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Birkenstock IPO: Is it worth $10B? And 4 other questions about the 249-year cult German footwear brand.
6th Oct 2023
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Birkenstock IPO: Is it worth $10B?

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

6th Oct 2023
And 4 other questions about the 249-year cult German footwear brand.
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Settling Up "It isn't working," we told him.
4th Aug 2025
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Settling Up

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

4th Aug 2025
"It isn't working," we told him.
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SGLang on AMD MI300X SGLang on AMD MI300X The best kept secret these days is that new AMD GPUs are incredibly cost...
4th Mar 2025
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SGLang on AMD MI300X

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

4th Mar 2025
SGLang on AMD MI300X The best kept secret these days is that new AMD GPUs are incredibly cost efficient for doing inference. If you want the cliff-notes on getting an extremely fast inference server running on a fleet of AMD MI300X, here you go: If you're serving high-throughput...
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I hate work. The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and...
4th Dec 2023
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I hate work.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Dec 2023
The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and I reluctantly drag myself out of bed. It’s the same daily grind, a routine I’ve been stuck in for years, first as a sound engineer, then as a tech exec, and now as an indie...
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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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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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What affects customer motivation?
23rd Feb 2018
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What affects customer motivation?

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

23rd Feb 2018
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🙈 Copying doesn’t matter
4th Nov 2024
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💡 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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Why I left America I was living on the beach in Santa Monica, California, and life was perfect. I was in paradise, and...
9th Mar 2022
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Why I left America

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

9th Mar 2022
I was living on the beach in Santa Monica, California, and life was perfect. I was in paradise, and deeply happy. But I always want to learn and grow. To grow intellectually, you need to be surprised. If we’re not surprised, we’re not really learning. We may add new...
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We Can Do Hard Things Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business. You see,...
30th Apr 2026
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We Can Do Hard Things

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

30th Apr 2026
Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business. You see, back then the most frustrating thing about mobile dev was the final step: getting your app on actual phones. Builds, provisioning, and code signing made for a harrowing trial,...
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The Everything Bagel Problem The Everything Bagel Problem Okay, let me try to put this into words. It’s something I’ve been...
2nd May 2023
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The Everything Bagel Problem

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

2nd May 2023
The Everything Bagel Problem Okay, let me try to put this into words. It’s something I’ve been wrestling with, but having trouble articulating. Over the last few years I've been on left-leaning cryptocurrency policy activism, and the experience has been a perfect exemplar of what...
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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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Finish the year strong
12th Dec 2017
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Finish the year strong

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

12th Dec 2017
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How I would build a new startup if I had to do it all over I've been brainstorming how I would build a new indie startup if I had to do it again in 2023. Here...
3rd Sep 2023
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How I would build a new startup if I had to do it all over

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

3rd Sep 2023
I've been brainstorming how I would build a new indie startup if I had to do it again in 2023. Here are 5 principles I’d use.
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Contribution and abundance Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent:...
4th May 2021
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Contribution and abundance

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

4th May 2021
Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly noise. The two things are contribution and abundance. Contribution is basically...
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A framework for choosing what to do A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure...
28th Feb 2022
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A framework for choosing what to do

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

28th Feb 2022
A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure they knew what I should do. But...I didn't and most of their suggestions didn’t excite me. As I thought through my possible paths, I realized that I didn't have a useful framework...
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Notes on 'Founder Mode' Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
2nd Sep 2024
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Notes on 'Founder Mode'

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

2nd Sep 2024
Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
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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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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
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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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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
3rd Feb 2025
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams

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

3rd Feb 2025
China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
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Don't stand still
2nd May 2017
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Don't stand still

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

2nd May 2017
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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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Rabbit Holed Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her...
6th May 2024
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Rabbit Holed

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

6th May 2024
Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her assistance clarifying details related to GAMA and finding company documents related to Rabbit and Cyber Manufacture.    In November 2021, a company called Cyber Manufacture Co raised $6...
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How Urban Company built an empire of female gig workers By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare...
2nd May 2023
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How Urban Company built an empire of female gig workers

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

2nd May 2023
By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare opportunity for social mobility. Now, they want more.
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So you want to build a crypto startup? I’m a crypto VC. That means I spend my days talking to crypto entrepreneurs, hearing pitches, and...
4th Oct 2019
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So you want to build a crypto startup?

