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David Perell
Saving the Liberal Arts We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting...
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We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting education into two halves — Professional and Civilized — is the only way to think about education clearly. We then outline the evolution of the Liberal Arts, from the ancients to...
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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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...
Noahpinion
Americans are still not worried enough about the risk of world war In which I try to be Gandalf instead of Cassandra.
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
What is this thing? Guess Temu’s weirdest gadgets Chinese e-commerce site Temu uses its most bizarre products in online ads. Rest of World tested them...
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Chinese e-commerce site Temu uses its most bizarre products in online ads. Rest of World tested them so you don’t have to.
Platformer
New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter Jira went down, Slack's gone, and site performance is degraded. What's next?
a year ago
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Amazon and Walmart didn’t defeat India’s mom-and-pop stores. But rapid delivery might Services like Blinkit and Zepto are estimated to put more than 25% of India’s neighborhood kirana...
a month ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Other Road Ahead
over a year ago
AVC
The New York Tech Sector The New York Times had a piece yesterday suggesting that tech will no longer be a growth engine for...
a year ago
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The New York Times had a piece yesterday suggesting that tech will no longer be a growth engine for NYC and the surrounding metro area as it has been for the last twenty years. I am not going to link to the piece because it is behind a paywall but if you want to read […]
Articles - Alex...
The Millennial myth It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the...
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It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the shortcomings of the Millennial generation. It seems we are obsessed with the concept of demographic cohorts. Or, to put it more specifically, we are obsessed with the idea that...
Stephen Diehl
Functional Programming, Abstraction, and Names
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Interview: Dan Wang, China specialist We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and...
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We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and lots more.
SatPost by Trung...
The LEGO Star Wars Inception LEGO and Star Wars created a $1B+ a year toy monster by combining two iconic brands that appeal to...
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LEGO and Star Wars created a $1B+ a year toy monster by combining two iconic brands that appeal to both children and adults.
Platformer
Winners and losers in the race to add AI ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining...
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ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining advantage — or just line OpenAI's pockets?
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The entrepreneur trying to make thrifting truly eco-friendly with AI Nofal Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Swag Kicks, one of Pakistan’s largest online thrift...
7 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The List of N Things
over a year ago
AVC
Noya Six months ago, I wrote about Direct Air Carbon Capture and ended with this: I remember hearing that...
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Six months ago, I wrote about Direct Air Carbon Capture and ended with this: I remember hearing that “we’ve spent hundreds of years taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into our atmosphere and we are going to spend hundreds of years taking carbon out of the atmosphere...
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
Noahpinion
How Latin America started to beat inequality It can be done.
8 months ago
Stephen Diehl
Bitcoin: The Postmodern Ponzi
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Traditional sellers in Vietnam still aren’t sold on e-commerce As online shopping booms, local merchants are struggling to adapt, despite government help.
2 months ago
AVC
Yubikey Authenticator I got a new Pixel 7 last week and have started the tedious process of moving over to a new phone....
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I got a new Pixel 7 last week and have started the tedious process of moving over to a new phone. One of the more painful chores in moving from one phone to another is moving the Google Authenticator app and all of the two factor codes to the new phone. My partner Nick told […]
Paul Graham: Essays
What I've Learned from Hacker News
over a year ago
Data Boutique
Web Data in Emergency Situations: The MatchesFashion case More case studies for web data
10 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The product lens There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the...
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There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the discussions use words like “valuations…
Paul Graham: Essays
The Founder Visa
over a year ago
Platformer
How Google's Bard AI could shake up search Dependence on search traffic has already kickstarted a race to the bottom for publishers. Will...
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Dependence on search traffic has already kickstarted a race to the bottom for publishers. Will Google's new AI tools accelerate it?
Rest of World -...
Instagram account hacked? “Ethical hackers” will get it back Meta’s account recovery process is so complicated that people are paying experts to do it for them.
a year ago
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ShopeeFood underestimates delivery distances. Gig workers in Vietnam are paying the price Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in...
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Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in most cases, the distance was estimated lower than Google Maps’ estimate.
Data Boutique
AI Depends Massively on Web Scraping And web data sourcing is now a critical problem
a year ago
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It’s not (just) Ticketmaster’s fault A Mexican superstar’s concert tour proves no ticketing company’s tech is a match for fans and fraud.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Why Americans fear the AI future Five decades of rising inequality and slow growth have made us a less optimistic country.
a year ago
Noahpinion
You're not going to like what comes after Pax Americana Welcome to the jungle.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Information is the (other) currency of venture capital Many seasoned entrepreneurs have had the following experience.  A VC eagerly wants to meet with you....
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Many seasoned entrepreneurs have had the following experience.  A VC eagerly wants to meet with you.  You have what seems like a very good…
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Why China still runs on Windows And what it means for Microsoft.
7 months ago
Rest of World -...
The truth behind VinFast’s stunning stock market debut Beware of EV companies bearing SPACs.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Heresy
over a year ago
Throwable
How Twitter Survives (Or Doesn't) Meta's approach, Twitter's moat and a few different future scenarios
a year ago
Tom Blomfield
Startup Series Part 2: Attracting great engineers This is the second in a series of articles on the operational side of running startup - once you’ve...
