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SatPost by Trung...
Alex Cooper: $0 to $160m in 6 years Breaking down the contracts that sent the "Call Her Daddy" podcaster from unemployed ($0) to...
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11 months ago
Breaking down the contracts that sent the "Call Her Daddy" podcaster from unemployed ($0) to Barstool Sports ($70k) to Spotify ($60m) and, now, SiriusXM ($100m) in 6 years.
SatPost by Trung...
Nike’s Marketing Blindspot What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Non-linearity of technology adoption When I was in business school I remember a class where a partner from a big consulting firm was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I was in business school I remember a class where a partner from a big consulting firm was talking about how they had done extensive…
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What’s Next in Computing? The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles....
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over a year ago
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing…
SatPost by Trung...
Warren Buffett's $160B+ Apple Bet: A History The story behind how Warren Buffett shunned tech for decades, before making (probably) the greatest...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The story behind how Warren Buffett shunned tech for decades, before making (probably) the greatest tech investment ever.
Internal Tech Emails
When Apple considered buying Bing Can I imagine that Apple can build a search engine to compete. Yes but it’s probably not the best...
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a year ago
Can I imagine that Apple can build a search engine to compete. Yes but it’s probably not the best way to differentiate our products.
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Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it... People love to focus on horse races:  NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs...
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
A Project of One's Own
over a year ago
AVC
What Will Happen In 2023 I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been...
Articles
Going independent (2016 year in review)
over a year ago
Platformer
The synthetic social network is coming Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever
Ed Zitron's Where's...
In Response To Google Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable....
a year ago
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a year ago
Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable. Here is my response. (1) On the March 2019 core update claim in the piece: This is baseless speculation. The March 2019 core update was designed to improve the quality of our search
Articles
Terrible Apple products
over a year ago
Noahpinion
When are tariffs good? National security, infant industries, national champions, and some more unorthodox theories.
5 months ago
Rest of World -...
Water, not lithium, is the resource Latin America should worry about The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without...
a year ago
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a year ago
The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without the most important resource of them all.
Dylan Huang Blog
100K Views, 1K GitHub Stars, and 100+ Messages Later Recently I shared my startup journey on LinkedIn. In
6 months ago
Noahpinion
Biden is right that we need to raise taxes But his plan needs a lot of work.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Beyond a Barbie ban, Vietnam sets its censors on Netflix It’s not just the summer blockbuster that’s hit a nerve.
a year ago
Inverted Passion
Notes from the book “Magic Words” Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Articles
Will a college degree get you a programming job?
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Let us pause to appreciate the remarkable U.S. economy It really doesn't get much better than this, folks.
9 months ago
Aaron's Essays
Asking questions Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. If you spend time with 2-5 year olds, you’ll find yourself answering a near infinite series of progressively more challenging questions. This is one of the main paths by...
Noahpinion
Too many Americans still fear the future Some progress is being made, but politics is getting in the way.
5 months ago
Articles
SaaS is ripe for disruption
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Which VC firm should I pitch? A friend asked me the other day “Which VC firms should I pitch?” and I started to respond to him,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A friend asked me the other day “Which VC firms should I pitch?” and I started to respond to him, but then realized that most of my…
Rest of World -...
China is six months behind the U.S. on AI, the US has to move faster: Div Turakhia The India-born tech investor, entrepreneur and billionaire businessman spoke to Rest of World about...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The India-born tech investor, entrepreneur and billionaire businessman spoke to Rest of World about the promise of AI technology, why the U.S. needs to move faster to compete with China, and the advantage the UAE has in building AI.
Articles
Ideas aren't cheap
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Kathmandu is making taxi drivers switch to EVs. Not all drivers can afford one The Xpres-T, made by Indian carmaker Tata, is the only EV approved for use as a taxi in Nepal. It...
a year ago
Folklore.org:...
He's Only in Field Service The SCC gets designed into the Mac
over a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
The responsibility of AI titans in a post-work society. Advocates of AI (and yes, before the pedants chime in, I'm aware that LLMs are not technically AI,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Advocates of AI (and yes, before the pedants chime in, I'm aware that LLMs are not technically AI, but for the purposes of popular debate and perception – we'll go with it) will tell you that automation will create new jobs and generate broad societal value such that it...