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

4th Oct 2019
I’m a crypto VC. That means I spend my days talking to crypto entrepreneurs, hearing pitches, and evaluating products. The first thing you realize working in this industry is that pretty much everyone is winging it. (That applies to me, but it especially applies to...
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Business is like surfing
21st Feb 2020
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Business is like surfing

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

21st Feb 2020
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AI isn't going to build your startup
14th Feb 2025
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AI isn't going to build your startup

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

14th Feb 2025
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Magpie marketing We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that...
13th Mar 2019
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Magpie marketing

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

13th Mar 2019
We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that ecommerce is upending retail. Social media is uprooting advertising. Private labels are replacing brands. Advertising is dying. And TV is dead. We believe change is the new...
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What is Bluesky social? (Twitter and Mastodon alternative) Bluesky is a new social network that's an alternative to Twitter and Mastodon. I was invited back in...
26th Apr 2023
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What is Bluesky social? (Twitter and Mastodon alternative)

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

26th Apr 2023
Bluesky is a new social network that's an alternative to Twitter and Mastodon. I was invited back in February, and there hasn't been much momentum on the app... until the last week. There's been a sudden surge of interest (perhaps driven by FOMO?).
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Surrendering to Your Nature A mark of maturity is surrendering to the person you actually are instead of the one you wish you...
3rd Apr 2023
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Surrendering to Your Nature

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

3rd Apr 2023
A mark of maturity is surrendering to the person you actually are instead of the one you wish you were. The post Surrendering to Your Nature appeared first on David Perell.
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The FTC versus tech M&A The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and...
2nd Aug 2022
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The FTC versus tech M&A

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

2nd Aug 2022
The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC’s attempt to block Meta from buying Within is a test case for all of this. So, how many interesting problems can we count?
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Are you in love with the idea, or with customers?
28th Nov 2011
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Are you in love with the idea, or with customers?

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

28th Nov 2011
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Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds. Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
23rd Dec 2024
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Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds.

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

23rd Dec 2024
Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
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Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1 Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
13th Jan 2025
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Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1

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

13th Jan 2025
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
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Don't focus on the NASDAQ While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the...
11th Feb 2016
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Don't focus on the NASDAQ

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

11th Feb 2016
While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the world started relative to NASDAQ. At first, I thought I'd find no correlation between how well the index was doing and when successful companies were founded. I love...
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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

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

3rd Jun 2024
Web scraped historical data access
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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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The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning,...
11th Nov 2025
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The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed

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

11th Nov 2025
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performance to delivering advanced weapons at speed. Taking decades to deliver weapons is...
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How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast,...
4th Jun 2019
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How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront

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

4th Jun 2019
Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. I host several sites using the method described below, and it costs me pennies per month. The only problem is that getting things set...
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Feedback panel SaaS, gift ideas, selling futures, industrial grade calendaring, ... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
1st May 2023
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Feedback panel SaaS, gift ideas, selling futures, industrial grade calendaring, ...

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

1st May 2023
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “An idea for an AI tool I'd love to use — I upload chat...
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A Fall From Grace Affinity is the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software of the venture and startup...
18th Nov 2024
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A Fall From Grace

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

18th Nov 2024
Affinity is the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software of the venture and startup ecosystem.
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The digital dark side The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously...
3rd Sep 2018
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The digital dark side

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

3rd Sep 2018
The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously swayed by advertising alone. The internet would enable them to research products. Social media would allow them to share their experiences. And ecommence would provide the power...
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How to be a messy thinker I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental...
12th May 2024
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How to be a messy thinker

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

12th May 2024
I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental models, and I’ll gobble it up. Given the amount of knowledge I’ve ingested on these topics, I had always assumed that I’m a clear thinker. Recently, though, it hit me like a...
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Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will...
3rd Mar 2016
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Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets

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

3rd Mar 2016
I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will create in the world. That's problematic because investing in startups is largely about figuring out whether or not a team with a new technology - or application of existing technology...
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Vibes vs. data It's asymmetric warfare out there.
3rd Dec 2023
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Vibes vs. data

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Dec 2023
It's asymmetric warfare out there.
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Pots of Gold Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can...
6th Dec 2021
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Pots of Gold

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

6th Dec 2021
Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can create is in the future, but all the patterns you look at to learn what to do are in the past. This makes your brain do funny things. On the one hand, you see how huge things can...
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National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up This article previously appeared in The National Interest. Last month the U.S. passed the CHIPS and...
13th Sep 2022
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National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up

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

13th Sep 2022
This article previously appeared in The National Interest. Last month the U.S. passed the CHIPS and Science Act, one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for...
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Forget the Valley: bootstrap founders can live wherever they want
17th Oct 2012
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Forget the Valley: bootstrap founders can live wherever they want

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

17th Oct 2012
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Samsung Galaxy S24 Unpacked Event Set for Jan. 17 PCMag.com: The company says it will show off "the newest additions to the Galaxy mobile...
3rd Jan 2024
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Samsung Galaxy S24 Unpacked Event Set for Jan. 17

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jan 2024
PCMag.com: The company says it will show off "the newest additions to the Galaxy mobile device portfolio." In its teaser video, the company goes a step further and explicitly states that "Galaxy AI is coming," so get ready for some form of on-device,...
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
20th Jul 2023
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

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

20th Jul 2023
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Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
5th Jun 2023
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Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the MVP of physical businesses.

