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YouTube is the final place to watch unbiased news in India. Can it last? As Modi’s government clamps down on the free press, top journalists are forging their own channels...
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can...
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Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you can insert an RSS feed. Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Daron Acemoglu — one of the world’s most
Tech + Economics +...
AI does not produce reliable information. As Donald Trump's lawyer has fucked around and found out. Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used an artificial...
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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...
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Four predictions for 2024 It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Stifled at home, Tunisian tech finds success in the West Acquisitions of InstaDeep and Expensya, which focused on international customers, are inspiring...
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Acquisitions of InstaDeep and Expensya, which focused on international customers, are inspiring Tunisian entrepreneurs to look outside the country.
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Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially...
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A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially hurting content creators and broadcasters in Indonesia.
Raw Thought (from...
Cherish mistakes
over 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...
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The things first time founders do… Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first...
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over a year ago
Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I qu...
Platformer
Substack's new fundraising pitch Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Vim and Haskell in 2016
over a year ago
AVC
The Buy And Hold Mindset When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a buy-and-hold mindset when it comes to making new investments. It is hard to know when you’ve reached the bottom and can start buying again, but if you think about a ten or twenty-year hold,...
Platformer
Susan Wojcicki makes her exit She had a legendary run. Will YouTube's end with it?
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Running a food-delivery service in Nigeria is hard; Chowdeck makes it look easy Bolt, Glovo, and Jumia struggle with long delivery times, but this Y Combinator-backed startup has...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bolt, Glovo, and Jumia struggle with long delivery times, but this Y Combinator-backed startup has impressive tech and rider incentives on its side.
Entrepreneur's Edge
Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
a year ago
Aaron's Essays
Asymmetries in Fundraising Too often, founders approach fundraising as if they are supplicants to the investors. They...
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over a year ago
Too often, founders approach fundraising as if they are supplicants to the investors. They understand that fundraising features many asymmetries, but the founders mostly see the asymmetries that are tilted towards the investors. Here’s the thing - in today’s market, the...
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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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over a year ago
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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Africa fell in love with crypto. Now… it’s complicated Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career...
a year ago
essay – snarfed.org
Deep piano Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old...
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Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old Brooke started learning, and we suddenly had a keyboard in the house again, so I joined her. It’s been great! I’m playing scales and exercises, diving into Rachmaninoff and Debussy,...
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The SoftBank-backed company that lets you buy glasses over WhatsApp The Indian eyewear company, Lenskart, is now an Asian giant.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Visa and Mastercard are pouring money into Africa From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S....
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From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S. giants are steadily increasing their presence on the continent.
Rest of World -...
China’s biggest AI model is challenging American dominance Alibaba’s Qwen has been shining on benchmark tests, despite chip restrictions.
3 months ago
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Competition is overrated Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else. – Garry Tan Suppose...
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over a year ago
Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else. – Garry Tan Suppose you have an idea for a startup, and then…
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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a year ago
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.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Noahpinion
How Latin America started to beat inequality It can be done.
8 months ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
Counting at scale How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a new feature? One way to answer that…
Noahpinion
The U.S. must not ignore Indonesia We have the opportunity to befriend an Asian country with a huge population, a large and growing...
a year ago
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We have the opportunity to befriend an Asian country with a huge population, a large and growing economy, and a strategic location.
Noahpinion
Why has U.S. manufacturing productivity stagnated for over a decade? A few hypotheses about a very disturbing trend.
6 months ago
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"The great ideas have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas" It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable....
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable. It seems the height of unreason to…
Noahpinion
Why did the U.S. miss the battery revolution? We were early to the party on every other technological revolution, but we missed this one.
5 months ago
Tom Blomfield
How to raise investment Update: I am no longer personally angel investing - I’m focussed on other things at the moment....
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over a year ago
Update: I am no longer personally angel investing - I’m focussed on other things at the moment. Please don’t ask me to invest in your company! 🙂 I started angel-investing in 2021, and a large proportion of the companies I put money into asked for help raising an investment...
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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.
6 months ago
Inverted Passion
Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing....
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As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing. However, it’s essential to understand that money is not wealth. Wealth is stuff we want and by that logic, people can be wealthy even if they don’t have a lot of money. In fact,...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
You can’t play on both sides of the Great Firewall What the TikTok ban really means for U.S. companies.
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They’re already online.
a month ago
Tech + Economics +...
TikTok is revolutionizing news consumption - by eroding context. The metamorphosis of news consumption is undeniable. TikTok, rising from the ashes of Vine and the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The metamorphosis of news consumption is undeniable. TikTok, rising from the ashes of Vine and the gradual decline of Instagram, captivated a new generation, becoming a primary news source for many. This seismic shift towards snackable, viral news content brings a host of...
Stephen Diehl
Et tu, Signal?
over a year ago
haseeb qureshi
How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today,...