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over a year ago
This is the second in a series of articles on the operational side of running startup - once you’ve found product-market fit and raised VC cash, how do you go about building a business? The first post in this series, on the hiring process, assumes you have a sufficient number of...
Roberto Vitillo's...
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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If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Thales the Milesian Like a lot of things we think are obvious today, financial options were first invented by a...
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Like a lot of things we think are obvious today, financial options were first invented by a philosopher: There is the anecdote of Thales the…
Noahpinion
America's semiconductor policy is missing a key piece A guest post by Steven Glinert.
8 months ago
Stephen Diehl
Ice-Nine for Markets
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are...
a year ago
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Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are organizing to demand better.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Google’s social strategy It is widely believed that Facebook presents a significant competitive threat to Google. Google...
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It is widely believed that Facebook presents a significant competitive threat to Google. Google itself seems to believe this – Larry Page…
Data Boutique
How To Improve QA With Data Boutique For In-House Web Scraping Independent data help you get to 99% reliability
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
The VR winter continues Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices...
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Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices aren’t good enough or cheap enough and the user base is flat. But no matter how good the devices get, how many people will care?
Internal Tech Emails
Inside Google's negotiations with Apple I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
a year ago
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When Nigeria banned Twitter, Koo had a golden opportunity, and squandered it Even the government officials who championed the Twitter competitor have stopped using it.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
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...
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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…
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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.
7 months ago
Folklore.org:...
The Father Of The Macintosh Who is the father of the Macintosh?
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
The Philosophical Argument Against Crypto
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#28) Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why...
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Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why philosophers read the classics
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Can someone please make an iPhone-theft thriller already? Forget the Apple store heist in Seattle; South Asia has a pretty riveting script on cross-border...
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Forget the Apple store heist in Seattle; South Asia has a pretty riveting script on cross-border smartphone theft waiting to be written.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
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...
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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…
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#23) SF's Market Street debacle, the debate over real wages, why U.S. growth has gotten smoother, TikTok...
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SF's Market Street debacle, the debate over real wages, why U.S. growth has gotten smoother, TikTok as a propaganda engine, and California homelessness
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
The Top Idea in Your Mind
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Different types of risk The idea that founders take on “risk” is a misleading generalization. It is far more informative to...
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The idea that founders take on “risk” is a misleading generalization. It is far more informative to separate the specific types of risks…
Noahpinion
Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway? Six theories.
7 months ago
Working Theorys
The Taste Discount Everything is easier when tastes align.
8 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Anatomy of a bad search result In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using...
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In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using Google.  I thought it might be interesting…
Tech + Economics +...
The elegance of endurance: what centuries-old enterprises can teach modern culture. For 879 years, the oldest Sake brewery in Japan has thrived and survived through massive social,...
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For 879 years, the oldest Sake brewery in Japan has thrived and survived through massive social, technological and economic change. Most recently it has weathered the threat of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, with its products remaining...
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Shein and MercadoLibre are fighting over vendors in Brazil’s largest garment market After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses,...
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After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses, e-commerce platforms began pulling out all the stops to lure vendors.
Tech + Economics +...
The everything app has to work for everyone. Building an "Everything" app — encompassing payments, commerce, messaging, etc — hinges critically...
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Building an "Everything" app — encompassing payments, commerce, messaging, etc — hinges critically on universal appeal and acceptance. The concept is predicated on inclusivity, which means the app must cater to a diverse user base with varying beliefs, backgrounds, and...
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The viral AI portrait app sweeping across China Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that...
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Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that many say are shockingly accurate.
Noahpinion
Macroeconomics: The predator of foolish regimes One thing no ruler can control.
3 weeks ago
Noahpinion
Why targeted tariffs are more effective than broad tariffs Something the Trump administration should probably think about.
a month ago
David Perell
Annual Review 2020 Writing this Annual Review, I realize that I’m incredibly fortunate.  While some people spent the...
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Writing this Annual Review, I realize that I’m incredibly fortunate.  While some people spent the quarantine alone, I moved into my childhood home and spent five months with family. While America saw the worst unemployment spike in recent history, my business grew because the...
Noahpinion
A DemTech Economic Agenda: Ten Steps Towards Collective Resilience A guest post by by Liza Tobin, Warren Wilson, Brady Helwig, and Connor Martin of the Special...
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A guest post by by Liza Tobin, Warren Wilson, Brady Helwig, and Connor Martin of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)
Noahpinion
Stop saying "there is no decoupling". There is! Decoupling will take time, and it won't look like the Iron Curtain, but it's happening.
a year ago
Noahpinion
The Roaring 20s are back on track A healthy economy, strong productivity growth, and a continuing tech boom.
a year ago
Platformer
The Biden administration turns its attention toward AI The Commerce Department asks for public comment. Here are three problems it should consider
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The segmentation of the venture industry Ford Motors dominated the auto market in the early 20th century with a single car model, the Model...
