Essential Roles for Scale
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Fashionable Problems
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Revolution in the Valley The story of how this site turned into a book
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Narrative Aircover & Compound Narrative “I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able...
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“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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Facebook vs. TikTok | Elon Musk emails Tesla's board Today we see a shift towards social media products serving as “discovery engines.”
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A former fish farmer’s startup is flourishing during a tech downturn Gibran Huzaifah’s eFishery made a case for tech companies solving rural issues.
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How does Michelin Guide's business work? The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is...
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The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is 0.1% of sales. An incredible marketing deal.
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MercadoLibre is a massive fish in a medium-sized pond The Argentine e-commerce company is no doubt beating the likes of Amazon in Latin America, but how...
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The elemental foe Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1.
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Becoming Creative I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few...
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I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few links that I deeply love about starting, finishing and promoting creative acts…
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Pitching the VC partnership The last step to raising venture capital is normally a 1 hour pitch to the whole partnership during...
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The last step to raising venture capital is normally a 1 hour pitch to the whole partnership during their weekly monday meeting.  This is…
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Bourdain on The Journey Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your...
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Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with...
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Forget a U.S. ban — TikTok is thriving in its second-biggest market TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is...
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TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
Noahpinion
Liberalism is losing the information war Because it's refusing to fight.
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Tom Blomfield
When to join a startup Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to...
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Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around the time the Social Network movie came out - perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but part of me imagines a group of MBAs sitting around watching...
Noahpinion
Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI Comparative advantage is very subtle, but incredibly powerful.
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/* aggregateoptionsstrike_price = your options strike price per share * number of shares you own company sale price is 1) if private…
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The Chinese app where women socialize over their menstrual cycles On Meet You, women track, discuss, and pray for their periods.
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AVC
AIVC I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog...
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I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me […]
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TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest...
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Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the US, with no stores. US pay TV subscribers have fallen by a third. Where do ad budgets go, where does rent go, and how many brands will there be?
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Raise Money
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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...
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William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled travel plans, cut down overall consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions fell drastically. It’s great for the environment! Let’s keep it up! With apologies to H. L. Mencken, I...
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Meta’s long-standing problem with “shaheed” An overdue ruling from the Oversight Board.
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My sci-fi novel recommendations A repost with some updates, just in time for the holidays.
a year ago
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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...
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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.
Internal Tech Emails
Instagram cofounder on Mark Zuckerberg will he go into destroy mode if I say no
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Tom Blomfield
Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and...
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There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and philosophies. This is a positive thing for the ecosystem - just as new software tools mean it’s simpler and cheaper to start a company, these methodologies allow first-time entrepreneurs...
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Traditional multinationals are making their mark on Latin American tech The region’s conservative corporations are finding different ways to get into technology.
a year ago
David Perell
Punctuation is Music If you want to improve your writing, match your punctuation to the mood. Punctuation is to writing...
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If you want to improve your writing, match your punctuation to the mood. Punctuation is to writing as music is to movies. In The Joker, the renowned composer Hildur Guðnadóttir used the cello in the opening scenes to create empathy with the protagonist. But then, as The Joker’s...
Articles -...
How to raise money In this article, I will walk you through my fundraising formula that has helped me raise over $1...
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In this article, I will walk you through my fundraising formula that has helped me raise over $1 billion of capital in my career. I’ll also walk you through building a predictable and repeatable fundraising machine. The probability of success for a high growth company is...
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A Ponzi scheme targets desperate workers amid Zimbabwe’s employment crisis E-Creator offered an opportunity to earn money by writing fake reviews for e-commerce websites.
a year ago
Working Theorys
Define the Game | Theory No. 14 I grew up playing tennis with my sister at the public courts near home. For a long time, I just...
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I grew up playing tennis with my sister at the public courts near home. For a long time, I just cherished the joy of playing and watching the careers of the "big 3" unfold. But recently I’ve started to appreciate something more about tennis: the clarity of the meta-game around...
XO Capital - Field...
2023 sucked 2023 was a tough year for us. A pure grind. What worked: The business model Our Team Raising $ +...
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2023 was a tough year for us. A pure grind. What worked: The business model Our Team Raising $ + deploying it What didn't work: Growth was tough We got bit by platform risk Too many small portfolio companies is death by a thousand cuts We have two relatively passive
Stephen Diehl
Stablecoins Do Not Deserve Special Treatment
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Apple intelligence and AI maximalism Apple has showed a bunch of cool ideas for generative AI, but much more, it is pointing to most of...
