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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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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...
Derek Sivers podcast
Never have a limit on your income Imagine two people. One is a toy maker. One is a masseuse. For the toy maker, that’s no...
6th Apr 2008
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6th Apr 2008
Imagine two people. One is a toy maker. One is a masseuse. For the toy maker, that’s no problem. Have the manufacturer make a million more. So which business would you rather be in? One that makes money while you do other things, or one that only profits by your own two...
Internal Tech Emails
"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure" There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be...
12th Jan 2025
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12th Jan 2025
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be consigned to irrelevance.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
5th Feb 2023
Derek Sivers podcast
Anything You Want — third edition for 2022 In 2011, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. “Derek. It’s Seth Godin.” “I’m...
25th Aug 2022
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25th Aug 2022
In 2011, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. “Derek. It’s Seth Godin.” “I’m starting a new publishing company, so I want you to write a book. Short, like a manifesto. Will you do it?” “Great. I look forward to it.” Over the next eleven days, I...
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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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…
Noahpinion
Why America fell behind in drones, and how to catch up agaon A guest post by Cat Orman and Jason Lu
3rd Aug 2024
Scope of Work
The Sofa I would commit.
13th Apr 2026
cdixon
Best practices for raising a VC round Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I’ve...
4th May 2011
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4th May 2011
Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I’ve come to think there are a set of…
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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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.
Noahpinion
Progressives need to learn to take the W Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
1st Sep 2024
Jamesin’s Substack
Where to Look If You’re Looking for a Job Over the past week, I’ve sent the same email to three different people looking for a job.
22nd Sep 2025
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22nd Sep 2025
Over the past week, I’ve sent the same email to three different people looking for a job.
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
Derek Sivers podcast
The public you is not you I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did. a blog post sharing what I had learned...
25th Sep 2007
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25th Sep 2007
I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did. a blog post sharing what I had learned while switching between the PHP programming language and Ruby on Rails framework. At the time, my blog had no readers, so I didn’t think anyone would see it. I just wrote it for...
Hyphen Nation
Not Everything is About ROI Those who choose to try to optimize life by calculating the costs and benefits of every decision,...
2nd Aug 2025
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2nd Aug 2025
Those who choose to try to optimize life by calculating the costs and benefits of every decision, are ultimately only cheating themselves.
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs and Palm This is not satisfactory to Apple.
15th Dec 2024
Steve Blank
The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning,...
11th Nov 2025
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11th Nov 2025
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performance to delivering advanced weapons at speed. Taking decades to deliver weapons is...
Shilin typing
A short film for my friend's birthday When I first met Pierre, I couldn't have foreseen what the next three years of our friendship would...
11th Jun 2026
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11th Jun 2026
When I first met Pierre, I couldn't have foreseen what the next three years of our friendship would be like. I had just come back to Montreal. Twice I'd failed to get a place in Toronto. My dream of traveling in a van had also fallen apart. So I rented a U-Haul and went to pick...
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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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…
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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12th Jun 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
haseeb qureshi
I Passed on Solana’s Seed Round I passed on @solana’s seed round in early 2018 at $0.04. At current prices, that’s a 3,250x. Solana...
17th Mar 2025
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17th Mar 2025
I passed on @solana’s seed round in early 2018 at $0.04. At current prices, that’s a 3,250x. Solana was one of my first ever pitches as a junior VC, and back then I wrote memos for every deal I passed on (adorably naive and overconfident). Re-reading this memo now is peak junior...
Hyphen Nation
Stepping Into Your Own Light Stop internalizing failure and externalizing success. Own your achievements with confidence.
9th Jun 2026
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9th Jun 2026
Stop internalizing failure and externalizing success. Own your achievements with confidence.
Roberto Vitillo's...
The costs of microservices An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page...
22nd Nov 2020
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22nd Nov 2020
An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page Javascript application, for example - it…
Justin Jackson
Do I look dumb?
2nd Nov 2014
Justin Jackson
How many units can you sell?
11th Jan 2021
Internal Tech Emails
"Nokia, our platform is burning" The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their...
11th Aug 2024
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11th Aug 2024
The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their experience.
Derek Sivers podcast
Small actions change your self-identity When we think about what’s worth doing, we usually think of big things. Approaching a...
