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Justin Jackson
The 2013 revenue stats I didn't want to share
1st Jan 2014
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The 2013 revenue stats I didn't want to share

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

1st Jan 2014
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cdixon
Size markets using narratives, not numbers Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case...
3rd Apr 2010
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Size markets using narratives, not numbers

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3rd Apr 2010
Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case that you’re addressing a possible billion…
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Balancing Act
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

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12th Jun 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
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Rest of World -...
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

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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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Stephen Diehl
Book Review: Capitalist Realism Book Review: Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is 81 pages long and will rearrange...
5th Aug 2023
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Book Review: Capitalist Realism

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5th Aug 2023
Book Review: Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is 81 pages long and will rearrange your brain. It is the most important political book of its generation, and it was published by a tiny press, written by a further education lecturer, and reads like a blog post...
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Internal Tech Emails
Google and AI | Elon Musk on Tesla comp Such a deep ML system could well be developed outside of Google-- at Microsoft, Baidu, Yandex,...
11th Feb 2024
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Google and AI | Elon Musk on Tesla comp

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11th Feb 2024
Such a deep ML system could well be developed outside of Google-- at Microsoft, Baidu, Yandex, Amazon, Apple, or even a startup.
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Nadia Asparouhova
Mapping digital worlds I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and...
17th Apr 2023
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Mapping digital worlds

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

17th Apr 2023
I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and future.” You can watch the video here; the following is a transcript of that talk. Peter Limberg asked me to talk about an analysis I did late last year, where I mapped out all the...
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Nadia Asparouhova
Working notes for Summer of Protocols I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s...
27th May 2023
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Working notes for Summer of Protocols

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27th May 2023
I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aims to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and their social implications. I plan to focus on protocols as...
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Shilin typing
Don't ever stop dreaming Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet...
8th Feb 2026
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Don't ever stop dreaming

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8th Feb 2026
Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet shoes. I still can't believe I did it. The constant winter overcast was reason enough to leave Canada and never look back. When I finally left, I had bought a ticket to a never-ending...
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Better than Random
Either micromanage your people or lean on them Something in between is the worst
5th Jan 2026
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Either micromanage your people or lean on them

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5th Jan 2026
Something in between is the worst
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Varun's Notes
The Future of No Code is Low Code Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
4th Aug 2022
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The Future of No Code is Low Code

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4th Aug 2022
Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🛳️ Cruise hustles
5th Aug 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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5th Aug 2024
🛳️ Cruise hustles
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Stephen Diehl
From Newton to Einstein and Back From Newton to Einstein and Back One of my favourite proofs from undergraduate physics is the...
1st Feb 2016
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From Newton to Einstein and Back

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1st Feb 2016
From Newton to Einstein and Back One of my favourite proofs from undergraduate physics is the derivation of the classical kinetic energy formula from Einstein's energy-momentum relation. Specifically, we'll see how the classical expression for kinetic energy emerges as a...
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Blog posts of...
000 A Sci-Fi Short Story
13th Jun 2023
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000

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13th Jun 2023
A Sci-Fi Short Story
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Jamesin’s Substack
Searching for Product-Market Fit Product-market fit is the holy grail.
28th Apr 2025
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Searching for Product-Market Fit

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28th Apr 2025
Product-market fit is the holy grail.
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Better than Random
CDO stories #4 Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
3rd Nov 2025
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CDO stories #4

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3rd Nov 2025
Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
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Roberto Vitillo's...
How to review a data analysis Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to...
18th Jul 2016
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How to review a data analysis

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18th Jul 2016
Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to fight repetitive errors, omissions and…
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Essays - Benedict...
There’s no such thing as data Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own...
31st May 2022
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There’s no such thing as data

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31st May 2022
Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own our data, and be paid for it. But really, there is no such thing as data, it’s not yours, and it’s not worth anything.
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cdixon
"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"

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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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cdixon
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

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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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Hustle Originals
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

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9th Jan 2026
How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine enthusiasts.
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Hustle Originals
How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents US parents toilet train their kids much later than they used to. And that trend is a sales bonanza...
6th Mar 2026
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How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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6th Mar 2026
US parents toilet train their kids much later than they used to. And that trend is a sales bonanza for Pampers and Huggies.
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Nothing Human
Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among...
8th Jun 2024
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Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil

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8th Jun 2024
The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among thousands. Many of us feel like we need to Do Something about these problems. There’s just one problem (sorry):
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tomcritchlow.com
Of Termites & Tokens Maybe the future of work is… termites? Let me explain.
8th Jun 2026
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Of Termites & Tokens

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8th Jun 2026
Maybe the future of work is… termites? Let me explain.
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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...
4th Dec 2012
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Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to be a decent, maybe even good startup mentor.

