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The giant basket case countries More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
1st Nov 2025
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The giant basket case countries

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2025
More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
3rd Apr 2023
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Apr 2023
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The war over wine Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon...
5th Dec 2025
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The war over wine

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

5th Dec 2025
Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon for once-overlooked Ontario wineries.
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Unit Economics The old joke describes a lot of companies at the moment - “I’ll sell at a loss but make it up on...
10th Jun 2018
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Unit Economics

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Jun 2018
The old joke describes a lot of companies at the moment - “I’ll sell at a loss but make it up on volume.” Pilloried in the press, startups burn through vast sums of capital before spectacularly imploding. Let’s go back to 2012-13. The world was finally emerging from a punishing...
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Elon Musk and OpenAI Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw.
15th Nov 2024
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Elon Musk and OpenAI

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

15th Nov 2024
Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw.
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Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
23rd Aug 2022
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Cultivating agency

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

23rd Aug 2022
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
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Drafting your first investment round. The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
6th May 2013
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Drafting your first investment round.

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

6th May 2013
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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The TWA Hotel The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel...
2nd Sep 2022
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The TWA Hotel

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

2nd Sep 2022
The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel appeared first on David Perell.
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A Legacy of Speaking Up A tribute to my late father in honor of being named an inaugural Centennial Alumni Catalyst by the...
6th Oct 2025
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A Legacy of Speaking Up

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

6th Oct 2025
A tribute to my late father in honor of being named an inaugural Centennial Alumni Catalyst by the Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Switch strategies Life is like any journey. You need to change directions a few times to get where you want to...
27th Jan 2016
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Switch strategies

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

27th Jan 2016
Life is like any journey. You need to change directions a few times to get where you want to go. Then when something is extra-rewarding, it’s time to switch strategies. Focus all of your energy on this one thing. Don’t be leisurely. Strike while it’s hot. Be a...
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Prayer over a new smartphone Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most...
27th Nov 2023
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Prayer over a new smartphone

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

27th Nov 2023
Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most treasured possession. I will feel your weight in my pocket every moment of every day, a presence as constant as my breath. The muscles and bones of my hand, arm, and shoulder will deform...
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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...
18th Mar 2022
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TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising

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

18th Mar 2022
Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the US, with no stores. US pay TV subscribers have fallen by a third. Where do ad budgets go, where does rent go, and how many brands will there be?
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The hidden labor that makes AI work Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book,...
1st Jul 2025
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The hidden labor that makes AI work

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

1st Jul 2025
Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book, The AI Con. Below is an excerpt on the invisible labor behind some AI tools.
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Building a New Project in Public Nate Kadlac runs Approachable Design an online course to teach the basics of visual aesthetic and...
11th Jan 2023
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Building a New Project in Public

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

11th Jan 2023
Nate Kadlac runs Approachable Design an online course to teach the basics of visual aesthetic and design.
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Forget the Valley: bootstrap founders can live wherever they want
17th Oct 2012
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Forget the Valley: bootstrap founders can live wherever they want

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

17th Oct 2012
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AI and the Human Condition AI might replace all of the jobs; that's only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if...
5th Jan 2026
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AI and the Human Condition

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

5th Jan 2026
AI might replace all of the jobs; that's only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if they care, they will create new jobs.
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Watch for mind gremlins
12th Jan 2017
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Watch for mind gremlins

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

12th Jan 2017
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Building for Voice In, Visuals Out Recently, Andrej Karpathy argued that the ideal interaction pattern for AI models is voice in,...
31st May 2026
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Building for Voice In, Visuals Out

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

31st May 2026
Recently, Andrej Karpathy argued that the ideal interaction pattern for AI models is voice in, visuals out: Audio is the human-preferred input to AIs, but vision is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to...
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Ideas are just a multiplier of execution It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. People who want me to sign a...
16th Aug 2005
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Ideas are just a multiplier of execution

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

16th Aug 2005
It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. People who want me to sign a non-disclosure agreement to tell me the simplest idea. Explanation: table{width:80% }td{width:50%;padding:0.5em;border:1px solid #ccc} AWFUL IDEA -1 WEAK IDEA 1 SO-SO...
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin...
28th May 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

28th May 2024
'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin 💡Broken Hips This feels like one of these problems that most people have accepted as inevitable but that will be solved soon and we will look back and think how crazy we allowed this...
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There are three New York Cities There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born...
4th Jun 2010
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There are three New York Cities

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jun 2010
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and…
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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...
13th Jun 2023
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Coming Back Up For Air

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jun 2023
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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How we turned into assholes The internet was supposed to unite us. So what the fuck happened? And how did we become a...
3rd Nov 2023
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How we turned into assholes

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

3rd Nov 2023
The internet was supposed to unite us. So what the fuck happened? And how did we become a cross-generational digital nation of assholes? We dreamed of a global, decentralized network spreading information, enabling communication, and connecting humanity. But somewhere...
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Notes from the book “Magic Words” Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a...
19th Aug 2023
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Notes from the book “Magic Words”

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

19th Aug 2023
Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a significant amount of time in assembling the thoughts we want to convey, but assume the words to convey them as a given. 2/ This book – written by a professor of business – takes the view...
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Taking Blogging Seriously It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies...
27th Jun 2025
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Taking Blogging Seriously

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

27th Jun 2025
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.
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Carts without horses Investing in emerging markets such as India, Kenya, and Nigeria isn’t quite what I naively thought...
2nd Jun 2016
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Carts without horses