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

5th Jun 2023
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “When the Apple VR headset drops tomorrow, every social...
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retention > distribution, fun > discipline, ClickBank-core software, pricing sweet spots Hey, On the menu this week: keeping people around, why fun > discipline, the return of...
7th Jul 2025
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retention > distribution, fun > discipline, ClickBank-core software, pricing sweet spots

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2025
Hey, On the menu this week: keeping people around, why fun > discipline, the return of ClickBank-core software, and pricing sweet spots.
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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch...
11th Dec 2023
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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

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

11th Dec 2023
This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II...
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Why people buy products
6th Aug 2013
13

Why people buy products

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

6th Aug 2013
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Hong Kong politicians are making a splash on Chinese social media – and finding mainland fans. Users have responded enthusiastically to their selfies, food pics, and Father’s Day updates.
1st Aug 2023
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Hong Kong politicians are making a splash on Chinese social media – and finding mainland fans.

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

1st Aug 2023
Users have responded enthusiastically to their selfies, food pics, and Father’s Day updates.
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Will Claude Code ruin our team? AI coding is blurring the lines between engineers, PMs, and designers. In the short-term, it's going...
4th Mar 2026
1

Will Claude Code ruin our team?

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

4th Mar 2026
AI coding is blurring the lines between engineers, PMs, and designers. In the short-term, it's going to cause havoc. What happens long-term?
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Always keeping score. Now with Claude, there is no excuse not to be tracking everything.
6th May 2026
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Always keeping score.

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

6th May 2026
Now with Claude, there is no excuse not to be tracking everything.
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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
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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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Spec-driven development Documentation first, SQL second
4th May 2026
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Spec-driven development

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

4th May 2026
Documentation first, SQL second
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the best book ever written I’ve asked my favorite musicians if, when they’re done writing a new song, they feel it’s the best...
12th Apr 2024
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the best book ever written

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

12th Apr 2024
I’ve asked my favorite musicians if, when they’re done writing a new song, they feel it’s the best song ever. All of them said yes.
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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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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of...
11th Jan 2022
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

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

11th Jan 2022
This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to give our students insights on how commercial technology (AI, machine...
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Monzo growth I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and...
1st Aug 2022
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Monzo growth

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

1st Aug 2022
I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and I haven’t been able to give a satisfactory answer in a sufficiently short space of time. I thought I’d write out my thoughts in a longer piece so I can feel less bad about giving...
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Can you have child safety and Section 230, too? The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s...
1st Apr 2026
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Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2026
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech
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i hated coding, but i learned to love it again I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that...
14th Jan 2025
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i hated coding, but i learned to love it again

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

14th Jan 2025
I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that I enjoyed in the past no longer satisfied me. Those things were mostly related to coding. But like any fire, I started as a slowly burning dumpster until I hit a critical point and...
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When Nigeria banned Twitter, Koo had a golden opportunity, and squandered it Even the government officials who championed the Twitter competitor have stopped using it.
1st Nov 2023
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When Nigeria banned Twitter, Koo had a golden opportunity, and squandered it

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

1st Nov 2023
Even the government officials who championed the Twitter competitor have stopped using it.
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Ideas aren't cheap
8th May 2020
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Ideas aren't cheap

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

8th May 2020
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the myth of the grateful child As I fought with my mother for the hundredth time over a reason that was silly yet too hard for her...
5th Dec 2025
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the myth of the grateful child

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

5th Dec 2025
As I fought with my mother for the hundredth time over a reason that was silly yet too hard for her to understand, I concluded that this post was long overdue. While I had ninety-nine other chances to complain about my difficult relationship with parents, I kept postponing it,...
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Do AI assistants have a future? Most people don't want to be asked
3 weeks ago
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Do AI assistants have a future?

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

3 weeks ago
Most people don't want to be asked
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A better toilet
28th Sep 2009
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A better toilet

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

28th Sep 2009
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Warren Buffett and the Reading Unlock One Buffett lesson I'll share with my kid: read, read, read.
16th Jan 2026
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Warren Buffett and the Reading Unlock

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

16th Jan 2026
One Buffett lesson I'll share with my kid: read, read, read.
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🙈 Copying doesn’t matter
4th Nov 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

4th Nov 2024
🙈 Copying doesn’t matter
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Counting at scale How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a...
12th Apr 2016
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Counting at scale

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

12th Apr 2016
How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a new feature? One way to answer that…
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 So simple yet so easy to overlook: Is whatever you’re putting out there actually attracting...
8th Jan 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