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4th Dec 2012
How to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in this article I got personally at...
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SatPost by Trung...
5 Thoughts on LEGO's (Ace) Manufacturing PLUS: Apple Watch at 10, McKinsey AI bot.
2nd May 2025
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5 Thoughts on LEGO's (Ace) Manufacturing

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2nd May 2025
PLUS: Apple Watch at 10, McKinsey AI bot.
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Stephen Diehl
A Haskell Reading List A Haskell Reading List Here is a list of papers and writings of what I consider are essential...
15th Aug 2012
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A Haskell Reading List

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15th Aug 2012
A Haskell Reading List Here is a list of papers and writings of what I consider are essential Haskell reading. Haskell 2010 Language Specification Typeclassopedia The Essence of Functional Programming How to make ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc Monads for functional...
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Justin Jackson
Producing good content isn't enough
1st Sep 2013
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Producing good content isn't enough

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1st Sep 2013
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Derek Sivers podcast
A hundred actors on stage Imagine you’re in the audience of a play, and there are a hundred actors on stage. It’s not...
5th Mar 2000
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A hundred actors on stage

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5th Mar 2000
Imagine you’re in the audience of a play, and there are a hundred actors on stage. It’s not necessarily the loudest or most hyperactive. Maybe you’d be drawn to the woman with the long black hair, half-hidden, standing silently at the edge of the stage. Would you stand...
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Noahpinion
America is ruled by gangsters now Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
2nd Mar 2025
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America is ruled by gangsters now

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2nd Mar 2025
Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
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Justin Jackson
Startups should make money
29th Jul 2015
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Startups should make money

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29th Jul 2015
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Stephen Diehl
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

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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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Stephen Diehl
The Public Policy Case for Banning Crypto The Public Policy Case for Banning Crypto It's time to stop tiptoeing around this issue. Democratic...
1st Jun 2022
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The Public Policy Case for Banning Crypto

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1st Jun 2022
The Public Policy Case for Banning Crypto It's time to stop tiptoeing around this issue. Democratic societies should outright ban crypto. It's time for politicians to stop listening to so-called "moderate" positions on crypto because they are not moderate. Allowing crypto to...
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Schemers
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…

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27th Oct 2025
as software gets commoditized…
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SatPost by Trung...
17 Takeaways from Mary Meeker's AI Deck PLUS: Elon vs. Trump, Taylor Swift, Moncler's $17B Secret Sauce and Ukraine Drone Tech.
6th Jun 2025
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17 Takeaways from Mary Meeker's AI Deck

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6th Jun 2025
PLUS: Elon vs. Trump, Taylor Swift, Moncler's $17B Secret Sauce and Ukraine Drone Tech.
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Derek Sivers podcast
Loving what I used to hate Be careful when you say you like or dislike something, because you could change your mind...
18th May 2014
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Loving what I used to hate

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18th May 2014
Be careful when you say you like or dislike something, because you could change your mind soon. David Letterman, I thought it was so horrible that it must be a joke. Even years later, when I heard him again, I hated his music passionately. But then I heard his cover version of...
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Rest of World -...
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...
1st May 2024
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Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme

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1st May 2024
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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Nadia Asparouhova
Idea machines Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their...
12th May 2022
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Idea machines

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12th May 2022
Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished? One of the most visible ideologies in tech is effective altruism (or EA), a...
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Derek Sivers podcast
What if you didn’t need money or attention? You know that feeling you have after a big meal? When you’re so full that you don’t want anything...
19th Mar 2014
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What if you didn’t need money or attention?

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

19th Mar 2014
You know that feeling you have after a big meal? When you’re so full that you don’t want anything more? We do so many things for the attention, to feel important or praised. But what if you had so much attention and so much praise that you couldn’t possibly want any...
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cdixon
As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally… As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally...
25th Sep 2016
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As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally…

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25th Sep 2016
As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally hampered by the fact that there was no competitive advantage for any car company in using ...
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Derek Sivers podcast
Repeatedly follow-up to show you care I knew a music publicist in New York City when she was at the peak of her success. A few of her...
14th Jan 2018
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Repeatedly follow-up to show you care

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14th Jan 2018
I knew a music publicist in New York City when she was at the peak of her success. A few of her clients had hits, so everyone wanted to work with her. She was flooded with new music. Whenever someone sent their music, it would go into an inbox. That inbox was completely...
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cdixon
Some ideas for native bitcoin apps Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin...
4th Oct 2014
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Some ideas for native bitcoin apps

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4th Oct 2014
Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin "native Bitcoin apps". Most of the…
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cdixon
Doing old things better vs doing brand new things New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could...
19th Oct 2020
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Doing old things better vs doing brand new things

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19th Oct 2020
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because…
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AVC
I’ve Moved Onchain Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2...
2nd May 2024
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I’ve Moved Onchain

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2nd May 2024
Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2 services anymore. So I am starting a series called “I’ve Moved Onchain” to explain this journey to everyone and today’s opening post is about blogging, naturally. I’ve blogged at...
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Articles - Alex...
What’s the big idea? To make a big impact, we need a big idea. In brand communications, coveting the ‘big idea’ is...
12th Apr 2022
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What’s the big idea?

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12th Apr 2022
To make a big impact, we need a big idea. In brand communications, coveting the ‘big idea’ is commonplace. We look for them. Long for them. Laud them and lionise them. And yet, despite its ubiquitous use, the ‘big idea’ remains incredibly ill-defined. This article is an...
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Internal Tech Emails
Google looks at acquiring YouTube can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
17th Oct 2022
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Google looks at acquiring YouTube

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17th Oct 2022
can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
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Better than Random
On risk taking The real risk takers are not who you think they are
1st Dec 2025
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On risk taking

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1st Dec 2025
The real risk takers are not who you think they are
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AVC
What Will Happen In 2023 I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because...
1st Jan 2023
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What Will Happen In 2023