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Apple has showed a bunch of cool ideas for generative AI, but much more, it is pointing to most of the big questions and proposing a different answer - that LLMs are commodity infrastructure, not platforms or products.
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The Psychology of Disneyland From Walt Disney's original vision to Imagineering to pricing strategy.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Great Hackers
over a year ago
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Dow 10,000 and economic reflexivity People who criticize Obama’s economic policies forget that, around the beginning of this year, a lot...
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People who criticize Obama’s economic policies forget that, around the beginning of this year, a lot of serious people thought we were…
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Shareholder Supremacy I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly,...
6 months ago
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I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta,...
Unpacked
Reddit's IPO Filing & India's AI Regulation | EP 7 Here are the highlights from the podcast episode. You can find a longer form analysis on both topics...
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Here are the highlights from the podcast episode. You can find a longer form analysis on both topics in the podcast episode - Spotify | Apple Podcasts. The podcast follows the same core principles as the writing (primarily analysis driven with occasional opinions sprinkled in)....
Noahpinion
Will Elon Musk kill Substack? The fragmentation of the internet gets a push.
a year ago
Raw Thought (from...
Confront reality
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Top of My Todo List
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Business Brainstorms
Daily briefing AI, Hello Fresh but better, building in a cave, postcard lead gen, controllable input... Hey, In this issue: idea for an AI-powered Gmail extension to streamline your digital life, private...
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Hey, In this issue: idea for an AI-powered Gmail extension to streamline your digital life, private prep cooks as a service, startup concepts inspired by Y Combinator data, prompt for SEO optimized articles. Plus, founder insights on the power of focus and advertising channels....
Stephen Diehl
The Tinkerbell Griftopia
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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...
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Samsung’s predicament In the past year, Samsung went from being a moderately successful electronics manufacturer to the...
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In the past year, Samsung went from being a moderately successful electronics manufacturer to the leading non-iOS mobile device maker…
Blog posts of...
A model that’s mental Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This...
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Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This creeping imposter syndrome jus...
Steve Blank
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
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We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to 1) give our students an appreciation of the...
Platformer
The platforms give up on 2020 lies For a time, they fought the good fight — but not any more
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The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub New data shows a rising tide of coders in Bangladesh and Nigeria.
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Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #1: Data Auctions The data auction system explained
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David Perell
How Learning Happens From music, we learn what humanity has always known but schools have forgotten: learning begins with...
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From music, we learn what humanity has always known but schools have forgotten: learning begins with inspiration. The post How Learning Happens appeared first on David Perell.
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Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market Some web designers use ChatGPT to code and create basic designs, while salaries for web designers in...
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Working Theorys
Before the Crowd Shows Up The arena rewards those who arrive early.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Coronavirus and Credibility
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Noahpinion
Americans are still not worried enough about the risk of world war In which I try to be Gandalf instead of Cassandra.
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Paul Graham: Essays
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The tragedy of the anticommons Seems very relevant to today’s music industry, and potentially relevant to the internet/software...
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Seems very relevant to today’s music industry, and potentially relevant to the internet/software industry in the near future as patent…
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It’s never goodbye in South Asia South Asians don’t like to say goodbye — instead, across the many languages we speak in the region,...
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South Asians don’t like to say goodbye — instead, across the many languages we speak in the region, we prefer versions of the phrase “see you again."
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China’s favorite resale app is a youth subculture hotspot You can sell anything on it, and millions do, but it's also become a forum for fandoms and birthed a...
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You can sell anything on it, and millions do, but it's also become a forum for fandoms and birthed a unique style of confessional item listings.
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Overworked and unable to quit: Delivery drivers in Brazil found something worse than gig work Trapped in a subcontracting nightmare, some delivery drivers are facing grueling hours, low pay, and...
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"There's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product" Steve Jobs in 1995: There's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a...
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Noahpinion
Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen.
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Xiaohongshu has revolutionized Chinese tourism in Southeast Asia The lifestyle and social media platform, often compared to Instagram, is turning obscure sites into...
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42!
Pitch competitions as a measure of success In our early days of my startup, I would try to enter as many pitch competitions as was feasible,...
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In our early days of my startup, I would try to enter as many pitch competitions as was feasible, just to try and get our project in front of as many eyes as possible and get our names mentioned in the popular startup press. I used to give everything in these competitions, and we...
