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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 “When I've worked for organizations without QA teams, I introduce the concept of "sniff...
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#1 💡 “When I've worked for organizations without QA teams, I introduce the concept of "sniff tests". This is a short (typically 1 hour) test session where anybody in the company / department is encouraged to come and bash on the new feature. The feature is supposed to be...
Unpacked
The EU's war on behavioral advertising Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by...
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Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.
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How Indians are watching Succession after HBO ditched Disney With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of...
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With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of Thrones can no longer be streamed in the country.
Tech + Economics +...
The worst part of tech layoffs? The corporate bullshit. EBay to eliminate about 1,000 jobs, or 9% of full-time workforce Jamie Iannone, eBay’s CEO,...
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EBay to eliminate about 1,000 jobs, or 9% of full-time workforce Jamie Iannone, eBay’s CEO, told employees in a letter published on a corporate blog, that the company will also “scale back the number of contracts we have within our alternate workforce over the...
Business Brainstorms
Cubicles, boring first ideas, luck surface math, and spirituality has to go somewhere Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Is there anything a corp can do to break out of a...
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How Careem went from Pakistan’s ride-hailing leader to stuck on the sidelines After falling from dominance, Careem is experimenting — from corporate rides to price bidding — to...
7 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#18) Recession illusions, China's military buildup, industrial policy and wages, rethinking corporate...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recession illusions, China's military buildup, industrial policy and wages, rethinking corporate tax, tightening export controls, and an interview with Darrell Owens
Noahpinion
People's Park and the Great American Infill After the 1970s, we agreed to all let each other have our space. That's over.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Jessica Livingston
over a year ago
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...
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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...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Managing Up Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the...
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Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making technology products manifestly worse, this transformation was only possible thanks to...
Paul Graham: Essays
Where to See Silicon Valley
over a year ago
Data Boutique
Generic data marketplaces are broken Misaligned interests and lack of value are the cause
a year ago
Steve Blank
National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up This article previously appeared in The National Interest. Last month the U.S. passed the CHIPS and...
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This article previously appeared in The National Interest. Last month the U.S. passed the CHIPS and Science Act, one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for...
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Venezuelan migrants helped build Colombia’s tech scene. Now the country is kicking them out New rules make getting a visa more difficult, even as Colombia struggles to find enough tech...
a year ago
Steve Blank
The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch...
a year ago
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This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II...
Platformer
How BeReal missed its moment To become the next big social app, competitors have to move faster
a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
The internet is broken. Here’s how we fix it. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the...
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In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the Internet — sent the first email. The message was nothing profound; it was a series of random characters that looked more like the utterance of a toddler on a typewriter than a...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Hundred-Year Language
over a year ago
Noahpinion
The Taiwan posts Three classics from the Noahpinion archive
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Paul Graham: Essays
Life is Short
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Is the West falling behind in science? China is now the leader in applied physical sciences. How can the U.S. and its allies catch up?
6 months ago
Noahpinion
Who cares about the Ivy League? (repost) Too much of our education discourse focuses on a handful of tiny elite schools.
a year ago
Platformer
The consumer AI era has begun OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that...
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OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that come with it?
AVC
The Cleanse I’ve never done a cleanse. But many of my friends and family members have done them. There are...
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I’ve never done a cleanse. But many of my friends and family members have done them. There are various flavors of cleanses but the basic idea is you cut back your consumption of food and drink and replace it with mostly liquid nutrition for anywhere from a day to a month. I...
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YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia  The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
4 days ago
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“Meaningful” startups There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry...
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over a year ago
There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry that too many startups are working on…
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Why China still runs on Windows And what it means for Microsoft.
7 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"This business is like bird spotting" One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely...
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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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Founders - Don't just build another job for yourself I was having pre-Christmas lunch with Paul*, one of my best friends from middle school a couple of...
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I was having pre-Christmas lunch with Paul*, one of my best friends from middle school a couple of weeks back. However, as soon as he sat down at our table and I asked him how he was, he surprisingly announced that he would be closing his business at the end of the year. I was...
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Reflections on 2020 I feel kind of conflicted writing this, because 2020 was a horror of a year for most people around...
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I feel kind of conflicted writing this, because 2020 was a horror of a year for most people around the world. Instead, for me, and my family, it was somewhat of a start of new beginnings and some huge wins. I feel that I have finally stepped out of a decade long black tunnel,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Four types of mobile apps If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app...
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over a year ago
If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app has enduring value, it is helpful to…
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#27) Chaos Climbers, gender wars, union wars, social media toxicity, a good spending bill, and urban...
11 months ago
Data Boutique
Tracking Farfetch [Part 2]: Kering's Exit A case study for web data
10 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 While alcohol is becoming less and less nicotine is having a comeback. Even Einstein...
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#1 💡 While alcohol is becoming less and less nicotine is having a comeback. Even Einstein reportedly believed that Nicotine contributed to a calm and objective judgment. But while there are thousands of “premium” options when it comes to consuming alcohol, all Nicotine...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Python Paradox
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Generative AI and intellectual property If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns...
a year ago
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If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns that and who gets paid? This is a completely new problem that we’ve been arguing about for 500 years.