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On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today, with over $600M in loans originated this year across MakerDAO, Compound, and dYdX. On-chain lending has the potential to disrupt traditional secured lending. But it seems it may do more...
Business Brainstorms
The Algorithm, rebuilding GA3, a new drink for the productivity-chasing professional managerial... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Huge startup opportunity to just literally rebuild...
Folklore.org:...
He's Only in Field Service The SCC gets designed into the Mac
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Second Winds Why are so many famous YouTubers quitting? A legendary essay by Václav Havel — a Czech playwright...
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10 months ago
Why are so many famous YouTubers quitting? A legendary essay by Václav Havel — a Czech playwright and former President — helps to explain this trend.
Noahpinion
Can unions and industrial policy coexist? They had better learn how to, and quickly.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
This app makes sure dinner is halal The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards...
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The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards of Islamic law.
Platformer
The people who want to end Section 230 may have botched their case But even a ruling against the plaintiffs in Gonzalez vs. Google could hurt internet freedoms,...
a year ago
Unpacked
Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
a year ago
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On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
Stephen Diehl
Countering the Crypto Lobbyists
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Don’t Rock the Vote Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest...
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Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest post by Wally Nowinski)
Stephen Diehl
The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Mexico’s $100-billion auto parts industry is reinventing itself for the EV era Behind the excitement around electrification, Mexican manufacturers are figuring out what their own...
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Investors are unsettled as funding is drying up for Africa’s startup ecosystem As funding to Africa’s once fast-growing startup ecosystem dries up, industry insiders are worried...
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! #1 💡 It's cool that smartphones have become all-in-one devices. But at...
Business Brainstorms
Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 The more competitive a market the more buying decisions boil down to vibes. For example, I...
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#1 💡 The more competitive a market the more buying decisions boil down to vibes. For example, I recently started looking for an AI meeting note taking software we can use in our sales and clients calls. Fireflies, Fathom, MeetGeek, tl;dv… there are just so many of them and they...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook...
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Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Don’t worry, that’s still coming, but given the recent drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Scarlett Johansson, I felt the need to write something. Don’
Nothing Human
Against Positive-Sum Thinking why conflict is necessary
a year ago
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The “LadyGrab” program was meant to protect women drivers. It backfired Quick-fix policies have accidentally left female drivers open to harassment and affected their...
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire...
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Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?
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“It is the human friction that makes the sparks” From Jonah Lehrer, Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work (via Stowe Boyd): Building 20 [a scene of...
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over a year ago
From Jonah Lehrer, Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work (via Stowe Boyd): Building 20 [a scene of incredible innovation at MIT] and…
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Making industries “garage ready” for startups One of the most important events in the history of modern computing was the advent of...
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over a year ago
One of the most important events in the history of modern computing was the advent of “fabless” (“fabrication-less”) semiconductor companies…
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name" I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it...
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8 months ago
I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it works is still less than 50%.
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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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U.S tech giants are building dozens of huge data centers in Chile. Locals are fighting back Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of...
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Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.
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Desperate taxi drivers in Argentina are finally joining Uber Amid the country’s economic turmoil, thousands of cabbies turn to the Uber Taxi function to make...
a year ago
Working Theorys
Notes on 'Founder Mode' Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
4 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
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Gordon Moore on self-driving cars “I never thought I’d see autonomous automobiles driving on the freeways. It wasn’t many years ago...
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“I never thought I’d see autonomous automobiles driving on the freeways. It wasn’t many years ago they put out a request to see who could…
Noahpinion
New Industrialist Roundup 2024 What people are writing about rebuilding America.
5 months ago
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Stored Hashcash One of the greatest inventions in the history of computer security is Hashcash. Internet blights...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the greatest inventions in the history of computer security is Hashcash. Internet blights like spam and denial-of-service attacks are…
AVC
AI Art There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I...
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There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I think the opposite is more likely to happen. Artists have been using AI to make art for a while now and the pace has picked up a lot in recent years. I have always loved the […]
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Non-linearity of technology adoption When I was in business school I remember a class where a partner from a big consulting firm was...
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When I was in business school I remember a class where a partner from a big consulting firm was talking about how they had done extensive…
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
The Real Reason to End the Death Penalty
over a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Purely Narrative-driven Bubbles
over a year 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...
11 months ago
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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...
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.
Noahpinion
How technology has changed the world since I was young A bit of future shock.
a year ago
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 -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know - “Can we become the next Silicon...
Stephen Diehl
Sunsetting "What I Wish I Knew"
over a year ago
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Two trophies, one meme How the World Cup and the Golden Globes united Argentina through a single viral image.
a year ago
essay – snarfed.org
Breakfast tour Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still felt cooped up now and then, and I dearly missed going new places and seeing new things. On another note, I really, really like breakfast. Like, a lot. So naturally, I put these...
