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How to create a membership website
17th Jun 2017
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How to create a membership website

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

17th Jun 2017
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Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean? Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean? I have a little category theory library I've been dragging...
16th Feb 2026
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Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean?

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

16th Feb 2026
Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean? I have a little category theory library I've been dragging around for about a decade now. It started life in Haskell, got ported to Agda, briefly lived in Idris, spent some time in Coq, and has now landed in Lean 4. I call it Kitty Cats....
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How Tech Outstayed Its Welcome Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first...
30th Jan 2024
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How Tech Outstayed Its Welcome

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

30th Jan 2024
Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first real “new” thing since the Apple Watch, and arguably its most notable release since the iPad or iPhone. Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the few truly reliable Apple analysts, estimates
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You Should Watch More Canceled TV Shows An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
26th Oct 2022
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You Should Watch More Canceled TV Shows

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Oct 2022
An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 In my university days everyone had to attend a workshop on stress management. The one golden...
5th Feb 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Feb 2024
#1 💡 In my university days everyone had to attend a workshop on stress management. The one golden nugget I took away from it is that stress is 100% a framing issue. You only feel stressed when you think you can't handle it. Absolutely nothing wrong with a full calendar, juggling...
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Materialist Conceptions of God yet another attempt at bridging religion and rationality
25th Feb 2024
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Materialist Conceptions of God

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Feb 2024
yet another attempt at bridging religion and rationality
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a...
13th May 2025
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

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

13th May 2025
This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from...
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
11th Sep 2023
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Sep 2023
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The Freedom Ladder
7th Jun 2019
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The Freedom Ladder

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

7th Jun 2019
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What’s this about? This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective...
12th Dec 2025
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What’s this about?

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

12th Dec 2025
This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective that’s useful to you right now, whether or not it’s universally true. This narrow definition is important because whatever you consider true is closed. No questioning. But when...
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walk and talk Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days,...
12th Dec 2023
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walk and talk

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

12th Dec 2023
Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days, ending in Chiang Mai. Walking with us were ten other smart interesting people, including five other authors whose work I’ve loved for years. It’s a “Walk and Talk”.
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Looking for AI use-cases We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful...
19th Apr 2024
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Looking for AI use-cases

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

19th Apr 2024
We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thousands of new companies...
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Be independent. Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent...
1st Dec 2021
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Be independent.

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

1st Dec 2021
Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent on income, people, or technology, you would be truly free. The only way to be deeply happy is to break all dependencies. People think we live in a world of politics, society,...
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Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly. As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most...
19th Feb 2014
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Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Feb 2014
As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most common mistakes is how people...
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FTC's case against Amazon is misunderstood The case makes a nuanced argument about how Amazon abused monopoly power through anti-discounting...
3rd Oct 2023
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FTC's case against Amazon is misunderstood

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Oct 2023
The case makes a nuanced argument about how Amazon abused monopoly power through anti-discounting measures and tying in Prime with Fulfilled by Amazon
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The Apple Vision Pro: A Review I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re...
12th Feb 2024
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The Apple Vision Pro: A Review

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

12th Feb 2024
I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re reading and one of the first two episodes of my upcoming iHeartRadio podcast Better Offline. I wrote the majority of this newsletter on the Vision Pro itself, though
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The Disneyland Dilemma Disney's cash cow is the theme parks division. Can new CEO Josh D'Amaro milk Disneyland to complete...
2nd Apr 2026
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The Disneyland Dilemma

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

2nd Apr 2026
Disney's cash cow is the theme parks division. Can new CEO Josh D'Amaro milk Disneyland to complete the cable-to-streaming transition?
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Space-time Algebra in Python Space-time Algebra in Python Geometric Algebra is a very cool alternative formulation of linear...
21st Apr 2013
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Space-time Algebra in Python

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

21st Apr 2013
Space-time Algebra in Python Geometric Algebra is a very cool alternative formulation of linear algebra that provides a succinct framework for representing geometric transformations and physical phenomena. One of my favourite books is Geometric Algebra for Computer Science by Leo...
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Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
7th Jul 2025
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Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2025
But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
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What explains the rise of AMMs? Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run...
22nd Jul 2020
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What explains the rise of AMMs?

from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Jul 2020
Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run a market making bot. I’ll always quote a price no matter who’s asking, and for my pricing algorithm I’ll use x * y = k. That’s pretty much it. Want to invest?” You’d run...
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Tech questions for 2022 Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of...
2nd Jan 2022
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Tech questions for 2022

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

2nd Jan 2022
Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open. These are the questions I wonder about today, from crypto to cars to fast fashion - there are others.
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Clients Have a Surprising Amount of Detail There’s a wonderful blog post called “Reality has a surprising amount of detail” which talks about...
5th Jun 2023
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Clients Have a Surprising Amount of Detail

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Jun 2023
There’s a wonderful blog post called “Reality has a surprising amount of detail” which talks about how interesting the world is and how much depth there is to every concept. Here’s a quote about boiling water:
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Who will control the software that powers the Internet? Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over...
4th Jan 2019
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Who will control the software that powers the Internet?