Working Theorys
Second Nature Skills What can you do without trying that hard?
11 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
Nazis don’t deserve free speech. Reality check: Nazism is not an intellectual hypothetical that bears good faith discussion. It's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Reality check: Nazism is not an intellectual hypothetical that bears good faith discussion. It's not a controversial thought experiment. It is a historical movement designed to demonise and exterminate the Other. Born in the tumultuous aftermath of World War I, Nazi...
Unpacked
FTC's case against Amazon is misunderstood The case makes a nuanced argument about how Amazon abused monopoly power through anti-discounting...
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a year ago
The case makes a nuanced argument about how Amazon abused monopoly power through anti-discounting measures and tying in Prime with Fulfilled by Amazon
Rest of World -...
Online extremism linked to rise in school shootings in Brazil, researchers find After a rise in shootings, an all-woman group is advising the new Brazilian government on how to...
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Lisp for Web-Based Applications
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Why targeted tariffs are more effective than broad tariffs Something the Trump administration should probably think about.
8 months ago
Articles
Why are you doing this? How to make business decisions that optimize for the life you want.
over a year ago
Working Theorys
Crypto social games don’t need the crypto Crypto social games, work "trials," and meeting your creations in the wild
a year ago
Noahpinion
Understanding America's New Right Fighting for Western Civilization in someone else's back yard
3 months ago
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This Chinese startup believes it can take augmented reality glasses mainstream Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his product will revolutionize the display experience.
Articles
Should we always charge more?
over a year ago
Steve Blank
Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO This post previously appeared in Fast Company. How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO)...
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over a year ago
This post previously appeared in Fast Company. How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your first six months as a new CTO thinking you’re making progress when the status quo is working...
Articles
"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Sierra Leone’s first lady hopes going viral on TikTok will secure Saturday’s elections Amid economic turmoil, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking re-election in Sierra Leone. His wife,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Amid economic turmoil, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking re-election in Sierra Leone. His wife, Fatima, is dancing to a crowd of over 200,000 on TikTok to drum up votes.
Noahpinion
Why Trump (or Harris) might fail to stand up to China A very real possibility that more people need to be worried about.
11 months ago
Unpacked
Instagram limits political content, and Google's consumer play with Gemini Last week, Meta announced that they will not proactively recommend political content across their...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, Meta announced that they will not proactively recommend political content across their recommendation surfaces including Reels and Threads. We dive into criticism Meta has gotten in the past, what led Meta to this decision, the increasingly dispersed media landscape...
Tech + Economics +...
A decade of discontent is coming. The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for large-scale upheaval and...
a year ago
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a year ago
The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for large-scale upheaval and the reordering of societal structures is significant. We are already witnessing the dismantling of long-standing institutions and the rise of new paradigms. The struggle between...
Rest of World -...
How to launch a Chinese smartphone in Mexico Antonio Tercero is guiding Infinix’s Mexico expansion, facing off against Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Trudeau was a poor steward of Canada's economy No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
6 months ago
AVC
Voice Input Smartphones have had voice input for over a decade now and yet I don’t know that many people who use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Smartphones have had voice input for over a decade now and yet I don’t know that many people who use voice input regularly. I would guess that maybe 10 to 20% of smartphone users are using voice input regularly. That’s a guess based on absolutely no data other than observing...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle Here is total VC investment over time: And here's the Gartner hype cycle: One reading of this is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here is total VC investment over time: And here's the Gartner hype cycle: One reading of this is that the advent of the internet was the…
Articles
How an NBA player ruined my life
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Firing Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious mistakes. Here are a few things I’ve observed…
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the app" I think it's a really big deal that we ship this photos app quickly.
9 months ago
Articles
Black lives matter
over a year ago
Folklore.org:...
What Hath Woz Wrought The first product I developed for Apple
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Service costs aren't exploding anymore Another common economic narrative that's out of date.
a month ago
Rest of World -...
Google’s Gemini problem will be even worse outside the U.S. It’s hard to keep a stereotyping machine out of trouble.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Xiaohongshu has revolutionized Chinese tourism in Southeast Asia The lifestyle and social media platform, often compared to Instagram, is turning obscure sites into...