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Argentina’s far-right front-runner is not the crypto candidate fans think he is Milei’s plans for the dollarization of Argentina’s economy might even depress crypto adoption.
a year ago
AVC
Flooding I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday...
a year ago
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I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday with photos of the flooding at West Point. My dad and brother used to work in that grey stone building called Mahan Hall. And the same storms that did this to West Point did worse...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#35) Chinese defense spending, activists vs. normies, corporate diversity, phones in schools,
8 months ago
AVC
What Happened In 2022 I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending and one looking forward to the year ahead. This is the first of these two posts. The second one will run tomorrow. What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital...
Stephen Diehl
Haskell For a New Decade
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment The wave of enthusiasm around generative networks feels like another Imagenet moment - a step...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The wave of enthusiasm around generative networks feels like another Imagenet moment - a step change in what ‘AI’ can do that could generalise far beyond the cool demos. What can it create, and where are the humans in the loop?
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A coupon-crazy Brazilian app figured out how to beat Uber Eats Out-discounting competitors: iFood’s bid to become Latin America's last-mile delivery king.
a year ago
Varun's Notes
Generative AI Builds Bridges Between Creative Mediums On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
over a year ago
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What’s Next in Computing? The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles....
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The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing…
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#50) Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness;...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness; tariffs; a bad union demand
Unpacked
Reddit's IPO Filing & India's AI Regulation | EP 7 Here are the highlights from the podcast episode. You can find a longer form analysis on both topics...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Here are the highlights from the podcast episode. You can find a longer form analysis on both topics in the podcast episode - Spotify | Apple Podcasts. The podcast follows the same core principles as the writing (primarily analysis driven with occasional opinions sprinkled in)....
Stephen Diehl
Bitcoin: The Postmodern Ponzi
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Start a Startup
over a year ago
Raw Thought (from...
Believe you can change
over a year ago
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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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Rest of World -...
Chinese startups supported by Microsoft and Google incubator programs worked with police Documents reviewed by Rest of World show several companies backed by U.S. tech giants provided...
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a month ago
Documents reviewed by Rest of World show several companies backed by U.S. tech giants provided policing or censorship tools to Chinese law enforcement.
Paul Graham: Essays
Post-Medium Publishing
over a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Rabbit Holed Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her assistance clarifying details related to GAMA and finding company documents related to Rabbit and Cyber Manufacture.    In November 2021, a company called Cyber Manufacture Co raised $6...
Rest of World -...
How Indians are watching Succession after HBO ditched Disney With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of...
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a year ago
With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of Thrones can no longer be streamed in the country.
XO Capital - Field...
How to 10x an acquisition I'm going to break down how we more than 10x-ed ScreenshotAPI and why this acquisition worked when...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I'm going to break down how we more than 10x-ed ScreenshotAPI and why this acquisition worked when others didn't. Not everything here is generalizable, but I'll pull out what worked well from our first interactions with the seller to the deal closing a few
Noahpinion
Indiamerica A new quasi-alliance is born, but there are still some challenges to overcome.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
The ByteDance streaming app that’s quietly going global Resso could give Spotify a run for its money.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Courts in Buenos Aires are using ChatGPT to draft rulings Generative AI is replacing a successful AI project that drafted legal rulings. Experts worry about...
a month ago
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a month ago
Generative AI is replacing a successful AI project that drafted legal rulings. Experts worry about data privacy, ethical quandaries, and the need for specialized training.
Paul Graham: Essays
Holding a Program in One's Head
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Illegal gold mining influencers are tearing up the Amazon Creators share tips on YouTube and TikTok to bring new miners into the fold and turn criminal...
a year ago
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a year ago
Creators share tips on YouTube and TikTok to bring new miners into the fold and turn criminal behavior into money-making content.
Rest of World -...
How China’s hottest social media app turned Düsseldorf into a foodie destination The trendiest food city in Europe isn’t Paris or London. It’s Düsseldorf — thanks to Xiaohongshu.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
How different languages laugh online Laughter is universal, but lol is not.
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 3 (Effect Systems)
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Present to Investors
over a year ago
Noahpinion
What if Xi Jinping isn't that competent? (repost) Plus a new update showing how right I was.
a year 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
Rest of World -...
Employees allege sexual harassment and intimidation at CCI, Africa’s largest call center company CCI Kenya has over 1,400 employees and its clients include T-Mobile and Instacart.
a year ago
Aaron's Essays
Fundraising isn't predictable I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying conversations with investors. The founder's company was growing well, had crossed $1mm ARR, but still couldn't raise money. According to conventional wisdom, that should have been enough to...
Platformer
YouTube restores Trump Meta explained its Trump decision in full. YouTube went another direction
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How Art Can Be Good
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Cricket, influencers, layoffs: Alibaba’s risky bet in Pakistan Since its acquisition by the Chinese giant, e-commerce site Daraz has been experimenting to reach...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since its acquisition by the Chinese giant, e-commerce site Daraz has been experimenting to reach new buyers amid an economic crisis.