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1st Jan 2023
I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been...
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Justin Jackson
Publish your ebook as PDF, MOBI, and ePub all at the same time
3rd Aug 2016
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Publish your ebook as PDF, MOBI, and ePub all at the same time

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3rd Aug 2016
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Justin Jackson
Sitting on the curb drinking a slurpee
7th Jul 2013
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Sitting on the curb drinking a slurpee

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7th Jul 2013
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
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

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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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Derek Sivers podcast
The strength of many little customers Many small entrepreneurs think, “If we could just land Apple, Google, or the government as a client,...
11th Mar 2008
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The strength of many little customers

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11th Mar 2008
Many small entrepreneurs think, “If we could just land Apple, Google, or the government as a client, we’d be all set!” But this approach has many problems: Those people may change their mind or leave the company. If you do land the big client, they practically own...
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Stephen Diehl
Hypothetical Divine Signatures Hypothetical Divine Signatures The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews famously claimed that "faith...
14th Jan 2026
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Hypothetical Divine Signatures

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14th Jan 2026
Hypothetical Divine Signatures The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews famously claimed that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," which was a perfectly serviceable theological patch for an era where the average person’s greatest...
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Varun's Notes
Generative AI Builds Bridges Between Creative Mediums On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
23rd Nov 2022
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Generative AI Builds Bridges Between Creative Mediums

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23rd Nov 2022
On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
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Stephen Diehl
Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms In the last blog post,...
11th Jul 2016
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Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms

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11th Jul 2016
Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms In the last blog post, we Parsing Renaming Typechecking Desugaring Simplification Code Generation Passes The following functions are the main passes are that are used inside of the HscMain . -- Parse a module. parseModule :: GhcMonad m =>...
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Justin Jackson
It's not just B2C vs B2B anymore
24th Jul 2024
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It's not just B2C vs B2B anymore

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24th Jul 2024
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Stephen Diehl
Deconstructing the Worldview of Peter Thiel Deconstructing the Worldview of Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is one of Silicon Valley's most prodigious...
1st Feb 2023
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Deconstructing the Worldview of Peter Thiel

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1st Feb 2023
Deconstructing the Worldview of Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is one of Silicon Valley's most prodigious thinkers, with a complicated and influential worldview. Thiel's philosophical framework is notoriously byzantine, weaving together Christian eschatology, mimetic theory, and...
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Dustin Curtis
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ ‪Apple TV is a hardware device. ‪Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy...
2nd Nov 2019
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Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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2nd Nov 2019
‪Apple TV is a hardware device. ‪Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones). Apple TV is an app on iOS/iPadOS devices that...
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cdixon
"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed" Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth...
13th Mar 2015
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed"

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13th Mar 2015
Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth graders, and they had a whole classroom full…
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Working Theorys
The Season Finale of TBPN On the show, the meta-show, and stocking up on cultural power.
14th Apr 2026
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The Season Finale of TBPN

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14th Apr 2026
On the show, the meta-show, and stocking up on cultural power.
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Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp messages I’m not going to say it’s my personal main focus when I have a number of other areas I’m more...
19th Jun 2026
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Mark Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp messages

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19th Jun 2026
I’m not going to say it’s my personal main focus when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#42) The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI;...
1st Jul 2024
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At least five interesting things to start your week (#42)

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1st Jul 2024
The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI; solar power uses; Global South tariffs; Gen Z wages; Stiglitz
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Essays - Benedict...
Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire...
6th Mar 2023
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Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business

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

6th Mar 2023
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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Derek Sivers podcast
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

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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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haseeb qureshi
Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to...
27th Feb 2020
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Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal

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27th Feb 2020
Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to attack the margin trading protocol bZx, first in a $350K attack and later in a $600K copycat attack. These attacks were, in a word, magnificent. In each attack, a penniless attacker...
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Justin Jackson
My first kiss
2nd Oct 2013
13

My first kiss

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2nd Oct 2013
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AVC
NFT Art CDMX We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the...
21st Nov 2022
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NFT Art CDMX

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21st Nov 2022
We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the premier NFT art “gallery” in the world. I use that term in parentheses because Bright Moments is much more than a gallery but that word is well understood. USV is a member of the...
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David Perell
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

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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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Rest of World -...
This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip...
1st Apr 2025
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This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans

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1st Apr 2025
Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip restrictions
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Tom Blomfield
Customer churn can kill your startup Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user...
10th Jul 2014
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Customer churn can kill your startup

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10th Jul 2014
Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user growth - if people aren’t using your new product or service in greater and greater numbers, it’s a good sign that you’re not on the right track. And, as long as your business-model...
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XO Capital - Field...
3 Lessons Operating 5 micro-SaaS Companies in 2022 Hey it's Danny. Happy new year! January 1, 2022 we had 3 full-time employees at XO Capital. Myself,...
6th Jan 2023
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3 Lessons Operating 5 micro-SaaS Companies in 2022

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6th Jan 2023
Hey it's Danny. Happy new year! January 1, 2022 we had 3 full-time employees at XO Capital. Myself, the operator, 1 engineer and 1 support person were operating Sheet.Best, ScreenshotAPI.net and WorkClout. In March 2022 we acquired Inlytics.io. Shortly after, we brought on 2 more
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Platformer
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

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4th Aug 2026
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
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Justin Jackson
Find a good party When you're building a product in a market with strong demand, it feels like showing up at a good...
1st Apr 2022
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Find a good party