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Ford Motors dominated the auto market in the early 20th century with a single car model, the Model T.  At the time, customers were seeking…
Noahpinion
The best-case scenario for Trump's second term An optimistic Thanksgiving post.
a month ago
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Japan’s news app unicorn was ready to take on the US market. Where did it go wrong? Former SmartNews employees point to failed product launches and far-right obsession of former CEO.
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Expectations Versus Reality A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short...
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A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple question: "...how can someone actually make something useful out of
Steve Blank
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1 Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a...
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Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to...
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ElevenLabs’ first Indian partnership banks on AI voice clones to make audio stories faster and... Pocket FM creators can convert scripts to audio in English and German with one click. The company...
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Pocket FM creators can convert scripts to audio in English and German with one click. The company plans to add more languages as it expands across Europe and Latin America this year.
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Lessons from the PC video game industry The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and...
over a year ago
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The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and media products depends on complicated…
Platformer
Why Substack is at a crossroads Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Between failure and Facebook Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The...
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Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The programmer had just graduated from college and…
Unpacked
Data Scraping in the Spotlight: Are Language Models Overstepping by Training on Everyone's Content? As I wrapped up the research for this piece and was about to start writing, OpenAI had a perfect...
a year ago
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As I wrapped up the research for this piece and was about to start writing, OpenAI had a perfect announcement to go with it - they are temporarily disabling the “Browse with Bing" feature on ChatGPT. If you haven’t used it before, this is a feature available to paying Plus users....
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As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally… As Edwin Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his polarized headlight system was fatally...
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Write Usefully
over a year ago
Data Boutique
Web Data Is A Commodity And Needs A Marketplace To Grow The Advantages Of Central Markets
a year ago
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Mexico’s women gig workers are making a dangerous job safer Women delivery workers are pushing for protection from gender-based violence, creating safe meeting...
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Women delivery workers are pushing for protection from gender-based violence, creating safe meeting spots and WhatsApp support groups, and fighting for legal protections.
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Graphs It has become customary to use “graph” to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks...
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It has become customary to use “graph” to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. (Computer scientists…
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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
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...
a year ago
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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...
Working Theorys
The 20/20 Workweek | Theory No. 26 The 40-hour, 80-hour, and 4-hour workweek are out. What comes next?
12 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
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The politics of Africa’s TikTok bans TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in...
a year ago
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TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in Kenya, Uganda, and Egypt.
Aaron's Essays
VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've...
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I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
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Why are Apple and Tesla losing ground in China? The Chinese market isn’t quite as untapped as U.S. companies thought.
10 months ago
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Finding and fixing slow queries Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash I love dashboards, and I run several on my system to...
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over a year ago
Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash I love dashboards, and I run several on my system to monitor my HR startup in real time. I love collecting data points around subscriptions, user activity, and most importantly, server uptime and performance. Especially now that we are...
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Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an...
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls…
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Shutting down I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down...
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I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down while they still had cash in the bank…
Articles - Alex...
The digital dark side The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously...
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The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously swayed by advertising alone. The internet would enable them to research products. Social media would allow them to share their experiences. And ecommence would provide the power...
Paul Graham: Essays
Are Software Patents Evil?
over a year ago
Blog posts of...
Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down. What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And...
over a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
Samsung Galaxy S24 Unpacked Event Set for Jan. 17 PCMag.com: The company says it will show off "the newest additions to the Galaxy mobile...
a year ago
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a year ago
PCMag.com: The company says it will show off "the newest additions to the Galaxy mobile device portfolio." In its teaser video, the company goes a step further and explicitly states that "Galaxy AI is coming," so get ready for some form of on-device,...
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
5 months ago
Unpacked
StackOverflow's pivot: From disruption to opportunity OverFlowAI takes the company’s core asset, exposes answers in a highly usable interface, and in turn...
a year ago
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OverFlowAI takes the company’s core asset, exposes answers in a highly usable interface, and in turn creates a loop using gen AI to fire up the content engine.
Stephen Diehl
Haskell For a New Decade
over a year ago
Working Theorys
24 Working Theorys for 2024 Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators,...
a year ago
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Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators, and lifestyle
Essays - Benedict...
Do App Store Rules Matter? After a decade of arguing, regulators will change Apple’s App Store rules. How much money is...
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After a decade of arguing, regulators will change Apple’s App Store rules. How much money is involved, what might happen next and, most importantly, who cares? This is a big deal for Spotify, but does it matter to anyone else?
Platformer
What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout Five lessons, and one open question
a year ago
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How livestream realtors helped make Xishuangbanna a boom town Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming,...
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Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers.
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Worldcoin has a problem India already has a Worldcoin competitor, and other countries are taking note.
a year ago
Varun's Notes
Why Open Source AI Will Win You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
4 months ago
Entrepreneur's Edge
Why Leaders Should Start and End With a Map Lessons I have learned from scaling an organization from an idea to hundreds of people.
a year ago
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Scale AI’s Remotasks platform is dropping whole countries without explanation Workers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan were booted off the AI-training service earlier this month.
9 months ago
Tom Blomfield
Automating Customer Service at a Startup Customer service can make or break a company; it has been one of the key differentiators as a new...