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Blog posts of...
Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds. Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
2 weeks ago
Steve Blank
The Venture Mindset – Worth A Read Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture...
7 months ago
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Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative just came out with a book that should be on your reading list – The Venture Mindset. The books premise is that Venture Capitalists (who were responsible for the...
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The AI Assist I wrote last week that I have started coding again. And I have been amazed at how much easier it is...
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I wrote last week that I have started coding again. And I have been amazed at how much easier it is now that I can code and deploy in the cloud without having to spin up anything myself. But the other massive improvement in programming is the “AI assist.” I am working in a...
Noahpinion
Thus passes Robert Lucas Farewell to the most influential macroeconomist of his generation.
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The AI industry really should slow down a little This year has given us a bounty of innovations. We could use some time to absorb them
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Great Products Have Great Premises The most powerful thing a product can do is give its user a premise.
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Steve Ballmer, Larry Ellison and That Sweet Sweet Tech Equity The backstories for how the single biggest shareholders in Microsoft and Oracle built their stakes.
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How Singapore became the ideal testing ground for self-driving cars The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its...
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Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ ‪Apple TV is a hardware device. ‪Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy...
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‪Apple TV is a hardware device. ‪Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones). Apple TV is an app on iOS/iPadOS devices that...
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Notes on newsletters Email newsletters unlocked a new way to pay for content, but is this a tool or a network? You can...
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Email newsletters unlocked a new way to pay for content, but is this a tool or a network? You can write all you like, but how do you get readers? And is the take rate 10% or 90%?
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How to conduct a system design interview The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview....
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The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview. You can find a lot on the Internet on how…
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Delivery riders are fighting each other over bike-shares in Brazil Almost half the riders from Brazil’s largest delivery app now use city bikes to get around.
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Baseline Fame When privilege becomes a pre-requisite.
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Taylor Lorenz on her extremely online history of the internet Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at...
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Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at shielding users from harassment
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Stickiness is bad for business It is common to hear entrepreneurs and investors talk about the high level of engagement (what we...
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It is common to hear entrepreneurs and investors talk about the high level of engagement (what we used to call “stickiness”) of their…
Noahpinion
America's semiconductor policy is missing a key piece A guest post by Steven Glinert.
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Traditional sellers in Vietnam still aren’t sold on e-commerce As online shopping booms, local merchants are struggling to adapt, despite government help.
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Slouching Towards Innovation A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a...
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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
Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among...
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The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among thousands. Many of us feel like we need to Do Something about these problems. There’s just one problem (sorry):
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Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei and Manufacturing Intelligence at Scale PLUS: SpaceX's Starship miracle, Taco Bell's franchise model.
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The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics Richard...
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If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics Richard Feynman Tens of billions of public and private capital are being invested in Quantum technologies. Countries across the world have realized that quantum technologies can be a major...
Working Theorys
Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now...
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Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software—and with it, Silicon Valley.
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Outsource things you don’t care about A fundamental principle of business is that you do things in house that you think can give you a...
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A fundamental principle of business is that you do things in house that you think can give you a competitive advantage and outsource things…
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Nerdy economics edition (#54) The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity...
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The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity growth; Demand-side inflation; Health care monopsony and innovation
Dustin Curtis
Block Carefully A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
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A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
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Business development: the Goldilocks principle Background: At Hunch, we switched our focus (“pivoted“) about 14 months ago from B2C to B2B. Over...
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Background: At Hunch, we switched our focus (“pivoted“) about 14 months ago from B2C to B2B. Over that time, we pitched over 500 potential…
Varun's Notes
Where Are the Good AI Products? On waiting for AI's Godot.
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Roberto's blog
Conquer dev environments with Nix I regularly use different devices with different OSs, such as a MacBook, a Windows desktop with WSL,...
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I regularly use different devices with different OSs, such as a MacBook, a Windows desktop with WSL, a couple of Raspberry PIs, and so on. I have a bunch of tools I like to have at my fingertips when I log into a machine, like fd and Neovim. Setting up and maintaining the same...
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How RRR’s success brought a wave of Telugu-language movies to Netflix Netflix in the U.S. now has more content in Telugu than in German, Russian, or any dialect of...
8 months ago
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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…
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Crime victims, ignored by Venezuela’s broken justice system, turn to influencers To get the authorities’ attention, victims get help from influencers specialized in niches like...
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Tim Cook's notes | Steve Jobs emails himself We made a fundamental error with the launch. Normal fan base focused on iPhone XS/XS Max. Momentum...
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over a year ago
We made a fundamental error with the launch. Normal fan base focused on iPhone XS/XS Max. Momentum from event wasn’t sustained. Didn’t need to be last year but in retrospect we should have done more to keep the buzz going.