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1st Apr 2022
When you're building a product in a market with strong demand, it feels like showing up at a good party.
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Inverted Passion
How to increase wealth for everyone I’ve started reading The Capitalist Manifesto, a book full of data on how free markets generate...
2nd Dec 2023
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How to increase wealth for everyone

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2nd Dec 2023
I’ve started reading The Capitalist Manifesto, a book full of data on how free markets generate prosperity. The author is nuanced and uses data and logic to show how we should be rooting for capitalism (instead of bringing it down). Income and wealth inequality created as a...
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Justin Jackson
Heads down
6th Jun 2013
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Heads down

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6th Jun 2013
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anthonynsimon.com
The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup As grandiose as the title of this article might sound, I should clarify we’re talking about a...
7th Apr 2021
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The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup

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7th Apr 2021
As grandiose as the title of this article might sound, I should clarify we’re talking about a low-stress, one-person company that I run from my flat here in Germany.
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tomcritchlow.com
8 Years on the Road Being self-employed feels a bit like being on an extended road trip. Untethered and free, but lonely...
10th Nov 2022
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8 Years on the Road

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10th Nov 2022
Being self-employed feels a bit like being on an extended road trip. Untethered and free, but lonely and unsupported too. Ultimate freedoms combined with shallow roots. Every year I write a recap, around the anniversary of quitting my last job (Oct 24th, 2014). Here’s my recap of...
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Balancing Act
Bet the farm Or risk losing it all
2nd Dec 2025
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Bet the farm

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2nd Dec 2025
Or risk losing it all
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI Hello and welcome to another premium newsletter. Thanks as ever for subscribing, and please email me...
5th Sep 2025
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Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI

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5th Sep 2025
Hello and welcome to another premium newsletter. Thanks as ever for subscribing, and please email me at [email protected] to say hello. As I've written again and again, the costs of running generative AI do not make sense. Every single company offering any kind of generative...
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Stratechery by Ben...
Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail Meta's earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting.
3rd Aug 2026
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Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail

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

3rd Aug 2026
Meta's earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting.
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SatPost by Trung...
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?

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1st Jun 2024
PLUS: Group Chat Rules, 5 Banks in Disguise, Chipotle's Memo.
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Derek Sivers podcast
initialize I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
22nd Sep 2019
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initialize

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22nd Sep 2019
I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
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Justin Jackson
How do you know when to stop designing?
1st Mar 2012
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How do you know when to stop designing?

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1st Mar 2012
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Working Theorys
The Great Movie Theory Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
2nd Mar 2025
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The Great Movie Theory

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2nd Mar 2025
Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
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Steve Blank
How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with...
3rd Dec 2024
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How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense

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3rd Dec 2024
A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with suggestions from leaders across the Department of Defense and Venture Capital community. BLUF: In WW II, the U.S. outsourced advanced weapons systems development to civilians. The...
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Dustin Curtis
Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a...
1st Mar 2021
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Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts

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

1st Mar 2021
About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accounts were locked for unexplained reasons, causing them to lose all of their data, including years of...
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Inverted Passion
Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing....
4th Mar 2023
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Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for

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4th Mar 2023
As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing. However, it’s essential to understand that money is not wealth. Wealth is stuff we want and by that logic, people can be wealthy even if they don’t have a lot of money. In fact,...
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Aaron's Essays
Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will...
3rd Mar 2016
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Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets

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3rd Mar 2016
I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will create in the world. That's problematic because investing in startups is largely about figuring out whether or not a team with a new technology - or application of existing technology...
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cdixon
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

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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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Aaron's Essays
Goodbye YC I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t...
12th Feb 2021
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Goodbye YC

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

12th Feb 2021
I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t many people around. PG and Jessica were still running things. We had offices in Mountain View, Palo Alto, and on Kearny street, but they were nearly always empty. The only meeting...
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SatPost by Trung...
Gordon Ramsay's Apprenticeship The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high...
5th Apr 2024
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Gordon Ramsay's Apprenticeship

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5th Apr 2024
The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high standards and how to take the reins.
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benkuhn.net
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

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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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Rest of World -...
How Bangladesh’s tech industry navigated an unprecedented political crisis July’s internet blackout and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s sudden exit is estimated to have cost...
3rd Sep 2024
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How Bangladesh’s tech industry navigated an unprecedented political crisis

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3rd Sep 2024
July’s internet blackout and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s sudden exit is estimated to have cost the industry $300 million.
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Justin Jackson
Don't sell to beginners
2nd Jun 2018
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Don't sell to beginners

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2nd Jun 2018
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Platformer
Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
2nd Jul 2026
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash

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2nd Jul 2026
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
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cdixon
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...
12th Jan 2011
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Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will.

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12th Jan 2011
People love to focus on horse races:  NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs private exchanges, the valuation of some…
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Derek Sivers podcast
Don’t add your two cents “My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion. The boss says, “Good...
25th Jul 2016
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Don’t add your two cents

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

25th Jul 2016
“My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion. The boss says, “Good job. Maybe just change the blue to gold, change the word ‘giant’ to ‘huge’, and get rid of the border. Other than that, it’s great!” But there’s a big downside: The employee no...
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Justin Jackson
Finding your "zone of genius"
7th May 2025
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Finding your "zone of genius"

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7th May 2025
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cdixon
Some thoughts on SEO “SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via...
1st Dec 2009
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Some thoughts on SEO

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1st Dec 2009
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via organic search traffic.”  I don’t like…
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Stephen Diehl
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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Tom Blomfield
Monzo growth I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and...
1st Aug 2022
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Monzo growth

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1st Aug 2022
I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and I haven’t been able to give a satisfactory answer in a sufficiently short space of time. I thought I’d write out my thoughts in a longer piece so I can feel less bad about giving...
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Justin Jackson
Yes! Apple TV!
17th Nov 2008
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Yes! Apple TV!