Unpacked
IRS Direct Tax Filing: the end of Intuit's lobbying Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending...
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Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending two decades of Intuit's regulatory capture of the tax software market
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Pakistan’s China-style firewall is rattling its tech industry Internet speeds in the country have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor...
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Internet speeds in the country have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor internet traffic, said service providers.
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When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? As Chinese EV makers close, drivers of “smartphones on wheels” say software updates and maintenance...
4 months ago
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Forget Quibi. Chinese streamers are hooking Americans with werewolf love triangles Billionaire werewolf love triangles, that is.
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Metaverse! Metaverse? Metaverse!! ‘Metaverse’ is the buzzword of the moment, yet it doesn’t really exist as more than a label on a...
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‘Metaverse’ is the buzzword of the moment, yet it doesn’t really exist as more than a label on a whiteboard, and many of the ideas it tries to combine might not happen, or not like that. This might be the new ‘information highway.’ But however it works, some kind of...
Paul Graham: Essays
Billionaires Build
over a year ago
Steve Blank
Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon...
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This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon failing its financial audit again would never have caught my attention. But having been in the middle of this conversation when I served on one of the Defense Department’s advisory...
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Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working Makers say Amazon Karigar has failed to distinguish their crafts from mass-produced items.
2 months ago
Data Boutique
The Impact of ChatGPT on the Web Scraping Industry Access to live web data is just the tip of the iceberg, advanced analytics and enterprise model push...
a year ago
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Access to live web data is just the tip of the iceberg, advanced analytics and enterprise model push web data adoption
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PETA is building robot elephants for Hindu temples For centuries, elephants have been captured to live in temples. Animal rights groups say replacing...
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For centuries, elephants have been captured to live in temples. Animal rights groups say replacing them with robots will minimize animal cruelty and risks to humans.
XO Capital - Field...
493.5% ROI - Exiting Sheet.Best 💡 Side note. To build our community up a bit, we're putting a cohort together to help 5 people buy...
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💡 Side note. To build our community up a bit, we're putting a cohort together to help 5 people buy their first saas company. If this one is successful and we can add some value, we'll do another one! Jump in our discord to stay informed!
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For South Africa’s female ride-hailing drivers, customers are the biggest hazards Desperate to make ends meet, female Uber and Bolt drivers say abuse and attacks are a constant part...
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
From Beatlemania to Taylor-mania How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the...
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How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the first tour ever to gross $1B.
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Chinese internet trolls are adopting American racism to taunt Black users Users are harassing Black creators with profile pictures of white police officers.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Lose Time and Money
over a year ago
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A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria’s first government-backed LLM Awarri has been tapped to help increase the representation of Nigerian languages in AI.
7 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
What I Worked On
over a year ago
Throwable
AI is Coming for Software Engineers (I'm a Software Engineer) There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should...
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There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should worry as much as software engineers.
Noahpinion
The pushback against industrial policy has begun So far, it's a vague broadside instead of a targeted criticism.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten... Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent...
over a year ago
Aaron's Essays
20 Years Later Twenty years later, I can’t remember what I saw and what I think I saw. I remember listening to the...
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Twenty years later, I can’t remember what I saw and what I think I saw. I remember listening to the news with my mom, Judah, and Mimi as the anchors casually mentioned that a small plane seemed to have hit a tower. We were on I-95 - or maybe the Garden State - headed south to...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Put Up Or Shut Up I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance...
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I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their intentions and the power of AI.  I get it. Everybody wants
XO Capital - Field...
2023 In Review 2023 was a tough year. It started out with a bang (high expectations, everything going right) and...
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2023 was a tough year. It started out with a bang (high expectations, everything going right) and ended with a whimper for us. The zero interest rate environment really came down hard on a few products like Cold Email Studio and now that the AI craze is cooling off, we&
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A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars In an earlier blog post, I talked about how sites that generate purchasing intent (mainly “content”...
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In an earlier blog post, I talked about how sites that generate purchasing intent (mainly “content” sites) are being under-allocated…
Steve Blank
How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices Finding a customer for your product in the Department of Defense is hard: Who should you talk to?...
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Finding a customer for your product in the Department of Defense is hard: Who should you talk to? How do you get their attention? How do you know if they have money to spend on your product? It almost always starts with a Program Executive Office. The Department of Defense (DoD)...
AVC
What Will Happen In 2023 I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because...
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I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been...
Noahpinion
Price controls: Too early for a victory lap Narrative-driven triumphalism does not make for sound policy.
a year ago
Varun's Notes
Don't Major in Computer Science Or put less provocatively: college students should probably explore more than they currently do
over a year ago
AVC
NFT Art CDMX We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the...
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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...
Paul Graham: Essays
Putting Ideas into Words
over a year ago
David Perell
I Hate Writing (and So Will You) When I hate writing, it’s because I love it so much. An experienced writer is somebody who knows...
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When I hate writing, it’s because I love it so much. An experienced writer is somebody who knows when the hatred is temporary. The post I Hate Writing (and So Will You) appeared first on David Perell.