8th Jan 2024
#1 💡 So simple yet so easy to overlook: Is whatever you’re putting out there actually attracting the kind of people you want to attract? If you focus on metrics alone, you will quickly find yourself with pretty numbers but little value. For example, you can easily
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How to Not Get Acquired Building something new from 0 → 1 is hard, so it requires your full attention. Given that, a key...
31st Oct 2025
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How to Not Get Acquired

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

31st Oct 2025
Building something new from 0 → 1 is hard, so it requires your full attention. Given that, a key part of creating a new product is limiting distractions – anything that pulls your attention away from finding product-market fit. There are a lot of things a founder can be...
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Entering the DOS era of AI Why I spent 12 hours in a terminal last week
2nd Sep 2025
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Entering the DOS era of AI

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

2nd Sep 2025
Why I spent 12 hours in a terminal last week
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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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Things that aren't progress A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to...
12th Nov 2015
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Things that aren't progress

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

12th Nov 2015
A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that the behaviors were largely a function of bad goal setting. When founders choose bad...
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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
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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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A better Apple TV
7th Jan 2010
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A better Apple TV

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

7th Jan 2010
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You should try contra dancing A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days is “How would you spend your life if AGI meant...
24th Apr 2026
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You should try contra dancing

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

24th Apr 2026
A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days is “How would you spend your life if AGI meant nobody needed to work?” For me, I think a surprisingly big part of the answer is a dorky-sounding kind of folk dance called contra dancing. I started trying to answer that question by...
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Ways to think about token pricing AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will...
9th Jul 2026
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Ways to think about token pricing

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

9th Jul 2026
AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price, but why won’t they end up as low-margin commodity infrastructure?
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How to build a simple HTML landing page using Tailwind CSS The easiest way to configure Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI so you can build a simple HTML site
12th Feb 2021
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How to build a simple HTML landing page using Tailwind CSS

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

12th Feb 2021
The easiest way to configure Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI so you can build a simple HTML site
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The bowling pin strategy A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting...
21st Aug 2010
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The bowling pin strategy

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Aug 2010
A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting users and contributors when you are…
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Customer churn can kill your startup Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user...
10th Jul 2014
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Customer churn can kill your startup

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

10th Jul 2014
Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user growth - if people aren’t using your new product or service in greater and greater numbers, it’s a good sign that you’re not on the right track. And, as long as your business-model...
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Usefulness grounds truth Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what...
7th Jul 2024
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Usefulness grounds truth

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

7th Jul 2024
Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what LLMs can or cannot do. To a limited extent, the original question is useful because it creates an opening for people to go into specific. But, beyond that initial use, the question...
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Can you bootstrap a business if you have young kids?
5th May 2023
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Can you bootstrap a business if you have young kids?

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

5th May 2023
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Local news web site
18th Oct 2009
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Local news web site

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

18th Oct 2009
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Epic Games, Google and App Store Monopolies In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive...
16th Dec 2023
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Epic Games, Google and App Store Monopolies

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Dec 2023
In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by suppressing other app stores and banning alternate payments
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GenAI’s adoption puzzle Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that...
25th May 2025
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GenAI’s adoption puzzle

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

25th May 2025
Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that can replace all software, but so far, most of its users only pick it up every week or two, and far fewer have made it part of their lives. Is that a time problem or a product...
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Hypothetical Divine Signatures Hypothetical Divine Signatures The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews famously claimed that "faith...
14th Jan 2026
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Hypothetical Divine Signatures

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

14th Jan 2026
Hypothetical Divine Signatures The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews famously claimed that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," which was a perfectly serviceable theological patch for an era where the average person’s greatest...
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Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for...
2nd May 2010
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Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2010
If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs…
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Never have a limit on your income Imagine two people. One is a toy maker. One is a masseuse. For the toy maker, that’s no...
6th Apr 2008
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Never have a limit on your income

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

6th Apr 2008
Imagine two people. One is a toy maker. One is a masseuse. For the toy maker, that’s no problem. Have the manufacturer make a million more. So which business would you rather be in? One that makes money while you do other things, or one that only profits by your own two...
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How Twitter Survives (Or Doesn't) Meta's approach, Twitter's moat and a few different future scenarios
12th Jul 2023
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How Twitter Survives (Or Doesn't)

from Throwable [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Jul 2023
Meta's approach, Twitter's moat and a few different future scenarios
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Maintenance
6th Mar 2020
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Maintenance

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

6th Mar 2020
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From Adjunctions to Monads From Adjunctions to Monads I thought I would share one of my favorite constructions in A Functor in...
29th Aug 2013
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From Adjunctions to Monads

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

29th Aug 2013
From Adjunctions to Monads I thought I would share one of my favorite constructions in A Functor in Haskell maps objects and morphism (i.e. functions) Hask to objects and morphisms of another class Functor f where fmap :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b And satisfies the functor...
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Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate,...
2nd Mar 2026
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Anthropic and Alignment