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

2nd Jun 2016
Investing in emerging markets such as India, Kenya, and Nigeria isn’t quite what I naively thought it would be. Before I started, I thought that finding a good company in an emerging market would just mean copying models that worked in developed markets. All I’d have to do is...
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MLIR Part 11 - Matrix Multiplication and Attention Matrix Multiplication and Attention We have GELU, softmax and layer normalization expressed as...
1st May 2026
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MLIR Part 11 - Matrix Multiplication and Attention

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

1st May 2026
Matrix Multiplication and Attention We have GELU, softmax and layer normalization expressed as Python functions over our tensor language. Most of a transformer's arithmetic, however, comes from matrix multiplication. Adding it will let us assemble attention without introducing a...
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"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)
6th Jul 2017
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"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)

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

6th Jul 2017
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The Microwave Economy America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world...
1st Mar 2021
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The Microwave Economy

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

1st Mar 2021
America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world cheaper instead of more beautiful, more functional instead of more meaningful. The post The Microwave Economy appeared first on David Perell.
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A better parking lot
27th Jul 2009
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A better parking lot

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

27th Jul 2009
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Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery. Because of my open inbox, I meet a lot of strangers. I love it. Almost everyone tells me who and...
2nd Feb 2023
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Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery.

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

2nd Feb 2023
Because of my open inbox, I meet a lot of strangers. I love it. Almost everyone tells me who and where they are in the world. If they don’t, I wonder.
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Slouching Towards Innovation A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a...
13th Sep 2022
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Slouching Towards Innovation

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

13th Sep 2022
A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a concept video. A lot of innovation projects never see the light of day.
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Your business isn't about finding a great idea
21st Jul 2018
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Your business isn't about finding a great idea

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

21st Jul 2018
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How I build and run behavioral interviews This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral...
25th Feb 2024
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How I build and run behavioral interviews

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

25th Feb 2024
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral interviews were basically useless, because it was too easy for candidates to bullshit them and too hard for me to tell what was a good answer. I’d end up grading every candidate as an...
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Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian... It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot...
8th Apr 2022
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Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation

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

8th Apr 2022
It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.  (Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief Operating Officer of a company – but in this case the company has 3 million...
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If you work with pixels you should be thankful
17th Aug 2012
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If you work with pixels you should be thankful

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

17th Aug 2012
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Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company...
1st Sep 2026
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Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face

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

1st Sep 2026
Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company does is about avoiding a consolidated world.
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Don’t sell your soul to the algorithm The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to...
14th May 2023
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Don’t sell your soul to the algorithm

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

14th May 2023
The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to big tech companies. This is how it works: This loop has two sinister effects: All this to make the richest companies and their shareholders even richer. This is why we must refuse to...
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Where Is OpenAI's Money Going? Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a...
7th Nov 2025
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Where Is OpenAI's Money Going?

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

7th Nov 2025
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed. A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s revenues were “well more” than $13bn in 2025
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More warm bodies Independent thinking continues to be the greatest edge
2 weeks ago
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More warm bodies

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

2 weeks ago
Independent thinking continues to be the greatest edge
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Space-time Algebra in Python Space-time Algebra in Python Geometric Algebra is a very cool alternative formulation of linear...
21st Apr 2013
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Space-time Algebra in Python

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

21st Apr 2013
Space-time Algebra in Python Geometric Algebra is a very cool alternative formulation of linear algebra that provides a succinct framework for representing geometric transformations and physical phenomena. One of my favourite books is Geometric Algebra for Computer Science by Leo...
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9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding...
4th Oct 2024
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9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh

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

4th Oct 2024
Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding Off-White and leading menswear at Louis Vuitton.
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Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful...
15th Jul 2025
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Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out

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

15th Jul 2025
Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful absurdity in modern life, blithely plugging our ancient, analog brains into a digital world that wants to eat them for lunch. Our grey matter, honed over eons to spot a lion in the...
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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.
1st Jun 2023
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Seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border? You’d better speak English or Spanish

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

1st Jun 2023
Migrants speaking Haitian Creole or Indigenous languages face challenges at the border.
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Why is ChatGPT for Mac So Good? This year, even as Anthropic, Google, and others have challenged OpenAI’s model performance crown,...
30th Nov 2025
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Why is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?

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

30th Nov 2025
This year, even as Anthropic, Google, and others have challenged OpenAI’s model performance crown, ChatGPT’s lead as an end-user product has only solidified. On the Dithering podcast last week (paywalled), Ben Thompson called out an aspect of why this is: I need someone to write...
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Changed my mind: AI is actually good for coding
6th Jun 2025
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Changed my mind: AI is actually good for coding

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

6th Jun 2025
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The Coddling of the Tech Mind We built daycares for adults
22nd May 2026
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The Coddling of the Tech Mind

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

22nd May 2026
We built daycares for adults
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Avoiding Errors in Demo Day Fundraising I’ll be addressing the topic below along with Alfred Lin from Sequoia and Ilya Sukhar from Matrix on...
21st Mar 2023
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Avoiding Errors in Demo Day Fundraising

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

21st Mar 2023
I’ll be addressing the topic below along with Alfred Lin from Sequoia and Ilya Sukhar from Matrix on 3/24: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qgghYDq4QxCiW9REOOrbmw It would be challenging to name all the fundraising mistakes that founders make during the many demo days...
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Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Ever tried manually figuring out the perfect...
1st Feb 2018
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Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming

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

1st Feb 2018
Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Ever tried manually figuring out the perfect schedule for your team or planning delivery routes? Enter Google OR-Tools, a free Swiss Army knife of a toolkit that tackles these headache-inducing optimization challenges. From...
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Some thoughts on mobile People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people...
1st Jun 2013
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Some thoughts on mobile

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jun 2013
People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people who run internet companies and they’ll…
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What is “founder mode”? We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk...
7th Oct 2024
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What is “founder mode”?