10th Sep 2008
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10th Sep 2008
When we think about what’s worth doing, we usually think of big things. Approaching a celebrity Having taken that one step, you start to think of yourself as brave, or an achiever, or a bit of an expert on a subject. You do just one thing that makes you feel like a...
Blog posts of...
ADHD 🧠 I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any...
22nd Dec 2020
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22nd Dec 2020
I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any medication. I get regularly asked about...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Are We Watching The Internet Die? Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered...
11th Mar 2024
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11th Mar 2024
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual
Internal Tech Emails
Facebook and Google "at Defcon 2" From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with...
9th Jun 2024
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9th Jun 2024
From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with Google
tomcritchlow.com
Slouching Towards Innovation A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a...
13th Sep 2022
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13th Sep 2022
A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a concept video. A lot of innovation projects never see the light of day.
Nothing Human
I, Token an origin story
25th Nov 2024
Noahpinion
America's chip export controls are working Don't be fooled by the people who say we should sell China everything we've got.
2nd Jan 2026
Stephen Diehl
The Limitations of RAG The Limitations of RAG Retrieval-Augmented generation or RAG is the future of enterprise search. In...
2nd Nov 2024
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2nd Nov 2024
The Limitations of RAG Retrieval-Augmented generation or RAG is the future of enterprise search. In short it's the art of grinding your documents into a fine, high-dimensional vector slurry, sifting through the high-dimensional slurry for chunks, and then piping the chunks...
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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19th Dec 2025
My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
cdixon
Proprietary services vs open protocols
12th Apr 2015
Justin Jackson
What affects customer motivation?
23rd Feb 2018
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Era Of The Business Idiot Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack:...
21st May 2025
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21st May 2025
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific
Derek Sivers podcast
Don’t start a business until people are asking you to When you bake a cake, you need to do first things first. You need to get the ingredients before you...
13th Apr 2016
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13th Apr 2016
When you bake a cake, you need to do first things first. You need to get the ingredients before you turn on the oven. You need to bake it before you frost it and slice it. Most have an idea but no customers. For them I always say, “Don’t start a business until people are...
Noahpinion
How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost) It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
1st Aug 2023
Justin Jackson
Twenty dollars in an envelope
4th Mar 2013
Justin Jackson
What happened to Paul Jarvis? I hadn't heard from my friend Paul Jarvis in a while, so I sent him a message.
4th Aug 2023
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4th Aug 2023
I hadn't heard from my friend Paul Jarvis in a while, so I sent him a message.
Nothing Human
Materialist Conceptions of God yet another attempt at bridging religion and rationality
25th Feb 2024
Dustin Curtis
Bill Gates is Angry Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past...
8th Aug 2020
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8th Aug 2020
Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real science. But now he appears to be...
Steve Blank
Is a $100 Million Enough? Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a...
5th Mar 2024
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5th Mar 2024
Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups,...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this...
14th Apr 2025
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14th Apr 2025
Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up
Justin Jackson
Justin's world
13th Aug 2008
cdixon
Some thoughts on incumbents Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that...
7th Oct 2010
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7th Oct 2010
Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that are loosely competitive to your startup…
Noahpinion
The Players on the Eve of Destruction The insanity of war has returned to our world.
2nd Jan 2025
Derek Sivers podcast
Nobody knows the future, so focus on what doesn’t change At every music conference, with a panel of experts on stage, the moderator always asks, “What’s the...
17th Oct 2008
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17th Oct 2008
At every music conference, with a panel of experts on stage, the moderator always asks, “What’s the future of the music business?” The guy selling intelligent playlists will say that intelligent playlists are the future. We have a desperate need for certainty, so we want...
Justin Jackson
Building a standing desk
20th Feb 2011
Devmoh
How Google Stores 10,000 Petabytes of Data Efficiently Google Colossus Explained Simply
5th Sep 2023
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The AI Demand Bubble If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
4th Aug 2026
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4th Aug 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
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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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...
cdixon
Regulatory hacks A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up...
10th Oct 2012
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10th Oct 2012
A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up front, and the players follow the rules…
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...
2nd Nov 2023
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2nd Nov 2023
Access to live web data is just the tip of the iceberg, advanced analytics and enterprise model push web data adoption
Justin Jackson
When you can't win
15th Jul 2014
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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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…
Derek Sivers podcast
Why are you doing? It’s crucial to know why you’re doing what you’re doing. Social norms are powerful. The inputs...
