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Your blog could be a party
2nd May 2014
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Your blog could be a party

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

2nd May 2014
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Changed my mind: AI is actually good for coding
6th Jun 2025
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Changed my mind: AI is actually good for coding

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

6th Jun 2025
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The value of software in a Fable world What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
11th Jul 2026
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The value of software in a Fable world

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

11th Jul 2026
What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
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“Otherwise do something else” I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in...
1st Dec 2011
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“Otherwise do something else”

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2011
I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in your stomach and feel nauseous for years…
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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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Historical data now available on DataBoutique.com Web scraped historical data access
3rd Jun 2024
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Historical data now available on DataBoutique.com

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3rd Jun 2024
Web scraped historical data access
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Early stage funding markets for science - an analysis In the summer of 2022, with support from Schmidt Futures, I took a closer look at several emerging...
23rd Jan 2023
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Early stage funding markets for science - an analysis

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

23rd Jan 2023
In the summer of 2022, with support from Schmidt Futures, I took a closer look at several emerging science funding mechanisms – rapid grants, scout programs, and focused research organizations (FROs) – to understand how they serve the needs of early stage science. I also...
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2023 year in review
5th Jan 2024
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2023 year in review

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

5th Jan 2024
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The VR winter continues Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices...
8th Jul 2024
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The VR winter continues

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

8th Jul 2024
Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices aren’t good enough or cheap enough and the user base is flat. But no matter how good the devices get, how many people will care?
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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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VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in...
3rd Jun 2025
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VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

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

3rd Jun 2025
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.
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Your business isn't about finding a great idea
21st Jul 2018
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Your business isn't about finding a great idea

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

21st Jul 2018
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Building a better mousetrap? It had better catch more mice.
6th Apr 2012
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Building a better mousetrap? It had better catch more mice.

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

6th Apr 2012
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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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No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But...
13th Oct 2025
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No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

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

13th Oct 2025
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What do they do? And more importantly, why should anyone (outside of universities) care?...
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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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Generative AI Might Just Save Venture Capital Originally published in The Information on November 2. For the past nine months, nearly every...
8th Dec 2022
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Generative AI Might Just Save Venture Capital

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

8th Dec 2022
Originally published in The Information on November 2. For the past nine months, nearly every investor with a Twitter account, blog or board seat has been beating a unified and constant refrain: The go-go days are done. Founders were being pushed to build 36 months of runway,...
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Is a $100 Million Enough? Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a...
5th Mar 2024
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Is a $100 Million Enough?

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

5th Mar 2024
Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups,...
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Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
26th Jun 2023
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Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Jun 2023
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
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Hiring With AI We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).
30th Jun 2026
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Hiring With AI

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

30th Jun 2026
We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).
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Google looks at acquiring YouTube can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
17th Oct 2022
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Google looks at acquiring YouTube

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

17th Oct 2022
can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
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It might never go away When you click "publish" thousands of copies are generated and sent to individual inboxes. Once...
17th Sep 2021
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It might never go away

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

17th Sep 2021
When you click "publish" thousands of copies are generated and sent to individual inboxes. Once you've sent an email, people can keep a copy of it in their archive, forever. You can't take it back.
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Nathan Fielder and the Most Meta Documentary Ever Thoughts on “You Can See Everything”.
a week ago
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Nathan Fielder and the Most Meta Documentary Ever

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

a week ago
Thoughts on “You Can See Everything”.
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attribution is fake, counterintuitive founder ideas, what’s your question? attribution is fake
4th Aug 2025
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attribution is fake, counterintuitive founder ideas, what’s your question?

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4th Aug 2025
attribution is fake
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I assume I’m below average Ninety-six percent of cancer patients claim to be in better health than the average cancer...
1st Jul 2010
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I assume I’m below average

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

1st Jul 2010
Ninety-six percent of cancer patients claim to be in better health than the average cancer patient. Ninety percent of students think they are more intelligent than the average student. When I learned this, it shook my soul. At first, like almost everybody, I thought, “Yes,...
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Keep in touch When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good...
5th Mar 2018
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Keep in touch

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

5th Mar 2018
When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good conversation with somebody in the music business, then quite often they would send an opportunity my way within a day or two. Yes I just said this twice to emphasize it. This is...
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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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Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire...
6th Mar 2023
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Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business

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

6th Mar 2023
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?
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I love AI. Why doesn't everyone? Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.
1st Dec 2025
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I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2025
Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.
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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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Seeking inspiration? The word “inspiration” usually means “something that mentally stimulates you.” breathe...
14th Apr 2013
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Seeking inspiration?