9 months ago
David Perell
Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively The greats in every field follow this mantra to perfect their craft. The post Practice...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The greats in every field follow this mantra to perfect their craft. The post Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively appeared first on David Perell.
Rest of World -...
The viral AI portrait app sweeping across China Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that many say are shockingly accurate.
Blog posts of...
Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to be a decent, maybe even good startup mentor. How to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in...
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Gordon Moore on self-driving cars “I never thought I’d see autonomous automobiles driving on the freeways. It wasn’t many years ago...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“I never thought I’d see autonomous automobiles driving on the freeways. It wasn’t many years ago they put out a request to see who could…
Articles
Pessimism vs Optimism
over a year ago
Noahpinion
The pushback against industrial policy has begun So far, it's a vague broadside instead of a targeted criticism.
over a year ago
Nothing Human
The Tyranny of the Marginal User why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
a year ago
Articles
Don't sell to beginners
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
There are two kinds of people in the world You’ve either started a company or you haven’t.  ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early...
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over a year ago
You’ve either started a company or you haven’t.  ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups Many of the today’s most successful informational sites such as Yelp, Wikipedia and TripAdvisor...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many of the today’s most successful informational sites such as Yelp, Wikipedia and TripAdvisor relied heavily on SEO for their initial…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
News is a lousy business for Google too There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: “Google…
Rest of World -...
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...
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Despite tensions, US-China AI research collaborations are alive and well Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.
6 months ago
Articles
How to choose an audience for your blog
over a year ago
Blog posts of...
How to use Gmail more efficiently I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Get Startup Ideas
over a year ago
Noahpinion
What should China do to revive its economy? There are a couple of aces that the government hasn't yet played.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Biden did stuff, and it looks like it's working so far Only one President has taken actual concrete steps to address U.S. industrial weakness vis-a-vis...
10 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
God is a crypto bro. CoinTelegraph: A Colorado-based online pastor who has been charged with fraud for ...
a year ago
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a year ago
CoinTelegraph: A Colorado-based online pastor who has been charged with fraud for selling a “worthless” cryptocurrency says he only did it because “the Lord” told him to give his followers a “10X.” In a strange 9-minute video — posted to INDXcoin’s...
tomcritchlow.com
Building a New Project in Public Nate Kadlac runs Approachable Design an online course to teach the basics of visual aesthetic and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nate Kadlac runs Approachable Design an online course to teach the basics of visual aesthetic and design.
Rest of World -...
Trump’s tariffs are testing Nvidia’s chip supremacy. Can Jensen Huang weather the storm? Stephen Witt, author of a new book on Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang, on how the leading AI chip...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Stephen Witt, author of a new book on Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang, on how the leading AI chip designer is navigating geopolitical tensions around its products.
Rest of World -...
How AI shook the world in 2023 With commercial tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney becoming widely available, AI was used for all...
a year ago
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a year ago
With commercial tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney becoming widely available, AI was used for all things wonderful … and worrying.
essay – snarfed.org
Breakfast tour Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still...
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over a year ago
Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still felt cooped up now and then, and I dearly missed going new places and seeing new things. On another note, I really, really like breakfast. Like, a lot. So naturally, I put these...
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs emails Bill Gates They are really going out of their way to say that they intend to kill QuickTime, and are being...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
They are really going out of their way to say that they intend to kill QuickTime, and are being quite threatening and rude about it.
Noahpinion
How Brazil built a world-beating aircraft manufacturer A guest post by Pedro Franco.
3 months ago
XO Capital - Field...
What business are you really in? I spoke with an entrepreneur recently who, after 5 years of running a successful and growing...
a year ago
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a year ago
I spoke with an entrepreneur recently who, after 5 years of running a successful and growing business, said "After 5 years I finally know the real business we're in.". It means they outwardly do X but on the inside the hard part is Y. As an
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Business development: the Goldilocks principle Background: At Hunch, we switched our focus (“pivoted“) about 14 months ago from B2C to B2B. Over...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Background: At Hunch, we switched our focus (“pivoted“) about 14 months ago from B2C to B2B. Over that time, we pitched over 500 potential…
Rest of World -...