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Oct 2024
We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk about his experience running Airbnb over the last 17 years. He believed that as Airbnb hired more professional managers, he lost a close connection with the details of the end product...
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Procrastination hack: change “and” to “or” My unwritten condition for when to exercise was this: and I’ve finished my work, and I haven’t just...
24th Oct 2011
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Procrastination hack: change “and” to “or”

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

24th Oct 2011
My unwritten condition for when to exercise was this: and I’ve finished my work, and I haven’t just eaten, and I’m feeling energetic. My coach suggested I change “and” to “or”. or I’ve finished my work, or I haven’t just eaten, or I’m feeling energetic. Do you have a...
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🙏 Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me...
25th Nov 2021
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🙏

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

25th Nov 2021
Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me along the way. I tried to summariz...
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Can We Build Scenius From Scratch? On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
8th Sep 2022
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Can We Build Scenius From Scratch?

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

8th Sep 2022
On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
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The idea maze for AI startups An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need...
1st Feb 2015
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The idea maze for AI startups

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Feb 2015
An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need to make: A good founder is capable of…
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walk and talk Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days,...
12th Dec 2023
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walk and talk

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

12th Dec 2023
Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days, ending in Chiang Mai. Walking with us were ten other smart interesting people, including five other authors whose work I’ve loved for years. It’s a “Walk and Talk”.
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A short film for my friend's birthday When I first met Pierre, I couldn't have foreseen what the next three years of our friendship would...
11th Jun 2026
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A short film for my friend's birthday

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

11th Jun 2026
When I first met Pierre, I couldn't have foreseen what the next three years of our friendship would be like. I had just come back to Montreal. Twice I'd failed to get a place in Toronto. My dream of traveling in a van had also fallen apart. So I rented a U-Haul and went to pick...
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How to keep clients happy
22nd May 2012
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How to keep clients happy

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

22nd May 2012
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How much more software do we really need? Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
2nd Jun 2026
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How much more software do we really need?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2026
Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
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Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed...
30th Mar 2023
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Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services

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

30th Mar 2023
Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed over their cards voluntarily.
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Why time seems to pass faster as we age 1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as...
27th Feb 2024
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Why time seems to pass faster as we age

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

27th Feb 2024
1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen. It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster. 2/ But, why is that happening? My tentative...
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Collective Experiences | Theory No. 8 On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
22nd Feb 2023
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Collective Experiences | Theory No. 8

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

22nd Feb 2023
On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
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Be independent. Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent...
1st Dec 2021
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Be independent.

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

1st Dec 2021
Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent on income, people, or technology, you would be truly free. The only way to be deeply happy is to break all dependencies. People think we live in a world of politics, society,...
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My rant on customer support for web apps
23rd Sep 2011
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My rant on customer support for web apps

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

23rd Sep 2011
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Competing in search A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in...
19th Aug 2024
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Competing in search

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

19th Aug 2024
A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
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Forget about your heroes We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
29th Jul 2020
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Forget about your heroes

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

29th Jul 2020
We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
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September 2022 Updates I don't know about you guys but September felt weird. Between all the rate hikes, inflation data,...
14th Oct 2022
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September 2022 Updates

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

14th Oct 2022
I don't know about you guys but September felt weird. Between all the rate hikes, inflation data, stock market drops, and crypto chills it was a tough month for sales. Also feels like nobody in tech is around August and September (myself included this year!). TLDR; September...
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Time machine
3rd Sep 2025
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Time machine

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

3rd Sep 2025
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Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
5th Jun 2023
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Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the MVP of physical businesses.

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

5th Jun 2023
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “When the Apple VR headset drops tomorrow, every social...
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Steve Jobs and Palm This is not satisfactory to Apple.
15th Dec 2024
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Steve Jobs and Palm

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

15th Dec 2024
This is not satisfactory to Apple.
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Resiliency patterns of distributed systems I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems : Resiliency Patterns. The...
6th Sep 2020
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Resiliency patterns of distributed systems

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

6th Sep 2020
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems : Resiliency Patterns. The chapter is all about failures and their…
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After fifteen years of practice Since the age of fourteen, I was determined to be a great singer. But my pitch was bad, my tone was...
15th Jun 2010
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After fifteen years of practice

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

15th Jun 2010
Since the age of fourteen, I was determined to be a great singer. But my pitch was bad, my tone was bad, and everyone said I was just not a singer. At eighteen, I started touring, performing two to four shows a week, always as the lead singer. Often they were outdoor shows,...
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WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world...
3rd Jul 2023
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WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal

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

3rd Jul 2023
For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.
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The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning,...
11th Nov 2025
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The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed

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

11th Nov 2025
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performance to delivering advanced weapons at speed. Taking decades to deliver weapons is...
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Manufacturing is a war now And the democracies are losing.
4th Dec 2024
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Manufacturing is a war now

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Dec 2024
And the democracies are losing.
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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...
2nd May 2010
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Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2010
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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Every breakthrough comes from someone you know When I was promoting my music, I used to look to the big wide world for opportunities. When you...
1st May 2000
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Every breakthrough comes from someone you know

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

1st May 2000
When I was promoting my music, I used to look to the big wide world for opportunities. When you come to an opportunity through a connection, you have an advantage. You’re not anonymous. You’ve already passed through a filter, and passed a test. You’re treated special...
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Thomas Jefferson on Patents If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the...
16th Jul 2011
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Thomas Jefferson on Patents

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Jul 2011
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
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Naming a company Great company names are worth millions. In fact, choosing a name is one of the most important...
1st Mar 2023
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Naming a company

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

1st Mar 2023
Great company names are worth millions. In fact, choosing a name is one of the most important decisions you will make as an entrepreneur. Your company's name could be a lever that separates you from your competition. It could be the key element that helps your customers...
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The Paradoxes of Modern Life The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the...
5th Apr 2021
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The Paradoxes of Modern Life

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

5th Apr 2021
The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read. The Paradox of Writing: Great writing looks effortless. But because the ideas are so clear, casual readers don’t appreciate how much time it took to...
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Why people buy products
6th Aug 2013
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Why people buy products

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

6th Aug 2013
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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift "humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
19th Jan 2026
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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift

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

19th Jan 2026
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
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Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling. The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.
10th Aug 2025
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Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.