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jan 2019
Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually shifted from open source protocols maintained by non-profit communities ...
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The Post-literate Economy The Post-literate Economy A Monologue from the Near-Future My Neural-Nudge gently vibrated my...
9th Jan 2025
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The Post-literate Economy

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

9th Jan 2025
The Post-literate Economy A Monologue from the Near-Future My Neural-Nudge gently vibrated my brainstem at 07:00. No jarring alarms here, thank you very much. We're all about harmonious awakenings. First thing, like everyone, I jacked into the OmniStream for my Morning MoodSet....
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Steve Jobs, Rick Rubin and "taste" The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.
6th May 2023
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Steve Jobs, Rick Rubin and "taste"

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

6th May 2023
The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.
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What's important
9th Jul 2012
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What's important

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

9th Jul 2012
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Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship) Culture wars are won through aesthetics.
7th Feb 2025
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Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship)

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Feb 2025
Culture wars are won through aesthetics.
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Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
23rd Aug 2022
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Cultivating agency

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

23rd Aug 2022
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
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2019 year in review
1st Jan 2020
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2019 year in review

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

1st Jan 2020
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Ads, privacy and confusion Privacy is coming to the internet and cookies are going away. This is long overdue - but we don’t...
27th Aug 2021
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Ads, privacy and confusion

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

27th Aug 2021
Privacy is coming to the internet and cookies are going away. This is long overdue - but we don’t know what happens next, we don’t have much consensus on what online privacy actually means, and most of what’s on the table conflicts fundamentally with competition.
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I’ve Moved Onchain Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2...
2nd May 2024
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I’ve Moved Onchain

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2024
Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2 services anymore. So I am starting a series called “I’ve Moved Onchain” to explain this journey to everyone and today’s opening post is about blogging, naturally. I’ve blogged at...
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How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices Finding a customer for your product in the Department of Defense is hard: Who should you talk to?...
17th Sep 2024
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How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices

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

17th Sep 2024
Finding a customer for your product in the Department of Defense is hard: Who should you talk to? How do you get their attention? How do you know if they have money to spend on your product? It almost always starts with a Program Executive Office. The Department of Defense (DoD)...
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After fifteen years of practice Since the age of fourteen, I was determined to be a great singer. But my pitch was bad, my tone was...
15th Jun 2010
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After fifteen years of practice

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

15th Jun 2010
Since the age of fourteen, I was determined to be a great singer. But my pitch was bad, my tone was bad, and everyone said I was just not a singer. At eighteen, I started touring, performing two to four shows a week, always as the lead singer. Often they were outdoor shows,...
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The Limitations of RAG The Limitations of RAG Retrieval-Augmented generation or RAG is the future of enterprise search. In...
2nd Nov 2024
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The Limitations of RAG

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

2nd Nov 2024
The Limitations of RAG Retrieval-Augmented generation or RAG is the future of enterprise search. In short it's the art of grinding your documents into a fine, high-dimensional vector slurry, sifting through the high-dimensional slurry for chunks, and then piping the chunks...
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Loving what I used to hate Be careful when you say you like or dislike something, because you could change your mind...
18th May 2014
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Loving what I used to hate

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

18th May 2014
Be careful when you say you like or dislike something, because you could change your mind soon. David Letterman, I thought it was so horrible that it must be a joke. Even years later, when I heard him again, I hated his music passionately. But then I heard his cover version of...
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After Minimalism It's time for us to move beyond minimalism. If we want a dynamic world, we should splash our...
1st Dec 2020
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After Minimalism

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2020
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.
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Progressives need to learn to take the W Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
1st Sep 2024
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Progressives need to learn to take the W

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2024
Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
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Bill Gates is Angry Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past...
8th Aug 2020
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Bill Gates is Angry

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

8th Aug 2020
Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real science. But now he appears to be...
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Distributed Capital In theory, the hard part about finding capital for unproven founders with unproven technologies in...
1st Mar 2021
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Distributed Capital

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

1st Mar 2021
In theory, the hard part about finding capital for unproven founders with unproven technologies in unproven markets should be that no one wants the risk. There was a time when that was true, but it isn’t anymore.[1] For a founder, the issue is different: venture capital is...
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Stuff I would tell my younger self A collection of advice I'd give to my younger self, if I could.
28th Feb 2024
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Stuff I would tell my younger self

from anthonynsimon.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Feb 2024
A collection of advice I'd give to my younger self, if I could.
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When you can't win
15th Jul 2014
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When you can't win

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

15th Jul 2014
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000 A Sci-Fi Short Story
13th Jun 2023
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000

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jun 2023
A Sci-Fi Short Story
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Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 1 (Module Systems) Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 1 (Module Systems) All successful programming languages are alike;...
1st Mar 2021
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Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 1 (Module Systems)

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

1st Mar 2021
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 1 (Module Systems) All successful programming languages are alike; every unsuccessful programming language is unsuccessful in its own way. The history of software is one that runs parallel to a simultaneous but separate conversation, and that is the...
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed" Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth...
13th Mar 2015
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed"

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Mar 2015
Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth graders, and they had a whole classroom full…
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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
4th Apr 2023
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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

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

4th Apr 2023
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately...
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8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
2nd Feb 2024
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8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

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

2nd Feb 2024
What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
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Why you will skim this article Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then...
23rd Jul 2023
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Why you will skim this article

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Jul 2023
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then you’re likely to scan through a few paragraphs in this article and then give up. (Unless, you’re a long-time reader and trust that my writing is worthy of your time. More on this...
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Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate,...
2nd Mar 2026
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Anthropic and Alignment

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

2nd Mar 2026
Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.
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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out the actually scary thing about social media
31st Dec 2024
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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

31st Dec 2024
the actually scary thing about social media
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Jason Fried wants to delete my backlog
2nd Aug 2019
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Jason Fried wants to delete my backlog

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

2nd Aug 2019
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Ideas aren't cheap
8th May 2020
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Ideas aren't cheap

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

8th May 2020
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Franchise Thinking On the sequel economics of ideas.
10th Feb 2026
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Franchise Thinking

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Feb 2026
On the sequel economics of ideas.
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You can only succeed if you know how you can fail We want to be successful with our decisions. Even though failure is often glamorized, nobody wants...
18th Feb 2023
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You can only succeed if you know how you can fail

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Feb 2023
We want to be successful with our decisions. Even though failure is often glamorized, nobody wants it on purpose. Everyone wishes to be successful when they’re starting a company, launching a product, hiring a leader or even while buying a house. It may sound obvious, but the...
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Are better models better? Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have...
22nd Jan 2025
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Are better models better?