Visa and Mastercard are pouring money into Africa From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S....
a year ago
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a year ago
From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S. giants are steadily increasing their presence on the continent.
Rest of World -...
South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Remaking the app store The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it,...
a year ago
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a year ago
The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it, and no-one is happy with the result. In the next few years there’ll be a lot of shouting and some giant fines, but in the end, nothing much will change.
Paul Graham: Essays
Weird Languages
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
What kind of disruption? Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined markets. But what kind of disruption are we talking about ?
Paul Graham: Essays
The Trouble with the Segway
over a year ago
Articles
Better typing
over a year ago
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The folly of trying to replace spreadsheets Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice clean HR database…” We thought it was a cute and quirky tagline, and that it would immediately relatable to our target audience of business and human resource managers. After all...
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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...
a year ago
Blog posts of...
Getting Old 👴🏼
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The vehicle experience center tackling EV misconceptions in Nigeria EV adoption in Nigeria is almost nonexistent, but a local startup is helping solve that problem.
a year ago
Articles
Your second biggest problem
over a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
(Another) Quick Riff on Narrative Strategy I’ve been ruminating on the idea of narrative strategy for a while now. The last time I wrote about...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been ruminating on the idea of narrative strategy for a while now. The last time I wrote about it was in 2020.
Rest of World -...
Half of Singapore’s e-commerce scams now happen on WhatsApp, Facebook, or Instagram After a 50% increase in scams in 2023, Singapore authorities say Meta isn’t doing enough to stop the...
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Why Vietnam is in the middle of the U.S.-China trade war The Southeast Asian nation has emerged as a promising alternative for tech suppliers diversifying...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The Southeast Asian nation has emerged as a promising alternative for tech suppliers diversifying from China, but that comes with risks.
haseeb qureshi
What explains the rise of AMMs? Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run a market making bot. I’ll always quote a price no matter who’s asking, and for my pricing algorithm I’ll use x * y = k. That’s pretty much it. Want to invest?” You’d run...
Rest of World -...
Meta is training its AI with public Instagram posts. Artists in Latin America can’t opt out Latin America lacks robust data protection laws that would allow Meta users in the region to...
a year ago
Rest of World -...
China is betting on battery swaps to tackle EV chargers shortage Rarely seen globally, there are already thousands of battery swap stations across China.
a year ago
Tom Blomfield
When to join a startup Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around the time the Social Network movie came out - perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but part of me imagines a group of MBAs sitting around watching...
Noahpinion
Europe is not ready to be a "third superpower" For that, it would need to act as a unified entity, defend itself against Russia, and embrace new...
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Don't be a decel Technological progress must be harnessed, not fought
a year ago
Articles
Why people buy software
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Top 10 websites Top 10 websites in the US according to Quantcast: A few observations: As Josh Kopelman points out,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Top 10 websites in the US according to Quantcast: A few observations: As Josh Kopelman points out, 4 of the top 10 sites (YouTube, Facebook…
Working Theorys
Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship) Culture wars are won through aesthetics.
5 months ago
Inverted Passion
How to be a messy thinker I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental models, and I’ll gobble it up. Given the amount of knowledge I’ve ingested on these topics, I had always assumed that I’m a clear thinker. Recently, though, it hit me like a...
Business Brainstorms
API for simple manual online tasks, pickleball for surfing, freelancer laptop stickers, ... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I want an AI companion that I can share my goals with...
Stephen Diehl
The Explicit Choice by the SEC Not to Regulate Crypto
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Being Popular
over a year ago
Nothing Human
Whole Activities It is a fallen world, and there is no consonance between our bodies, minds, and souls.
5 months ago
Rest of World -...
Download this: The world’s favorite apps Test your knowledge of the world’s most popular social media sites, dating apps, gaming platforms,...
11 months ago
Noahpinion
Stop saying "there is no decoupling". There is! Decoupling will take time, and it won't look like the Iron Curtain, but it's happening.
a year ago
Tom Blomfield
What is “founder mode”? We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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...