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

10th Aug 2025
The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.
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50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai February 13 through 21, 2023, I went to Chennai and Bengaluru, India. My sole purpose was to meet...
2nd Mar 2023
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50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai

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

2nd Mar 2023
February 13 through 21, 2023, I went to Chennai and Bengaluru, India. My sole purpose was to meet new friends. I’m an “Overseas Citizen of India” and my son is half-Indian (Tamil). I will always have ties to India. I wanted to deepen those ties and make new connections.
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Pricing to the demand curve Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students...
4th Jul 2012
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Pricing to the demand curve

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jul 2012
Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students an imaginary trip to Hawaii, and asks…
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Advice for time management as a manager This post was adapted from an internal doc I wrote at Wave. Welcome to being a manager! Your...
1st Apr 2025
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Advice for time management as a manager

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

1st Apr 2025
This post was adapted from an internal doc I wrote at Wave. Welcome to being a manager! Your time-management problem just got a lot harder. As an IC, you can often get away with a very simple time-management strategy: Decide what your one most important thing is. Work on it until...
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Your Only Competition is You The playbook is a commodity now
10th Apr 2026
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Your Only Competition is You

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

10th Apr 2026
The playbook is a commodity now
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Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one Gary Jules is a singer/songwriter from California. When he lived in Los Angeles he wished there was...
7th Oct 2009
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Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one

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

7th Oct 2009
Gary Jules is a singer/songwriter from California. When he lived in Los Angeles he wished there was a venue more friendly to musicians. A place where people would come to listen, not talk over the music. A place to play, not showcase for labels. He noticed a little coffee...
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i am leaving canada Nine years of questionable language jokes and eighty-six average-sized poutines later; after arguing...
3rd Apr 2025
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i am leaving canada

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

3rd Apr 2025
Nine years of questionable language jokes and eighty-six average-sized poutines later; after arguing for the hundredth time that Tim Hortons isn’t for coffee but for the best Boston Cream donuts; after driving through the entire country to make sure Ontario really does take three...
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Be careful who you go to for advice
2nd Oct 2014
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Be careful who you go to for advice

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

2nd Oct 2014
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Don't Major in Computer Science Or put less provocatively: college students should probably explore more than they currently do
30th Dec 2022
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Don't Major in Computer Science

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

30th Dec 2022
Or put less provocatively: college students should probably explore more than they currently do
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A player myth, building the biggest thing you can, as software gets commoditized… as software gets commoditized…
27th Oct 2025
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A player myth, building the biggest thing you can, as software gets commoditized…

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Oct 2025
as software gets commoditized…
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The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how...
23rd Sep 2026
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The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same

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

23rd Sep 2026
This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and helped launch thousands of startups. But this past summer, I got thinking about...
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Ignore advice that drains you My music career was derailed when I took some advice from an expert. I walked out of his office...
7th Sep 2000
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Ignore advice that drains you

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

7th Sep 2000
My music career was derailed when I took some advice from an expert. I walked out of his office sad, but acknowledging that he was right. That was the smartest thing to do to be a big success. So that’s what I did. I stopped putting my full attention into my own music,...
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It is link winter on X We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without...
5th Dec 2024
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It is link winter on X

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

5th Dec 2024
We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without telling you, and by a lot—and it makes the experience there worse. Without links, information on X is headlines without stories, commentary without context, magic without the...
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agility, get luckier, quitting entrepreneurship, irl agility
9th Sep 2025
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agility, get luckier, quitting entrepreneurship, irl

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Sep 2025
agility
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How to Not Get Acquired Building something new from 0 → 1 is hard, so it requires your full attention. Given that, a key...
31st Oct 2025
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How to Not Get Acquired

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

31st Oct 2025
Building something new from 0 → 1 is hard, so it requires your full attention. Given that, a key part of creating a new product is limiting distractions – anything that pulls your attention away from finding product-market fit. There are a lot of things a founder can be...
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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....
2nd Apr 2024
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🇮🇳 India in 2024

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

2nd Apr 2024
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
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Don’t be a donkey Are you trying to pursue many different directions at once? The problem is thinking short term —...
8th Jun 2011
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Don’t be a donkey

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

8th Jun 2011
Are you trying to pursue many different directions at once? The problem is thinking short term — assuming that if you don’t do all the things now, they won’t happen. You may have heard this story: Buridan’s donkey is standing halfway between a pile of hay and a bucket of...
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Spec-driven development Documentation first, SQL second
4th May 2026
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Spec-driven development

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

4th May 2026
Documentation first, SQL second
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Welcome to The Future This time it arrived right on schedule.
1st May 2025
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Welcome to The Future

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2025
This time it arrived right on schedule.
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A better toilet
28th Sep 2009
10

A better toilet

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

28th Sep 2009
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Entering the DOS era of AI Why I spent 12 hours in a terminal last week
2nd Sep 2025
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Entering the DOS era of AI

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

2nd Sep 2025
Why I spent 12 hours in a terminal last week
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Can anything stop Kalshi? The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember...
3rd Apr 2026
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Can anything stop Kalshi?