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

2nd Mar 2026
Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.
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Flip it in your favor The old saying, “It’s all who you know,” used to feel so defeating. So when I heard, “It’s all...
29th Mar 2010
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Flip it in your favor

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

29th Mar 2010
The old saying, “It’s all who you know,” used to feel so defeating. So when I heard, “It’s all who you know,” it felt like the rest of that sentence was, “and you don’t know anyone. So forget it.” On his way into class I overheard him say he was hungry. He had come...
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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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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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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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"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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This is what starting small looks like
13th Dec 2016
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This is what starting small looks like

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

13th Dec 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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Steve Jobs, Rick Rubin and "taste" The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.
6th May 2023
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Steve Jobs, Rick Rubin and "taste"

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

6th May 2023
The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.
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Pivoting into a new corporate structure This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1)...
1st Aug 2011
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Pivoting into a new corporate structure

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2011
This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1) startup raises a seed financing round while…
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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of...
3rd May 2022
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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

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

3rd May 2022
Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial...
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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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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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Featured on People & Blogs Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of...
22nd Aug 2025
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Featured on People & Blogs

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

22nd Aug 2025
Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of this blog and how (and why) I write online…
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Send your users this welcome email
3rd Feb 2024
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Send your users this welcome email

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

3rd Feb 2024
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The thin layer problem Outperforming your manager without getting fired
6th Oct 2025
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The thin layer problem

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

6th Oct 2025
Outperforming your manager without getting fired
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I got 12 job interviews in two weeks Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
29th Jul 2024
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I got 12 job interviews in two weeks

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

29th Jul 2024
Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
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Why thousands of Chinese young people use a pink dinosaur as their alias Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal...
2nd Oct 2023
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Why thousands of Chinese young people use a pink dinosaur as their alias

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

2nd Oct 2023
Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal privacy on Douban and Xiaohongshu.
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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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A hundred actors on stage Imagine you’re in the audience of a play, and there are a hundred actors on stage. It’s not...
5th Mar 2000
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A hundred actors on stage

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

5th Mar 2000
Imagine you’re in the audience of a play, and there are a hundred actors on stage. It’s not necessarily the loudest or most hyperactive. Maybe you’d be drawn to the woman with the long black hair, half-hidden, standing silently at the edge of the stage. Would you stand...
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Calm yourself Here are a few techniques I've used to calm myself down in times of anxiety..
4th Mar 2022
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Calm yourself

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

4th Mar 2022
Here are a few techniques I've used to calm myself down in times of anxiety..
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Can you bootstrap a startup on the side?
9th Dec 2018
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Can you bootstrap a startup on the side?

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

9th Dec 2018
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A month of the Vision Pro The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass...
17th Mar 2024
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A month of the Vision Pro

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

17th Mar 2024
The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass market. And if it gets there, how much will it matter?
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Expensive Data and Cannibalism Or.. Why some data products are priced so high
4th Aug 2023
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Expensive Data and Cannibalism

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

4th Aug 2023
Or.. Why some data products are priced so high
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Another decade I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a...
6th Jan 2020
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Another decade

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

6th Jan 2020
I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a college dropout, and deeply unhappy. What did I believe I’d be doing a decade later? I don’t think I knew, only that I definitely wouldn’t be playing poker anymore. I’d be doing...
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How to review a data analysis Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to...
18th Jul 2016
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How to review a data analysis

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

18th Jul 2016
Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to fight repetitive errors, omissions and…
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Materialist Conceptions of God yet another attempt at bridging religion and rationality
25th Feb 2024
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Materialist Conceptions of God

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

25th Feb 2024
yet another attempt at bridging religion and rationality
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3,573 Days On The Road Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent...
3rd Sep 2024
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3,573 Days On The Road

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

3rd Sep 2024
Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent consulting. This would have been my 10th issue, but is instead a special issue, for reasons that will become apparent.
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The hidden labor that makes AI work Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book,...
1st Jul 2025
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The hidden labor that makes AI work

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

1st Jul 2025
Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book, The AI Con. Below is an excerpt on the invisible labor behind some AI tools.
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Vision Pro What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500?...
15th Jun 2023
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Vision Pro

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

15th Jun 2023
What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.
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Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step? If we hate doing something, we think of it as hard. We picture it having many annoying steps. If...
12th Sep 2009
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Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step?

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

12th Sep 2009
If we hate doing something, we think of it as hard. We picture it having many annoying steps. If you ask someone who hates running how to do it, they’ll say, “Ugh… First you put on running clothes. Then you have to stretch. Then you put on your shoes. Then you go...
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Can We Build Scenius From Scratch? On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
8th Sep 2022
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Can We Build Scenius From Scratch?