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

22nd Jan 2025
Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So what does ‘better’ mean, how do we manage these things, and should we change what we expect from...
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Programming transforms your brain. Here's how. Knowing how to program has a multitude of positive effects on the brain.
7th Aug 2023
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Programming transforms your brain. Here's how.

from Devmoh [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Aug 2023
Knowing how to program has a multitude of positive effects on the brain.
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The Best Companies Are Dictatorships Everyone wants democracy until they see what it builds
1st Aug 2025
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The Best Companies Are Dictatorships

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2025
Everyone wants democracy until they see what it builds
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How Twitter Survives (Or Doesn't) Meta's approach, Twitter's moat and a few different future scenarios
12th Jul 2023
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How Twitter Survives (Or Doesn't)

from Throwable [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Jul 2023
Meta's approach, Twitter's moat and a few different future scenarios
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America's chip export controls are working Don't be fooled by the people who say we should sell China everything we've got.
2nd Jan 2026
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America's chip export controls are working

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jan 2026
Don't be fooled by the people who say we should sell China everything we've got.
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Bedrock programming “Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code...
6th Feb 2012
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Bedrock programming

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Feb 2012
“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code from the ground up versus reusing…
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A decade of the Tim Cook machine In all the enthusiasms, arguments and panics around tech, Apple is the $2tn elephant in the...
13th Sep 2021
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A decade of the Tim Cook machine

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

13th Sep 2021
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...
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AIVC I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog...
4th May 2023
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AIVC

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th May 2023
I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me […]
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Twenty dollars in an envelope
4th Mar 2013
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Twenty dollars in an envelope

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

4th Mar 2013
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How many pets do you have? I used to have too many pets. My house was overflowing. But it didn’t feel that way at the...
13th Aug 2021
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How many pets do you have?

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

13th Aug 2021
I used to have too many pets. My house was overflowing. But it didn’t feel that way at the time. In each moment, I was giving just one pet my full attention. My life was full of so many loves. I sadly realized this was unfair. The situation was hurting them. No pet was...
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Can you bootstrap a startup on the side?
9th Dec 2018
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Can you bootstrap a startup on the side?

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

9th Dec 2018
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What is “founder mode”? We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk...
7th Oct 2024
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What is “founder mode”?

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Oct 2024
We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk about his experience running Airbnb over the last 17 years. He believed that as Airbnb hired more professional managers, he lost a close connection with the details of the end product...
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Nobody knows the future, so focus on what doesn’t change At every music conference, with a panel of experts on stage, the moderator always asks, “What’s the...
17th Oct 2008
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Nobody knows the future, so focus on what doesn’t change

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

17th Oct 2008
At every music conference, with a panel of experts on stage, the moderator always asks, “What’s the future of the music business?” The guy selling intelligent playlists will say that intelligent playlists are the future. We have a desperate need for certainty, so we want...
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How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
13th Jun 2024
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How to do the jhanas

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

13th Jun 2024
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
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Shed your money taboos Everyone has weird mental associations with money. But after knowing thousands of musicians for...
5th Feb 2018
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Shed your money taboos

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

5th Feb 2018
Everyone has weird mental associations with money. But after knowing thousands of musicians for over twenty years, I’ve learned this: The happiest musicians are the ones who develop their value, and confidently charge a high price. There’s a deep satisfaction when you know...
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🪄 Growth Magic
12th Aug 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Aug 2024
🪄 Growth Magic
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A Haskell Reading List A Haskell Reading List Here is a list of papers and writings of what I consider are essential...
15th Aug 2012
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A Haskell Reading List

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

15th Aug 2012
A Haskell Reading List Here is a list of papers and writings of what I consider are essential Haskell reading. Haskell 2010 Language Specification Typeclassopedia The Essence of Functional Programming How to make ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc Monads for functional...
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Derivative Zoo Derivative Zoo There are many types of operators that we call derivatives. Classical...
1st May 2018
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Derivative Zoo

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

1st May 2018
Derivative Zoo There are many types of operators that we call derivatives. Classical Derivative One-Sided Derivative Higher Order Derivative Implicit Derivative Complex Derivative Partial Derivative Directional Derivative Covariant Derivative Lie Derivative Exterior...
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet...
3rd Jan 2010
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy

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3rd Jan 2010
One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list ten…
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Introducing SPEAR: The Management Framework for AI The strong-start-weak-finish problem in AI is a process problem, not a model problem.
5th May 2026
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Introducing SPEAR: The Management Framework for AI

from Entrepreneur's Edge [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th May 2026
The strong-start-weak-finish problem in AI is a process problem, not a model problem.
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The Thirty Years' War Is Starting Again The Thirty Years' War Is Starting Again Every few decades, one of America's two political parties...
3rd Aug 2025
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The Thirty Years' War Is Starting Again

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

3rd Aug 2025
The Thirty Years' War Is Starting Again Every few decades, one of America's two political parties undergoes a structural realignment so complete that the continuity of the name becomes a polite fiction. The Democrats did it in the 1960s. The Republicans are doing it now. Reagan's...
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Forget about your heroes We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
29th Jul 2020
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Forget about your heroes

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

29th Jul 2020
We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
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You should try contra dancing A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days is “How would you spend your life if AGI meant...
24th Apr 2026
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You should try contra dancing

from benkuhn.net [alt+shift+b] in startups

24th Apr 2026
A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days is “How would you spend your life if AGI meant nobody needed to work?” For me, I think a surprisingly big part of the answer is a dorky-sounding kind of folk dance called contra dancing. I started trying to answer that question by...
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Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition...
3rd Feb 2026
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Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War