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17th Nov 2008
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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...
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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Aaron's Essays
Fundraising isn't predictable I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying...
16th Nov 2016
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Fundraising isn't predictable

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16th Nov 2016
I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying conversations with investors. The founder's company was growing well, had crossed $1mm ARR, but still couldn't raise money. According to conventional wisdom, that should have been enough to...
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Nothing Human
I, Token an origin story
25th Nov 2024
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I, Token

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25th Nov 2024
an origin story
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David Perell
Sensitivity Isn’t Static The sensitivity of our senses ebbs and flows. If you’re looking to be more perceptive, start by...
30th Mar 2023
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Sensitivity Isn’t Static

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30th Mar 2023
The sensitivity of our senses ebbs and flows. If you’re looking to be more perceptive, start by changing your environment. The post Sensitivity Isn’t Static appeared first on David Perell.
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Allen Pike
Maggie Appleton on Gas Town and Coding Agent Orchestration Maggie was already perhaps the best writer on the intersection of engineering and design, but now...
13th Feb 2026
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Maggie Appleton on Gas Town and Coding Agent Orchestration

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

13th Feb 2026
Maggie was already perhaps the best writer on the intersection of engineering and design, but now that she’s joined Github Next, she’s also extremely keyed in to where tools for coding are going. Her piece on Gas Town and orchestrating coding agents is sharp and worth reading in...
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Aaron's Essays
Pots of Gold Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can...
6th Dec 2021
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Pots of Gold

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

6th Dec 2021
Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can create is in the future, but all the patterns you look at to learn what to do are in the past. This makes your brain do funny things. On the one hand, you see how huge things can...
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Roberto Vitillo's...
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

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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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Noahpinion
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

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22nd Mar 2023
Stasis won't lead to a prosperous or equitable society.
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42!
I got booted from one of my own company’s Slack channels... So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best...
1st May 2023
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I got booted from one of my own company’s Slack channels...

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1st May 2023
So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best thing that could have happened for me, and my company. You see, like most companies, we have ‘global’ chat channels that everyone participates in, plus each team has distinct...
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cdixon
"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"

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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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Jamesin’s Substack
Always keeping score. Now with Claude, there is no excuse not to be tracking everything.
6th May 2026
1

Always keeping score.

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6th May 2026
Now with Claude, there is no excuse not to be tracking everything.
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Essays - Benedict...
The Deep Research problem OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it...
18th Feb 2025
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The Deep Research problem

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18th Feb 2025
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
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SatPost by Trung...
The Sphere's $4B Business, explained The eye-catching Las Vegas attraction cost James Dolan $2.3B to build. After an uncertain start, the...
6th Mar 2026
1

The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

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

6th Mar 2026
The eye-catching Las Vegas attraction cost James Dolan $2.3B to build. After an uncertain start, the recent success of "The Wizard of Oz" has created a clear playbook for global domination.
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Justin Jackson
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)

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17th Oct 2025
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Justin Jackson
How do I build something people want? As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and...
2nd May 2019
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How do I build something people want?

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

2nd May 2019
As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and actually do that? Here's some actionable advice.
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cdixon
Technology predictions For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past...
6th Apr 2013
35

Technology predictions

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6th Apr 2013
For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what…
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Balancing Act
Entering the DOS era of AI Why I spent 12 hours in a terminal last week
2nd Sep 2025
1

Entering the DOS era of AI

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2nd Sep 2025
Why I spent 12 hours in a terminal last week
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Justin Jackson
The pipeline problem
21st Sep 2024
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The pipeline problem

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21st Sep 2024
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haseeb qureshi
2026 predictions It’s that time again—as 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to drop 2026 predictions. I think 2026 is...
29th Dec 2025
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2026 predictions

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29th Dec 2025
It’s that time again—as 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to drop 2026 predictions. I think 2026 is going to surprise, both to the upside and to the downside. Organized by category: Macro / Chains $BTC is > $150K by year-end, but BTC dominance decreases in 2026. Despite the...
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Rest of World -...
Sing your way to learning a new language Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million...
1st Sep 2023
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Sing your way to learning a new language

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1st Sep 2023
Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million users.
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Working Theorys
Second Nature Skills What can you do without trying that hard?
14th Aug 2024
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Second Nature Skills

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14th Aug 2024
What can you do without trying that hard?
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Ryan Barrett
Logs as end user UI A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests,...
11th Jan 2023
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Logs as end user UI

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11th Jan 2023
A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON objects, stack traces, etc. It’s an unusual UI feature, but it’s been an unqualified success, enough that when I built Bridgy Fed, I immediately...
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Noahpinion
The Players on the Eve of Destruction The insanity of war has returned to our world.
2nd Jan 2025
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The Players on the Eve of Destruction

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2nd Jan 2025
The insanity of war has returned to our world.
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Noahpinion
Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
1st Jul 2025
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Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled

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1st Jul 2025
Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
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Justin Jackson
We all want progress
10th Nov 2016
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We all want progress

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10th Nov 2016
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Better than Random
Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
7th Jul 2025
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Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels

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7th Jul 2025
But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
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Blog posts of...
Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down. What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And...
14th Mar 2020
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Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down.