Platformer
Google's most serious antitrust challenge to date The US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Scale AI’s Remotasks platform is dropping whole countries without explanation Workers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan were booted off the AI-training service earlier this month.
a year ago
essay – snarfed.org
I’m not eating my own dog food PetMD …or if you prefer, eating my own cooking, or scratching my own itch, or drinking my own...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PetMD …or if you prefer, eating my own cooking, or scratching my own itch, or drinking my own champagne. Sure. These are all metaphors for the idea that if you build something, it turns out better if you use it yourself, especially if you want it yourself. However, when I think...
David Perell
Thoughts on Free Will My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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,...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Write For Yourself Not your audience.
a year ago
Data Boutique
The Hard Economics of Selling Web Data Market components to consider when selling pre-scraped datasets
a year ago
Noahpinion
Three holes in the U.S.' economic strategy against China Legacy chips, drones, and coordination with allies.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
The capybara influencer revolt A wildlife influencer’s famous capybara was confiscated by Brazilian authorities. A mass movement...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A wildlife influencer’s famous capybara was confiscated by Brazilian authorities. A mass movement ensued.
Paul Graham: Essays
Hiring is Obsolete
over a year ago
Articles
How user growth really works
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The credentials trap I talk a lot to people who are deciding between startups and established companies. They’re usually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I talk a lot to people who are deciding between startups and established companies. They’re usually early in their careers and have been…
Rest of World -...
Meet the mothers in small-town Hungary leading a fight against Chinese EV battery plants Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s goal to turn Hungary into a global EV battery hub is facing...
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and...
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Rest of World -...
The new AI assistants may not speak your language Mind the language gap.
a year ago
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The Genius Bar in a country where iPhones can’t legally be sold In the land of the U.S. embargo, Cuba’s Apple technicians are kings.
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Financing risk Startups that raise seed funding face the risk of not being able to raise additional money. This is...
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We live in the era of efficiency. The advertising industry is infatuated with it. Intoxicated by it. Enamoured and enthralled by it. We want our teams to be lean. Our processes to be agile. And our output to be optimised. Instead of focussing on making our work bigger, we...
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Why Kenya has the potential to be Africa’s EV powerhouse Jit Bhattacharya discusses the challenges and opportunities of building an EV company in Kenya.
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Why Mexico is tweeting at its third- richest citizen to delete his tweets On August 11, Mexico’s election authority made an unexpected announcement via its official account...
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The people who clean up your TikTok feed are starting to fight back Content moderators say they’re exposed to graphic violence, psychological trauma, and union-busting...
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An internet of people Over the past few years, a bunch of web-based marketplaces have gotten popular – Etsy, Kickstarter,...
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Building a food delivery app in the internet shutdown capital of the world Jammu and Kashmir’s Gatoes was founded in 2020 in the middle of a months-long government-imposed...
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Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct threat to AI startups that lack sustainable competitive advantage
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October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I write a set of reflections about this strange and magical journey.
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There are two types of engineers, the ones that can quickly do estimates and the ones that can't. Are these people just smarter, or is there…
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Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?
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Unleash the bololô: Masses of delivery workers set off horns and fireworks at bad customers’ homes In Brazil, workers protest nasty customers with bikes, horns and fireworks.
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Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now become practical to automate at a massive scale. Sometimes a change in scale is a change in principle.
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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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Once you take money, the clock starts ticking One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that...
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One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that at any moment you get an inside peek at…
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Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. If you want to make your user numbers go up, put a big piece of paper on your wall and every day plot the number of users. You’ll be delighted when it goes up and disappointed when it goes down. Pretty soon you’ll...
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Strong and weak technologies During a media tour in 2007 in which Steve Jobs showed the device to reporters, there was one...
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The Ghanaian founder challenging Google Paul Azunre welcomes Big Tech making AI tools in African languages: “It is good to have some...
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The Philippine army is recruiting young tech civilians to fight cyber attacks The country is among the most vulnerable to online threats, many of them from China. To fight back,...
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Games are problems people pay to solve Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me...
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Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense. He defines games as problems that people pay to solve with either their time or money. Unlike movies or books, games are...
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Why the web economy will continue growing rapidly Here’s the really good news for the web economy over the next decade.  Consumers are spending more...