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

3rd Feb 2026
This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by people from private capital (venture capital and private equity.)  Deputy...
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Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a...
5th Aug 2024
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Diaconescu's Theorem

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

5th Aug 2024
Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a fascinating and surprising connection between two fundamental principles in mathematics: the Axiom of Choice and the Law of Excluded Middle. In simple terms, the theorem states that if you...
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Why Open Source AI Will Win You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
15th Sep 2023
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Why Open Source AI Will Win

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Sep 2023
You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
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Las Vegas, F1 and the sport's long history in America PLUS: An unexpected Netflix hit and the world's most popular artist.
3rd Nov 2023
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Las Vegas, F1 and the sport's long history in America

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

3rd Nov 2023
PLUS: An unexpected Netflix hit and the world's most popular artist.
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The limits of conventional wisdom All bits of wisdom have limits, boundaries, thresholds.
10th Dec 2021
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The limits of conventional wisdom

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

10th Dec 2021
All bits of wisdom have limits, boundaries, thresholds.
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Trophy Jobs | Theory No. 12 We’ve all heard of the trophy wife or husband — a partner that’s valued heavily as a status symbol,...
17th Jul 2023
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Trophy Jobs | Theory No. 12

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Jul 2023
We’ve all heard of the trophy wife or husband — a partner that’s valued heavily as a status symbol, for superficial qualities over substance. Similarly, I’ve started to think about the idea of the trophy job — a job that people covet for its status more than its substance.
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How to Estimate Sales Using Inventory Web-Scraped Data A powerful use case for web data
4th Mar 2024
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How to Estimate Sales Using Inventory Web-Scraped Data

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Mar 2024
A powerful use case for web data
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Vibecoding a production app TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m...
21st Mar 2025
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Vibecoding a production app

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Mar 2025
TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m a startup founder turned investor. I taught myself (bad) PHP in 2000, and picked up Ruby on Rails in 2011. I’d guess 2015 was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby professionally....
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The 2013 revenue stats I didn't want to share
1st Jan 2014
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The 2013 revenue stats I didn't want to share

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

1st Jan 2014
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Constraint Solving with MiniZinc Constraint Solving with MiniZinc MiniZinc is a powerful constraint modeling language that allows you...
21st Apr 2023
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Constraint Solving with MiniZinc

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

21st Apr 2023
Constraint Solving with MiniZinc MiniZinc is a powerful constraint modeling language that allows you to express complex problems declaratively and solve them efficiently. First, install MiniZinc from the official website. You can use the MiniZinc IDE for an integrated environment...
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Going Deep on DeepSpeed Going Deep on DeepSpeed Getting started with training modern AI models on multi-GPU hardware can...
5th Jun 2023
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Going Deep on DeepSpeed

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

5th Jun 2023
Going Deep on DeepSpeed Getting started with training modern AI models on multi-GPU hardware can feel quite daunting. So let's break down the key concepts and how to get started with the Microsoft DeepSpeed library. Here's a short DeepSpeed tutorial, this is a deep (har har)...
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Tab Tab Tab How humans became training data with paychecks
4th Nov 2025
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Tab Tab Tab

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Nov 2025
How humans became training data with paychecks
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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...
30th May 2019
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One of the dumbest things I've ever published

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

30th May 2019
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...
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Second Nature Skills What can you do without trying that hard?
14th Aug 2024
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Second Nature Skills

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Aug 2024
What can you do without trying that hard?
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Tech pace layers I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
31st Dec 2024
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Tech pace layers

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

31st Dec 2024
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
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Sleep is so weird Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full...
5th Feb 2024
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Sleep is so weird

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Feb 2024
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...
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Pricing to the demand curve Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students...
4th Jul 2012
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Pricing to the demand curve

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jul 2012
Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students an imaginary trip to Hawaii, and asks…
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How I grew from 1,000 to 25,000 daily readers. Updates on growing a newsletter business.
7th Aug 2023
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How I grew from 1,000 to 25,000 daily readers.

from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Aug 2023
Updates on growing a newsletter business.
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Why I left America I was living on the beach in Santa Monica, California, and life was perfect. I was in paradise, and...
9th Mar 2022
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Why I left America

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

9th Mar 2022
I was living on the beach in Santa Monica, California, and life was perfect. I was in paradise, and deeply happy. But I always want to learn and grow. To grow intellectually, you need to be surprised. If we’re not surprised, we’re not really learning. We may add new...
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International financial anarchy What happens after the Age of the Dollar ends?
1st Feb 2026
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International financial anarchy

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Feb 2026
What happens after the Age of the Dollar ends?
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GenAI’s adoption puzzle Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that...
25th May 2025
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GenAI’s adoption puzzle

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

25th May 2025
Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that can replace all software, but so far, most of its users only pick it up every week or two, and far fewer have made it part of their lives. Is that a time problem or a product...
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YouTube: The Learning Machine Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of...
3rd May 2024
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YouTube: The Learning Machine

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

3rd May 2024
Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of sports footage on the platform helps to explain why.
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🙏 Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me...
25th Nov 2021
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🙏

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Nov 2021
Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me along the way. I tried to summariz...
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News is a lousy business for Google too There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few...
7th Mar 2010
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News is a lousy business for Google too

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Mar 2010
There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: “Google…
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America’s $37B Football Obsession The top two sports-leagues by revenue in the world are NFL ($23B)...and College Football ($14B), the...
5th Sep 2025
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America’s $37B Football Obsession

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

5th Sep 2025
The top two sports-leagues by revenue in the world are NFL ($23B)...and College Football ($14B), the latter alone makes more than NBA, MLB or English Premiere League.
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Be real.
8th Nov 2010
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Be real.