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14th Mar 2020
What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And I expect that all startups in...
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Stephen Diehl
SGLang on AMD MI300X SGLang on AMD MI300X The best kept secret these days is that new AMD GPUs are incredibly cost...
4th Mar 2025
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SGLang on AMD MI300X

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4th Mar 2025
SGLang on AMD MI300X The best kept secret these days is that new AMD GPUs are incredibly cost efficient for doing inference. If you want the cliff-notes on getting an extremely fast inference server running on a fleet of AMD MI300X, here you go: If you're serving high-throughput...
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SatPost by Trung...
11 Best Things of 2025 My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
19th Dec 2025
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11 Best Things of 2025

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19th Dec 2025
My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
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Platformer
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I...
6th Jan 2026
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

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6th Jan 2026
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
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Aaron's Essays
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

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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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SatPost by Trung...
YouTube: The Learning Machine Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of...
3rd May 2024
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YouTube: The Learning Machine

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3rd May 2024
Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of sports footage on the platform helps to explain why.
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Working Theorys
Digital Tug-of-War On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
19th Jan 2025
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Digital Tug-of-War

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19th Jan 2025
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
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cdixon
Web services should be both federated and extensible One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured,...
4th Sep 2010
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Web services should be both federated and extensible

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4th Sep 2010
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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SatPost by Trung...
Nike’s Marketing Blindspot What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
4th Aug 2023
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Nike’s Marketing Blindspot

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4th Aug 2023
What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
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Derek Sivers podcast
Getting out of a bad state of mind The last time I was in really bad state of mind, I used these five steps to get out of it. I’ve...
1st Feb 2015
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Getting out of a bad state of mind

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1st Feb 2015
The last time I was in really bad state of mind, I used these five steps to get out of it. I’ve shared this with a few friends in a similar situation, and they said it helped. I hope it works for you too. 1. Ask myself what’s wrong in this very second. Am I in physical...
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Steve Blank
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
4th Apr 2023
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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

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4th Apr 2023
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately...
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Working Theorys
The Rise of the Software Creator In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s...
3rd Jun 2024
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The Rise of the Software Creator

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3rd Jun 2024
In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s non-professional creative class.
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Derek Sivers
Reading the Bible start to finish I like going to the source. Like finding musicians’ influences, and getting to know that music too....
27th Jan 2023
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Reading the Bible start to finish

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27th Jan 2023
I like going to the source. Like finding musicians’ influences, and getting to know that music too. Same with film, art, philosophy, and technology.
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cdixon
App store shenanigans I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps.  One thing that I’ve noticed is that...
1st Apr 2011
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App store shenanigans

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1st Apr 2011
I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps.  One thing that I’ve noticed is that many of the top rated and ranked apps…
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Anthony Castrio's...
Revenue grew from $14,143 to $32,470, but not much profit yet. UPDATES: money stuff, got an apartment in NYC, & gave a talk at Fractal Tech.
9th Dec 2024
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Revenue grew from $14,143 to $32,470, but not much profit yet.

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9th Dec 2024
UPDATES: money stuff, got an apartment in NYC, & gave a talk at Fractal Tech.
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Noahpinion
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

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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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Roberto's blog
From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that...
25th May 2024
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From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey

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25th May 2024
I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
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Justin Jackson
Working harder doesn't make you more successful I often see successful entrepreneurs tout hard work as the secret to their fortune. But, building a...
8th Jan 2022
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Working harder doesn't make you more successful

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8th Jan 2022
I often see successful entrepreneurs tout hard work as the secret to their fortune. But, building a successful business is more than brute force effort.
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Blog posts of...
Managing people 🤯 I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps...
6th Feb 2022
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Managing people 🤯

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6th Feb 2022
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
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Stephen Diehl
Book Review: Klara and the Sun Book Review: Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun is narrated by a robot who...
3rd Mar 2022
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Book Review: Klara and the Sun

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3rd Mar 2022
Book Review: Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun is narrated by a robot who believes the Sun is God, and it is one of the most quietly devastating novels I have read in years. The robot is Klara, a solar-powered Artificial Friend (AF) designed to be a companion...
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Essays - Benedict...
AI and the automation of work ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other...
2nd Jul 2023
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AI and the automation of work

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2nd Jul 2023
ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?
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cdixon
The decline of the mobile web People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not...
7th Apr 2014
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The decline of the mobile web

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7th Apr 2014
People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: This is a worrisome trend for…
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Stratechery by Ben...
2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including Amazon and AI, the future of...
1st May 2026
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2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions

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1st May 2026
The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including Amazon and AI, the future of AR devices, and Beijing's myopia.
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Justin Jackson
Claude Code and the new age of software development
6th Feb 2026
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Claude Code and the new age of software development

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6th Feb 2026
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Working Theorys
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

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4th Oct 2023
A framework for building products that balance familiarity with freshness.
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Allen Pike
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

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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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Justin Jackson
Will a college degree get you a programming job?
7th Sep 2012
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Will a college degree get you a programming job?