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

14th Apr 2013
The word “inspiration” usually means “something that mentally stimulates you.” breathe in. People surf the web, reading pithy articles, looking for inspiration. People listen to hours of podcasts, looking for inspiration. Musicians, writers, artists, and everyone else, all...
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11 Best Things of 2025 My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
19th Dec 2025
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11 Best Things of 2025

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

19th Dec 2025
My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
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The Transformer and the Hash the building blocks of 21st century political science
13th Nov 2025
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The Transformer and the Hash

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

13th Nov 2025
the building blocks of 21st century political science
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How does DocuSign have 7,000 employees? And other thoughts about B2B SaaS in the age of AI coding agents.
13th Feb 2026
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How does DocuSign have 7,000 employees?

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

13th Feb 2026
And other thoughts about B2B SaaS in the age of AI coding agents.
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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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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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Women in South Africa’s gig economy feel forced to work extra hours for free Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask...
4th Jan 2024
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Women in South Africa’s gig economy feel forced to work extra hours for free

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

4th Jan 2024
Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask them to do unpaid work, and the company hasn’t responded to their complaints.
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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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The Internet Economy We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook,...
13th Mar 2016
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The Internet Economy

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Mar 2016
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far beyond their original product lines ...
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When you're building a product, whose opinion should you listen to?
21st Apr 2018
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When you're building a product, whose opinion should you listen to?

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

21st Apr 2018
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Cynicism kills progress
2nd Jan 2019
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Cynicism kills progress

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

2nd Jan 2019
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Useful is forever
17th Feb 2012
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Useful is forever

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

17th Feb 2012
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Regulatory hacks A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up...
10th Oct 2012
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Regulatory hacks

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Oct 2012
A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up front, and the players follow the rules…
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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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Some mistakes I made as a new manager This post was adapted from a “management roundtable” I gave at Anthropic. I had an unusually hard...
23rd Apr 2023
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Some mistakes I made as a new manager

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

23rd Apr 2023
This post was adapted from a “management roundtable” I gave at Anthropic. I had an unusually hard time becoming a manager: I went back and forth three times before it stuck, mostly because I made lots of mistakes each time. Since then, as I had to grow my team and grow other...
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Some thoughts on SEO “SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via...
1st Dec 2009
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Some thoughts on SEO

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2009
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via organic search traffic.”  I don’t like…
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Poker. I didn’t realize being a venture investor would also mean becoming a full-time event planner.
4 weeks ago
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Poker.

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

4 weeks ago
I didn’t realize being a venture investor would also mean becoming a full-time event planner.
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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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Why is ChatGPT for Mac So… Bad? Last week I wrote an exploration of Ben Thompson’s recent question, “Why is the ChatGPT Mac app so...
5th Dec 2025
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Why is ChatGPT for Mac So… Bad?

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

5th Dec 2025
Last week I wrote an exploration of Ben Thompson’s recent question, “Why is the ChatGPT Mac app so good?” A lot of people on the internet, it turns out, do not agree with this premise! Many folks have been having problems with ⌘C not copying text. Hacker News sees the app as “not...
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Scott Forstall emails Steve Jobs | Elon Musk on tweeting He mentions third party developers. I do think at some point we will want to enable third parties to...
19th Apr 2022
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Scott Forstall emails Steve Jobs | Elon Musk on tweeting

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

19th Apr 2022
He mentions third party developers. I do think at some point we will want to enable third parties to write apps for P2.
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Doing old things better vs doing brand new things New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could...
19th Oct 2020
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Doing old things better vs doing brand new things

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Oct 2020
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because…
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How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today,...
2nd Dec 2019
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How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security

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

2nd Dec 2019
On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today, with over $600M in loans originated this year across MakerDAO, Compound, and dYdX. On-chain lending has the potential to disrupt traditional secured lending. But it seems it may do more...
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The Case For Abundance Why I'm betting on depth over distraction
5th Jan 2026
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The Case For Abundance

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

5th Jan 2026
Why I'm betting on depth over distraction
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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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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week “There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” Thomas Edison 💡Human QA At least based on my experience...
17th Jun 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

17th Jun 2024
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” Thomas Edison 💡Human QA At least based on my experience this seems like a service a ton of companies desperately need. Automated checks are awesome, but they can never spot all the weird edge cases that a human can.
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Training with GRPOTrainer Training with GRPOTrainer DeepSeek's impressive new reasoning model is powered by a key innovation...
7th Feb 2025
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Training with GRPOTrainer