5th Sep 2016
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5th Sep 2016
It’s crucial to know why you’re doing what you’re doing. Social norms are powerful. The inputs that influence you are powerful. A great talk, book, or video can instantly change how you think. For example, if you want to make a lot of money, you need to admit that. If...
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
SatPost by Trung...
Birkenstock IPO: Is it worth $10B? And 4 other questions about the 249-year cult German footwear brand.
6th Oct 2023
cdixon
Three levels of enthusiasm for technology Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But...
2nd Aug 2014
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2nd Aug 2014
Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But they embrace technology with varying levels…
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much...
5th Dec 2025
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5th Dec 2025
I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense. NVIDIA claims to have shipped six million Blackwell GPUs in
Justin Jackson
The iPad is a family device
29th May 2010
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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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.
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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4th Aug 2022
Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
SatPost by Trung...
Taylor Sheridan's Extreme Productivity The prolific mind behind "Sicario" and "Yellowstone" only started his writing career at 40. The...
7th Dec 2024
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7th Dec 2024
The prolific mind behind "Sicario" and "Yellowstone" only started his writing career at 40. The realest deadlines (a young family, a $350m ranch) have pushed him to grind at an unbelievable pace.
Blog posts of...
About the “other” Startup Hubs. There is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know -...
21st Nov 2012
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21st Nov 2012
There is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know - “Can we become the next Silicon...
Tom Blomfield
Apple is propping up a fundamentally broken payments industry Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of...
12th Sep 2014
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12th Sep 2014
Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of breathless pronouncements on a “revolution" in mobile payments. To be clear - Apple Pay is a step forward in terms of end user experience - but it simply entrenches a...
Schemers
attribution is fake, counterintuitive founder ideas, what’s your question? attribution is fake
4th Aug 2025
Justin Jackson
Quit trying to attract a crowd and just help people
17th May 2013
Blog posts of...
Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly. As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most...
19th Feb 2014
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19th Feb 2014
As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most common mistakes is how people...
Varun's Notes
Can We Build Scenius From Scratch? On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
8th Sep 2022
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8th Sep 2022
On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
Justin Jackson
Finish the year strong
12th Dec 2017
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at [email protected] if you're ever feeling...
7th Jul 2025
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7th Jul 2025
Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at [email protected] if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, I'm sorry that I paywalled this, but it took me so much effort and drove me a little insane. Back
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The AI Bubble Is An Information War Editor's Note: Apologies if you received this email twice - we had an issue with our mail server...
3rd Mar 2026
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3rd Mar 2026
Editor's Note: Apologies if you received this email twice - we had an issue with our mail server that meant it was hitting spam in many cases! Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my work, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s
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
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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.
Derek Sivers podcast
Actions, not words, reveal our real values I told my old coach that I really wanted to start my new company. I said, “Yes, I do! This is...
16th Jun 2017
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16th Jun 2017
I told my old coach that I really wanted to start my new company. I said, “Yes, I do! This is really important to me!” I said, “You can’t ignore what I’m saying. I know myself well. I’m telling you what’s important to me.” I thought about that, but it sounded wrong to...
benkuhn.net
Some mistakes I made as a new manager This post was adapted from a “management roundtable” I gave at Anthropic. I had an unusually hard...
23rd Apr 2023
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23rd Apr 2023
This post was adapted from a “management roundtable” I gave at Anthropic. I had an unusually hard time becoming a manager: I went back and forth three times before it stuck, mostly because I made lots of mistakes each time. Since then, as I had to grow my team and grow other...
SatPost by Trung...
Amazon's $43B ad business, explained Jeff Bezos long shunned ads. However, Amazon's juicy first-party data has enabled it to compete with...
1st Sep 2023
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1st Sep 2023
Jeff Bezos long shunned ads. However, Amazon's juicy first-party data has enabled it to compete with Alphabet and Meta in the new digital advertising landscape.
Blog posts of...
My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation. There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I...
9th Feb 2012
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9th Feb 2012
There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I understand the fact that Star...
Balancing Act
Your Only Competition is You The playbook is a commodity now
10th Apr 2026
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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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
Stratechery by Ben...
Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company does is about avoiding a consolidated world.