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The TikTok ban is bigger than just ByteDance The U.S. clampdown on Chinese-owned companies won't end here.
8 months ago
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China is betting on battery swaps to tackle EV chargers shortage Rarely seen globally, there are already thousands of battery swap stations across China.
9 months ago
Working Theorys
The Prestige-Prosperity Gap We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up...
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We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up proportionately, and vice versa. But the modern world is a lot messier. There can be bizarre mismatches between prestige and prosperity. Some people have social or professional status far...
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Kathmandu is making taxi drivers switch to EVs. Not all drivers can afford one The Xpres-T, made by Indian carmaker Tata, is the only EV approved for use as a taxi in Nepal. It...
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The Xpres-T, made by Indian carmaker Tata, is the only EV approved for use as a taxi in Nepal. It costs $27,000 — several years’ income.
Essays - Benedict...
The FTC versus tech M&A The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and...
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The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC’s attempt to block Meta from buying Within is a test case for all of this. So, how many interesting problems can we count?
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Instrumenting the offline world In the last decade there have been major advances in storing, analyzing, and acting upon extremely...
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In the last decade there have been major advances in storing, analyzing, and acting upon extremely large data sets.  Data sets that were…
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management...
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I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.
Platformer
Why you can't trust Twitter's encrypted DMs A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new...
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft's gaming strategy we are exactly like Polaroid. We are core gaming which isn't growing its TAM (analogous to film...
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we are exactly like Polaroid. We are core gaming which isn't growing its TAM (analogous to film photographers) while mobile gaming MAU is growing WW at a significant rate (like digital photography was growing).
Paul Graham: Essays
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Underhyping your startup I recently tweeted: New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential...
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I recently tweeted: New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors. Chris Sacca agreed: @cdixon…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Why does it matter that Twitter is supplanting RSS? The other day I claimed that Twitter is supplanting RSS, and that long term that’s a bad thing....
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The other day I claimed that Twitter is supplanting RSS, and that long term that’s a bad thing.  Andrew Weissman had a very reasonable…
Paul Graham: Essays
The Word "Hacker"
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
What I've Learned from Users
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
"The Economist" Cover Curse, Explained PLUS: My Dune 2 review, TikTok Ban and Why Jalapeños are Less Spicy.
10 months ago
Working Theorys
What I Talk About When I Talk About Reading Optimize your life for good conversations.
8 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#15) Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous...
a year ago
Blog posts of...
Managing people 🤯 I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps...
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I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right...
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If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right now and describe what we were going to…
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Why Amazon isn’t the Amazon of Latin America The paradox of e-commerce
a year ago
Nothing Human
Against Positive-Sum Thinking why conflict is necessary
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Undergraduation
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The capybara influencer revolt A wildlife influencer’s famous capybara was confiscated by Brazilian authorities. A mass movement...
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of...
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A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of new seed funds caused many big VCs to…
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Rabbit Holed Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her...
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Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her assistance clarifying details related to GAMA and finding company documents related to Rabbit and Cyber Manufacture.    In November 2021, a company called Cyber Manufacture Co raised $6...
Unpacked
Klarna, Buy Now Pay Later & first mover advantage The company got to profitable growth by cementing its first mover advantage and doubling down on...
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The company got to profitable growth by cementing its first mover advantage and doubling down on retailer relationships but faces competition from incumbent giants
Platformer
How Google is making up for lost time The company is finally bringing AI to the places that matter
a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
Bitcoin ETFs will make greater fools of us all. Reuters: US SEC approves bitcoin ETFs in watershed for crypto market WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan...
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a year ago
Reuters: US SEC approves bitcoin ETFs in watershed for crypto market WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday approved the first U.S.-listed exchange traded funds (ETFs) to track bitcoin, its Chair Gary Gensler said, in a...
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The rise of enterprise marketing Building an enterprise software company used to be largely about sales, because enterprise software...
over a year ago
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Building an enterprise software company used to be largely about sales, because enterprise software was sourced and purchased by high-level…
Noahpinion
In which British writers scold America on trade If you don't acknowledge the point of tariffs, how can you hope to criticize them?
7 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🔀 The Law of Line Extension
3 months ago
Blog posts of...
🇪🇺 Dear Europe, please wake up – eu/acc Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe...
8 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🛳️ Cruise hustles
5 months ago
Inverted Passion
Don’t sell your soul to the algorithm The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to...
a year ago
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The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to big tech companies. This is how it works: This loop has two sinister effects: All this to make the richest companies and their shareholders even richer. This is why we must refuse to...
Noahpinion
How do we measure whether China's economy is "ahead" of America's? Comparing economies is an inexact science.
6 days ago
Noahpinion
The Democrats' new sunny vibes Suddenly, the country has an opportunity to leave the madness of the 2010s behind.
5 months ago
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How Tesla’s Mexico plans stalled out When the Monterrey factory finally arrives, will Elon still want it?
6 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff. Trying to solve the issue by thinking...