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

3rd Apr 2026
The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember what happened then.
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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...
5th Jan 2023
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

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

5th Jan 2023
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...
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How I price products
15th Jul 2016
13

How I price products

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

15th Jul 2016
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My first kiss
2nd Oct 2013
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My first kiss

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

2nd Oct 2013
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Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepoint Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces...
4th Mar 2024
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Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepoint

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

4th Mar 2024
Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces competition from Chinese-backed OPay.
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You don’t have to be local You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole...
2nd Dec 2012
1

You don’t have to be local

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

2nd Dec 2012
You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole world. But this means you have less time to be part of your local community. I lived in Woodstock, New York for three years. There I started my company, entirely online. I never...
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Ideas that create opportunities
10th Nov 2023
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Ideas that create opportunities

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

10th Nov 2023
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Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined...
1st Jul 2024
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Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal

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

1st Jul 2024
Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined or having their vehicles impounded.
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Dive into GHC: Pipeline Dive into GHC: Pipeline After reading Simon's I'm by no means an expert on GHC internals, but I have...
21st Jun 2016
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Dive into GHC: Pipeline

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

21st Jun 2016
Dive into GHC: Pipeline After reading Simon's I'm by no means an expert on GHC internals, but I have worked with them a fair So begins a multipart writeup on the structure of GHC structured around several Official Commentary GHC core developers have actually spent a great deal of...
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Annual Review 2021 I’ll start this Annual Review by reflecting on 2021. I’ll share highlights and reflect on the goals...
3rd Jan 2022
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Annual Review 2021

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

3rd Jan 2022
I’ll start this Annual Review by reflecting on 2021. I’ll share highlights and reflect on the goals I set at the beginning of the year. Later, I’ll outline how I plan to improve my life and set a new vision for 2022. The post Annual Review 2021 appeared first on David Perell.
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One of the dumbest things I've ever published While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called...
30th May 2019
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One of the dumbest things I've ever published

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

30th May 2019
While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called Privacy vs. User Experience, published in 2014. In the article, I argued that Apple’s then-nascent philosophical stance on the supremacy of user privacy was going to slow down its...
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The Internet Economy We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook,...
13th Mar 2016
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The Internet Economy

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Mar 2016
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far beyond their original product lines ...
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 #2 💡 Tons of companies are looking to hire someone like this but no one knows how to do it...
25th Mar 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

25th Mar 2024
#1 💡 #2 💡 Tons of companies are looking to hire someone like this but no one knows how to do it reliably. There are also tons of people who would like to work in such a role but they are hard to find as there is no generally accepted job title. Seems like a huge opportunity if...
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The Rot-Com Bubble If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter...
3rd Jun 2024
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The Rot-Com Bubble

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

3rd Jun 2024
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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Garmin's ~$40B Pivot The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
17th Jan 2025
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Garmin's ~$40B Pivot

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

17th Jan 2025
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
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"This business is like bird spotting" One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely...
1st Dec 2014
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"This business is like bird spotting"

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2014
One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely think about big themes. This business is…
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AI isn't going to replace you
18th Jan 2025
34

AI isn't going to replace you

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

18th Jan 2025
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A Fall From Grace Affinity is the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software of the venture and startup...
18th Nov 2024
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A Fall From Grace

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

18th Nov 2024
Affinity is the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software of the venture and startup ecosystem.
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The Internet is for snacking Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s...
14th Sep 2013
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The Internet is for snacking

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Sep 2013
Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of…
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A better Apple TV
7th Jan 2010
9

A better Apple TV

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

7th Jan 2010
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Art is useless, and so am I Art is useless by definition. If it was useful, it would be a tool. That question served me...
10th Mar 2017
1

Art is useless, and so am I

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

10th Mar 2017
Art is useless by definition. If it was useful, it would be a tool. That question served me well but had its downsides. It kept me from playing and doing things just for me. It’s no coincidence that I stopped making music twenty years ago. It didn’t qualify as the most...
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Entrepreneurship advice for high school students (what I wish I knew)
17th Oct 2025
1

Entrepreneurship advice for high school students (what I wish I knew)

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

17th Oct 2025
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Platform Risk Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with...
3rd Feb 2023
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Platform Risk

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

3rd Feb 2023
Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with Twitter's enforcement of a policy they claim had been around for a while. Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients | Engadget Twitter has quietly updated its...
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What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI...
3rd Jun 2024
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What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief

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

3rd Jun 2024
Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends.
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1-Node ClickHouse in Production In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including...
21st Aug 2022
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1-Node ClickHouse in Production

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

21st Aug 2022
In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including backups and basic monitoring.
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Sign Everything The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV...
5th Dec 2022
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Sign Everything

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2022
The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education told us that ChatGPT has effectively ended the essay as a way for teachers to assess student progress. It will be easier for a...
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The AI Demand Bubble If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
4th Aug 2026
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The AI Demand Bubble

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

4th Aug 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
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Keep in touch When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good...
5th Mar 2018
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Keep in touch

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

5th Mar 2018
When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good conversation with somebody in the music business, then quite often they would send an opportunity my way within a day or two. Yes I just said this twice to emphasize it. This is...
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Who Will Run Berkshire After Buffett? PLUS: Group Chat Rules, 5 Banks in Disguise, Chipotle's Memo.
1st Jun 2024
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Who Will Run Berkshire After Buffett?