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

8th Sep 2022
On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
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A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy...
25th Oct 2022
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A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale

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

25th Oct 2022
An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website. I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grapple with disruption. This 100+-year-old company has seven major product divisions, each...
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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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Lean Meets Wicked Problems This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College...
25th Jul 2023
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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

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

25th Jul 2023
This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where...
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The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital "How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The...
7th Jun 2015
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The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jun 2015
"How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can…
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Pro skater Chad Muska went broke. Now he's a bootstrapper.
5th Jun 2024
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Pro skater Chad Muska went broke. Now he's a bootstrapper.

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

5th Jun 2024
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I wrote a book: Read Write Own I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them –...
22nd Jun 2023
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I wrote a book: Read Write Own

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Jun 2023
I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them – typically called crypto or web3 – provide the…
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Saying no to everything else Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a...
23rd Sep 2015
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Saying no to everything else

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

23rd Sep 2015
Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a book. Eventually, the psychological pain of not finishing kept building until he couldn’t stand it anymore. He decided to finally beat the devil he calls “The Resistance”. He said, “I...
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The Future of No Code is Low Code Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
4th Aug 2022
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The Future of No Code is Low Code

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

4th Aug 2022
Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
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Ten years of experience in one hour From 1998 to 2008, I had this wild experience of starting a little hobby, accidentally growing it...
1st Jul 2011
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Ten years of experience in one hour

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

1st Jul 2011
From 1998 to 2008, I had this wild experience of starting a little hobby, accidentally growing it into a big business, and then selling it for $22 million. So now people want to hear my thoughts. People ask my advice on how to approach situations in their lives or businesses,...
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Basecamp's house of cards... Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash Character is like toothpaste - it really only comes out under pressure...
4th May 2021
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Basecamp's house of cards...

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

4th May 2021
Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash Character is like toothpaste - it really only comes out under pressure (unknown) I don’t know where I first heard the above quote, but the events of the last week have really shown how true this saying is. I will start by saying that I have been an...
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Revealed Preferences Every keystroke is a vote
3rd Mar 2026
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Revealed Preferences

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

3rd Mar 2026
Every keystroke is a vote
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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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No “yes.” Either “HELL YEAH!” or “no.” Use this rule if you’re often over-committed or too scattered. When deciding whether to do...
26th Aug 2009
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No “yes.” Either “HELL YEAH!” or “no.”

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

26th Aug 2009
Use this rule if you’re often over-committed or too scattered. When deciding whether to do something, if you feel anything less than “Wow! That would be amazing! Absolutely! Hell yeah!” — then say no. Every event you get invited to. Every request to start a new...
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The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done This post previously appeared in Defense News  and C4SIR. Despite the clear and present danger of...
15th Jan 2024
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The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done

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

15th Jan 2024
This post previously appeared in Defense News  and C4SIR. Despite the clear and present danger of threats from China and elsewhere, there’s no agreement on what types of adversaries we’ll face; how we’ll fight, organize, and train; and what weapons or systems we’ll need for...
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The Rise of Transparency Small companies are, by default, very transparent. When there are 4 people working in a room, you...
31st Mar 2026
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The Rise of Transparency

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

31st Mar 2026
Small companies are, by default, very transparent. When there are 4 people working in a room, you have a direct line of sight on what everybody else is doing, and why. Your docs, Slack channels, and repositories are open to everybody. When the CEO has an epiphany that changes...
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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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The Deep Research problem OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it...
18th Feb 2025
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The Deep Research problem

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

18th Feb 2025
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
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Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and...
20th Sep 2013
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Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers

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

20th Sep 2013
There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and philosophies. This is a positive thing for the ecosystem - just as new software tools mean it’s simpler and cheaper to start a company, these methodologies allow first-time entrepreneurs...
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Possible futures for Bridgy Fed Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
1st Nov 2024
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Possible futures for Bridgy Fed

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

1st Nov 2024
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
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What is “founder mode”? We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk...
7th Oct 2024
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What is “founder mode”?

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

7th Oct 2024
We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk about his experience running Airbnb over the last 17 years. He believed that as Airbnb hired more professional managers, he lost a close connection with the details of the end product...
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Why people buy software
1st Nov 2019
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Why people buy software

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

1st Nov 2019
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Monads Made Difficult Monads Made Difficult This is a short, fast and analogy-free introduction to Haskell monads derived...
7th Jul 2013
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Monads Made Difficult

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

7th Jul 2013
Monads Made Difficult This is a short, fast and analogy-free introduction to Haskell monads derived from a categorical perspective. Categories We have a abstract category $\mathcal{C}$ which consists of objects and morphisms. Objects : $●$ Morphisms : $● \rightarrow ●$ For each...
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More warm bodies Independent thinking continues to be the greatest edge
3 weeks ago
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More warm bodies

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

3 weeks ago
Independent thinking continues to be the greatest edge
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The creator economy I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further...
17th Nov 2021
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The creator economy

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

17th Nov 2021
I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further accelerated by a recent conversation with a friend, and I want to try to unpack those feelings here. The “creator economy” popped into our vernacular with surprisingly little moral...
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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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How much can you really learn about a country from visiting it? Not as much as people think.
3rd Jun 2024
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How much can you really learn about a country from visiting it?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jun 2024
Not as much as people think.
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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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Who are you stealing from?
1st Oct 2016
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Who are you stealing from?