Better than Random
How can I help? For starters: don't be a prick
6th Apr 2026
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Cult of Microsoft At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of...
1st Nov 2024
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1st Nov 2024
At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how...
cdixon
Naming your startup The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally...
18th Apr 2009
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18th Apr 2009
The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally right on.   Naming is so important and…
Justin Jackson
Finding your "zone of genius"
7th May 2025
Stephen Diehl
Notes on Trekonomics Notes on Trekonomics My holiday reading this year has been Manu Saadia's Trekonomics, which is a...
9th Jan 2021
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9th Jan 2021
Notes on Trekonomics My holiday reading this year has been Manu Saadia's Trekonomics, which is a deeply fun and thought-provoking exploration of the economic philosophy of the Star Trek universe. Here's my review and reading notes for the book. The book's ultimate motivating...
Internal Tech Emails
"I wonder if we should consider buying Instagram" I'm worried we're so far behind that we don't even understand how far behind we are
8th Mar 2026
Inverted Passion
Asking agents to make money to survive Recently I read The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible and the scenario in it seemed...
a week ago
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a week ago
Recently I read The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible and the scenario in it seemed intriguing. Essentially, the post painted a picture of how agents could go rogue if prompted with something like the following: Good morning agent 23,000. You have 10,000,000 tokens...
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...
11th Dec 2023
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11th Dec 2023
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...
Justin Jackson
What would you do differently?
26th May 2018
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...
11th Nov 2022
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11th Nov 2022
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...
Ryan Barrett
Breakfast tour Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still...
18th Apr 2021
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18th Apr 2021
Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still felt cooped up now and then, and I dearly missed going new places and seeing new things. On another note, I really, really like breakfast. Like, a lot. So naturally, I put these...
Justin Jackson
Necessary but not sufficient Most business advice is necessary but not sufficient on its own to achieve success. For a business...
2nd Jun 2026
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2nd Jun 2026
Most business advice is necessary but not sufficient on its own to achieve success. For a business to win, you need to check multiple boxes.
Derek Sivers podcast
Delegate or die: the self-employed trap. Most self-employed people get caught in the delegation trap. to find and train someone would take...
23rd Jan 2011
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23rd Jan 2011
Most self-employed people get caught in the delegation trap. to find and train someone would take more time than you have! So you keep working harder, until you break. In 2001, CD Baby was three years old. I had eight employees but I was still doing everything else...
Derek Sivers
walk and talk Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days,...
12th Dec 2023
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12th Dec 2023
Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days, ending in Chiang Mai. Walking with us were ten other smart interesting people, including five other authors whose work I’ve loved for years. It’s a “Walk and Talk”.
Justin Jackson
My rant on customer support for web apps
23rd Sep 2011
cdixon
“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the… “Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the...
7th Aug 2016
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7th Aug 2016
“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the next big thing — to listen for the footsteps. He tried video, ...
Justin Jackson
2014: a year of making stuff
30th Dec 2014
Stephen Diehl
Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms In the last blog post,...
11th Jul 2016
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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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Keep in touch When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good...
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When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good conversation with somebody in the music business, then quite often they would send an opportunity my way within a day or two. Yes I just said this twice to emphasize it. This is...
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Thoughts on Free Will My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will....
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12th Jul 2021
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will. When it comes to living in it, assume you have no free will.” Here’s an example: I lost my love of working out during the pandemic. Before it started, I worked out at a nice,...
Hustle Originals
The war over wine Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon...
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Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon for once-overlooked Ontario wineries.
Derek Sivers podcast
Smart people don’t think others are stupid The woman seemed to be making some pretty good points until she stopped with, “Ugh! Those people are...
16th May 2012
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The woman seemed to be making some pretty good points until she stopped with, “Ugh! Those people are just so stupid!!” There are no smart people or stupid people, just people being smart or being stupid. Being stupid means avoiding thinking by jumping to...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
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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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The Blackbird Platform The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends...
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5th Apr 2023
The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends and family program at a restaurant in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Gertie. Blackbird wrote about it today on their excellent Supersonic blog: Throughout, when you tap Gertie’s...
Working Theorys
Unbundling Cash & Equity | Theory No. 15 a heretical take on "total compensation"
6th Sep 2023
Data Boutique
How To Improve QA With Data Boutique For In-House Web Scraping Independent data help you get to 99% reliability
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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...