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

1st Jun 2024
PLUS: Group Chat Rules, 5 Banks in Disguise, Chipotle's Memo.
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Crypto was not made for humans We’re a crypto fund. If anyone should believe in crypto, it’s us. And yet, when we sign a deal to...
18th Feb 2026
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Crypto was not made for humans

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

18th Feb 2026
We’re a crypto fund. If anyone should believe in crypto, it’s us. And yet, when we sign a deal to invest into a startup, we don’t sign a smart contract. We sign a legal contract. The startup does the same. Neither of us are comfortable doing the deal without a legal...
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How distributed systems fail At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes,...
5th Dec 2020
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How distributed systems fail

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

5th Dec 2020
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
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Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
16th Jan 2023
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Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once

from Entrepreneur's Edge [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Jan 2023
Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
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Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship) Culture wars are won through aesthetics.
7th Feb 2025
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Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship)

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

7th Feb 2025
Culture wars are won through aesthetics.
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Thoughts on Free Will My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will....
12th Jul 2021
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Thoughts on Free Will

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

12th Jul 2021
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will. When it comes to living in it, assume you have no free will.” Here’s an example: I lost my love of working out during the pandemic. Before it started, I worked out at a nice,...
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Naïve Quitting My first real job was as the librarian at Warner/Chappell Music. After 2½ years, though, I...
24th May 2010
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Naïve Quitting

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

24th May 2010
My first real job was as the librarian at Warner/Chappell Music. After 2½ years, though, I decided to quit to be a full-time musician. (Partially because I was too happy there! I was scared that if I didn’t force myself to quit, I’d never leave. Too comfortable.) (It...
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Toward a shallower future Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
3rd Jan 2024
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Toward a shallower future

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jan 2024
Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
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The Exponential Life Have you ever wondered why some people are able to achieve so much?
1st Apr 2026
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The Exponential Life

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

1st Apr 2026
Have you ever wondered why some people are able to achieve so much?
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I have a new website
26th Oct 2018
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I have a new website

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

26th Oct 2018
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How an NBA player ruined my life
18th Oct 2017
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How an NBA player ruined my life

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

18th Oct 2017
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Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
2nd Dec 2023
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Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art

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

2nd Dec 2023
Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
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Test marketing If you want a bigger company to help you some day, imitate what food companies call “test...
1st Apr 2000
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Test marketing

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

1st Apr 2000
If you want a bigger company to help you some day, imitate what food companies call “test marketing”. So first they’ll release it only in a small city like Albany. They ask customers for feedback, then make improvements based on that. They repeat this process until it’s a...
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How the Domino’s pizza tracker conquered the business world One cheesy progress update at a time.
22nd Aug 2025
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How the Domino’s pizza tracker conquered the business world

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

22nd Aug 2025
One cheesy progress update at a time.
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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out the actually scary thing about social media
31st Dec 2024
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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

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

31st Dec 2024
the actually scary thing about social media
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Imitate, then Innovate Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.  It’s counterintuitive, but the more...
15th Feb 2022
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Imitate, then Innovate

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

15th Feb 2022
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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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower...
13th Dec 2015
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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Dec 2015
I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower of Paul Graham and the YC camp of startup wisdom. There’s now a great deal of literature laying out the unbreakable rules for startups. Despite studying this literature, I’ve...
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Making things that last Lately I've had a lot of time for thinking. Partially because I shut down Blymp back in January and...
4 weeks ago
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Making things that last

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

4 weeks ago
Lately I've had a lot of time for thinking. Partially because I shut down Blymp back in January and freed up a lot of my mental resources. No clients to follow up with. No admin stuff to stress about. But thinking is also my favourite activity, and there'll always be time in my...
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The hidden cost of bootstrapping
7th Sep 2018
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The hidden cost of bootstrapping

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

7th Sep 2018
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Customer service is everything I was honestly surprised that CD Baby was such a runaway success. But I was even more surprised to...
1st Jul 2014
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Customer service is everything

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

1st Jul 2014
I was honestly surprised that CD Baby was such a runaway success. But I was even more surprised to find out why. Who could have guessed? Despite all your efforts put into features, pricing, design, partnerships, and more, people will choose one company over another just...
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
3rd Feb 2025
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams

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

3rd Feb 2025
China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
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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...
21st Mar 2023
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AI is Coming for Software Engineers (I'm a Software Engineer)

from Throwable [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Mar 2023
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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Not voting as a form of protest Sometime at the end of last year, I wondered about what it would look like to have a mass-organized...
4th Sep 2020
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Not voting as a form of protest

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

4th Sep 2020
Sometime at the end of last year, I wondered about what it would look like to have a mass-organized abstention campaign. My interest in this topic was mostly casual, but in a moment of enthusiasm, I shared these thoughts on a mailing list with a bunch of creative...
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The public you is not you I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did. a blog post sharing what I had learned...
25th Sep 2007
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The public you is not you

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

25th Sep 2007
I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did. a blog post sharing what I had learned while switching between the PHP programming language and Ruby on Rails framework. At the time, my blog had no readers, so I didn’t think anyone would see it. I just wrote it for...
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AI Engine - The Hack If this article was sent to you and you'd like to receive the latest posts directly, subscribe here.
20th Feb 2025
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AI Engine - The Hack

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

20th Feb 2025
If this article was sent to you and you'd like to receive the latest posts directly, subscribe here.
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Meshwest Edmonton
5th Oct 2011
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Meshwest Edmonton

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

5th Oct 2011
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Bill Gates on the iPod This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me and makes me wonder where the...
8th Mar 2025
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Bill Gates on the iPod

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

8th Mar 2025
This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me and makes me wonder where the scenario thinking is in Windows.
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Constraint Solving with MiniZinc Constraint Solving with MiniZinc MiniZinc is a powerful constraint modeling language that allows you...
21st Apr 2023
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Constraint Solving with MiniZinc

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

21st Apr 2023
Constraint Solving with MiniZinc MiniZinc is a powerful constraint modeling language that allows you to express complex problems declaratively and solve them efficiently. First, install MiniZinc from the official website. You can use the MiniZinc IDE for an integrated environment...
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Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a...
5th Aug 2024
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Diaconescu's Theorem

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

5th Aug 2024
Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a fascinating and surprising connection between two fundamental principles in mathematics: the Axiom of Choice and the Law of Excluded Middle. In simple terms, the theorem states that if you...
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What are the odds of that? Three true stories: In 2008, I was in London for a few days. I wondered if Masako still lived...
3rd Jul 2017
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What are the odds of that?