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

8th Nov 2010
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Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers Recruiters are wooing new workers with bonuses and gifts.
1st Oct 2024
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Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Oct 2024
Recruiters are wooing new workers with bonuses and gifts.
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Q-Codes; Or… Stop repeating yourself ⌨️ I use apple’s keyboard “text” shortcodes to setup a lot of things i have to type regularly. It’s...
26th Aug 2022
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Q-Codes; Or… Stop repeating yourself ⌨️

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Aug 2022
I use apple’s keyboard “text” shortcodes to setup a lot of things i have to type regularly. It’s easily one of my favorite productivity hacks!
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Another Instinct Article It has been an insanely busy 2 weeks - and in the time it took me to have time to write this,...
18th Sep 2026
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Another Instinct Article

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

18th Sep 2026
It has been an insanely busy 2 weeks - and in the time it took me to have time to write this, Instinct went from raising a $250M Series B at a $2.5B valuation to reportedly raising $1B at $10B.
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The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how...
23rd Sep 2026
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The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same

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

23rd Sep 2026
This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and helped launch thousands of startups. But this past summer, I got thinking about...
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What’s Up with Austin? Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live.  The post What’s Up with Austin? appeared...
21st Jun 2022
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What’s Up with Austin?

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Jun 2022
Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live.  The post What’s Up with Austin? appeared first on David Perell.
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Dive into GHC: Pipeline Dive into GHC: Pipeline After reading Simon's I'm by no means an expert on GHC internals, but I have...
21st Jun 2016
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Dive into GHC: Pipeline

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

21st Jun 2016
Dive into GHC: Pipeline After reading Simon's I'm by no means an expert on GHC internals, but I have worked with them a fair So begins a multipart writeup on the structure of GHC structured around several Official Commentary GHC core developers have actually spent a great deal of...
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The competitive claw machine boom How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine...
9th Jan 2026
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The competitive claw machine boom

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Jan 2026
How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine enthusiasts.
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Feb 2023 What up XO fam. I've had plenty of caffeine this morning so I'm going to be firing from the hip on...
3rd Mar 2023
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Feb 2023

from XO Capital - Field Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Mar 2023
What up XO fam. I've had plenty of caffeine this morning so I'm going to be firing from the hip on this one. Example: Guys (and gals). Listen. buying MRR is lovely. Here's proof (and 13 people agreed). If you haven't tried
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Do you need marketing tracking and automation?
7th Aug 2021
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Do you need marketing tracking and automation?

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

7th Aug 2021
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Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language...
27th Jun 2023
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Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Jun 2023
How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language models?
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Ways to think about a metaverse Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does metaverse even mean?...
31st Oct 2022
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Ways to think about a metaverse

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

31st Oct 2022
Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does metaverse even mean? If we strip away the noise, what can we say about this, and what can we predict?
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Garmin's ~$40B Pivot The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
17th Jan 2025
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Garmin's ~$40B Pivot

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

17th Jan 2025
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
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The Rot-Com Bubble If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter...
3rd Jun 2024
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The Rot-Com Bubble

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

3rd Jun 2024
If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter that further expands on the Rot-Com Bubble, coming out Wednesday and Friday. The noxious growth-at-all-costs mindset of the Rot Economy sits at the core of every issue that I'
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ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment The wave of enthusiasm around generative networks feels like another Imagenet moment - a step...
14th Dec 2022
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ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment

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

14th Dec 2022
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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Justin's world
13th Aug 2008
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Justin's world

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

13th Aug 2008
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Why decentralization matters The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the...
18th Feb 2018
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Why decentralization matters

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Feb 2018
The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were…
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The Shareholder Supremacy I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly,...
1st Jul 2024
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The Shareholder Supremacy

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

1st Jul 2024
I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta,...
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How to be a messy thinker I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental...
12th May 2024
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How to be a messy thinker

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th May 2024
I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental models, and I’ll gobble it up. Given the amount of knowledge I’ve ingested on these topics, I had always assumed that I’m a clear thinker. Recently, though, it hit me like a...
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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives. 2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private...
6th Aug 2020
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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives.

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

6th Aug 2020
2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private email list with a secret link to buy my new books. I made 5000 limited edition hardcover copies of each, but those have sold out now. Then I thought about what to do with the...
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AI that was inevitable This is a feature I’ve been waiting for for the past two years.
23rd Jul 2025
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AI that was inevitable

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

23rd Jul 2025
This is a feature I’ve been waiting for for the past two years.
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Complexity Opportunity & the Complexity Equilibrium Why jobs aren’t going anywhere
23rd Sep 2026
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Complexity Opportunity & the Complexity Equilibrium

from Throwable [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Sep 2026
Why jobs aren’t going anywhere
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How Philosophers Think Philosophers are the most rigorous thinkers I know. Like intellectual boxers; they come to...
1st Jun 2021
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How Philosophers Think

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jun 2021
Philosophers are the most rigorous thinkers I know. Like intellectual boxers; they come to understand ideas by making them fight with each other. Their style of analysis is effective because it’s so bloody. One friend calls his style “violent thinking.” He talks about thinking...
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Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepoint Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces...
4th Mar 2024
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Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepoint

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Mar 2024
Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces competition from Chinese-backed OPay.
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Becoming Creative I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few...
5th Oct 2023
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Becoming Creative

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Oct 2023
I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few links that I deeply love about starting, finishing and promoting creative acts…
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I have a new website
26th Oct 2018
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I have a new website

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

26th Oct 2018
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Amazon's $43B ad business, explained Jeff Bezos long shunned ads. However, Amazon's juicy first-party data has enabled it to compete with...
1st Sep 2023
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Amazon's $43B ad business, explained