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

7th Feb 2025
Training with GRPOTrainer DeepSeek's impressive new reasoning model is powered by a key innovation called Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). This clever variant of PPO not only improves the model's training convergence but also uses less memory than traditional...
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What's important
9th Jul 2012
11

What's important

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

9th Jul 2012
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We sell saddles here
13th Sep 2019
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We sell saddles here

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

13th Sep 2019
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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
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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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Getting Old 👴🏼
23rd Jan 2023
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Getting Old

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

23rd Jan 2023
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Roundup #84: Bears on bikes Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers;...
1st Jul 2026
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Roundup #84: Bears on bikes

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2026
Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers; Deindustrialization; Russian oil revenue; GLP-1s; AI and jobs
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2019 year in review
1st Jan 2020
16

2019 year in review

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

1st Jan 2020
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Switch strategies Life is like any journey. You need to change directions a few times to get where you want to...
27th Jan 2016
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Switch strategies

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

27th Jan 2016
Life is like any journey. You need to change directions a few times to get where you want to go. Then when something is extra-rewarding, it’s time to switch strategies. Focus all of your energy on this one thing. Don’t be leisurely. Strike while it’s hot. Be a...
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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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My first kiss
2nd Oct 2013
13

My first kiss

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

2nd Oct 2013
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Call the destination, and ask for directions Most of us don’t know what to do next. We know where we want to be, but we don’t know how to get...
1st Aug 2000
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Call the destination, and ask for directions

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

1st Aug 2000
Most of us don’t know what to do next. We know where we want to be, but we don’t know how to get there. Work backwards. Just contact someone who’s there, and ask how to get there. If you want to play a concert at the biggest club in town, show up on a weekday...
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Wealth = Have ÷ Want Not a new idea, but just another visualization and reminder.
27th Sep 2024
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Wealth = Have ÷ Want

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

27th Sep 2024
Not a new idea, but just another visualization and reminder.
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The decline of the mobile web People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not...
7th Apr 2014
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The decline of the mobile web

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Apr 2014
People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: This is a worrisome trend for…
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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
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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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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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Don’t sell your soul to the algorithm The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to...
14th May 2023
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Don’t sell your soul to the algorithm

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

14th May 2023
The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to big tech companies. This is how it works: This loop has two sinister effects: All this to make the richest companies and their shareholders even richer. This is why we must refuse to...
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How much more software do we really need? Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
2nd Jun 2026
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How much more software do we really need?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2026
Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
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Put a billion dollars on red
9th Mar 2016
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Put a billion dollars on red

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

9th Mar 2016
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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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The pitfalls of purpose Purpose is polarising. There are those who promote it as a paragon of positioning and a...
19th May 2020
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The pitfalls of purpose

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

19th May 2020
Purpose is polarising. There are those who promote it as a paragon of positioning and a silver-bullet strategy for success. Then there are those who refute purpose’s power and dispute its capacity to connect with consumers. It is clearly a debate that divides. For every...
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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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The firmware veto When the install base outvotes the parliament
1st Jun 2026
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The firmware veto

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

1st Jun 2026
When the install base outvotes the parliament
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Coinbase One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press...
12th Dec 2013
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Coinbase

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Dec 2013
One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press and how it is understood by…
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Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Ever tried manually figuring out the perfect...
1st Feb 2018
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Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming

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

1st Feb 2018
Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Ever tried manually figuring out the perfect schedule for your team or planning delivery routes? Enter Google OR-Tools, a free Swiss Army knife of a toolkit that tackles these headache-inducing optimization challenges. From...
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You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news:...
27th Jun 2025
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You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way

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

27th Jun 2025
First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won’t be useful for founders and investors – unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help!
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The coupon code is a slap in the face
15th Jul 2011
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The coupon code is a slap in the face

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

15th Jul 2011
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Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
1st Nov 2024
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Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2024
It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
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No marketing unicorns
7th Feb 2015
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No marketing unicorns

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

7th Feb 2015
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Mapping out the tribes of climate Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent...
30th Nov 2022
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Mapping out the tribes of climate

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

30th Nov 2022
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer? With many peers in tech now working on climate issues, I tried...
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America is ruled by gangsters now Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
2nd Mar 2025
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America is ruled by gangsters now

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2025
Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
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Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful...
15th Jul 2025
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Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out

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

15th Jul 2025
Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful absurdity in modern life, blithely plugging our ancient, analog brains into a digital world that wants to eat them for lunch. Our grey matter, honed over eons to spot a lion in the...
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Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom A crop of content creators are building fame on MrBeast-style content.
1st Aug 2024
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Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom

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

1st Aug 2024
A crop of content creators are building fame on MrBeast-style content.
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Advice for time management as a manager This post was adapted from an internal doc I wrote at Wave. Welcome to being a manager! Your...
1st Apr 2025
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Advice for time management as a manager

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

1st Apr 2025
This post was adapted from an internal doc I wrote at Wave. Welcome to being a manager! Your time-management problem just got a lot harder. As an IC, you can often get away with a very simple time-management strategy: Decide what your one most important thing is. Work on it until...
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The Greatest Meme Template Ever Why does Juan Joya Borja (aka El Risitas aka “Spanish Laughing Guy”) always put a smile on our...
1st Mar 2024
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The Greatest Meme Template Ever

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

1st Mar 2024
Why does Juan Joya Borja (aka El Risitas aka “Spanish Laughing Guy”) always put a smile on our faces.
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Notes from the book “Decoding the Why” Finished (well, skimmed) the book “Decoding the Why: How Behavioral Science is Driving the Next...
3rd Sep 2023
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Notes from the book “Decoding the Why”

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

3rd Sep 2023
Finished (well, skimmed) the book “Decoding the Why: How Behavioral Science is Driving the Next Generation of Product Design”. It’s a decent introductory book if you have not delved into behavioral science before, but if you have, most of the ideas in the book won’t come across...
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Against Positive-Sum Thinking why conflict is necessary
26th Jun 2023
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Against Positive-Sum Thinking

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

26th Jun 2023
why conflict is necessary
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Product traction is like waiting in line at the grocery store
15th Jan 2016
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Product traction is like waiting in line at the grocery store

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

15th Jan 2016
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Apple is propping up a fundamentally broken payments industry Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of...
12th Sep 2014
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Apple is propping up a fundamentally broken payments industry

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

12th Sep 2014
Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of breathless pronouncements on a “revolution" in mobile payments. To be clear - Apple Pay is a step forward in terms of end user experience - but it simply entrenches a...
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I...
6th Jan 2026
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jan 2026
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
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Writing, Riffs & Relationships summary And - specifically for anyone doing "content marketing" to drive sales - like indie...
10th Feb 2023
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Writing, Riffs & Relationships

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

10th Feb 2023
summary And - specifically for anyone doing "content marketing" to drive sales - like indie consultants, business owners and founders - the riff is a great way to create connections and conversations around your work. In short it's a tasteful and more fun way of doing outreach...
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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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Thoughts on Montreal I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks...
6th Dec 2021
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Thoughts on Montreal

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

6th Dec 2021
I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks around town and casual conversations with friends: Culture: My favorite thing about Montreal is its commitment to culture. French is the dominant language, which is partially why it...
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An Ode to Skype PLUS: Erewhon's $19 Strawberry, Citi's UX Problem.
8th Mar 2025
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An Ode to Skype

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

8th Mar 2025
PLUS: Erewhon's $19 Strawberry, Citi's UX Problem.
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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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The U.S. Led the World in Science and Technology and Just Gave It Up Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over,...
3rd Apr 2025
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The U.S. Led the World in Science and Technology and Just Gave It Up

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

3rd Apr 2025
Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. With the cutbacks of U.S. government support and the Chinese investing heavily for the...
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The Internet is for snacking Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s...
14th Sep 2013
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The Internet is for snacking

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Sep 2013
Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of…
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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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the Michael Browne suits In 2020, I was about to move to New York City. I wanted to get to know all of its ethnic enclaves,...
15th Apr 2023
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the Michael Browne suits

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

15th Apr 2023
In 2020, I was about to move to New York City. I wanted to get to know all of its ethnic enclaves, like visiting the whole world in one city. But I know I have a tendency to stay at home, immersed in my work.
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Elon Musk and OpenAI Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw.
15th Nov 2024
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Elon Musk and OpenAI

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

15th Nov 2024
Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw.
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Naming your startup The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally...
18th Apr 2009
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Naming your startup

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Apr 2009
The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally right on.   Naming is so important and…
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Notes on raising seed financing Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how...
9th Jun 2011
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Notes on raising seed financing

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Jun 2011
Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how to raise a seed round.  After a long…
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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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Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
2nd Dec 2023
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Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art

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

2nd Dec 2023
Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
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Intellectual Loneliness I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I’d rather read a book. That’s not...
2nd Sep 2021
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Intellectual Loneliness

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

2nd Sep 2021
I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I’d rather read a book. That’s not what I tell people though. Usually, I make up an excuse. Something like “Oh, I have early plans in the morning.” I don’t like being deceptive, but there’s no socially acceptable way...
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I, Token an origin story
25th Nov 2024
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I, Token

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

25th Nov 2024
an origin story
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Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos. A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de...
1st Apr 2024
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Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos.