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

3rd Jul 2017
Three true stories: In 2008, I was in London for a few days. I wondered if Masako still lived there, sixteen years later. “Masako!” In 2007, my band was on tour in Oslo for a few days. I was sitting in a park, wondering if Lucia ever moved there. “Lucia!” I...
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I’m in the final third of my life According to statistics, I’m in the final third of my life. (I don’t expect to beat the odds,...
5th Dec 2024
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I’m in the final third of my life

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

5th Dec 2024
According to statistics, I’m in the final third of my life. (I don’t expect to beat the odds, because I inherited a cancer-creating genetic disorder.) So maybe it’s the final quarter.
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How to make a podcast (and submit it to Spotify and Apple Podcasts) in 2024 Here's a guide that will help you get started with podcasting: gear, hosting, submitting to Spotify...
7th May 2024
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How to make a podcast (and submit it to Spotify and Apple Podcasts) in 2024

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

7th May 2024
Here's a guide that will help you get started with podcasting: gear, hosting, submitting to Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Thoughts For Sale Mass-market intellectualism is an oxymoron, right? Ask Substack.
20th Nov 2024
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Thoughts For Sale

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

20th Nov 2024
Mass-market intellectualism is an oxymoron, right? Ask Substack.
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How to Break Into VC Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC: Write. Short writeups, on...
9th Nov 2025
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How to Break Into VC

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

9th Nov 2025
Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC: Write. Short writeups, on Twitter. Not generic market philosophical thinkpieces, because those will be assumed to be AI slop or regurgitated research. No one will read it unless you’re brilliant, which you’re...
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Testing and operating distributed systems I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally...
7th Feb 2021
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Testing and operating distributed systems

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

7th Feb 2021
I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
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The competitive claw machine boom How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine...
9th Jan 2026
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The competitive claw machine boom

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

9th Jan 2026
How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine enthusiasts.
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The creator economy I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further...
17th Nov 2021
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The creator economy

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

17th Nov 2021
I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further accelerated by a recent conversation with a friend, and I want to try to unpack those feelings here. The “creator economy” popped into our vernacular with surprisingly little moral...
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The Brains of the Operation One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has...
3 weeks ago
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The Brains of the Operation

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

3 weeks ago
One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has long been great at storing, retrieving, and sharing a company’s knowledge. This is most SaaS apps, from Slack to GitHub to Notion. But as easy as it is to store information, it’s...
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Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage Many articles written about the GameStop...
3rd Feb 2021
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Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage

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

3rd Feb 2021
Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage Many articles written about the GameStop story mark the event as a watershed moment in the markets and an epic tale of the establishment vs the little man. I won’t tell you these things. In fact I assert the GameStop...
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OpenAI Is A Bad Business OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year,...
2nd Oct 2024
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OpenAI Is A Bad Business

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

2nd Oct 2024
OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after
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the Michael Browne suits In 2020, I was about to move to New York City. I wanted to get to know all of its ethnic enclaves,...
15th Apr 2023
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the Michael Browne suits

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

15th Apr 2023
In 2020, I was about to move to New York City. I wanted to get to know all of its ethnic enclaves, like visiting the whole world in one city. But I know I have a tendency to stay at home, immersed in my work.
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We don’t need to use what we make For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like...
11th Nov 2024
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We don’t need to use what we make

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

11th Nov 2024
For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like attending concerts. I liked making music more than listening to music. I felt I must be in the wrong line of work, creating something that I don’t consume. I never reconciled this...
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"The Future of Reading Depends on the Future of Learning Difficult to Learn Things" Socrates’ complaints about writing included “Writing removes the need to remember”. He meant that a...
8th Nov 2014
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"The Future of Reading Depends on the Future of Learning Difficult to Learn Things"

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Nov 2014
Socrates’ complaints about writing included “Writing removes the need to remember”. He meant that a prosthetic brace on a healthy limb will…
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Five Rides for 2025 Some lists are just worth making
5th Jan 2026
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Five Rides for 2025

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

5th Jan 2026
Some lists are just worth making
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The Y-Combinator in Python The Y-Combinator in Python Lambda calculus holds a revered place as a foundational system in...
10th Aug 2017
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The Y-Combinator in Python

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

10th Aug 2017
The Y-Combinator in Python Lambda calculus holds a revered place as a foundational system in computation theory, influencing programming languages and paradigms. One fascinating application of lambda calculus is Church encoding, which allows representing data and operators using...
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The Brunch Test | Theory No. 16 A framework for building products that balance familiarity with freshness.
4th Oct 2023
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The Brunch Test | Theory No. 16

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

4th Oct 2023
A framework for building products that balance familiarity with freshness.
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Andrej Karpathy announced that he’s building an AI + education company.
23rd Jul 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