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#1 💡 Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff. Trying to solve the issue by thinking about it only makes it worse. Don't stop. Trust the process. Eventually the right opportunity will appear right in front of you and the choice will be crystal clear.
Internal Tech Emails
Apple exec on App Store complaints In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to...
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In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to distribute apps on their own, bypassing our store.
David Perell
Learning to Actually Listen I’ve been listening the wrong way my entire life — with just my ears. True listening is a...
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I’ve been listening the wrong way my entire life — with just my ears. True listening is a totalizing, full-body experience. The post Learning to Actually Listen appeared first on David Perell.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Twelve months notice Generally speaking, there are two approaches to relating to other people in the business world. The...
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over a year ago
Generally speaking, there are two approaches to relating to other people in the business world. The first approach is transactional and…
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Global TikTok creators depend on U.S. viewers. A TikTok ban would be devastating Without Americans on the app, advertising dollars are at risk.
a year ago
haseeb qureshi
Launching the Introduction to Cryptocurrency Today I’m launching Introduction to Cryptocurrency, an online course teaching the basics of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I’m launching Introduction to Cryptocurrency, an online course teaching the basics of programming cryptocurrencies. The first two modules are already released, and the remainder of the course will be coming out over the next few months. Introduction to Cryptocurrency is a...
Working Theorys
Product vs. Production | Theory No. 9 HQ Trivia, TikTok Trivia, & the not-so-subtle art of creating compelling live media.
a year ago
Aaron's Essays
Fooled by experts Experts are generally right until they're wrong. Unfortunately, it's very easy to get fooled into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Experts are generally right until they're wrong. Unfortunately, it's very easy to get fooled into thinking that experts are always right. This is because they are...experts. They are authoritative and knowledgeable. This is especially true when it comes to trying new things in...
Tech + Economics +...
What are the conservatives going to do - talk to each other? The fundamental truth at the heart of right-wing communities: the satisfaction derived from...
a year ago
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The fundamental truth at the heart of right-wing communities: the satisfaction derived from sharing their viewpoints and beliefs is intrinsically linked to the presence of a progressive adversary who will respond to them. It's not the platform that matters, nor the freedom...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Andrej Karpathy announced that he’s building an AI + education company.
5 months ago
Working Theorys
The Lost Sense OR: The Marginalization of "Touch" in a Digital World
4 months ago
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At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#14) Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP...
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Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP numbers, phonics, and Russian nationalism
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Clickworkers are turning against each other Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are...
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Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are increasingly wary of newcomers.
Paul Graham: Essays
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
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Two Kinds of Judgement
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David Perell
Why You’re Christian Becoming an educated citizen starts with understanding the lineage of your beliefs. For example,...
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Becoming an educated citizen starts with understanding the lineage of your beliefs. For example, look at this iconic line from one of America’s founding documents: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” The post Why You’re Christian appeared...
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What global investors need to know about funding Pakistani startups Hasib Malik is the co-founder and CEO of Tiger Global-backed financial services startup CreditBook.
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The Trouble with the Segway
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9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding...
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Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding Off-White and leading menswear at Louis Vuitton.
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin...
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'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin 💡Broken Hips This feels like one of these problems that most people have accepted as inevitable but that will be solved soon and we will look back and think how crazy we allowed this...
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Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepoint Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces...
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Steve Ballmer, Larry Ellison and That Sweet Sweet Tech Equity The backstories for how the single biggest shareholders in Microsoft and Oracle built their stakes.
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Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network Is this the Twitter replacement we've been waiting for?
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Notes on 'Founder Mode' Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
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Agency problems “Agency problems” are what economists call situations where a person’s interests diverge from his or...
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over a year ago
“Agency problems” are what economists call situations where a person’s interests diverge from his or her firm’s interests. Large companies…
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#43) Slop wars; Poland and Ukraine; AI bubble; MMT reversal;
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AVC
The Buy And Hold Mindset When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a...
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When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a buy-and-hold mindset when it comes to making new investments. It is hard to know when you’ve reached the bottom and can start buying again, but if you think about a ten or twenty-year hold,...
Noahpinion
Nobody knows how many jobs will "be automated" Whatever that even means.
a year ago
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Shopee, the juggernaut that fended off Amazon Featuring a whirlwind of discounts, the Sea Group-owned app is popular from Indonesia to Taiwan.
a year ago
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Pitch yourself, not your idea There is a widespread myth that the most important part of building a great company is coming up...
over a year ago
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There is a widespread myth that the most important part of building a great company is coming up with a great idea.  This myth is reflected…
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The slow decline of Meta’s Trusted Partner program Who trusts the trusted partners?
a year ago
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What Happened In 2023 I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending...
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a year ago
I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending (What Happened) and one looking forward to the year ahead (What Will Happen). This is the first of these two posts. The second one will run tomorrow. I ended my What Will Happen In...
Noahpinion
Interview: Chris Miller, historian and author of "Chip War" In which I consult an expert on the battle to control the semiconductor industry.
a year ago
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Rwanda’s homegrown EV leader sets its sights on Kenya Ampersand hopes to replicate its small-market success in East Africa’s largest economy.