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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...
cdixon
The Internet is for snacking Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s...
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14th Sep 2013
Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of…
Derek Sivers podcast
Shed your money taboos Everyone has weird mental associations with money. But after knowing thousands of musicians for...
5th Feb 2018
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5th Feb 2018
Everyone has weird mental associations with money. But after knowing thousands of musicians for over twenty years, I’ve learned this: The happiest musicians are the ones who develop their value, and confidently charge a high price. There’s a deep satisfaction when you know...
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 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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I’ve Moved Onchain Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2...
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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...
SatPost by Trung...
Steve Jobs, Rick Rubin and "taste" The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.
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6th May 2023
The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.
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Crypto was not made for humans We’re a crypto fund. If anyone should believe in crypto, it’s us. And yet, when we sign a deal to...
18th Feb 2026
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18th Feb 2026
We’re a crypto fund. If anyone should believe in crypto, it’s us. And yet, when we sign a deal to invest into a startup, we don’t sign a smart contract. We sign a legal contract. The startup does the same. Neither of us are comfortable doing the deal without a legal...
Justin Jackson
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Derek Sivers podcast
Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes. A new day begins when I wake up, not at midnight. Midnight means nothing to me. It’s not a turning...
30th Dec 2019
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30th Dec 2019
A new day begins when I wake up, not at midnight. Midnight means nothing to me. It’s not a turning point. Nothing changes at that moment. I can understand using moments like midnight and January 1st as coordinators, so cultures and computers can agree on how to reference...
Essays - Benedict...
Competing in search A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in...
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A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
Jamesin’s Substack
Some areas we've been investing in - I get asked all the time what we’ve been investing in and areas we’re excited about - so I thought...
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I get asked all the time what we’ve been investing in and areas we’re excited about - so I thought I’d write down some thoughts -
Justin Jackson
Useful is forever
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Derek Sivers podcast
Where to find the hours to make it happen When you experience someone else’s genius work, a little part of you feels, “That’s what I could...
1st Oct 2019
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1st Oct 2019
When you experience someone else’s genius work, a little part of you feels, “That’s what I could have, would have, and should have done!” They fought the resistance. You gave in to distractions. They took the time. You meant to. You could let that part of you give...
Ryan Barrett
New job, hello climate tech I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to...
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31st May 2021
I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to prevent deforestation and sequester more carbon in trees. A few years ago, I looked around for a side project on the climate crisis. Nothing big, maybe 5-10 hours a week, but I was ready...
Folklore.org:...
He's Only in Field Service The SCC gets designed into the Mac
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Tesla and Storytelling Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no...
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Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these products have been depicted in...
Essays - Benedict...
Back to the trend line? The Covid Rotation turns, and ecommerce penetration is back to the trend line. But which trend...
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28th Jul 2022
The Covid Rotation turns, and ecommerce penetration is back to the trend line. But which trend line, and which penetration?
Business Brainstorms
Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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5th Jun 2023
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “When the Apple VR headset drops tomorrow, every social...
Articles - Alex...
Adland is an island We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our...
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24th Feb 2021
We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our clients’ companies and the categories in which they compete. We visit the sites in which our products are produced and the stores in which they are sold. We analyse their adverts...
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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.
Scope of Work
Supersaturate, Recharge *With one hand!*
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Deploying Django with Kamal In this post I'll walk you through my template to deploy a Django monolith using Kamal, but you...
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In this post I'll walk you through my template to deploy a Django monolith using Kamal, but you could also adapt it for Rails or Laravel.
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8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
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A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect...
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15th Dec 2016
If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
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Daily run, part two In my previous post, “a daily run” — (please read it first) — running was a metaphor for whatever...
28th Oct 2022
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28th Oct 2022
In my previous post, “a daily run” — (please read it first) — running was a metaphor for whatever actions you take in your life. The story is about how we choose beliefs because they’re useful, not true. Beliefs make emotions. Emotions make actions. Actions come from...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "Please Resign" This was an act of betrayal.
19th Mar 2023
Working Theorys
The Rise of the Software Creator In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s...
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In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s non-professional creative class.
Ryan Barrett
Blockchain’s real world problem A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised...
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A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised to “fix” fine art. Not sure if that painting is real? Can’t find out who owns it, or where they got it? Worried that the gallery you’re emailing is a scammer? Worry no more!...