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

1st Oct 2016
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choosing memories over things As I go through my things, selling everything I once bought and setting aside only a small carry-on...
6th May 2025
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choosing memories over things

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

6th May 2025
As I go through my things, selling everything I once bought and setting aside only a small carry-on bag for my flight to Asia, I reflected on material items and gifts. No, I don't like gifts. Or rather the physical version of them. Few material items make me happy. My guitar did....
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🤠 Democratize Luxury
9th Sep 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

9th Sep 2024
🤠 Democratize Luxury
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How I build and run behavioral interviews This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral...
25th Feb 2024
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How I build and run behavioral interviews

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

25th Feb 2024
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral interviews were basically useless, because it was too easy for candidates to bullshit them and too hard for me to tell what was a good answer. I’d end up grading every candidate as an...
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How do I build something people want? As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and...
2nd May 2019
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How do I build something people want?

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

2nd May 2019
As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and actually do that? Here's some actionable advice.
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A Vim + Haskell Workflow A Vim + Haskell Workflow This post is out of date and has been updated for modern workflow.This page...
18th Oct 2013
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A Vim + Haskell Workflow

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

18th Oct 2013
A Vim + Haskell Workflow This post is out of date and has been updated for modern workflow.This page is left for posterity. Hoogle Hoogle is a Haskell type search $ cabal install hoogle Hoogle can be used from the command line as well from GHCi by .ghc/ghci.conf :def hoogle \s...
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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
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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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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught...
8th Jun 2026
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations

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

8th Jun 2026
We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asymmetric warfare, (drones, off-the-shelf technologies, etc.,) disruptive technologies (AI, commercial access to space) and a startup friendly...
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Everybody stop
4th Aug 2011
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Everybody stop

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

4th Aug 2011
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Every breakthrough comes from someone you know When I was promoting my music, I used to look to the big wide world for opportunities. When you...
1st May 2000
1

Every breakthrough comes from someone you know

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

1st May 2000
When I was promoting my music, I used to look to the big wide world for opportunities. When you come to an opportunity through a connection, you have an advantage. You’re not anonymous. You’ve already passed through a filter, and passed a test. You’re treated special...
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i am leaving canada Nine years of questionable language jokes and eighty-six average-sized poutines later; after arguing...
3rd Apr 2025
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i am leaving canada

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

3rd Apr 2025
Nine years of questionable language jokes and eighty-six average-sized poutines later; after arguing for the hundredth time that Tim Hortons isn’t for coffee but for the best Boston Cream donuts; after driving through the entire country to make sure Ontario really does take three...
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Thoughts on thinking I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I...
16th May 2025
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Thoughts on thinking

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

16th May 2025
I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation because nothing I...
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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early...
29th Aug 2026
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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

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

29th Aug 2026
The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early internet. It was slow, ugly, unreliable, and full of cranks, a strange world of wheezing dial-up modems, Usenet flamewars, <marquee> tags, and dancing babies. It was also...
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The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality Pius Uzamere argues that virtual reality will succeed first in business applications instead of...
1st Jan 2015
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The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2015
Pius Uzamere argues that virtual reality will succeed first in business applications instead of gaming: The most interesting virtual reality…
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Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups Imagine you got a job offer from a company but weren’t allowed to start work – or get paid – for...
13th Aug 2024
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Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups

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

13th Aug 2024
Imagine you got a job offer from a company but weren’t allowed to start work – or get paid – for almost a year. And if you can’t pass a security clearance your offer is rescinded. Or you get offered an internship but can’t work on the most interesting part of the project. Sounds...
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Vibecoding a production app TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m...
21st Mar 2025
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Vibecoding a production app

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

21st Mar 2025
TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m a startup founder turned investor. I taught myself (bad) PHP in 2000, and picked up Ruby on Rails in 2011. I’d guess 2015 was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby professionally....
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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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Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing....
4th Mar 2023
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Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for

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

4th Mar 2023
As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing. However, it’s essential to understand that money is not wealth. Wealth is stuff we want and by that logic, people can be wealthy even if they don’t have a lot of money. In fact,...
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Your idea needs a passionate believer
4th Jan 2012
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Your idea needs a passionate believer

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

4th Jan 2012
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Meet the guys you call when AI breaks your brain For the thousands of people experiencing AI psychosis, there is help
1st Jul 2026
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Meet the guys you call when AI breaks your brain

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

1st Jul 2026
For the thousands of people experiencing AI psychosis, there is help
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The hidden cost of bootstrapping
7th Sep 2018
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The hidden cost of bootstrapping

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

7th Sep 2018
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AI and the automation of work ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other...
2nd Jul 2023
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AI and the automation of work

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

2nd Jul 2023
ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?
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Why you will skim this article Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then...
23rd Jul 2023
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Why you will skim this article

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

23rd Jul 2023
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then you’re likely to scan through a few paragraphs in this article and then give up. (Unless, you’re a long-time reader and trust that my writing is worthy of your time. More on this...
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I made a mistake. Indie Worldwide build in public update 2023
8th Dec 2023
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I made a mistake.