23rd Jul 2024
#1 💡 Andrej Karpathy announced that he’s building an AI + education company.
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Uber Ads: Accelerating the path to profitability What makes advertising attractive is that it's a 100% margin product that can subsidize the lower...
4th Aug 2023
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Uber Ads: Accelerating the path to profitability

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2023
What makes advertising attractive is that it's a 100% margin product that can subsidize the lower margin core business.
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Progressives need to embrace progress Stasis won't lead to a prosperous or equitable society.
22nd Mar 2023
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Progressives need to embrace progress

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Mar 2023
Stasis won't lead to a prosperous or equitable society.
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Notes on the third era of slop Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
4th Aug 2026
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Notes on the third era of slop

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2026
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
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I am back It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier...
24th Apr 2020
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I am back

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

24th Apr 2020
It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier posts there as I was too lazy to move…
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Thinking rationally about emotion In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case...
20th Aug 2024
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Thinking rationally about emotion

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

20th Aug 2024
In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
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Decisions and Dollars Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
12th Jun 2026
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Decisions and Dollars

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

12th Jun 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
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Nobody knows the future, so focus on what doesn’t change At every music conference, with a panel of experts on stage, the moderator always asks, “What’s the...
17th Oct 2008
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Nobody knows the future, so focus on what doesn’t change

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

17th Oct 2008
At every music conference, with a panel of experts on stage, the moderator always asks, “What’s the future of the music business?” The guy selling intelligent playlists will say that intelligent playlists are the future. We have a desperate need for certainty, so we want...
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The Subprime AI Crisis None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of...
16th Sep 2024
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The Subprime AI Crisis

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

16th Sep 2024
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a
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I got 12 job interviews in two weeks Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
29th Jul 2024
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I got 12 job interviews in two weeks

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

29th Jul 2024
Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
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How to conduct a system design interview The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview....
18th Aug 2020
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How to conduct a system design interview

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

18th Aug 2020
The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview. You can find a lot on the Internet on how…
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Elon Musk names OpenAI | Mark Zuckerberg | Bill Gates We could call this the Open Al Institute (Open AI-I!), but call it Open in everyday conversation.
9th Aug 2025
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Elon Musk names OpenAI | Mark Zuckerberg | Bill Gates

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

9th Aug 2025
We could call this the Open Al Institute (Open AI-I!), but call it Open in everyday conversation.
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The errors of efficiency We live in the era of efficiency. The advertising industry is infatuated with it. Intoxicated by...
4th Oct 2021
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The errors of efficiency

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

4th Oct 2021
We live in the era of efficiency. The advertising industry is infatuated with it. Intoxicated by it. Enamoured and enthralled by it. We want our teams to be lean. Our processes to be agile. And our output to be optimised. Instead of focussing on making our work bigger, we...
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Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude The Haskell Prelude is the default import into all Haskell...
7th Apr 2016
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Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude

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

7th Apr 2016
Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude The Haskell Prelude is the default import into all Haskell modules, it provides -XNoImplicitPrelude language extension. There are two philosophies on building new Preludes: Big Vehicle Prelude - Fix most of the deficiencies in the Prelude...
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I sold two startups in two weeks. Indie Worldwide and Bot Eat Brain have been acquired.
30th Apr 2024
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I sold two startups in two weeks.

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

30th Apr 2024
Indie Worldwide and Bot Eat Brain have been acquired.
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What’s inside this book Welcome to my book about getting your music to people, into people, and through people. Marketing...
1st Jan 2000
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What’s inside this book

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

1st Jan 2000
Welcome to my book about getting your music to people, into people, and through people. Marketing is an extension of your art. Business is just as creative as music. All opportunities come from people. Stay in touch with everyone. Use a database. Be resourceful. Ask...
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Open Office Hours at NYC Tech Week NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and...
12th Oct 2023
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Open Office Hours at NYC Tech Week

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Oct 2023
NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and connect with each other. A particularly great part of tech week is VC Open Office Hours. There are over 100 VC investors signed up to participate next week. Here is how it works: 1/...
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Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors. You know that song you love that you wish you’d written? Copy it. Why? Because we’re imperfect...
2nd Feb 2014
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Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors.

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

2nd Feb 2014
You know that song you love that you wish you’d written? Copy it. Why? Because we’re imperfect mirrors. When a musician covers someone else’s song, they reveal their own warped perspective, since we know what the original sounds like. Because of this, performing a cover...
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Usefulness grounds truth Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what...
7th Jul 2024
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Usefulness grounds truth

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

7th Jul 2024
Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what LLMs can or cannot do. To a limited extent, the original question is useful because it creates an opening for people to go into specific. But, beyond that initial use, the question...
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Test Coverage Won't Save You Forestwalk’s CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she’s been learning about tests, after a couple years of...
8th Jun 2026
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Test Coverage Won't Save You

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

8th Jun 2026
Forestwalk’s CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she’s been learning about tests, after a couple years of increasingly coding with agents: Most discussions about AI-native development jump from this problem – agents’ tendency to accumulate tech debt – directly to tests. … Tests verify...
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Crypto is Financial Asbestos Crypto is Financial Asbestos Cryptocurrency is financial asbestos a toxic material that's poisoning...
23rd Dec 2022
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Crypto is Financial Asbestos

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

23rd Dec 2022
Crypto is Financial Asbestos Cryptocurrency is financial asbestos a toxic material that's poisoning our financial system. Like its fibrous, fire-retardant namesake, crypto was initially hailed for seemingly miraculous properties: decentralization, censorship resistance,...
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Where does libertarianism go from here? Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
1st Jun 2023
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Where does libertarianism go from here?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jun 2023
Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
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SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
22nd Apr 2023
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SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process

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

22nd Apr 2023
How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
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