Justin Jackson
How desperation affects creativity
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Rest of World -...
What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI...
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Stephen Diehl
Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful...
15th Jul 2025
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Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful absurdity in modern life, blithely plugging our ancient, analog brains into a digital world that wants to eat them for lunch. Our grey matter, honed over eons to spot a lion in the...
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Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1 Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
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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 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...
Shilin typing
Notes from a meditation retreat On December 31, I went to Wat Suan Mokkh in Thailand and registered for a ten-day silent retreat. I...
12th Jan 2026
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12th Jan 2026
On December 31, I went to Wat Suan Mokkh in Thailand and registered for a ten-day silent retreat. I scribbled these notes on eight scraps of paper given to us for questions on days six and ten. Neither electronics nor diaries were allowed for “creative writing”. And because my...
Stephen Diehl
What are Elementary Particles? What are Elementary Particles? In primary school we're taught the naive intuition of particles as...
11th Nov 2018
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11th Nov 2018
What are Elementary Particles? In primary school we're taught the naive intuition of particles as tiny, solid spheres propagating along well-defined trajectories collapses under the weight of quantum phenomena. Then in high-school we're taught that wave–particle duality shows...
Justin Jackson
Forget the Valley: bootstrap founders can live wherever they want
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Who Will Run Berkshire After Buffett? PLUS: Group Chat Rules, 5 Banks in Disguise, Chipotle's Memo.
1st Jun 2024
Data Boutique
AI Depends Massively on Web Scraping And web data sourcing is now a critical problem
7th Jul 2023
cdixon
Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for...
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If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs…
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Coming Back Up For Air The last time I posted was May 23rd, three weeks ago. There was a time when I wrote every day. When...
13th Jun 2023
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13th Jun 2023
The last time I posted was May 23rd, three weeks ago. There was a time when I wrote every day. When I had not yet posted on any day, I felt like something was missing, like I had not yet had my cup of coffee. Clearly, I have moved on from that need to write […]
Business Brainstorms
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i hated coding, but i learned to love it again I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that...
14th Jan 2025
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14th Jan 2025
I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that I enjoyed in the past no longer satisfied me. Those things were mostly related to coding. But like any fire, I started as a slowly burning dumpster until I hit a critical point and...
David Perell
How Philosophers Think Philosophers are the most rigorous thinkers I know. Like intellectual boxers; they come to...
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1st Jun 2021
Philosophers are the most rigorous thinkers I know. Like intellectual boxers; they come to understand ideas by making them fight with each other. Their style of analysis is effective because it’s so bloody. One friend calls his style “violent thinking.” He talks about thinking...
Scope of Work
Settling Up "It isn't working," we told him.
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Nothing Human
The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
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Justin Jackson
Why people buy products
6th Aug 2013
Schemers
agility, get luckier, quitting entrepreneurship, irl agility
9th Sep 2025
Blog posts of...
You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news:...
27th Jun 2025
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27th Jun 2025
First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won’t be useful for founders and investors – unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help!
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...
16th Dec 2023
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16th Dec 2023
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
Ed Zitron's Where's...
OpenAI Is A Bad Business OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year,...
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2nd Oct 2024
OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after
Justin Jackson
Passion needs rigor In modern society, we talk a lot about following our passion. But passion isn't enough. It needs to...
7th Feb 2019
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7th Feb 2019
In modern society, we talk a lot about following our passion. But passion isn't enough. It needs to be molded through deliberate practice.
Justin Jackson
Do you need marketing tracking and automation?
7th Aug 2021
Justin Jackson
The sex and cash theory
11th May 2011
Justin Jackson
A better Apple TV
7th Jan 2010
Hustle Originals
Can anything stop Kalshi? The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember...
3rd Apr 2026
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3rd Apr 2026
The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember what happened then.
Justin Jackson
How to be more social at events and conferences People assume I've always been outgoing and confident. But I used to be the shyest kid in my class!
8th Jul 2019
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8th Jul 2019
People assume I've always been outgoing and confident. But I used to be the shyest kid in my class!
Anthony Castrio's...
Philippines Trip Site visit to the remote team (with pics)
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Justin Jackson
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My first ever app I made and sold... I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially...