Noahpinion
Who cares about the Ivy League? (repost) Too much of our education discourse focuses on a handful of tiny elite schools.
a year ago
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China fights for an edge on semiconductors The gallium problem could become everyone’s problem
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Nigeria’s Ogun State wants to lead the country’s EV revolution But experts fear long-term success may not follow as Nigeria lags other African countries when it...
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VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when pitching VCs is to argue that their startup is likely to...
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The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when pitching VCs is to argue that their startup is likely to succeed.  Instead, they should argue…
Paul Graham: Essays
Writing, Briefly
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How livestream realtors helped make Xishuangbanna a boom town Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming,...
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Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers.
Rest of World -...
TikTok wants to turn millions of Americans into paid shopping influencers You only need around 1,000 followers to earn money eating noodles and selling toys on TikTok Shop.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
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Strong and weak technologies During a media tour in 2007 in which Steve Jobs showed the device to reporters, there was one...
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During a media tour in 2007 in which Steve Jobs showed the device to reporters, there was one instance in which a journalist criticized the…
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How Microsoft and the UAE got caught in the crossfire of the U.S.-China tech war Geopolitical tensions have ensnared Microsoft’s deal for AI company G42.
5 months ago
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India’s ambitious lithium dreams have stalled Last year, India touted the discovery of a huge reserve of valuable lithium in Kashmir. Experts say...
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Last year, India touted the discovery of a huge reserve of valuable lithium in Kashmir. Experts say optimism around the discovery was overblown.
Paul Graham: Essays
High Resolution Fundraising
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Riders in the smog Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off...
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Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off the charts.
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
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Noahpinion
A three-state solution is the only viable future for Israel and the Palestinians Ethnic cleansing is off the table, and non-contiguous states just don't work.
a year ago
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Why Kenya has the potential to be Africa’s EV powerhouse Jit Bhattacharya discusses the challenges and opportunities of building an EV company in Kenya.
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How China’s hottest social media app turned Düsseldorf into a foodie destination The trendiest food city in Europe isn’t Paris or London. It’s Düsseldorf — thanks to Xiaohongshu.
a year ago
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The Vietnamese military has a troll army and Facebook is its weapon Force 47 abuses Facebook's safety tools to silence government critics at home and anywhere in the...
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Roberto Vitillo's...
A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect...
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If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
Folklore.org:...
Joining Apple Computer Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
The Algorithm, rebuilding GA3, a new drink for the productivity-chasing professional managerial... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Huge startup opportunity to just literally rebuild...
Noahpinion
Harris needs to be Pennsylvania fracking's biggest champion Biden already boosted fracking. Harris needs to promise more of the same.
3 months ago
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Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it... People love to focus on horse races:  NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs...
over a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Inside Apple's Marcom meeting To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running...
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To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running our company is a shocking response.
Blog posts of...
Refactoring larger legacy codebases This article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to...
over a year ago
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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...
Unpacked
Y Combinator W23 batch, AI value chain and startup trends YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their...
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YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their Winter 2023 cohort and, unsurprisingly, ~31% of startups have a self-reported AI tag.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
They're Looting The Internet Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram...
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Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period....
Raw Thought (from...
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Internal Tech Emails
"I don't want to create a paper trail" I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can...
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a year ago
I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this.. thanks Eric
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Do What You Love
over a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
Notes on Search and AI What to say about the future of AI and search?
11 months ago
Blog posts of...
First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰 Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I...
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over a year ago
Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I try to give a few mental models and a bit tactical advice.
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"The Not So Global Internet" Fred Wilson writes about how frustrating it is when companies break the internet: We are in the...
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over a year ago
Fred Wilson writes about how frustrating it is when companies break the internet: We are in the caribbean this week celebrating the year end…
Paul Graham: Essays
The Python Paradox
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Platformer
How TikTok failed to make the case for itself After a rocky appearance before Congress, the company has reason to reflect
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Rest of World -...
Doctor-influencers are going viral in China, provoking authorities Fueled by the pandemic, medical professionals have cashed in on Douyin, dispensing advice and...
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Need to Read
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
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Noahpinion
Heat pumps, heat pumps, heat pumps!! A simple but incredibly useful machine is quietly transforming our buildings.
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Monads to Machine Code
over a year ago
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Ramen Profitable
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Data Boutique
Web Scraping Legal Context As the need for data grows, so does the need for clearer regulation
a year ago
Working Theorys
Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now...
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Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software—and with it, Silicon Valley.
42!