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Customer service can make or break a company; it has been one of the key differentiators as a new generation of startups seeks to compete against incumbents. While people remember examples of awesome customer service, the opposite is also true. At GoCardless, we decided early on...
Paul Graham: Essays
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Some ideas for science fiction in the 2020s The future ain't what it used to be.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Give away the diagnostic, sell the remedy Companies that employ the “freemium” business model give away a product or service for free and then...
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Companies that employ the “freemium” business model give away a product or service for free and then charge for additional features. The…
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Rest of World’s 2024 global playlist What's that sound? It's your perfect soundtrack to just about everything.
6 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
A Plan for Spam
over a year ago
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A beauty contest controversy turned Uber into an unlikely battlefield between Nigeria and South... Bolt has suspended inter-country requests between South Africa and Nigeria as users book hoax rides...
4 months 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...
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Agency problems “Agency problems” are what economists call situations where a person’s interests diverge from his or...
over a year ago
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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…
David Perell
The Stupid Test Whenever you're trying to solve a problem, ask yourself: "What answer am I missing because it seems...
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Whenever you're trying to solve a problem, ask yourself: "What answer am I missing because it seems too stupid?" The post The Stupid Test appeared first on David Perell.
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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...
8 months ago
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Three levels of enthusiasm for technology Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But...
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Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But they embrace technology with varying levels…
Steve Blank
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
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We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class –part of Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Fund a Startup
over a year ago
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Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece Andrew Parker had a great post a few years ago where he sketched out all the startups going after...
over a year ago
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Andrew Parker had a great post a few years ago where he sketched out all the startups going after pieces of Craigslist: Startups that have…
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger To get people to ditch WhatsApp and switch to Messenger, it will never be sufficient to be 10%...
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over a year ago
To get people to ditch WhatsApp and switch to Messenger, it will never be sufficient to be 10% better than them or add fun gimmicks on any existing attribute or feature. We will have to offer some new fundamental use case that becomes important to people’s daily lives.
Stephen Diehl
Web3 is Bullshit
over a year ago
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Notes on raising seed financing Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how to raise a seed round.  After a long…
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
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Massviews Analysis is a super useful free tool to identify niche trends, whether you’re trying...
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#1 💡 Massviews Analysis is a super useful free tool to identify niche trends, whether you’re trying to research content ideas or doing research on business opportunities. You can put in any Wikipedia category, and it will show you what pages inside that category are most...
Rest of World -...
Women in South Africa’s gig economy feel forced to work extra hours for free Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask...
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a year ago
Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask them to do unpaid work, and the company hasn’t responded to their complaints.
Rest of World -...
How to become an #Influencer in India Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a...
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Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a real struggle to monetize from Instagram.
Articles - Alex...
Thinking rationally about emotion In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case...
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In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Requiem for Raghavan Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming...
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2 months ago
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."  An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn&
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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a year ago
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.
Paul Graham: Essays
The Airbnbs
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Aaron's Essays
The Hindsight Game There are all kinds of strategies for evaluating startup ideas - investors talk about having a...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are all kinds of strategies for evaluating startup ideas - investors talk about having a “prepared mind,” others build market maps, I like to think about toys, and we could go on. What everyone wants to do is predict the future. That’s honestly impossible. But we can...
Data Boutique
Network Effects: When Value Comes from Others Joining in ... and Data Boutique Partnership Program launch
a year ago
XO Capital - Field...
Consolidating Our Portfolio 💡 We've finally rolled out a small community of folks interested in acquiring saas businesses. The...
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10 months ago
💡 We've finally rolled out a small community of folks interested in acquiring saas businesses. The first few weeks of it have been a delight. It's the highlight of my week chatting with other people interested in this space. Join us! https://notes.xo.capital/community/
Internal Tech Emails
The Tech Emails Library The ultimate index of internal tech industry emails 🔍
a year ago
Noahpinion
Three holes in the U.S.' economic strategy against China Legacy chips, drones, and coordination with allies.
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Devmoh
Apple's AI Strategy Explained What is Tim Cook cooking?
a year ago
Rest of World -...
How Presto became Libya’s most successful tech startup The delivery app now plans to expand to neighboring countries.
3 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
Copyright is both vital and obsolete. The New Yorker: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? For you (probably) and me (definitely), the rights...
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11 months ago
The New Yorker: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? For you (probably) and me (definitely), the rights to our creations are not worth much money to anyone but ourselves. But, if you are the guy who wrote “Born to Run,” it is prudent to assign your rights to an entity...
Noahpinion
How much can you really learn about a country from visiting it? Not as much as people think.
7 months ago
Noahpinion
Heterodox vs. mainstream macroeconomics If you're skeptical of one, you should be skeptical of the other too.
a year ago
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India’s ambitious lithium dreams have stalled Last year, India touted the discovery of a huge reserve of valuable lithium in Kashmir. Experts say...
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2 months ago
Last year, India touted the discovery of a huge reserve of valuable lithium in Kashmir. Experts say optimism around the discovery was overblown.
Rest of World -...