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YouTube is the final place to watch unbiased news in India. Can it last? As Modi’s government clamps down on the free press, top journalists are forging their own channels...
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African startups need more than just funds from their investors Anne-Marie Chidzero, chief investment officer at FSD Africa Investments, talks about the risks and...
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One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs.  APIs provide a way to…
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Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled Despite having 500 million users in India, WhatsApp couldn’t crack the country’s $3 trillion fintech...
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‘Big tech’ buys hundreds of startups, but what are they, what does that mean for competition, and how does this fit into the broader market? How many more Instagrams are there, and how many DAOs?
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Why are Apple and Tesla losing ground in China? The Chinese market isn’t quite as untapped as U.S. companies thought.
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The Internet Economy We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook,...
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The church of Roblox: How young Filipino Catholics are building more inclusive spaces Though not officially sanctioned, the role-playing clergy encourage young people to go deeper into...
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Though not officially sanctioned, the role-playing clergy encourage young people to go deeper into their faith while providing a safe space for queer Catholics.
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TikTok wants to turn millions of Americans into paid shopping influencers You only need around 1,000 followers to earn money eating noodles and selling toys on TikTok Shop.
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The rise and fall of Argentina’s celebrity crypto pastor Generación Zoe promised investors massive returns thanks to market-predicting “robots” and a...
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Generación Zoe promised investors massive returns thanks to market-predicting “robots” and a cryptocurrency backed by gold. It sounded too good to be true.
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Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is...
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With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is convincing people to have their irises scanned at Worldcoin Orb centers.
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Indian politicians are bringing the dead on the campaign trail, with help from AI Digital rights activists have questioned the ethics of using “soft fakes” to resurrect the past and...
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How to select your angel investors I’ve seen a number of situations recently that are something like the following.  A VC firm signs a...
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Building software for podcasters –\_Josh Nielsen from Zencastr Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still...
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Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still wanted to do something with Web Audio and WebRTC. So he started building Zencastr, which gives podcasters the ability to record "double-ender" interviews in the browser.
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Scalability patterns of distributed systems I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different...
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I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different patterns at your disposal when designing…
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‘Digital transformation’ sounds like a parody of meaningless tech marketing, but actually captures some pretty interesting and important shifts in big company tech. It’s not as exciting as crypto or AR, and it takes a decade or two, but it’s just as big as smartphones.
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Argentina’s dictatorship abducted babies in the 1970s. An AI project imagines them today “Our search is real, but these images aren’t.”
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Between failure and Facebook Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The...
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Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The programmer had just graduated from college and…
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Software eats software development Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to...
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Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to disrupt the global SMS industry with only a…
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In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the Internet — sent the first email. The message was nothing profound; it was a series of random characters that looked more like the utterance of a toddler on a typewriter than a...
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In which British writers scold America on trade If you don't acknowledge the point of tariffs, how can you hope to criticize them?
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This Hajj VR simulator helps Muslims prepare for the holy pilgrimage The pilgrimage can be hard to navigate for first-timers, so Pakistan’s Labbaik VR offers a chance to...
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The betting app fueling fantasy cricket’s rise in India On Dream11, Indian sports fans create groups, participate in tournaments, and win millions by...
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On Dream11, Indian sports fans create groups, participate in tournaments, and win millions by picking their favorite players.
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The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is, sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is it? Well, there are three ways that people say...
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Everything you need to know about Xiaohongshu As fears of a TikTok ban grow, Americans are turning to Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red...
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As fears of a TikTok ban grow, Americans are turning to Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book.” Here’s how the lifestyle app became a global phenomenon.
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Crime victims, ignored by Venezuela’s broken justice system, turn to influencers To get the authorities’ attention, victims get help from influencers specialized in niches like...
over a year ago
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Lululemon's $50B+ Apparel Innovation Chip Wilson launched the athleisure industry by solving the "camel-toe problem" (via breakthroughs...
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Chip Wilson launched the athleisure industry by solving the "camel-toe problem" (via breakthroughs in materials and sewing methods).