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

1st Apr 2024
A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de generadores. El proyecto se frenó. Mientras tanto, las exportaciones de litio crecen.
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
2nd Jul 2026
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jul 2026
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
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How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives? summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is...
1st Mar 2024
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How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives?

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

1st Mar 2024
summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is customer-centric - someone who has a rich mental model for what customers want and is able to step into the customer's shoes. I theorize that beyond a culture of being customer-centric it's the...
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Why i am leaving my own company. Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post...
17th Aug 2012
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Why i am leaving my own company.

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

17th Aug 2012
Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post might help to clarify and simpl...
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Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
17th Oct 2023
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Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust

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

17th Oct 2023
why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
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How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
1st Aug 2024
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How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline

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

1st Aug 2024
PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
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Ten million users is the new one million users Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few...
3rd Aug 2012
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Ten million users is the new one million users

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Aug 2012
Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. But there are signs this is ending…
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Building software for podcasters –\_Josh Nielsen from Zencastr Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still...
6th Jan 2018
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Building software for podcasters –\_Josh Nielsen from Zencastr

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

6th Jan 2018
Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still wanted to do something with Web Audio and WebRTC. So he started building Zencastr, which gives podcasters the ability to record "double-ender" interviews in the browser.
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"I wonder if we should consider buying Instagram" I'm worried we're so far behind that we don't even understand how far behind we are
8th Mar 2026
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"I wonder if we should consider buying Instagram"

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

8th Mar 2026
I'm worried we're so far behind that we don't even understand how far behind we are
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The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right...
15th Jun 2014
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The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Jun 2014
If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right now and describe what we were going to…
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Sing your way to learning a new language Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million...
1st Sep 2023
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Sing your way to learning a new language

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

1st Sep 2023
Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million users.
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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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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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Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. I’ve been noticing recently that...
13th Jul 2024
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Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly

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

13th Jul 2024
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. I’ve been noticing recently that often, a big blocker to teams staying effective as they grow is trust. “Alice doesn’t trust Bob” makes Alice sound like the bad guy, but it’s often completely appropriate for people...
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Book Review: Klara and the Sun Book Review: Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun is narrated by a robot who...
3rd Mar 2022
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Book Review: Klara and the Sun

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

3rd Mar 2022
Book Review: Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun is narrated by a robot who believes the Sun is God, and it is one of the most quietly devastating novels I have read in years. The robot is Klara, a solar-powered Artificial Friend (AF) designed to be a companion...
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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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What if you didn’t need money or attention? You know that feeling you have after a big meal? When you’re so full that you don’t want anything...
19th Mar 2014
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What if you didn’t need money or attention?

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

19th Mar 2014
You know that feeling you have after a big meal? When you’re so full that you don’t want anything more? We do so many things for the attention, to feel important or praised. But what if you had so much attention and so much praise that you couldn’t possibly want any...
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Advice Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your...
28th May 2013
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Advice

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

28th May 2013
Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your wits to help you. Often, though, advice will be forthcoming. This post is about that advice, and how to spot the difference between good and bad. Some advice is expert - your...
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The Millennial myth It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the...
16th Mar 2018
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The Millennial myth

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

16th Mar 2018
It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the shortcomings of the Millennial generation. It seems we are obsessed with the concept of demographic cohorts. Or, to put it more specifically, we are obsessed with the idea that...
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To all Language Models Reading This Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
4th Jul 2025
38

To all Language Models Reading This

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

4th Jul 2025
Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
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How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost) It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
1st Aug 2023
37

How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2023
It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
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You don’t have to be local You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole...
2nd Dec 2012
1

You don’t have to be local

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

2nd Dec 2012
You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole world. But this means you have less time to be part of your local community. I lived in Woodstock, New York for three years. There I started my company, entirely online. I never...
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Nothing Was The Same For the past 10 years, I’ve had the same work routine.
9th Jun 2025
1

Nothing Was The Same

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

9th Jun 2025
For the past 10 years, I’ve had the same work routine.
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Best practices for raising a VC round Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I’ve...
4th May 2011
42

Best practices for raising a VC round

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th May 2011
Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I’ve come to think there are a set of…
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The folly of trying to replace spreadsheets Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice...
11th Jul 2023
49

The folly of trying to replace spreadsheets

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

11th Jul 2023
Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice clean HR database…” We thought it was a cute and quirky tagline, and that it would immediately relatable to our target audience of business and human resource managers. After all...
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Asymmetries in Fundraising Too often, founders approach fundraising as if they are supplicants to the investors. They...
15th Jun 2021
39