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Noahpinion
What should China do to revive its economy? There are a couple of aces that the government hasn't yet played.
a year ago
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"You actually have to remind yourself not to believe" [Virtual Reality] is the last medium. We’re at the very beginning of it, but version 147 is The...
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[Virtual Reality] is the last medium. We’re at the very beginning of it, but version 147 is The Matrix or Total Recall. Our brain is no…
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Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this Wednesday! Last week, Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how OpenAI's DALL-E turns text into
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The importance of asking people questions Andy Weissman’s blog has the tagline “Maximizing the serendipity around you.”  It’s a good...
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Andy Weissman’s blog has the tagline “Maximizing the serendipity around you.”  It’s a good philosophy.  I think one of the simplest ways to…
Business Brainstorms
API for simple manual online tasks, pickleball for surfing, freelancer laptop stickers, ... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I want an AI companion that I can share my goals with...
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Drafting your first investment round. The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
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The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
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Predatory loan apps are thriving in the Google Play store, despite ban Google says it takes the problem seriously, but over a dozen loan apps remain available in the...
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The deepfake election nightmare hasn’t happened. Singapore still wants to ban them Following South Korea’s lead, Singapore intends to ban deepfakes ahead of upcoming elections,...
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Starbucks' Digital Dilemna The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of...
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The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of control and hurting the brand's "premium" vibe.
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The AI project pushing local languages to replace French in Mali’s schools RobotsMali uses ChatGPT, Google Translate, and other AI tools in hopes of helping young students...
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SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
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Games are problems people pay to solve Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me...
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Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense. He defines games as problems that people pay to solve with either their time or money. Unlike movies or books, games are...
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How Hermès Sells "Time" The ~$250B French luxury giant creates the most sought after leather bags through craftsmanship,...
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The ~$250B French luxury giant creates the most sought after leather bags through craftsmanship, heritage and long-term thinking.
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Shein’s hottest item in Latin America is its plastic bags The reusable packaging often ends up outliving the garments it once transported.
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Paul Graham: Essays
A Fundraising Survival Guide
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Don’t look down on TikTok creators. Learn from them. It’s both terrifying and fascinating to watch a generation half my age redefine creativity on...
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It’s both terrifying and fascinating to watch a generation half my age redefine creativity on platforms like TikTok. As a 34-year-old writer, I’ve seen the evolution of storytelling from physical print to digital media to the dazzling, and fast-paced world of social video....
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Google’s feature creep Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most...
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Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most cluttered: I don’t use any of…
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Real estate grifters are creating unlivable conditions. TikTok Real Estate Influencers and ‘Grifters’ Are in Deep Trouble, Short Seller Says Philip...
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TikTok Real Estate Influencers and ‘Grifters’ Are in Deep Trouble, Short Seller Says Philip Garboden, a professor of affordable housing at the University of Hawaii who has studied the rise of small real estate investors, said the effects of reckless lending on...
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You Should Watch More Canceled TV Shows An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
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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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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…
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A decade of discontent is coming. The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for large-scale upheaval and...
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The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for large-scale upheaval and the reordering of societal structures is significant. We are already witnessing the dismantling of long-standing institutions and the rise of new paradigms. The struggle between...
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The $650m+ Spirit Halloween business Spirit Halloween has over 1,450 pop-up shops and makes all its money in only 2 months (September,...
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🇪🇺 Dear Europe, please wake up – eu/acc Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe...
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Welcome to tomcritchlow.com version…. 19? 25? Honestly there have been so many iterations over the years who even knows. The point is there’s a new coat of paint.
Nothing Human
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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...
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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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Tesla and Storytelling Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no...
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Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these products have been depicted in...
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The myth of the overnight success Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally...
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Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit. Pinterest is…
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Web services should be both federated and extensible One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured,...
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One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs.  APIs provide a way to…
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The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland When Putin talks, we should listen.
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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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Bill Gates on "hard-core detractors" | Elon Musk responds to Tesla investor The key point is that they can't both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things...
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If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics Richard Feynman Tens of billions of public and private capital are being invested in Quantum technologies. Countries across the world have realized that quantum technologies can be a major...
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Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S. redistribution, and defense production
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Monoids for analytics This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is...
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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…
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Seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border? You’d better speak English or Spanish Migrants speaking Haitian Creole or Indigenous languages face challenges at the border.
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The blue cities must be fixed If you want to govern the nation, you should first be able to govern San Francisco, New York, and...
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If you want to govern the nation, you should first be able to govern San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.