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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10 months ago
Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why philosophers read the classics
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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How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
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Essays - Benedict...
AI and the automation of work ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other...
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ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?
Blog posts of...
🇮🇳 India in 2024 In February I made my first business trip to India. Three weeks deep in the Indian tech ecosystem....
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9 months ago
In February I made my first business trip to India. Three weeks deep in the Indian tech ecosystem. My summary is simple: I feel like the world needs an update how we view India
Business Brainstorms
Daily briefing AI, Hello Fresh but better, building in a cave, postcard lead gen, controllable input... Hey, In this issue: idea for an AI-powered Gmail extension to streamline your digital life, private...
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Hey, In this issue: idea for an AI-powered Gmail extension to streamline your digital life, private prep cooks as a service, startup concepts inspired by Y Combinator data, prompt for SEO optimized articles. Plus, founder insights on the power of focus and advertising channels....
Internal Tech Emails
Scott Forstall emails Steve Jobs | Elon Musk on tweeting He mentions third party developers. I do think at some point we will want to enable third parties to...
over a year ago
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Working With Founders Who Have Conviction and Taste Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have...
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Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have powerpoints. It’s easy to flip a few quick slides into a chunk of cash and cackle off into the mountains.
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How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with...
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Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest soccer leagues in the world.
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The fastest-growing shopping app in the world Meesho is taking on Amazon and Walmart with its focuse on cheaper goods for small-town consumers.
a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#13) Climate messaging, antitrust, Chinese consumption, the Fed and inflation, marriage and happiness,...
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a year ago
Climate messaging, antitrust, Chinese consumption, the Fed and inflation, marriage and happiness, historical data, and some Star Trek recommendations
Stephen Diehl
The Tinkerbell Griftopia
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
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Tattoo Decisions On making opinionated commitments
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Some tips for interacting with the press Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years about the best ways for entrepreneurs to interact...
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Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years about the best ways for entrepreneurs to interact with the press (by press I mean blogs as…
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Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity Traditional internet in Zimbabwe is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Elon Musk’s satellite service...
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Traditional internet in Zimbabwe is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Elon Musk’s satellite service sold out within weeks of launching in the country.
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What do platforms actually want out of elections? Nobody seems to know.
a year ago
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The Psychology of Disneyland From Walt Disney's original vision to Imagineering to pricing strategy.
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David Perell
The Book You Need to Read There is an epidemic of people who bash Christianity but haven’t read the Bible. No matter where you...
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There is an epidemic of people who bash Christianity but haven’t read the Bible. No matter where you stand on religion, if you don’t know what the Bible actually says, it’s time to change that.   The post The Book You Need to Read appeared first on David Perell.
Noahpinion
Five possible reasons China's productivity slowed down A repost, with some updates.
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Toward a shallower future Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
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David Perell
Nik Sharma: Building DTC Companies My guest today is Nik Sharma, the founder of Sharma Brands and an advisor to companies like Judy and...
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My guest today is Nik Sharma, the founder of Sharma Brands and an advisor to companies like Judy and Cha Cha Matcha. Nik is one of my very best friends and my go-to person for all things commerce. Since we first met, we’ve spent hours exploring the future of marketing and...
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.
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Raw Thought (from...
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Using AI to build the “definitive” Spanish writing tool Abraham López is the CEO of Correcto, an AI-powered grammar tool.
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Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway? Six theories.
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Platformer
How banning one Palestinian slogan roiled Etsy The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees...
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The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees aren’t happy
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#26) The U.S. economy, U.S. energy, Millennial wealth, medical administrators, and standardized tests
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Fun Friday: Upside Pizza Club This is the second post in a row where I am bringing back an old tradition. This time it is Fun...
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This is the second post in a row where I am bringing back an old tradition. This time it is Fun Friday, something I haven’t done in about five years. Like last week, the catalyst is our portfolio company Blackbird Labs, which I posted about a few months ago. Blackbird is a...
Rest of World -...
Half of Singapore’s e-commerce scams now happen on WhatsApp, Facebook, or Instagram After a 50% increase in scams in 2023, Singapore authorities say Meta isn’t doing enough to stop the...
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Tech + Economics +...
There is a deep rot at the heart of Australian tech. Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record...
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Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record as saying that I am a man pretending to be a woman. It's an old, outdated, obsolete and uninteresting transphobic trope. In itself, it's almost not worth mentioning. But...
Noahpinion
Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI Comparative advantage is very subtle, but incredibly powerful.
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Essays - Benedict...
Vision Pro What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500?...
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What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.
Paul Graham: Essays
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Noahpinion
A few economists are starting to think seriously about industrial policy But not enough researchers are paying attention, and we only know a little so far.
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Where does libertarianism go from here? Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
a year ago
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Mindshare 🧠 The hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.