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Steve Blank
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that...
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a year ago
This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue growth than those that are solely remote. Let the discussion begin. During the...
Noahpinion
Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI Comparative advantage is very subtle, but incredibly powerful.
9 months ago
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AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse BPO workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting them with customers, and scoring...
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Singapore urbanism Thoughts from a visit to the solarpunk city.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
5 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Lots of interesting discussions after Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI. One of the interesting...
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a year ago
#1 💡 Lots of interesting discussions after Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI. One of the interesting themes: What does the guy actually do? Is he actually important for the company? Surely other people, the technicians, are responsible for the breakthroughs, right?
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Technology and job creation In response to my recent post “Making industries ‘garage ready’ for startups“, venture...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In response to my recent post “Making industries ‘garage ready’ for startups“, venture capitalist Jordan Elpern-Waxman made an interesting…
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Eulogy for Brian Eulogy for Brian Howard, Macintosh hero, 1944-2010
a year ago
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How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with...
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Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest soccer leagues in the world.
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Uber drivers are melting amid Nigeria’s historic heat wave and record fuel prices As temperatures soar and fuel prices triple, drivers are having to choose between their health and...
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David Perell
The Paradox of Abundance Information abundance, like all markets of abundance, is bad for the average person but great for a...
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over a year ago
Information abundance, like all markets of abundance, is bad for the average person but great for a small number of people. Abundance is a paradox. Environments of abundance are bad for the median consumer but extremely good for a small number of conscious ones. Average consumers...
Paul Graham: Essays
Persuade xor Discover
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Noahpinion
A three-state solution is the only viable future for Israel and the Palestinians Ethnic cleansing is off the table, and non-contiguous states just don't work.
a year ago
David Perell
The Jerry Seinfeld Guide to Writing Writing and editing should be separate activities.  When I’m in this creation mode, I shoot for a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Writing and editing should be separate activities.  When I’m in this creation mode, I shoot for a flow state. I keep my fingertips on the keyboard and measure progress by how many words I put on the page.  My physical environment helps me be generative too. If I’m sitting down at...
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet...
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over a year ago
One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list ten…
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Starbucks' Digital Dilemna The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of...
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The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of control and hurting the brand's "premium" vibe.
Paul Graham: Essays
Five Questions about Language Design
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Noahpinion
Why targeted tariffs are more effective than broad tariffs Something the Trump administration should probably think about.
a month ago
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Fake news verification tools fail the test during elections in India Rest of World tested 11 leading WhatsApp-based chatbots that promise to help Indian voters identify...
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Rest of World tested 11 leading WhatsApp-based chatbots that promise to help Indian voters identify misinformation. There were long delays and inconsistencies in responses even for content that can easily be identified as AI-generated and fake.
Noahpinion
What drove Asian and Hispanic voters to the right in 2024 A guest post by Dhaaruni Sreenivas.
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First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰 Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I try to give a few mental models and a bit tactical advice.
Noahpinion
The student debt revolt failed, but Millennials will be fine My generation will bear some minor economic scars into our prosperous middle age.
a year ago
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Brazil is the first stop in the Latin American electric motorcycle market Vammo, an electric mobility company for delivery workers, chose to launch in the country because 85%...
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a year ago
Vammo, an electric mobility company for delivery workers, chose to launch in the country because 85% of its electric grid runs on renewable energy.
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft exec on the iPod: "Apple is just so far ahead" I bought the high end creative labs portable player. It was the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra. I have to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I bought the high end creative labs portable player. It was the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra. I have to tell you my experience with our software and this device is really terrible.
Entrepreneur's Edge
Organizational Design: Balancing Technology and Operations Understanding the Three Essential Roles for Scale
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The Life and Death of Plasma By Haseeb Qureshi and Ashwin Ramachandran It was August 2017. The price of Ether was near an all...
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By Haseeb Qureshi and Ashwin Ramachandran It was August 2017. The price of Ether was near an all time high, the Ethereum blockchain was exploding with usage, and the chain was buckling under the ever increasing demand. Researchers and developers were frantically searching for new...
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How to launch a Chinese smartphone in Mexico Antonio Tercero is guiding Infinix’s Mexico expansion, facing off against Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Trolls
over a year ago
Steve Blank
The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Project of One's Own
over a year ago
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Twitter and third-party Twitter developers I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all time high.  Apple, Google, Facebook…
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Chinese streaming platforms and chill? In Southeast Asia, Netflix has competition from Baidu's iQiyi and Tencent's WeTV
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
"I'm on the edge of revolt" I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all...
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a year ago
I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all these years, but I must say I'm on the edge of revolt now that Google's actions are so punitive, not just for Expedia, but also for IAC and all the players that depend upon something...
Unpacked
Epic Games, Google and App Store Monopolies In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by suppressing other app stores and banning alternate payments
Paul Graham: Essays
Be Good
over a year ago
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South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
a year ago
Working Theorys
Agency in the Age of AI | Theory No. 10 In the age of AI, where do I fit in? It’s a conversation permeating dinners, group chats, and honest...