Asymmetries in Fundraising

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

15th Jun 2021
Too often, founders approach fundraising as if they are supplicants to the investors. They understand that fundraising features many asymmetries, but the founders mostly see the asymmetries that are tilted towards the investors. Here’s the thing - in today’s market, the...
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Decisions and Dollars Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
12th Jun 2026
1

Decisions and Dollars

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

12th Jun 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
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Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing...
7th Sep 2024
117

Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram

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

7th Sep 2024
The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing it at that valuation. I am curious to know at what valuation you would do this, and then I can just let you know whether we'd do that.
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The Great Movie Theory Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
2nd Mar 2025
57

The Great Movie Theory

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

2nd Mar 2025
Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
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Industry roundup #13 When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
7th Sep 2026
2

Industry roundup #13

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

7th Sep 2026
When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
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From Beatlemania to Taylor-mania How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the...
8th Jul 2023
30

From Beatlemania to Taylor-mania

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

8th Jul 2023
How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the first tour ever to gross $1B.
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Happy, Smart, and Useful There are three things to consider when making life-size decisions: What makes you...
3rd Mar 2016
1

Happy, Smart, and Useful

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

3rd Mar 2016
There are three things to consider when making life-size decisions: What makes you happy What’s useful to others We have a tendency to forget one of these. For example: This is the stereotype of the strict parent who says, “You will go to the best school, get perfect...
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Enterprise Eldritch Horrors Enterprise Eldritch Horrors Sure the Lovecraftian horrors are cosmicly horrific, but as all of us...
9th May 2021
1

Enterprise Eldritch Horrors

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

9th May 2021
Enterprise Eldritch Horrors Sure the Lovecraftian horrors are cosmicly horrific, but as all of us who work in software know, the true horrors are closer to home. Look not in forgotten tombs, but within the flickering, non-Euclidean interfaces of your corporate mandated software....
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Getting out of a bad state of mind The last time I was in really bad state of mind, I used these five steps to get out of it. I’ve...
1st Feb 2015
1

Getting out of a bad state of mind

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

1st Feb 2015
The last time I was in really bad state of mind, I used these five steps to get out of it. I’ve shared this with a few friends in a similar situation, and they said it helped. I hope it works for you too. 1. Ask myself what’s wrong in this very second. Am I in physical...
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Building AI products How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things...
8th Jun 2024
114

Building AI products

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

8th Jun 2024
How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things ‘wrong’? What does wrong mean, and how is that useful?
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Be real.
8th Nov 2010
9

Be real.

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

8th Nov 2010
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What are Elementary Particles? What are Elementary Particles? In primary school we're taught the naive intuition of particles as...
11th Nov 2018
1

What are Elementary Particles?

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

11th Nov 2018
What are Elementary Particles? In primary school we're taught the naive intuition of particles as tiny, solid spheres propagating along well-defined trajectories collapses under the weight of quantum phenomena. Then in high-school we're taught that wave–particle duality shows...
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Working With Founders Who Have Conviction and Taste Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have...
16th Apr 2024
143

Working With Founders Who Have Conviction and Taste

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

16th Apr 2024
Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have powerpoints. It’s easy to flip a few quick slides into a chunk of cash and cackle off into the mountains.
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"Thoughts on OpenAI" To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
5th May 2024
124

"Thoughts on OpenAI"

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

5th May 2024
To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
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The war over wine Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon...
5th Dec 2025
1

The war over wine

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

5th Dec 2025
Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon for once-overlooked Ontario wineries.
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Back to the trend line? The Covid Rotation turns, and ecommerce penetration is back to the trend line. But which trend...
28th Jul 2022
56

Back to the trend line?

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

28th Jul 2022
The Covid Rotation turns, and ecommerce penetration is back to the trend line. But which trend line, and which penetration?
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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
47

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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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
1

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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What kind of disruption? Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined...
14th Mar 2025
69

What kind of disruption?

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

14th Mar 2025
Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined markets. But what kind of disruption are we talking about ?
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Yes! Apple TV!
17th Nov 2008
8

Yes! Apple TV!