Noahpinion
7 Reasons Democrats Should Be Optimistic About Their Chances in 2026 and 2028 A guest post by Wally Nowinski.
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Paul Graham: Essays
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AVC
Coding Again It has been many years since I’ve written code. I’ve hacked around in HTML and CSS a bit on this...
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It has been many years since I’ve written code. I’ve hacked around in HTML and CSS a bit on this blog and a few other places. But I have not actually written an application in a very long time. I think it might be thirty years since I’ve done any real programming. Over the...
Working Theorys
How to Go Direct Owning your own message, with intermediaries
a year ago
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"Now is the Most Important Time" Jensen Huang, Cillian Murphy, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfeld and Oprah Winfrey on the power of being...
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Noahpinion
Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen.
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Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube YouTube’s new automatic dubbing system is competing with with human firms to help creators scale the...
a year ago
Noahpinion
Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity We have public schools for a reason.
over a year ago
Tom Blomfield
Getting Shit Done I was recently talking to a handful of successful startups founders about issues they were facing as...
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I was recently talking to a handful of successful startups founders about issues they were facing as they scaled up their companies. Unanimously, hiring and retaining people who “get shit done” seemed to be their biggest problem. I’ve been thinking about this for the last few...
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As Zimbabwe’s economy collapses, traditional healers are selling wealth advice on TikTok Locally known as sangomas, spiritual guides are gaining fame online, but they face criticism from...
a year ago
Articles
What's on your hard drive?
over a year ago
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The truth behind VinFast’s stunning stock market debut Beware of EV companies bearing SPACs.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Dems need to moderate and fight There's no contradiction there.
4 months ago
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The problem with online “local” businesses One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business plans a week that involve local search…
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Dubai’s drone performances open new doors for creative workers The Middle East hosts some of the world’s largest and most expensive drone shows, but the work is...
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The Middle East hosts some of the world’s largest and most expensive drone shows, but the work is seasonal and doesn’t guarantee regular pay.
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It’s never goodbye in South Asia South Asians don’t like to say goodbye — instead, across the many languages we speak in the region,...
a year ago
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South Asians don’t like to say goodbye — instead, across the many languages we speak in the region, we prefer versions of the phrase “see you again."
Internal Tech Emails
Inside Apple's Marcom meeting To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running...
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To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running our company is a shocking response.
Steve Blank
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations We just finished our 9th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for...
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We just finished our 9th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 60 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national security problems. At Stanford this quarter the 8 teams of 40 students collectively...
Articles
AI isn't going to build your startup
5 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
There Is No AI Revolution Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing...
4 months ago
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Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable,...
Steve Blank
Is a $100 Million Enough? Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a...
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Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups,...
David Perell
Trevor Bauer: Playing Professional Baseball My guest today is Trevor Bauer, who is arguably the very best pitcher in Major League Baseball. In...
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My guest today is Trevor Bauer, who is arguably the very best pitcher in Major League Baseball. In 2020, he had the lowest Earned Run Average of any pitcher and won the National League Cy Young Award, which goes to the top pitcher in the game. I wanted to interview Trevor not...
Noahpinion
The Players on the Eve of Destruction The insanity of war has returned to our world.
6 months ago
Working Theorys
Collective Experiences | Theory No. 8 On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
over a year ago
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Tears of a get-rich-quick guru Influencers like Sunny Ali promote the Amazon seller dream, but not everyone buys the hustlepreneur...
a year ago
Steve Blank
How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a...
2 months ago
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This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from...
Noahpinion
What if Xi Jinping isn't that competent? (repost) Plus a new update showing how right I was.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program! Fun!!
9 months ago
Noahpinion
Biden should run on a message of abundance Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.
a year ago
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Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail? Skype and Joost are interesting companies to compare – they are about as close as you can get to one...
over a year ago
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Skype and Joost are interesting companies to compare – they are about as close as you can get to one of those sociological studies that…
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If Verizon’s Droid is good, that’s bad for the wireless ecosystem I carry around an iPhone and a Blackberry Tour.  I know that’s ridiculous. The iPhone is a great...
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over a year ago
I carry around an iPhone and a Blackberry Tour.  I know that’s ridiculous. The iPhone is a great device on an awful network; the Tour is an…