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a year ago
In the age of AI, where do I fit in? It’s a conversation permeating dinners, group chats, and honest online discourse.
Noahpinion
Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people GDP is not a perfect guide to wealth, but it's pretty darn good.
2 weeks ago
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Always have 18 months of cash in the bank I was once told by an experienced entrepreneur (I can’t remember who) to always have at least 18...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was once told by an experienced entrepreneur (I can’t remember who) to always have at least 18 months of cash in the bank. The logic…
David Perell
Imitate, then Innovate Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.  It’s counterintuitive, but the more...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.  It’s counterintuitive, but the more we imitate others, the faster we can discover our unique style. The post Imitate, then Innovate appeared first on David Perell.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Ideal first round funding terms My last 2 posts were about things to avoid, so I thought it might be helpful to follow up with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My last 2 posts were about things to avoid, so I thought it might be helpful to follow up with something more positive.  Having been part of…
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Nine reasons screenshots are awesome By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots...
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over a year ago
By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots back into any app that imports photos…
Nadia Asparouhova
Working notes for Summer of Protocols I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s...
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I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aims to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and their social implications. I plan to focus on protocols as...
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Why African startups must invest in tech policy conversations Oswald Osaretin Guobadia discusses the biggest challenge startups face when dealing with government...
a year ago
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Download this: The world’s favorite apps Test your knowledge of the world’s most popular social media sites, dating apps, gaming platforms,...
4 months ago
Stephen Diehl
The Oncoming Ransomware Storm
over a year ago
Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 3 Books as athleisure, Twitter/X goes Substack, and oh yeah, Apple's Vision Pro
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Secrets of Japanese urbanism (part 2) A review of "Emergent Tokyo", by Jorge Almazan and Studiolab
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Paul Graham: Essays
Great Hackers
over a year ago
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Popular Chinese AI chatbots accused of unwanted sexual advances, misogyny Glow, known for its immersive role-play experience, lacks clear moderation rules.
a year ago
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I’m not eating my own dog food PetMD …or if you prefer, eating my own cooking, or scratching my own itch, or drinking my own...
a year ago
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a year ago
PetMD …or if you prefer, eating my own cooking, or scratching my own itch, or drinking my own champagne. Sure. These are all metaphors for the idea that if you build something, it turns out better if you use it yourself, especially if you want it yourself. However, when I think...
Roberto Vitillo's...
I am writing a book I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you working on a video class?" - I hear you…
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Blumhouse: The Hollywood Horror Hit Machine How Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to fight repetitive errors, omissions and…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
New York City needs a tech startup blog At first it seemed like Silicon Alley Insider would be this, but they seem to have moved away from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At first it seemed like Silicon Alley Insider would be this, but they seem to have moved away from covering NYC startups. The New York Times…
Platformer
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday The high cost of cutting expenses
a year ago
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The Chinese founder who is betting on the Western appetite for short soaps Mega Matrix and FlexTV want to succeed where Quibi has failed by embracing the allure of “so bad...
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Noahpinion
Don’t Rock the Vote Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest...
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Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest post by Wally Nowinski)
Paul Graham: Essays
See Randomness
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Noahpinion
The end of the "vibecession"? Maybe people are being irrationally pessimistic. Or maybe it's just all about real wages.
a year ago
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Jumia Food delivery workers’ final payments are still missing Jumia says it paid its logistics partners. Logistics partners say they paid all the workers. The...
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8 months ago
Jumia says it paid its logistics partners. Logistics partners say they paid all the workers. The workers say they haven’t been paid.
AVC
Fun Friday: Upside Pizza Club This is the second post in a row where I am bringing back an old tradition. This time it is Fun...
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a year ago
This is the second post in a row where I am bringing back an old tradition. This time it is Fun Friday, something I haven’t done in about five years. Like last week, the catalyst is our portfolio company Blackbird Labs, which I posted about a few months ago. Blackbird is a...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Word to the Resourceful
over a year ago
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Some thoughts on SEO “SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“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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Water, not lithium, is the resource Latin America should worry about The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without...
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a year ago
The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without the most important resource of them all.
Unpacked
Reddit's IPO Filing & India's AI Regulation | EP 7 Here are the highlights from the podcast episode. You can find a longer form analysis on both topics...
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10 months ago
Here are the highlights from the podcast episode. You can find a longer form analysis on both topics in the podcast episode - Spotify | Apple Podcasts. The podcast follows the same core principles as the writing (primarily analysis driven with occasional opinions sprinkled in)....
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"There's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product" Steve Jobs in 1995: There's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a...
over a year ago
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The AI project pushing local languages to replace French in Mali’s schools RobotsMali uses ChatGPT, Google Translate, and other AI tools in hopes of helping young students...
10 months ago
Platformer
Apple prepares for a platform shift Will the Reality Pro be the metaverse’s iPhone moment?