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Coca-Cola: "A cure for all nervous affections" How cocaine, the "patent medicine" industry and mass advertising created the world's most iconic...
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We asked for flying cars and all we got was the entire planet communicating instantly via pocket... Benedict Evans has a new presentation about the explosive growth of internet-connected smartphones....
over a year ago
Articles - Alex...
The forecasting fallacy Marketers are prone to a prediction. You’ll find them in the annual tirade of trend decks. In the...
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over a year ago
Marketers are prone to a prediction. You’ll find them in the annual tirade of trend decks. In the PowerPoint projections of self-proclaimed prophets. In the feeds of forecasters and futurists. To understand the extent of our forecasting fascination, I analysed the websites...
Stephen Diehl
Currency in the Age of Digitization
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Paul Graham: Essays
Life is Short
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Noahpinion
In which British writers scold America on trade If you don't acknowledge the point of tariffs, how can you hope to criticize them?
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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 It’s an easy trap to start making excuses when sales velocity is slow. It’s almost always a...
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#1 💡 It’s an easy trap to start making excuses when sales velocity is slow. It’s almost always a symptom of a fundamental issue, not an unchangeable feature of the system. The one things missing from the growth model described here is prompts. In Brian Fogg’s model: B = MAP,...
Working Theorys
Word Association Fame The new attention playbooks will be full of old plays.
10 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
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NFTs and A Thousand True Fans In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform...
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In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The idea maze for AI startups An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need to make: A good founder is capable of…
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David Tran and Sriracha's $1B+ Journey How a Vietnamese-Chinese refugee took a Southeast Asian recipe and turned it into a $1B hot sauce...
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COVID was bad for the climate William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled...
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over a year ago
William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled travel plans, cut down overall consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions fell drastically. It’s great for the environment! Let’s keep it up! With apologies to H. L. Mencken, I...
Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 3 Books as athleisure, Twitter/X goes Substack, and oh yeah, Apple's Vision Pro
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Noahpinion
The American socialist worldview is just totally broken (repost) Plus a new update showing how right I was.
a year ago
Nothing Human
Prayer over a new smartphone Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most...
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a year ago
Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most treasured possession. I will feel your weight in my pocket every moment of every day, a presence as constant as my breath. The muscles and bones of my hand, arm, and shoulder will deform...
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Accurate contrarian theories When Google released its search engine in 1998, its search results were significantly better than...
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over a year ago
When Google released its search engine in 1998, its search results were significantly better than its competitors’. Many people attribute…
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...
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over a year ago
Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can create is in the future, but all the patterns you look at to learn what to do are in the past. This makes your brain do funny things. On the one hand, you see how huge things can...
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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…
Noahpinion
A better way to build a downtown It's time to learn a Japanese word: "zakkyo".
2 months ago
Steve Blank
The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations...
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over a year ago
My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement...
Steve Blank
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately...
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"We leverage the billions of dollars spent on the consumer mobile phone business" NYTimes has an excellent profile of Planet Labs, a startup that makes low-cost satellites: These...
over a year ago
Platformer
Why journalists can't quit Twitter The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down
a year ago
Noahpinion
New technologies, new totalitarians Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind...
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Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind of opponent.
SatPost by Trung...
"The Economist" Cover Curse, Explained PLUS: My Dune 2 review, TikTok Ban and Why Jalapeños are Less Spicy.
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Internal Tech Emails
Travis Kalanick on Google A meeting with Larry could calm this down if it's not true but he has been avoiding any meeting with...
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A meeting with Larry could calm this down if it's not true but he has been avoiding any meeting with me since last fall.
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...
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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
Tech + Economics +...
Internet access is a human right. Fast, reliable and independent internet access is no longer a luxury or a convenience. It has...
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Fast, reliable and independent internet access is no longer a luxury or a convenience. It has become a necessity and a function of modern society. The digital divide, the gap between those with and without internet access, has profound implications for an individual's...
Entrepreneur's Edge
The Power of Beliefs The significant role that our beliefs play in our outcomes.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Building products from improvised user behaviors For a long time, there were niche communities of “lo-fi” camera enthusiasts: people who shared...
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For a long time, there were niche communities of “lo-fi” camera enthusiasts: people who shared photos taken on old cameras that had…
Steve Blank
Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step  Lǎozi 老子 I just had lunch with Shenwei, one...
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over a year ago
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step  Lǎozi 老子 I just had lunch with Shenwei, one of my ex-students who had just taken a job in a mid-sized consulting firm.  After a bit of catching up I offered he was looking a bit lost. “I just got handed a project to […]
SatPost by Trung...
Gathering seeds My most popular posts and tweets for 1H 2023.
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
"Thoughts on OpenAI" To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
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Noahpinion
Japan is not a xenophobic country It has a substantial amount of immigration, as well as pro-immigration policies and attitudes.