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7th Sep 2012
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Noahpinion
Interview: Jean Twenge, psychologist In which we talk all about generational differences, Millennial angst, and the effects of social...
1st Sep 2023
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Interview: Jean Twenge, psychologist

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1st Sep 2023
In which we talk all about generational differences, Millennial angst, and the effects of social media and cell phones
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Justin Jackson
Jason Fried wants to delete my backlog
2nd Aug 2019
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Jason Fried wants to delete my backlog

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2nd Aug 2019
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Derek Sivers podcast
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

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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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Noahpinion
Vibes vs. data It's asymmetric warfare out there.
3rd Dec 2023
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Vibes vs. data

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3rd Dec 2023
It's asymmetric warfare out there.
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Noahpinion
Network State, or a Network of States? An idea for a new global Hanseatic League.
1st Oct 2025
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Network State, or a Network of States?

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1st Oct 2025
An idea for a new global Hanseatic League.
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Justin Jackson
The Freedom Ladder
7th Jun 2019
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The Freedom Ladder

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7th Jun 2019
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Justin Jackson
Why most product ideas aren't that good
11th Feb 2017
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Why most product ideas aren't that good

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11th Feb 2017
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Derek Sivers
dashing dog, searching for purpose People search for their passion or purpose. But “purpose” and “passion” are words we use when we’re...
30th Jun 2023
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dashing dog, searching for purpose

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30th Jun 2023
People search for their passion or purpose. But “purpose” and “passion” are words we use when we’re not working.
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Rest of World -...
Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos. A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de...
1st Apr 2024
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Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos.

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1st Apr 2024
A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de generadores. El proyecto se frenó. Mientras tanto, las exportaciones de litio crecen.
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Entrepreneur's Edge
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

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16th Jan 2023
Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
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Schemers
do too much, sell before, going super-saiyan do too much
2nd Dec 2025
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do too much, sell before, going super-saiyan

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2nd Dec 2025
do too much
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Shilin typing
things i learned about contracting Always sign a contract for any job Charge by project, not by hour Give a quote properly Charge 1/2...
20th Sep 2025
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things i learned about contracting

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20th Sep 2025
Always sign a contract for any job Charge by project, not by hour Give a quote properly Charge 1/2 upfront Don’t start until the payment goes through or is wired and in transfer Do your work well. Go the extra mile. Underpromise but overdeliver Never complain to the people you...
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Justin Jackson
Jarrod Drysdale's advice for starting
15th Feb 2013
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Jarrod Drysdale's advice for starting

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15th Feb 2013
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Justin Jackson
The potential dark side of AI and GPT-3 writing tools What happens when people start going to the AI for answers instead of Google search and Wikipedia?...
21st Oct 2022
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The potential dark side of AI and GPT-3 writing tools

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

21st Oct 2022
What happens when people start going to the AI for answers instead of Google search and Wikipedia? How does the AI decide what to suggest? What are the knock-on effects of these suggestions?
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Justin Jackson
2023 year in review
5th Jan 2024
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2023 year in review

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5th Jan 2024
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Derek Sivers podcast
Saying no to everything else Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a...
23rd Sep 2015
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Saying no to everything else

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23rd Sep 2015
Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a book. Eventually, the psychological pain of not finishing kept building until he couldn’t stand it anymore. He decided to finally beat the devil he calls “The Resistance”. He said, “I...
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benkuhn.net
How I've run major projects My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:”...
16th Mar 2025
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How I've run major projects

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16th Mar 2025
My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:” coordinating major, time-sensitive implementation or debugging efforts. In a company like Anthropic, excellent project management is an extremely high-leverage skill, and not just...
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Throwable
How Twitter Survives (Or Doesn't) Meta's approach, Twitter's moat and a few different future scenarios
12th Jul 2023
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How Twitter Survives (Or Doesn't)

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12th Jul 2023
Meta's approach, Twitter's moat and a few different future scenarios
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Jamesin’s Substack
Nothing Was The Same For the past 10 years, I’ve had the same work routine.
9th Jun 2025
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Nothing Was The Same

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9th Jun 2025
For the past 10 years, I’ve had the same work routine.
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Justin Jackson
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...
6th Jan 2018
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Building software for podcasters –\_Josh Nielsen from Zencastr

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6th Jan 2018
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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Varun's Notes
Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language...
27th Jun 2023
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Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface

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27th Jun 2023
How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language models?
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Stephen Diehl
The Everything Bagel Problem The Everything Bagel Problem Okay, let me try to put this into words. It’s something I’ve been...
2nd May 2023
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The Everything Bagel Problem

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2nd May 2023
The Everything Bagel Problem Okay, let me try to put this into words. It’s something I’ve been wrestling with, but having trouble articulating. Over the last few years I've been on left-leaning cryptocurrency policy activism, and the experience has been a perfect exemplar of what...
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Internal Tech Emails
Facebook's plan to beat Google+ we will swallow sadness for every summer going forward if we do not move faster and smarter than the...
5th Oct 2025
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Facebook's plan to beat Google+

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5th Oct 2025
we will swallow sadness for every summer going forward if we do not move faster and smarter than the Google for these next 3 months.
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Justin Jackson
It might never go away When you click "publish" thousands of copies are generated and sent to individual inboxes. Once...
17th Sep 2021
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It might never go away