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The List of N Things
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Noahpinion
No, NEPA really is a problem for clean energy A guest post by Aidan Mackenzie and Santi Ruiz
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Paul Graham: Essays
Microsoft is Dead
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Donate Unrestricted
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David Perell
What Networks Whisper Every city changes you. San Francisco tells you to be powerful, LA tells you to be famous, Boston...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every city changes you. San Francisco tells you to be powerful, LA tells you to be famous, Boston tells you to be smarter, and New York tells you to be richer.  In the words of Paul Graham, “every city whispers something.” So when you choose to live in a city, you’re also...
Essays - Benedict...
Unbundling AI ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to...
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a year ago
ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to chat bots as a magical general-purpose interface, or do we unbundle them back into single-purpose software?
Stephen Diehl
On Unintentional Scams
over a year ago
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The return of podcasting Kevin Roose recently wrote about the renaissance of podcasting: Sometime around 2009 or 2010, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kevin Roose recently wrote about the renaissance of podcasting: Sometime around 2009 or 2010, the podcast scene seemed to wither. The…
Noahpinion
If Trump loses the election, our nation can finally rest Let's not bring back the wacky 2010s.
2 months ago
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A former fish farmer’s startup is flourishing during a tech downturn Gibran Huzaifah’s eFishery made a case for tech companies solving rural issues.
a year ago
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23 Rest of World stories that defined 2023 This year, Rest of World published around 500 articles from more than 50 countries. Here are our...
a year ago
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Overworked and unable to quit: Delivery drivers in Brazil found something worse than gig work Trapped in a subcontracting nightmare, some delivery drivers are facing grueling hours, low pay, and...
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
11 types of cross-industry innovation PLUS: AI spam, Disney vs. BuzzFeed.
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Working Theorys
Why Are All the Public Intellectuals Men? | Theory No. 18 The most identifiable people in this arena aren’t "traditional" scholars. They’re usually not...
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The most identifiable people in this arena aren’t "traditional" scholars. They’re usually not researchers, scientists, or writers by education or trade. Instead, they seem to have just put themselves forth as vessels — to study the world, share their observations, and sprinkle in...
Steve Blank
The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done This post previously appeared in Defense News  and C4SIR. Despite the clear and present danger of...
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12 months ago
This post previously appeared in Defense News  and C4SIR. Despite the clear and present danger of threats from China and elsewhere, there’s no agreement on what types of adversaries we’ll face; how we’ll fight, organize, and train; and what weapons or systems we’ll need for...
Rest of World -...
The AI job interviewer will see you now AI interview services say they’re eliminating bias — but not everyone agrees.
5 months ago
Steve Blank
Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step  Lǎozi 老子 I just had lunch with Shenwei, one...
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over a year ago
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step  Lǎozi 老子 I just had lunch with Shenwei, one of my ex-students who had just taken a job in a mid-sized consulting firm.  After a bit of catching up I offered he was looking a bit lost. “I just got handed a project to […]
Paul Graham: Essays
Write Simply
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world...
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a year ago
For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.
Noahpinion
Who's "weird"? A campaign insult offers a window into American society in the 2020s.
5 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
AI does not produce reliable information. As Donald Trump's lawyer has fucked around and found out. Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used an artificial...
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a year ago
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used an artificial intelligence program to generate bogus legal citations in his motion for early termination of his supervised release. Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 for...
Noahpinion
7 Reasons Democrats Should Be Optimistic About Their Chances in 2026 and 2028 A guest post by Wally Nowinski.
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Clickwork in Brazil: A mom balancing endless gigs with childcare Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job...
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Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job consisting of hundreds of quick, repetitive tasks.
AVC
The Daily Bolster USV is an investor in Bolster, a marketplace for fractional and full-time executive talent for...
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USV is an investor in Bolster, a marketplace for fractional and full-time executive talent for startups and growth companies. This week Bolster launched a daily short (5min) podcast and email with actionable insights and advice from founders, operators, and investors. It is...
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...
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over a year ago
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...
Rest of World -...
Desperate for dollars, Argentina just gave digital nomads another advantage over locals Foreign bank card holders now get better exchange rates than Argentines.
a year ago
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The most important news from Apple isn’t about AI Reuniting the world’s text messages — one app at a time.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Disconnecting Distraction
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Platformer
Can Snap snap back? At its annual summit, the company gets bullish on AI — but feels haunted by the ghost of its past...
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a year ago
At its annual summit, the company gets bullish on AI — but feels haunted by the ghost of its past ambitions
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A step counter, but for your prayers At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people...
3 months ago
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At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people repeat prayers and holy phrases.
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Convince Investors
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
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Noahpinion
At least five things for your Thanksgiving weekend (#20) The OpenAI coup, "deaths of despair", Japan's stagnation, solar panel waste, and the Inequality Wars
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Barry Diller: Facebook is trying to "steal" Tinder's cofounder Their attempts to hire Sean away from us potentially indicate they believe something like Tinder...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Their attempts to hire Sean away from us potentially indicate they believe something like Tinder could be replicated by them. I’d like to avoid that, though I don’t know that FB itself makes it that much more likely to succeed than anyone else.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Nerdy economics edition (#54) The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity...
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The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity growth; Demand-side inflation; Health care monopsony and innovation
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Indian government gives itself the power to “fact-check” and delete social media posts Journalists, opposition parties, and advocacy groups are worried what this “absolute power” means...