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Noahpinion
Maximum Canada is happening Canada has a nation-building population strategy. Does America?
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
The Complete Argument Against Crypto
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Earnestness
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Data Boutique
The Hard Economics of Selling Web Data Market components to consider when selling pre-scraped datasets
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Entrepreneur's Edge
Revenue is easy, profit is harder The fundamentals needed to run a business in the next economic cycle.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Writing, Briefly
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Managing Up Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the...
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Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making technology products manifestly worse, this transformation was only possible thanks to...
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AI moderation is no match for hate speech in Ethiopian languages New research raises concerns that moderation tools can't detect violent threats in Tigray and...
a year ago
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40 companies that are beating the West Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley...
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Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley for global domination.
Dustin Curtis
One of the dumbest things I've ever published While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called...
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over a year ago
While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called Privacy vs. User Experience, published in 2014. In the article, I argued that Apple’s then-nascent philosophical stance on the supremacy of user privacy was going to slow down its...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Techies and normals There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are...
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There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are mainstream users – some people call them…
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TikTok creators are being arrested for violating religious laws in Nigeria Digital rights advocates say social media companies like TikTok have a responsibility to protect...
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Be Silicon Valley
over a year ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
I am back It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier posts there as I was too lazy to move…
Paul Graham: Essays
The Trouble with the Segway
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
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Why Mexico is tweeting at its third- richest citizen to delete his tweets On August 11, Mexico’s election authority made an unexpected announcement via its official account...
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On August 11, Mexico’s election authority made an unexpected announcement via its official account on X, formerly known as Twitter: It called for Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Mexico’s third-richest man, to...
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...
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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...
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Stability AI’s plan to counter AI’s Silicon Valley’s bias “It’d be dystopian if all AI systems had the values of a 35-year-old male in San Francisco.”
a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
A reminder. We are living through the first year of pretending the pandemic never happened and that everything...
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We are living through the first year of pretending the pandemic never happened and that everything is back to normal. Nobody has had a chance to heal, and this holiday season is going to break a whole lot of people. Be kind.
Rest of World -...
The Turkish TikToker teaching young women to be religious girlbosses Şule Kayatürk has become a star by making videos about being an observant Muslim who is also a...
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Fintech and Practical Utopianism
over a year ago
Unpacked
Highlights: First Quarter of Unpacked Bold product moves, AI things accelerate, Tech policy in the front seat, Interesting things...
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Bold product moves, AI things accelerate, Tech policy in the front seat, Interesting things continue. This post is a bird’s eye view of the seventeen articles published on Unpacked in the past quarter.
Stephen Diehl
Dive into GHC: Pipeline
over a year ago
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Capabilities and sensibilities “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the...
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability…
Noahpinion
Do poor countries need a new development strategy? Bangladesh and Southeast Asia are defying the economists who say industrialization is dead.
11 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Gordon Ramsay's Apprenticeship The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high...
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9 months ago
The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high standards and how to take the reins.
Tom Blomfield
Don't write tests - The Hidden Cost of TDD I’ve been following the TDD/testing debate with some interest; I work at an early-stage payments...
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I’ve been following the TDD/testing debate with some interest; I work at an early-stage payments startup called GoCardless where we test religiously. We’re not dogmatic about whether the tests come first or not, but code doesn’t get deployed without full unit & acceptance tests....
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...
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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.
Varun's Notes
Your Platform Is as Strong as Its Identity Layer Analyzing platforms through a layered cake of identity, social networking, and super apps.
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
over a year ago
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eBay vs Amazon: decentralized vs centralized e-commerce Note: The company I cofounded, Hunch, was acquired by eBay in November 2011. I am now an eBay...
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Note: The company I cofounded, Hunch, was acquired by eBay in November 2011. I am now an eBay employee. But all the opinions expressed below…
Roberto Vitillo's...
The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at...
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In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at the heart of many distributed systems…
Tom Blomfield
Advice Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your...
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Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your wits to help you. Often, though, advice will be forthcoming. This post is about that advice, and how to spot the difference between good and bad. Some advice is expert - your...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🪄 Growth Magic
5 months ago
XO Capital - Field...
We 10x-ed screenshotapi.net and sold it Before we jump in, I was on a pod talking through content, acquisitions, etc: This exit is bitter...
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Before we jump in, I was on a pod talking through content, acquisitions, etc: This exit is bitter sweet. Screenshot was our first ever acquisition. We 10x-ed it, and it is really the reason XO exists today. If this first acquisition hadn't gone well, I think I would
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
Rest of World -...
As Zimbabwe’s economy collapses, traditional healers are selling wealth advice on TikTok Locally known as sangomas, spiritual guides are gaining fame online, but they face criticism from...
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
How Spotify helped turn Afrobeats into a global phenomenon The Swedish music giant is pushing to make Africa’s biggest sound the world’s favorite sound.