What India can tell us about Netflix’s future Disney, Ambani, and the Netflix niche.
9 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Work Hard
over a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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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...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#42) The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI;...
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The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI; solar power uses; Global South tariffs; Gen Z wages; Stiglitz
Noahpinion
Where does libertarianism go from here? Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
a year ago
Varun's Notes
Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language...
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
The roadmap is not the territory Most of my consulting work connects to “marketing strategy” in some way - clients come wanting to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most of my consulting work connects to “marketing strategy” in some way - clients come wanting to talk about growing their business. But the funny thing about growth and marketing is that each component is like a thread that, once pulled, unravels the whole spool.
Roberto's blog
From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that...
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7 months ago
I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
Noahpinion
Is immigration raising rents in America? No, but in a few big cities it might be.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices? Mary Meeker’s [ ](images/screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-11-51-18-am.png) The assertion seems to be that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mary Meeker’s [ ](images/screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-11-51-18-am.png) The assertion seems to be that there is something special about the…
Rest of World -...
Buy-now-pay-later plans lead to rampant scams and bad debt across Southeast Asia From Thailand to Vietnam, a loophole in buy-now-pay-later schemes that allows users to get cash is...
4 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Copy What You Like
over a year ago
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How AI shook the world in 2023 With commercial tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney becoming widely available, AI was used for all...
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a year ago
With commercial tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney becoming widely available, AI was used for all things wonderful … and worrying.
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.
Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 4 Time to lameness, netizens vs. citizens, and OpenAI scaring creative people (again)
10 months ago
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #3: Third Party Solutions Working with data? List your solution on Data Boutique
9 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Two eras of the internet: pull and push The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad patterns that make it easier to…
AVC
I’ve Moved Onchain Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2...
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8 months ago
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...
essay – snarfed.org
Sleep is so weird Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full third of every day. This is evidently necessary for some kind of regular brain maintenance, maybe forming long term memories, who knows what else. If we don’t sleep, we quickly become...
David Perell
Gagan Biyani: Building Silicon Valley Startups My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor and an advisor) that helps teachers run Cohort-Based Courses on the Internet and has students from around the world. Gagan also founded a multi-billion dollar online education...
Paul Graham: Essays
An NFT That Saves Lives
over a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
Narrative Aircover & Compound Narrative “I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Raw Thought (from...
Take a step back
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Car wars A flood of cheap Chinese imports is upsetting the global industrial order.
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…
Paul Graham: Essays
Fierce Nerds
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Economic losses for our allies are not wins for the U.S. Stop comparing ourselves to countries who are on our side.
11 months ago
Rest of World -...
China shows a glimmer of hope for Western business Think of it as "conscious decoupling."
a year ago
Working Theorys
Accountability as a Service Hey you, did you do the thing you said you would do?
7 months ago
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Computers that can make commitments Blockchains are computers that can make commitments. Traditional computers are ultimately controlled...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Blockchains are computers that can make commitments. Traditional computers are ultimately controlled by people, either directly in the case…
SatPost by Trung...
Getting Out on a High Note Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin and Quentin Tarantino show the psychological power of walking away at...
a year ago
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…
Rest of World -...
Brazil’s flood disaster set off a torrent of AI misinformation Platforms like Instagram and Facebook are failing an early test of misinformation safeguards.
7 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Dividing equity between founders A friend asked me recently if I knew of any good guidelines for dividing up equity between founders,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A friend asked me recently if I knew of any good guidelines for dividing up equity between founders, and specifically what to do in the case…
Stephen Diehl
The Haskell Elephant in the Room
over a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the app" I think it's a really big deal that we ship this photos app quickly.
3 months ago
Rest of World -...
Crime victims, ignored by Venezuela’s broken justice system, turn to influencers To get the authorities’ attention, victims get help from influencers specialized in niches like...
a year ago
Noahpinion
Nobody knows how many jobs will "be automated" Whatever that even means.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Skilled immigration is a national security priority A joint blog post by Noah and Minn Kim on America's need for a national skilled immigration...
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
Conservative evangelicals use social media to sway Brazil election The popularity of evangelical content, which often amplifies criticisms of the ruling party, could...
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6 months ago
The popularity of evangelical content, which often amplifies criticisms of the ruling party, could play an important role during October’s municipal elections.
Working Theorys
Crypto social games don’t need the crypto Crypto social games, work "trials," and meeting your creations in the wild
11 months ago
Articles - Alex...
The ageism in advertising The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and possessed. We crave it in our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and possessed. We crave it in our agencies and we covet it in our audiences. We believe younger staff are more creative and younger consumers are more valuable. But this is nothing more than received wisdom....
Paul Graham: Essays
What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Parents turn to AI tablets after China’s tutor crackdown Tech companies iFlytek, Baidu, and BKK are cashing in on parents who fear their child will fall...
11 months ago
Blog posts of...
Sh*t! Twitter is exciting - again! Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success that time. Similar to companie...
Tech + Economics +...