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

1st Sep 2023
Jeff Bezos long shunned ads. However, Amazon's juicy first-party data has enabled it to compete with Alphabet and Meta in the new digital advertising landscape.
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The Sofa I would commit.
13th Apr 2026
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The Sofa

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Apr 2026
I would commit.
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Big questions for big data Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different...
26th Jun 2019
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Big questions for big data

from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Jun 2019
Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different article for every 100 people on earth. There are also 18 million videos on the topic. At 5 minutes each, it would take 170 years to watch them all. Then there’s the one million...
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Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage Many articles written about the GameStop...
3rd Feb 2021
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Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage

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

3rd Feb 2021
Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage Many articles written about the GameStop story mark the event as a watershed moment in the markets and an epic tale of the establishment vs the little man. I won’t tell you these things. In fact I assert the GameStop...
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AI-driven content is a nightmare Giving people a never-ending stream of content designed to keep them on a centralized platform...
13th Sep 2022
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AI-driven content is a nightmare

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

13th Sep 2022
Giving people a never-ending stream of content designed to keep them on a centralized platform longer where the algorithm is controlled by some megacorp (and its shareholders) isn’t my idea of a great future. It’s fucking dystopian.
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Yes! Apple TV!
17th Nov 2008
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Yes! Apple TV!

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

17th Nov 2008
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It's not just B2C vs B2B anymore
24th Jul 2024
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It's not just B2C vs B2B anymore

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

24th Jul 2024
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Reading the Bible start to finish I like going to the source. Like finding musicians’ influences, and getting to know that music too....
27th Jan 2023
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Reading the Bible start to finish

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

27th Jan 2023
I like going to the source. Like finding musicians’ influences, and getting to know that music too. Same with film, art, philosophy, and technology.
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1, 7, 30, 11, 12 Jews do mourning well. That’s what I’ve always thought from watching family and friends go through...
4th Feb 2026
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1, 7, 30, 11, 12

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

4th Feb 2026
Jews do mourning well. That’s what I’ve always thought from watching family and friends go through it. It’s what I’ve learned as fact since my father died eleven months ago. There’s a central tension to it. A constant fault line that our customs straddle. It’s the constant...
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Everybody stop
4th Aug 2011
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Everybody stop

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4th Aug 2011
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Moderate people, not code Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big...
22nd Jan 2024
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Moderate people, not code

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Jan 2024
Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big fedi? Or a small fedi? Are instances just nodes? Or networked communities? Which Camp of Mastodon are we in? How far should our replies travel? How about our blog posts and Bluesky...
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Logs as end user UI A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests,...
11th Jan 2023
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Logs as end user UI

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jan 2023
A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON objects, stack traces, etc. It’s an unusual UI feature, but it’s been an unqualified success, enough that when I built Bridgy Fed, I immediately...
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom,...
21st Mar 2013
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage

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

21st Mar 2013
The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom, the CEO and VP of a hugely-funded Silicon Valley online music company contacted me, saying they wanted to fly out to New York to meet me. I said OK, and we met a week later for...
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Comma.ai I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry....
2nd Apr 2016
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Comma.ai

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2nd Apr 2016
I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry. One trend I discussed is the rapid…
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
7th Jun 2023
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

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7th Jun 2023
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Elon Musk names OpenAI | Mark Zuckerberg | Bill Gates We could call this the Open Al Institute (Open AI-I!), but call it Open in everyday conversation.
9th Aug 2025
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Elon Musk names OpenAI | Mark Zuckerberg | Bill Gates

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Aug 2025
We could call this the Open Al Institute (Open AI-I!), but call it Open in everyday conversation.
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How to attend a conference Attending a music conference is the most efficient way to meet the most number of the best...
12th Dec 2008
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How to attend a conference

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

12th Dec 2008
Attending a music conference is the most efficient way to meet the most number of the best contacts. I highly recommend you go to a few music industry conferences every year. be interested in them. how to be a great listener. (The original classic from the 1930s is titled...
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Managing people 🤯 I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps...
6th Feb 2022
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Managing people 🤯

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Feb 2022
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
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"Thoughts on OpenAI" To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
5th May 2024
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"Thoughts on OpenAI"

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th May 2024
To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
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Should you take the startup offer? The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
3rd Aug 2026
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Should you take the startup offer?

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3rd Aug 2026
The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
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The costs of microservices An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page...
22nd Nov 2020
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The costs of microservices

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Nov 2020
An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page Javascript application, for example - it…
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There are always more than two options People sometimes ask my help in making big decisions. They’re usually trying to decide between two...
27th Jan 2010
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There are always more than two options

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

27th Jan 2010
People sometimes ask my help in making big decisions. They’re usually trying to decide between two options. When someone says they have only one option, they’re really saying, “I have no choice,” and you know that’s wrong. At the very least, add “do nothing” and “go insane”...
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What We're Fighting For Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the...
11th Feb 2025
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What We're Fighting For

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

11th Feb 2025
Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the end of the world — watching as the growth-at-all-costs, hyper-financialized Rot Economy seemingly tarnishes every corner of our digital lives. My core frustration isn't just how...
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Aquatic Achievements Enough to get one's feet wet
21st Jul 2025
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Aquatic Achievements

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21st Jul 2025
Enough to get one's feet wet
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The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at...
26th Jul 2020
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The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Jul 2020
In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at the heart of many distributed systems…
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Nowhere Is Safe Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The...
9th Apr 2026
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Nowhere Is Safe

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

9th Apr 2026
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and missile defense systems (THAAD, Patriot batteries) designed to counter tens or hundreds of aircraft and missiles is insufficient...
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Some things I've been thinking about - This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -”...
4th Aug 2026
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Some things I've been thinking about -