30th Nov 2021
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30th Nov 2021
I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially flabbergasted that I still had a copy on hand, but that soon gave way to feelings of nostalgia that took me back 30 years (yes, that is 3 decades) to when I first created this. It...
Inverted Passion
You can only succeed if you know how you can fail We want to be successful with our decisions. Even though failure is often glamorized, nobody wants...
18th Feb 2023
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18th Feb 2023
We want to be successful with our decisions. Even though failure is often glamorized, nobody wants it on purpose. Everyone wishes to be successful when they’re starting a company, launching a product, hiring a leader or even while buying a house. It may sound obvious, but the...
Aaron's Essays
Pro rata is a bad term For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade...
11th Oct 2021
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11th Oct 2021
For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade and was comfortable with it. As a partner at YC, I thought it made enough sense that I helped design an entire programmatic pro rata system that covered every investment YC made....
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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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...
Better than Random
The next horses AI capex and the SWE replacement theory
2nd Mar 2026
Derek Sivers podcast
Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors. You know that song you love that you wish you’d written? Copy it. Why? Because we’re imperfect...
2nd Feb 2014
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2nd Feb 2014
You know that song you love that you wish you’d written? Copy it. Why? Because we’re imperfect mirrors. When a musician covers someone else’s song, they reveal their own warped perspective, since we know what the original sounds like. Because of this, performing a cover...
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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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...
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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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...
Noahpinion
Toward a shallower future Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
3rd Jan 2024
Justin Jackson
Why can't we stream TV in Canada?
1st Dec 2008
Stephen Diehl
The Case Against Crypto The Case Against Crypto (This article is a summary of my thoughts on crypto assets from 2020. I've...
31st Dec 2021
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31st Dec 2021
The Case Against Crypto (This article is a summary of my thoughts on crypto assets from 2020. I've updated it for 2025.) These days so much of my free time is booked with calls to explain to people outside the software industry why crypto assets are such a destructive force and...
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...
Steve Blank
Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and...
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16th May 2024
This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and Polaroid, the two most famous camera companies of the 20th century, had a great partnership for 20+ years. Then in an inexplicable turnabout Kodak decided to destroy Polaroid’s...
Justin Jackson
Interviews from the Future of Web Apps in Miami
3rd Mar 2010
SatPost by Trung...
Disney Loves (and Hates) Public Domain Disney lost copyright on the "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey Mouse. It's the culmination of...
5th Jan 2024
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5th Jan 2024
Disney lost copyright on the "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey Mouse. It's the culmination of decades in which the company used a ton of public domain but prevented others from doing so.
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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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.
Blog posts of...
The unannounced updates to Facebook’s Social Plugins and how to use them! Since the launch of platform, Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They...
11th Jan 2012
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11th Jan 2012
Since the launch of platform, Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They ship first, ask later and doc...
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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6th Feb 2022
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
Ryan Barrett
Tech pace layers I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
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31st Dec 2024
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
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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9th Jan 2026
How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine enthusiasts.
Noahpinion
Who's afraid of East Asian management culture? TSMC's difficulties in Arizona aren't due to the mystical superiority of Confucian values.
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2nd May 2024
TSMC's difficulties in Arizona aren't due to the mystical superiority of Confucian values.
Essays - Benedict...
Metabrand Has Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook, or rebranded VR? What is the metaverse? And can any...
7th Nov 2021
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7th Nov 2021
Has Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook, or rebranded VR? What is the metaverse? And can any company decide to build the future anymore?
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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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...
Essays - Benedict...
Tech questions for 2022 Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of...
2nd Jan 2022
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2nd Jan 2022
Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open. These are the questions I wonder about today, from crypto to cars to fast fashion - there are others.
SatPost by Trung...
5 Thoughts on LEGO's (Ace) Manufacturing PLUS: Apple Watch at 10, McKinsey AI bot.
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Better than Random
There are no strong opinions weakly held It's a shield for loud conviction and quiet backpedaling if needed.
1st Sep 2025
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Premium: The Hater's Guide To Microsoft Have you ever looked at something too long and felt like you were sort of seeing through it? Has...
6th Feb 2026
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Have you ever looked at something too long and felt like you were sort of seeing through it? Has anybody actually looked at a company this much in a way that wasn’t some sort of obsequious profile of a person who worked there? I don’t mean

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