Dear Blackbird. Women in tech are not “corporate girlies.” Capital Brief: Blackbird-backed Kiki outlined plan to target 'corporate girlies' in December...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Capital Brief: Blackbird-backed Kiki outlined plan to target 'corporate girlies' in December investor memo Blackbird-backed subletting startup Kiki wrote to investors on Christmas Eve to tell them that it was struggling and would pivot to target the “super...
Platformer
How BeReal missed its moment To become the next big social app, competitors have to move faster
a year ago
Steve Blank
Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market A version of this article previously appeared in Fortune. If you haven’t been paying attention Apple...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A version of this article previously appeared in Fortune. If you haven’t been paying attention Apple has started shipping its Apple Vision Pro, its take on a headset that combines Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). The product is an amazing technical tour de force....
Paul Graham: Essays
Persuade xor Discover
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
As elegantly produced as movies and as engaging as great novels MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is misguided: We decided to assume that the…
Rest of World -...
Turn it up: Rest of World’s 2023 global party playlist Impress your friends by queuing up these chart-topping pop songs from the countries we cover.
a year ago
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A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has acquired an ugly reputation for intimidating drivers and passengers.
Noahpinion
Give us your ideas on how to deal with Chinese chips! A policy competition from the Federation of American Scientists, Chris Miller, ChinaTalk, and me
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
The entrepreneur navigating fintech’s ups and downs for 15 years Bipin Preet Singh is the co-founder and CEO of Indian fintech major MobiKwik.
10 months ago
Data Boutique
The Web Data Landscape Map: Visualizing The Ecosystem Mapping actors and solutions
8 months ago
Rest of World -...
Drop-shipping is a lifeline for unemployed graduates in South Africa Chinese e-commerce websites have proven popular in the country and are fueling a new line of work.
11 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Introducing: Better Offline Episodes 1 and 2 Out Now Hello everybody! A short newsletter today to announce the launch of my new...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Episodes 1 and 2 Out Now Hello everybody! A short newsletter today to announce the launch of my new podcast Better Offline - my new tech show from iHeartRadio and Cool Zone Media. It's a weekly exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society -
SatPost by Trung...
Sculpting Ourselves Thoughts on Antoni Gaudí, Etsuro Sotoo, La Sagrada Família and finding the right ideas to work on.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Predatory loan apps are thriving in the Google Play store, despite ban Google says it takes the problem seriously, but over a dozen loan apps remain available in the...
11 months ago
Rest of World -...
Chinese streaming platforms and chill? In Southeast Asia, Netflix has competition from Baidu's iQiyi and Tencent's WeTV
a year ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
Why you should measure tail latencies The response times of your service can cost you dearly if left unchecked. Even when a small fraction...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The response times of your service can cost you dearly if left unchecked. Even when a small fraction of requests experiences extreme…
Rest of World -...
Building a food delivery app in the internet shutdown capital of the world Jammu and Kashmir’s Gatoes was founded in 2020 in the middle of a months-long government-imposed...
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4 months ago
Jammu and Kashmir’s Gatoes was founded in 2020 in the middle of a months-long government-imposed internet restriction. It is now expanding in north India.
Noahpinion
The free world teeters on the edge of a knife If Trump is elected, there will be no liberal great powers left in the world.
2 months ago
tomcritchlow.com
Building a New Project in Public Nate Kadlac runs Approachable Design an online course to teach the basics of visual aesthetic and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nate Kadlac runs Approachable Design an online course to teach the basics of visual aesthetic and design.
Essays - Benedict...
Metabrand Has Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook, or rebranded VR? What is the metaverse? And can any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Has Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook, or rebranded VR? What is the metaverse? And can any company decide to build the future anymore?
Rest of World -...
Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned Creators use euphemisms and emojis to get around what they say are arbitrary moderation...
2 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Strong and weak technologies During a media tour in 2007 in which Steve Jobs showed the device to reporters, there was one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
During a media tour in 2007 in which Steve Jobs showed the device to reporters, there was one instance in which a journalist criticized the…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The problem with online “local” businesses One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business plans a week that involve local search…
SatPost by Trung...
MicroStrategy's $37B+ Bitcoin Bet How Michael Saylor turned a B2B software company into one of the world's largest owners of Bitcoin.
a month ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pitching the VC partnership The last step to raising venture capital is normally a 1 hour pitch to the whole partnership during...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The last step to raising venture capital is normally a 1 hour pitch to the whole partnership during their weekly monday meeting.  This is…
Rest of World -...
Kathmandu is making taxi drivers switch to EVs. Not all drivers can afford one The Xpres-T, made by Indian carmaker Tata, is the only EV approved for use as a taxi in Nepal. It...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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.
Working Theorys
Membership clubs & desktop apps are back. And more things I talked about over coffee & dinner this week.
7 months ago
Inverted Passion
Notes from the book “Magic Words” Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a significant amount of time in assembling the thoughts we want to convey, but assume the words to convey them as a given. 2/ This book – written by a professor of business – takes the view...
Steve Blank
Profound Beliefs This post previously appeared in EIX. In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the...