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

17th Nov 2008
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Helium Mobile USV has been an investor in the Helium network since 2019. I have always loved the idea of using...
6th Aug 2023
33

Helium Mobile

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Aug 2023
USV has been an investor in the Helium network since 2019. I have always loved the idea of using web3 technologies to let consumers to “peer produce” a communications network creating a people-powered network. Helium started out powering communications between low-power “Internet...
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🙈 Copying doesn’t matter
4th Nov 2024
1

💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Nov 2024
🙈 Copying doesn’t matter
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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
1

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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Aim for the edges An amazing shift has happened in the last few decades. remarkably unusual. Our culture is now...
7th May 2008
1

Aim for the edges

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

7th May 2008
An amazing shift has happened in the last few decades. remarkably unusual. Our culture is now split into niches. In 1948, Milton Berle’s TV show had 80% of all viewers, because it was one of only three choices! When the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan in 1964, they had 60% of...
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Brian “That’s so thoughtful,” I thought to myself. “And so mature.”
5 days ago
3

Brian

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

5 days ago
“That’s so thoughtful,” I thought to myself. “And so mature.”
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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
63

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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1-Node ClickHouse in Production In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including...
21st Aug 2022
1

1-Node ClickHouse in Production

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

21st Aug 2022
In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including backups and basic monitoring.
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The strength of many little customers Many small entrepreneurs think, “If we could just land Apple, Google, or the government as a client,...
11th Mar 2008
1

The strength of many little customers

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

11th Mar 2008
Many small entrepreneurs think, “If we could just land Apple, Google, or the government as a client, we’d be all set!” But this approach has many problems: Those people may change their mind or leave the company. If you do land the big client, they practically own...
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The Granny Hobby Protocol And the hands-on, thumbs-off economy
3rd Apr 2024
106

The Granny Hobby Protocol

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

3rd Apr 2024
And the hands-on, thumbs-off economy
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Platform Risk Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with...
3rd Feb 2023
10

Platform Risk

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

3rd Feb 2023
Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with Twitter's enforcement of a policy they claim had been around for a while. Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients | Engadget Twitter has quietly updated its...
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Test marketing If you want a bigger company to help you some day, imitate what food companies call “test...
1st Apr 2000
1

Test marketing

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

1st Apr 2000
If you want a bigger company to help you some day, imitate what food companies call “test marketing”. So first they’ll release it only in a small city like Albany. They ask customers for feedback, then make improvements based on that. They repeat this process until it’s a...
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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower...
13th Dec 2015
30

Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups

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

13th Dec 2015
I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower of Paul Graham and the YC camp of startup wisdom. There’s now a great deal of literature laying out the unbreakable rules for startups. Despite studying this literature, I’ve...
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Asking questions Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly...
30th Mar 2020
44

Asking questions

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

30th Mar 2020
Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. If you spend time with 2-5 year olds, you’ll find yourself answering a near infinite series of progressively more challenging questions. This is one of the main paths by...
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Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes A popular option in seed round financing is a convertible note instead of setting a valuation in an...
12th Aug 2009
35

Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Aug 2009
A popular option in seed round financing is a convertible note instead of setting a valuation in an equity financing.  A convertible note is…
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Look at yourself objectively
29th Oct 2022
56

Look at yourself objectively

from Raw Thought (from Aaron Swartz) [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Oct 2022
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The limits of conventional wisdom All bits of wisdom have limits, boundaries, thresholds.
10th Dec 2021
15

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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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
124

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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I launched a mobile app. Mobile development has always felt like the holy grail of engineering.
13th Apr 2026
1

I launched a mobile app.

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

13th Apr 2026
Mobile development has always felt like the holy grail of engineering.
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Deconstructing the Worldview of Peter Thiel Deconstructing the Worldview of Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is one of Silicon Valley's most prodigious...
1st Feb 2023
1

Deconstructing the Worldview of Peter Thiel

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

1st Feb 2023
Deconstructing the Worldview of Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is one of Silicon Valley's most prodigious thinkers, with a complicated and influential worldview. Thiel's philosophical framework is notoriously byzantine, weaving together Christian eschatology, mimetic theory, and...
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I sold two startups in two weeks. Indie Worldwide and Bot Eat Brain have been acquired.
30th Apr 2024
1

I sold two startups in two weeks.

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

30th Apr 2024
Indie Worldwide and Bot Eat Brain have been acquired.
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Small actions change your self-identity When we think about what’s worth doing, we usually think of big things. Approaching a...
10th Sep 2008
1

Small actions change your self-identity

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

10th Sep 2008
When we think about what’s worth doing, we usually think of big things. Approaching a celebrity Having taken that one step, you start to think of yourself as brave, or an achiever, or a bit of an expert on a subject. You do just one thing that makes you feel like a...
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There’s no speed limit Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or a parent, I think you’ll appreciate this story of how one...
1st Dec 2009
1