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Delivery riders are fighting each other over bike-shares in Brazil Almost half the riders from Brazil’s largest delivery app now use city bikes to get around.
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Making industries “garage ready” for startups One of the most important events in the history of modern computing was the advent of...
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One of the most important events in the history of modern computing was the advent of “fabless” (“fabrication-less”) semiconductor companies…
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Growth “When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams I was chatting with an...
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“When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams I was chatting with an investor a year or two ago, shortly after our Series A, and the subject of revenue goals came up. At the time, our revenue was pretty low - less than 10% of monthly costs. We estimated...
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Taylor Lorenz on her extremely online history of the internet Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at...
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Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at shielding users from harassment
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AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims Cost-cutting translations are introducing errors and putting refugees at risk.
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Paul Graham: Essays
What You Can't Say
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Essays - Benedict...
Remaking the app store The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it,...
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The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it, and no-one is happy with the result. In the next few years there’ll be a lot of shouting and some giant fines, but in the end, nothing much will change.
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Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity We have public schools for a reason.
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"Smart" kids are always praised for their high potential. They’re deemed inherently capable of so much, largely because of their natural talents. They can do anything they want, if they just try.
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Mike Bird and Noah Smith debate industrial policy In which we hash out at least a few of our differences.
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AI image generators have a moderation problem Tests carried out by Logically confirm these platforms accept 85% of prompts tailored for election...
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COVID was bad for the climate William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled...
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William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled travel plans, cut down overall consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions fell drastically. It’s great for the environment! Let’s keep it up! With apologies to H. L. Mencken, I...
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The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international...
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The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.
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Lithium is only as dirty as we make it We’re building a new supply chain for electric vehicles. Are we building the right one?
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The role of trust in building fintech for Africa Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government...
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Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government regulations and the role of longevity.
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Founder Stories Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch asked me a few months ago if I’d be on a TechCrunch video show where...
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Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch asked me a few months ago if I’d be on a TechCrunch video show where we interviewed startup founders. I love…
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Good and Bad Procrastination
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Shoehorning startups into the VC model Tech startups go in an out of fashion. When they’re in fashion, as they are now, entrepreneurs and...
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Tech startups go in an out of fashion. When they’re in fashion, as they are now, entrepreneurs and VCs get lots of attention. Most of this…
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Software eats software development Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to...
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Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to disrupt the global SMS industry with only a…
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The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard...
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Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard and Movistar, who in turn offer workers their services.
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Originally posted on the YC blog, here: https://blog.ycombinator.com/why-vcs-sometimes-push-companies-to-burn-too-fast/ In Investors and their incentives, I tried to give a broad breakdown of the incentives that drive the major types of startup investors. I want to dig deeper...
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Malaysia’s homegrown car brands bank on cheaper models to compete with Tesla and BYD Proton and Perodua are betting on low prices and an emotional connection with Malaysia’s drivers to...
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After dating app murders spike in Colombia, Match Group offers to help the police Tinder’s parent company attended an unprecedented meeting with the U.S. Embassy and local...
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Tinder’s parent company attended an unprecedented meeting with the U.S. Embassy and local authorities in Colombia to curb attacks against foreigners.
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Return of the Mac
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China's demographics will be fine through mid-century There is no imminent crisis.
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
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The Fall of Stack Overflow, Explained Stack Overflow's decline is partly self-imposed, but also somewhat out if its control.
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To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running our company is a shocking response.
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What's up with those revised job numbers? Government data revisions can be scary, but they actually aren't that hard to understand.
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Full stack startups Many of today's most exciting startups were tried before in a different form. Suppose you develop a...
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Many of today's most exciting startups were tried before in a different form. Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some…
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summary And - specifically for anyone doing "content marketing" to drive sales - like indie consultants, business owners and founders - the riff is a great way to create connections and conversations around your work. In short it's a tasteful and more fun way of doing outreach...
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These women fell in love with an AI-voiced chatbot. Then it died An AI-voiced virtual lover called users every morning. Its shutdown left them heartbroken.
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Five possible reasons China's productivity slowed down A repost, with some updates.
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A vote for Trump is a vote for chaos Let's leave the 2010s in the past where they belong.
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A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of...
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As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...
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Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
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The hidden cost of cyberwarfare Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
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We’re drowning Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a...
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Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, we’re drowning. We slap together rickety rowboats and toss them out on PyPI Ocean and npm...
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Nigeria’s currency devaluation is a disaster for startups “So many businesses will die. It’s not a matter of if but when.”
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The myth of the Eureka moment I’ve been involved in the development of a number startups over the years, including three I...
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I’ve been involved in the development of a number startups over the years, including three I co-founded.   I have also observed the idea…
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Software Has Eaten The Media As I wrote a year ago in The Rot Economy (and as I argued on the first episode of my podcast Better...
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As I wrote a year ago in The Rot Economy (and as I argued on the first episode of my podcast Better Offline), I believe that both public and private markets have become decoupled from the concept of "good business," ruled instead by a hunger for the eternal