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a year ago
This post previously appeared in EIX. In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Think of profound beliefs as “strong opinions loosely held.” You can’t be an effective founder or in the C-suite of a...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The only college major that matters If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of those companies, or work as an employee in…
Rest of World -...
India’s election wasn’t the deepfake doomsday many feared So far, AI-generated content has been more about trolling than information warfare.
7 months ago
essay – snarfed.org
Possible futures for Bridgy Fed Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
Paul Graham: Essays
Coronavirus and Credibility
over a year ago
David Perell
After Minimalism It's time for us to move beyond minimalism. If we want a dynamic world, we should splash our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's time for us to move beyond minimalism. If we want a dynamic world, we should splash our buildings with enthusiastic colors, bold patterns, and visions of a better tomorrow. The post After Minimalism appeared first on David Perell.
Platformer
Here come the ChatGPT bans Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
Rest of World -...
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...
4 months ago
David Perell
Own It Mentality My goal is simple: Be a man of my word. Do what I say I'm going to do, when I say I'm going to do...
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a year ago
My goal is simple: Be a man of my word. Do what I say I'm going to do, when I say I'm going to do it. That means showing up on schedule, communicating clearly, and getting things done on time. The post Own It Mentality appeared first on David Perell.
Devmoh
How Google Stores 10,000 Petabytes of Data Efficiently Google Colossus Explained Simply
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Two Kinds of Judgement
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Rocket ships and tractors For some companies, revenue is a feature.
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
An Alternative Theory of Unions
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Using automation to fight misinformation, starting with a menstrual health chatbot Swapneel Mehta is the founder of the Simppl research collective, a group of students and...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Swapneel Mehta is the founder of the Simppl research collective, a group of students and professional programmers working on automated social media tools.
Inverted Passion
Notes on how Facebook ads work I was studying Facebook ads system for Nintee, made some notes that you might find useful. Resources...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was studying Facebook ads system for Nintee, made some notes that you might find useful. Resources Facebook Doesn’t Make as Much Money as It Could—On Purpose How to Save Millions With Marketability Testing Facebook Bid Strategies The post Notes on how Facebook ads work appeared...
Paul Graham: Essays
This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California
over a year ago
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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4 months ago
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?
Paul Graham: Essays
Crazy New Ideas
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Lululemon's $50B+ Apparel Innovation Chip Wilson launched the athleisure industry by solving the "camel-toe problem" (via breakthroughs...
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a year ago
Chip Wilson launched the athleisure industry by solving the "camel-toe problem" (via breakthroughs in materials and sewing methods).
Noahpinion
What the Solow Model can teach us about China Economists knew back in the 1950s that a country can't build its way to infinite wealth.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Nigeria will become a net exporter of tech talent: Nigerian Minister Dr. Bosun Tijani The tech entrepreneur-turned-bureaucrat spoke to Rest of World about his year in government, his...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The tech entrepreneur-turned-bureaucrat spoke to Rest of World about his year in government, his administration’s priorities for advancing AI in Nigeria, and the difficult task of choosing between allies.
Noahpinion
The new industrial policy, explained We're starting to learn what replaces the old free-trade consensus.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Writing and Speaking
over a year ago
Blog posts of...
Refactoring larger legacy codebases This article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to explain it here a bit more in d...
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Japan’s digital ID program is a complicated mess The “My Number” card program, initially hopeful, is now making more headaches than headway.
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Six Principles for Making New Things
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Have We Reached Peak AI? Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati,...
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with journalist Joanna Stern asking a series of thoughtful yet straightforward questions that Murati failed to satisfactorily answer. When asked about what data was used to train...
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The end of the "vibecession"? Maybe people are being irrationally pessimistic. Or maybe it's just all about real wages.
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Chinese factory owners are becoming TikTok comedians to find new business partners Factory influencers are producing actually funny videos on TikTok, Instagram, and WeChat to increase...
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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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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...
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Automate Everything Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a...
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Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (or hope) that this behaviour is inherent in being human. But being able to hack together scripts simply makes it much easier to go from a state of...
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Pivoting My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build...
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My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far…
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My guest today is Trevor Bauer, who is arguably the very best pitcher in Major League Baseball. In 2020, he had the lowest Earned Run Average of any pitcher and won the National League Cy Young Award, which goes to the top pitcher in the game. I wanted to interview Trevor not...
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Nike’s Marketing Blindspot What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
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Do poor countries need a new development strategy? Bangladesh and Southeast Asia are defying the economists who say industrialization is dead.
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Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes A popular option in seed round financing is a convertible note instead of setting a valuation in an...
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A popular option in seed round financing is a convertible note instead of setting a valuation in an equity financing.  A convertible note is…
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Collective Experiences | Theory No. 8 On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
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Trusting third parties with our information Photo by Sergiu Nista on Unsplash We’ve noticed a disturbing trend here at our startup in the past...
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Photo by Sergiu Nista on Unsplash We’ve noticed a disturbing trend here at our startup in the past 12 months or so. We’ve been growing and adding new team members, and almost without fail, almost all our new starters are getting hit with a scam email within a few days of...
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The unchecked rise of theocracy will extinguish liberal democracy. As a transgender woman, under any form of populist theocracy, my existence would be illegal. This...