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4th Aug 2026
This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -” post on Twitter & LinkedIn.
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Experiments in music and life One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too...
7th Nov 2019
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Experiments in music and life

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

7th Nov 2019
One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too free. It’s anti-inspiring because having infinite options is overwhelming. So my favorite approach to music is in-between. You make up your own rules, and apply them to a piece of...
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Why time seems to pass faster as we age 1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as...
27th Feb 2024
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Why time seems to pass faster as we age

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Feb 2024
1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen. It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster. 2/ But, why is that happening? My tentative...
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Don't ever stop dreaming Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet...
8th Feb 2026
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Don't ever stop dreaming

from Shilin typing [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Feb 2026
Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet shoes. I still can't believe I did it. The constant winter overcast was reason enough to leave Canada and never look back. When I finally left, I had bought a ticket to a never-ending...
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Pitch competitions as a measure of success In our early days of my startup, I would try to enter as many pitch competitions as was feasible,...
21st Aug 2023
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Pitch competitions as a measure of success

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Aug 2023
In our early days of my startup, I would try to enter as many pitch competitions as was feasible, just to try and get our project in front of as many eyes as possible and get our names mentioned in the popular startup press. I used to give everything in these competitions, and we...
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Don't follow your heroes As creators, there's a temptation to seek out our heroes and ask them how they achieved their...
17th Jan 2015
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Don't follow your heroes

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

17th Jan 2015
As creators, there's a temptation to seek out our heroes and ask them how they achieved their success. We think if we follow their instructions, we'll be able to reproduce their winning magic.
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a16z VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it’s odd...
19th Nov 2012
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a16z

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Nov 2012
VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it’s odd that the VC industry itself has so…
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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...
27th Feb 2021
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NFTs and A Thousand True Fans

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27th Feb 2021
In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To…
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Roundup #81: Back to our regular programming National debt; AI cyberattacks; Phone bans; AI and coding jobs; Millennials vs. Boomers; Public...
1st May 2026
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Roundup #81: Back to our regular programming

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2026
National debt; AI cyberattacks; Phone bans; AI and coding jobs; Millennials vs. Boomers; Public order; California YIMBYism
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Will Claude Code ruin our team? AI coding is blurring the lines between engineers, PMs, and designers. In the short-term, it's going...
4th Mar 2026
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Will Claude Code ruin our team?

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

4th Mar 2026
AI coding is blurring the lines between engineers, PMs, and designers. In the short-term, it's going to cause havoc. What happens long-term?
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Building a New Project in Public Nate Kadlac runs Approachable Design an online course to teach the basics of visual aesthetic and...
11th Jan 2023
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Building a New Project in Public

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jan 2023
Nate Kadlac runs Approachable Design an online course to teach the basics of visual aesthetic and design.
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I and We Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego...
30th Sep 2015
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I and We

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

30th Sep 2015
Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego component is even larger. This is a good thing. Ego is what gives the founder the confidence to create something new. Ego powers the belief that the new thing the founder creates will...
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SGLang on AMD MI300X SGLang on AMD MI300X The best kept secret these days is that new AMD GPUs are incredibly cost...
4th Mar 2025
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SGLang on AMD MI300X

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

4th Mar 2025
SGLang on AMD MI300X The best kept secret these days is that new AMD GPUs are incredibly cost efficient for doing inference. If you want the cliff-notes on getting an extremely fast inference server running on a fleet of AMD MI300X, here you go: If you're serving high-throughput...
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Why you’re more likely to buy something for $4.99 than $5.00 Charm pricing has endured for centuries.
1st May 2026
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Why you’re more likely to buy something for $4.99 than $5.00

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2026
Charm pricing has endured for centuries.
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Maintenance
6th Mar 2020
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Maintenance

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

6th Mar 2020
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Naming a company Great company names are worth millions. In fact, choosing a name is one of the most important...
1st Mar 2023
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Naming a company

from Articles - Brett_Adcock [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2023
Great company names are worth millions. In fact, choosing a name is one of the most important decisions you will make as an entrepreneur. Your company's name could be a lever that separates you from your competition. It could be the key element that helps your customers...
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Defaults Matter The path of least friction becomes the only path
28th Jul 2025
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Defaults Matter

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Jul 2025
The path of least friction becomes the only path
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Where to find the hours to make it happen When you experience someone else’s genius work, a little part of you feels, “That’s what I could...
1st Oct 2019
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Where to find the hours to make it happen

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

1st Oct 2019
When you experience someone else’s genius work, a little part of you feels, “That’s what I could have, would have, and should have done!” They fought the resistance. You gave in to distractions. They took the time. You meant to. You could let that part of you give...
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Have I been married? Sofia was my first big love. We met at 21, when we were both in the circus. She opened me up, and...
20th Feb 2025
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Have I been married?

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

20th Feb 2025
Sofia was my first big love. We met at 21, when we were both in the circus. She opened me up, and taught me how to be honest. I was absolutely certain that I was going to spend the rest of my life with her.
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Taylor Sheridan's Extreme Productivity The prolific mind behind "Sicario" and "Yellowstone" only started his writing career at 40. The...
7th Dec 2024
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Taylor Sheridan's Extreme Productivity

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

7th Dec 2024
The prolific mind behind "Sicario" and "Yellowstone" only started his writing career at 40. The realest deadlines (a young family, a $350m ranch) have pushed him to grind at an unbelievable pace.
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of...
11th Jan 2022
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

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

11th Jan 2022
This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to give our students insights on how commercial technology (AI, machine...
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The Era Of The Business Idiot Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack:...
21st May 2025
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The Era Of The Business Idiot

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

21st May 2025
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific
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Daily run, part two In my previous post, “a daily run” — (please read it first) — running was a metaphor for whatever...
28th Oct 2022
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Daily run, part two