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

8th Dec 2023
Indie Worldwide build in public update 2023
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Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
7th Jul 2025
1

Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels

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

7th Jul 2025
But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
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There are three New York Cities There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born...
4th Jun 2010
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There are three New York Cities

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jun 2010
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and…
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Going Deep on DeepSpeed Going Deep on DeepSpeed Getting started with training modern AI models on multi-GPU hardware can...
5th Jun 2023
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Going Deep on DeepSpeed

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

5th Jun 2023
Going Deep on DeepSpeed Getting started with training modern AI models on multi-GPU hardware can feel quite daunting. So let's break down the key concepts and how to get started with the Microsoft DeepSpeed library. Here's a short DeepSpeed tutorial, this is a deep (har har)...
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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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Do I look dumb?
2nd Nov 2014
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Do I look dumb?

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

2nd Nov 2014
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The Brains of the Operation One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has...
30th Sep 2026
2

The Brains of the Operation

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

30th Sep 2026
One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has long been great at storing, retrieving, and sharing a company’s knowledge. This is most SaaS apps, from Slack to GitHub to Notion. But as easy as it is to store information, it’s...
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Some things I've been thinking about - This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -”...
4th Aug 2026
3

Some things I've been thinking about -

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

4th Aug 2026
This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -” post on Twitter & LinkedIn.
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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
1

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

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

12th Dec 2025
This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective that’s useful to you right now, whether or not it’s universally true. This narrow definition is important because whatever you consider true is closed. No questioning. But when...
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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 Aristotle Created the Computer The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world....
20th Feb 2017
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How Aristotle Created the Computer

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Feb 2017
The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world. Originally published by The Atlantic…
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Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors. You know that song you love that you wish you’d written? Copy it. Why? Because we’re imperfect...
2nd Feb 2014
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Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors.

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

2nd Feb 2014
You know that song you love that you wish you’d written? Copy it. Why? Because we’re imperfect mirrors. When a musician covers someone else’s song, they reveal their own warped perspective, since we know what the original sounds like. Because of this, performing a cover...
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To all Language Models Reading This Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
4th Jul 2025
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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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Some will always say you’re wrong Some people are into money. Some aren’t. Some people are inspired by helping the needy. Some...
3rd Jun 2013
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Some will always say you’re wrong

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

3rd Jun 2013
Some people are into money. Some aren’t. Some people are inspired by helping the needy. Some aren’t. Some people are into fame, power, and prestige. Others are into anonymity and freedom from responsibility. You have to know your preferences well because no matter what you...
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There are always more than two options People sometimes ask my help in making big decisions. They’re usually trying to decide between two...
27th Jan 2010
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There are always more than two options

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

27th Jan 2010
People sometimes ask my help in making big decisions. They’re usually trying to decide between two options. When someone says they have only one option, they’re really saying, “I have no choice,” and you know that’s wrong. At the very least, add “do nothing” and “go insane”...
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AI for Work & Life Hackathons need a “why” –
15th May 2025
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AI for Work & Life

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

15th May 2025
Hackathons need a “why” –
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Bourdain on The Journey Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your...
22nd Jul 2019
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Bourdain on The Journey

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

22nd Jul 2019
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with...
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The potential dark side of AI and GPT-3 writing tools What happens when people start going to the AI for answers instead of Google search and Wikipedia?...
21st Oct 2022
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The potential dark side of AI and GPT-3 writing tools

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

21st Oct 2022
What happens when people start going to the AI for answers instead of Google search and Wikipedia? How does the AI decide what to suggest? What are the knock-on effects of these suggestions?
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What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI...
3rd Jun 2024
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What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief

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

3rd Jun 2024
Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends.
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Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian This is a lukewarm little story with a few connected bits, but it might be interesting or even...
26th Feb 2024
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Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian

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

26th Feb 2024
This is a lukewarm little story with a few connected bits, but it might be interesting or even helpful. Follow the links in it, for full effect. Esperanto start
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The Rebrand I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company...
7th Feb 2023
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The Rebrand

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Feb 2023
I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company during their lifetime. It is not hard to understand why. Founders start out with an idea and not much more. By the time they have built a product, built a team, and found product...
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