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As a transgender woman, under any form of populist theocracy, my existence would be illegal. This is the reality of governance by faith-based doctrine. And it's a reality that cannot be allowed to spread. Religious freedom is a cornerstone of liberal democracy. Individuals...
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Alex Cooper: $0 to $160m in 6 years Breaking down the contracts that sent the "Call Her Daddy" podcaster from unemployed ($0) to...
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Breaking down the contracts that sent the "Call Her Daddy" podcaster from unemployed ($0) to Barstool Sports ($70k) to Spotify ($60m) and, now, SiriusXM ($100m) in 6 years.
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Meet Newme, India’s Shein replacement A year after India banned the Shein app, Newme emerged to fill the gap. Founder Sumit Jasoria talks...
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A year after India banned the Shein app, Newme emerged to fill the gap. Founder Sumit Jasoria talks about Gen Z fashion in this "country of countries."
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Hong Kong politicians are making a splash on Chinese social media – and finding mainland fans. Users have responded enthusiastically to their selfies, food pics, and Father’s Day updates.
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Chip dreams: Young tech workers are flocking to Taiwan Southeast Asians are heading to Taiwan to train for semiconductor jobs, which is helping to fill a...
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Southeast Asians are heading to Taiwan to train for semiconductor jobs, which is helping to fill a talent gap at the world’s top producer.
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The #1 rideshare app in Japan isn’t Uber, it’s a taxi app Go summons taxis and the company behind it is Japan's newest unicorn.
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Burst Damage Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in...
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Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense,...
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The Other Bubble Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic...
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Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up  capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom. In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year, Microsoft'
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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...
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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.
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Apple's (reluctant) App Store changes, and Semafor tries AI news This week, we dive into two meaty topics. First, we dig into Apple’s recent App Store changes to...
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This week, we dive into two meaty topics. First, we dig into Apple’s recent App Store changes to support third party payments in the US (sort of), and additionally support side-loading of apps (i.e. supporting non-Apple app stores) in the EU. Spoiler: Apple is pushing the limits...
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South Africa’s competition watchdog takes aim at Google The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the...
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The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the country’s digital economy at risk.
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In which we talk all about generational differences, Millennial angst, and the effects of social media and cell phones
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The AI artist who used Bad Bunny’s voice — and shot to fame Meet the Chilean artist who made it big using others’ voices.
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Athletic Greens used to be a sketchy looking affiliate offer in 2011. Ranked #1 on Clickbank...
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#1 💡 Athletic Greens used to be a sketchy looking affiliate offer in 2011. Ranked #1 on Clickbank and was promoted by every direct response marketer. Always inspiring to see humble beginnings like this and a good reminder that most businesses are not sexy from day 1.
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To connect disparate tech scenes, Brazil, Mozambique, and Angola show language is a great unifier As Africa and Latin America form closer links between their tech scenes, similar challenges,...
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Google looks at acquiring YouTube can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
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Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max
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The danger of another American civil war is low Re-upping some arguments I've made before.
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Growth curves of startups Pick whatever metric you want for gauging the success of a particular startup: profits, revenues,...
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Pick whatever metric you want for gauging the success of a particular startup: profits, revenues, pageviews, etc. A graph I’d love to see is…
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Worldcoin may not be legal in Colombia, but that’s not stopping it Scan eyeballs first, ask questions later.
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How we measured air quality for gig workers in South Asia Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could...
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Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could gather data on what they breathe.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Could Facebook move faster? In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different...
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In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different products instead of just focusing on one thing at a time. This allows them to plant lots of seeds, and although it yields lower quality products in the short term as they're cloning and...
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China’s biggest AI model is challenging American dominance Alibaba’s Qwen has been shining on benchmark tests, despite chip restrictions.
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OpenAI is making a risky bet on live translation The company has a stunning demo — but can the product live up to the hype?
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Is Twitch losing its edge with draconian content regulation? The Verge: Twitch will ban people pretending to be naked Twitch is changing its sexual...
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The Verge: Twitch will ban people pretending to be naked Twitch is changing its sexual content policies again, this time to prohibit implied nudity on the platform. The platform already prohibits nudity, but Twitch’s new attire policy, which goes into effect...
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In March 2022 I wrote a description of the Quantum Technology Ecosystem. I thought this would be a good time to check in on the progress of building a quantum computer and explain more of the basics. Just as a reminder, Quantum technologies are used in three very different and...
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How I think about Code Management You might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or...
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You might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or didn’t care about code quality. H...
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An internet of people Over the past few years, a bunch of web-based marketplaces have gotten popular – Etsy, Kickstarter,...
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Over the past few years, a bunch of web-based marketplaces have gotten popular – Etsy, Kickstarter, AirBnb, to name a few. Many of these…
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Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and got into. Most of these songs are under the radar which is my favorite kind of music. So I hope you find something new that you like in here.
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A framework for choosing what to do A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure...
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A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure they knew what I should do. But...I didn't and most of their suggestions didn’t excite me. As I thought through my possible paths, I realized that I didn't have a useful framework...