12 months ago
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Pricing to the demand curve Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students...
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Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students an imaginary trip to Hawaii, and asks…
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies" "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is...
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal…
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Mexico City has an earthquake alarm system. Millions trust an app more SkyAlert users turn their phones into personal quake monitors rather than rely on the government’s...
a year ago
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Is it a tech bubble? Every week a “we are in a tech bubble” article seems to come out in a major newspaper or blog....
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Every week a “we are in a tech bubble” article seems to come out in a major newspaper or blog. People who argue we aren’t in a bubble are…
Nadia Asparouhova
Early stage funding markets for science - an analysis In the summer of 2022, with support from Schmidt Futures, I took a closer look at several emerging...
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In the summer of 2022, with support from Schmidt Futures, I took a closer look at several emerging science funding mechanisms – rapid grants, scout programs, and focused research organizations (FROs) – to understand how they serve the needs of early stage science. I also...
Noahpinion
Indian immigration is great for America This isn't ambiguous.
2 weeks ago
Rest of World -...
The end of anonymity on Chinese social media Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China A milestone in the militarization of AI.
6 months ago
AVC
What Will Happen In 2023 I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because...
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I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been...
Platformer
What I learned in year three of Platformer Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Building AI products How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things...
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How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things ‘wrong’? What does wrong mean, and how is that useful?
Tech + Economics +...
A shared burden: rethinking cybersecurity post the 23andMe breach. TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached But in a...
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TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached But in a letter sent to a group of hundreds of 23andMe users who are now suing the company, 23andMe said that “users negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Future of Web Startups
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Traditional multinationals are making their mark on Latin American tech The region’s conservative corporations are finding different ways to get into technology.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Trudeau was a poor steward of Canada's economy No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
2 days ago
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Founder vesting The most important term in a startup term sheet that no one seems to think carefully about is...
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The most important term in a startup term sheet that no one seems to think carefully about is founder vesting.   There are two key points…
Working Theorys
Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 To get status, you have to give up status.
11 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 So simple yet so easy to overlook: Is whatever you’re putting out there actually attracting...
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#1 💡 So simple yet so easy to overlook: Is whatever you’re putting out there actually attracting the kind of people you want to attract? If you focus on metrics alone, you will quickly find yourself with pretty numbers but little value. For example, you can easily
Business Brainstorms
A/B QR, how to run a business, airport rides, high-growth Asia-Pacific companies, lessons from Keith... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “i want to go to a doctor that will run every single...
Rest of World -...
How Apple’s India gamble paid off India’s growing middle class is fueling a billion-dollar sales surge.
5 months ago
Unpacked
NVIDIA Explained: Origins, GPUs and AI stock bump | EP8 NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In...
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NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In the latest episode, we dive a few layers deep into the company. We start with the origin of the company and the launch of their first GPU in 1999 which unlocked several...
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"It's pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years" Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused....
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Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused. Imagine you're running Exxon, what do you…
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The Indian EV startup navigating short-lived government subsidies Prashant Vashishtha is the founder and chairman of Sokudo Electric India.
6 months ago
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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Keybase: bringing public-key cryptography to mainstream users Today I’m excited to announce that a16z is leading a $10.8M Series A financing of Keybase, a company...
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Today I’m excited to announce that a16z is leading a $10.8M Series A financing of Keybase, a company that is trying to make the internet…
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Nigeria’s currency devaluation is a disaster for startups “So many businesses will die. It’s not a matter of if but when.”
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Hundred-Year Language
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Japan’s digital ID program is a complicated mess The “My Number” card program, initially hopeful, is now making more headaches than headway.
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs and Palm This is not satisfactory to Apple.
3 weeks ago
David Perell
The TWA Hotel The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel...
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The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel appeared first on David Perell.
Platformer
Why Platformer is leaving Substack We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out
12 months ago
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New York City is poised for a tech revival One thing that was puzzling about the “web 2.0 boom” from 2003-2008 was how irrelevant the East...
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One thing that was puzzling about the “web 2.0 boom” from 2003-2008 was how irrelevant the East Coast, and particular New York City, was…
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
How WhatsApp ate the world WhatsApp is already the world’s most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more.
a month ago
Noahpinion
Progressives need to embrace progress Stasis won't lead to a prosperous or equitable society.
a year ago
Raw Thought (from...
Confront reality
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
A decade of the Tim Cook machine In all the enthusiasms, arguments and panics around tech, Apple is the $2tn elephant in the...
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In all the enthusiasms, arguments and panics around tech, Apple is the $2tn elephant in the corner, mostly silent and serenely indifferent to the news cycle. It just ships - and it ships market-leading products, with metronomic precision, at massive scale, on a decade-long...
Roberto Vitillo's...
How distributed systems fail At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes,...
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At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…