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

28th Oct 2022
In my previous post, “a daily run” — (please read it first) — running was a metaphor for whatever actions you take in your life. The story is about how we choose beliefs because they’re useful, not true. Beliefs make emotions. Emotions make actions. Actions come from...
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Book Review: What We Can Know Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without...
2nd Apr 2026
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Book Review: What We Can Know

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

2nd Apr 2026
Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without the science," which is both a fair warning and a precise advertisement. The novel is set in 2119. Rising seas and a cascade of nuclear wars (including a misfired Russian warhead in...
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Manufacturing is a war now And the democracies are losing.
4th Dec 2024
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Manufacturing is a war now

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Dec 2024
And the democracies are losing.
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An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest...
4 weeks ago
1

An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart

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

4 weeks ago
An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest battle in retail between Amazon and Walmart.
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My first kiss
2nd Oct 2013
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My first kiss

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

2nd Oct 2013
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Richard Bartlett on the Art of Hosting we get very detailed and autistic about social dynamics in this one
a week ago
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Richard Bartlett on the Art of Hosting

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

a week ago
we get very detailed and autistic about social dynamics in this one
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Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming Haskell Generics are a somewhat misunderstood...
3rd Mar 2016
1

Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming

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

3rd Mar 2016
Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming Haskell Generics are a somewhat misunderstood topic but are an extremely Source for examples code is available . Generics are a form of datatype-generic programming, which although the sum of . A sum type, is a data structure used...
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Crypto was not made for humans We’re a crypto fund. If anyone should believe in crypto, it’s us. And yet, when we sign a deal to...
18th Feb 2026
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Crypto was not made for humans

from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Feb 2026
We’re a crypto fund. If anyone should believe in crypto, it’s us. And yet, when we sign a deal to invest into a startup, we don’t sign a smart contract. We sign a legal contract. The startup does the same. Neither of us are comfortable doing the deal without a legal...
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Monoids for analytics This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is...
16th Jan 2016
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Monoids for analytics

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Jan 2016
This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is a set that is closed under an…
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Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1 Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
13th Jan 2025
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Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jan 2025
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
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The thin layer problem Outperforming your manager without getting fired
6th Oct 2025
1

The thin layer problem

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Oct 2025
Outperforming your manager without getting fired
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Idea machines Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their...
12th May 2022
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Idea machines

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

12th May 2022
Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished? One of the most visible ideologies in tech is effective altruism (or EA), a...
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Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory Let's implememnt the calculations from Scattering...
25th Apr 2014
1

Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory

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

25th Apr 2014
Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory Let's implememnt the calculations from Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory in Python. from sympy import Eq, Symbol, sympify, Matrix, sqrt, zeros, Basic, ones, pprint from sympy.physics import msigma, mgamma Now let's define...
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The digital dark side The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously...
3rd Sep 2018
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The digital dark side

from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Sep 2018
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...
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Sammy Cahn said thank you In 1990, at the age of 20, I moved to New York City and got a job as the tape room guy for...
21st May 2009
1

Sammy Cahn said thank you

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

21st May 2009
In 1990, at the age of 20, I moved to New York City and got a job as the tape room guy for Warner/Chappell Music Publishing. One day, after a few months, I hear an old man yelling, “Goddamn it! What’s wrong with this typewriter? Can’t someone make a simple goddamn typewriter...
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Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
1st Jul 2025
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Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled

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1st Jul 2025
Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
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ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
15th Jun 2025
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ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting

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15th Jun 2025
ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
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Let pedestrians define the walkways A new college campus was built, but one thing was still debated: Some people thought the walkways...
23rd Nov 2009
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Let pedestrians define the walkways

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

23rd Nov 2009
A new college campus was built, but one thing was still debated: Some people thought the walkways should go around the grass, to leave it green. Some thought the walkways should cut across diagonally. Brilliant. As time goes on, we get smarter. We learn more about...
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How many trials should I be getting for my SaaS? One misconception I see from new SaaS founders: they need more trials than they think they do.
15th Aug 2020
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How many trials should I be getting for my SaaS?

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

15th Aug 2020
One misconception I see from new SaaS founders: they need more trials than they think they do.
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Enough Numbers to Build a Universe Enough Numbers to Build a Universe As a fun excercise, consider the question: What are the numbers...
1st Feb 2024
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Enough Numbers to Build a Universe

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1st Feb 2024
Enough Numbers to Build a Universe As a fun excercise, consider the question: What are the numbers that are used to build a universe? Well, we don't know for sure, but we do know that we can build our current understanding of physics out of a handful of fundamental constants....
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The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
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The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Jun 2025
against efficiency and accountability
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We Can Do Hard Things Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business. You see,...
30th Apr 2026
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We Can Do Hard Things

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

30th Apr 2026
Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business. You see, back then the most frustrating thing about mobile dev was the final step: getting your app on actual phones. Builds, provisioning, and code signing made for a harrowing trial,...
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I flew to China to visit a robot butler Site visit to Prosper Robotics field lab in Shenzhen
15th Nov 2023
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I flew to China to visit a robot butler

from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Nov 2023
Site visit to Prosper Robotics field lab in Shenzhen
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Considerate book pricing I love having my own store so I can make things the way I think they should be. Let’s separate...
27th Oct 2021
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Considerate book pricing

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

27th Oct 2021
I love having my own store so I can make things the way I think they should be. Let’s separate these two things: Contents: the words in a book Delivery: the ways to get the words into your brain: paper, audio, PDF, HTML, etc. buy the contents, not delivery. Today you...
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Games are problems people pay to solve Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me...
22nd Apr 2023
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Games are problems people pay to solve

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Apr 2023
Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense. He defines games as problems that people pay to solve with either their time or money. Unlike movies or books, games are...
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