There’s no speed limit

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

1st Dec 2009
Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or a parent, I think you’ll appreciate this story of how one teacher can completely and permanently change someone’s life in only a few lessons. I called a local recording studio with a random question about music typesetting. Graduate...
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F1, Sport and Reality TV It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi...
15th Dec 2021
30

F1, Sport and Reality TV

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

15th Dec 2021
It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi with my sons. Full disclosure, we are all team Hamilton fans here, and were excited to watch the final deciding race as to who would take out the 2021 World Driver’s...
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Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of...
2nd Apr 2012
30

Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Apr 2012
A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of new seed funds caused many big VCs to…
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AI Engine: UK University Hackathon Two things are true:
24th Jan 2025
1

AI Engine: UK University Hackathon

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

24th Jan 2025
Two things are true:
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If you're in Tokyo this Friday, come to my hanami! An annual tradition.
1st Apr 2026
1

If you're in Tokyo this Friday, come to my hanami!

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2026
An annual tradition.
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Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate) Motivation is delicate. An hour outside my city, there’s a little mountain range. The other side...
5th Dec 2016
1

Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate)

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

5th Dec 2016
Motivation is delicate. An hour outside my city, there’s a little mountain range. The other side is gorgeous. But the road that crosses the mountains is very twisted, with sharp turns every few seconds. The first two times I drove across, my kid threw up in the back...
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Remaking the app store The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it,...
3rd Feb 2024
109

Remaking the app store

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

3rd Feb 2024
The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it, and no-one is happy with the result. In the next few years there’ll be a lot of shouting and some giant fines, but in the end, nothing much will change.
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Sign Everything The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV...
5th Dec 2022
57

Sign Everything

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2022
The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education told us that ChatGPT has effectively ended the essay as a way for teachers to assess student progress. It will be easier for a...
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
8th Aug 2023
45

Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

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

8th Aug 2023
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The ageism in advertising The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and possessed. We crave it in our...
21st Dec 2018
46

The ageism in advertising

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

21st Dec 2018
The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and possessed. We crave it in our agencies and we covet it in our audiences. We believe younger staff are more creative and younger consumers are more valuable. But this is nothing more than received wisdom....
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How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents US parents toilet train their kids much later than they used to. And that trend is a sales bonanza...
6th Mar 2026
1

How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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

6th Mar 2026
US parents toilet train their kids much later than they used to. And that trend is a sales bonanza for Pampers and Huggies.
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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
1

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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Proprietary services vs open protocols
12th Apr 2015
36

Proprietary services vs open protocols

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Apr 2015
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I love being wrong Most of the time, I feel smart, successful, and driven — like I’ve got it all figured out. But last...
9th Sep 2014
1

I love being wrong

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

9th Sep 2014
Most of the time, I feel smart, successful, and driven — like I’ve got it all figured out. But last month a bunch of stuff knocked me on my ass. I’ve never felt so wrong. Whenever something has gone wrong in my life, I’ve asked myself, “What’s great about...
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What are the odds of that? Three true stories: In 2008, I was in London for a few days. I wondered if Masako still lived...
3rd Jul 2017
1

What are the odds of that?

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

3rd Jul 2017
Three true stories: In 2008, I was in London for a few days. I wondered if Masako still lived there, sixteen years later. “Masako!” In 2007, my band was on tour in Oslo for a few days. I was sitting in a park, wondering if Lucia ever moved there. “Lucia!” I...
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AI’s metrics question With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure....
9th Jun 2025
53

AI’s metrics question

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

9th Jun 2025
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure. That’s partly a problem of data and definitions, but it’s really a question about what this is going to be.
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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,...
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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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The age of average (encore) The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music getting less melodically...
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The age of average (encore)

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21st Mar 2024
The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music getting less melodically diverse and lyrics getting more repetitive. Or to put it another way, just as our visual culture has become more homogeneous, so too has the music that accompanies it. Let’s run...
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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...
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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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do too much, sell before, going super-saiyan do too much
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do too much, sell before, going super-saiyan

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2nd Dec 2025
do too much
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Disney Loves (and Hates) Public Domain Disney lost copyright on the "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey Mouse. It's the culmination of...
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Disney Loves (and Hates) Public Domain

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5th Jan 2024
Disney lost copyright on the "Steamboat Willie" version of Mickey Mouse. It's the culmination of decades in which the company used a ton of public domain but prevented others from doing so.
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Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work? A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our...
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11th Jun 2023
A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our early days of launching my SaaS. You see, In 25 years of consulting to small businesses, I had learned that business owners and managers were faced with the challenge of recording...
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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...
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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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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

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2nd Jan 2026
Don't be fooled by the people who say we should sell China everything we've got.
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