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17th Sep 2021
When you click "publish" thousands of copies are generated and sent to individual inboxes. Once you've sent an email, people can keep a copy of it in their archive, forever. You can't take it back.
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Stephen Diehl
Book Review: Piranesi Book Review: Piranesi Susanna Clarke's Piranesi is a book about a man who lives in a House. The...
9th Mar 2026
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Book Review: Piranesi

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9th Mar 2026
Book Review: Piranesi Susanna Clarke's Piranesi is a book about a man who lives in a House. The House has an infinite number of marble halls. Ocean tides flood the lower floors. Clouds drift through the upper ones. Thousands of statues stand in the middle halls, each one unique,...
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SatPost by Trung...
The Greatest Meme Template Ever Why does Juan Joya Borja (aka El Risitas aka “Spanish Laughing Guy”) always put a smile on our...
1st Mar 2024
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The Greatest Meme Template Ever

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1st Mar 2024
Why does Juan Joya Borja (aka El Risitas aka “Spanish Laughing Guy”) always put a smile on our faces.
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AVC
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

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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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Internal Tech Emails
"The fate of civilization is at stake" Text messages from Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk. Plus, Microsoft's CTO on why the OpenAI...
1st Feb 2026
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"The fate of civilization is at stake"

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1st Feb 2026
Text messages from Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk. Plus, Microsoft's CTO on why the OpenAI board fired Sam Altman.
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Justin Jackson
Why we buy from winners
14th Jun 2016
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Why we buy from winners

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14th Jun 2016
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Balancing Act
Divorced from reality Fundamentals will matter
a week ago
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Divorced from reality

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a week ago
Fundamentals will matter
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Business Brainstorms
Reference checks as a service, the need for more competition everywhere, GPT travel planning,... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
10th Apr 2023
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Reference checks as a service, the need for more competition everywhere, GPT travel planning, leaving work broken, ...

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10th Apr 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 “Business idea: Reference checks as a service. Do...
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Better than Random
The firmware veto When the install base outvotes the parliament
1st Jun 2026
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The firmware veto

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1st Jun 2026
When the install base outvotes the parliament
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Derek Sivers podcast
Relax for the same result A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach. So a few times a week,...
2nd Oct 2015
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Relax for the same result

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2nd Oct 2015
A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach. So a few times a week, I’d get on my bike and go as fast as I could for the fifteen-mile loop. I mean really full-on, 100 percent, head-down, red-faced sprinting. After a few months, I noticed I was...
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Inverted Passion
Games are problems people pay to solve Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me...
22nd Apr 2023
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Games are problems people pay to solve

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22nd Apr 2023
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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Stephen Diehl
Monads to Machine Code Monads to Machine Code Just-in-time or JIT compilation is compilation done by dynamically generating...
4th Jan 2016
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Monads to Machine Code

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

4th Jan 2016
Monads to Machine Code Just-in-time or JIT compilation is compilation done by dynamically generating executable code. It's a common technique used in many language runtimes to generate optimized code for hot code paths as well ahead of time compilation for So let's build a small...
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Derek Sivers podcast
Seeking inspiration? The word “inspiration” usually means “something that mentally stimulates you.” breathe...
14th Apr 2013
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Seeking inspiration?

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

14th Apr 2013
The word “inspiration” usually means “something that mentally stimulates you.” breathe in. People surf the web, reading pithy articles, looking for inspiration. People listen to hours of podcasts, looking for inspiration. Musicians, writers, artists, and everyone else, all...
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Aaron's Essays
Things that aren't progress A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to...
12th Nov 2015
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Things that aren't progress

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12th Nov 2015
A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that the behaviors were largely a function of bad goal setting. When founders choose bad...
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Business Brainstorms
💡 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

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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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Nothing Human
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

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19th Jan 2026
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
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Jamesin’s Substack
I launched a mobile app. Mobile development has always felt like the holy grail of engineering.
13th Apr 2026
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I launched a mobile app.

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13th Apr 2026
Mobile development has always felt like the holy grail of engineering.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Never Forget What They've Done Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance  Listen to my podcast Better Offline...
9th Jun 2025
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Never Forget What They've Done

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

9th Jun 2025
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance  Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already. I want my fucking tech industry back.  Maybe you think I sound insane, but technology means a lot to me. It’s the way that
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Steve Blank
Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story...
29th Aug 2023
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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

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

29th Aug 2023
I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to mid-1942 it was Vannevar Bush (and his number 2, James Conant, the president of...
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Derek Sivers podcast
The joke that changed my life Growing up in America, I didn’t know much about other cultures. When I was 25, my band got some...
19th Jun 2022
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The joke that changed my life

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

19th Jun 2022
Growing up in America, I didn’t know much about other cultures. When I was 25, my band got some gigs in Europe — my first time there. It was 1995. The European Union was new. I heard a street performer in Copenhagen tell this joke: “The EU will be a success if … “The...
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Jamesin’s Substack
Some things I've been thinking about - This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -”...
4th Aug 2026
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Some things I've been thinking about -

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

4th Aug 2026
This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -” post on Twitter & LinkedIn.
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Derek Sivers podcast
The art of selfishness David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters. But his mother was on...
18th Nov 2018
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The art of selfishness

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

18th Nov 2018
David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters. But his mother was on her death bed. An undiagnosable illness seemed like it was going to take her at any time. All of her children were visiting her every day. He was very conflicted and felt...
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