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Jim Simons and the Making of Renaissance Technologies The philosophy and lessons behind "a moneymaking machine like no other" (with a cumulative trading...
a year ago
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Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high” I recently had a number of conversations with CEOs of later-stage startups (generating significant...
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over a year ago
I recently had a number of conversations with CEOs of later-stage startups (generating significant revenue) that went something like this…
Articles
The cure
over a year ago
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Pricing experiment results
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Building AI products How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things...
a year ago
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a year ago
How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things ‘wrong’? What does wrong mean, and how is that useful?
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Meet the mothers in small-town Hungary leading a fight against Chinese EV battery plants Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s goal to turn Hungary into a global EV battery hub is facing...
10 months ago
Noahpinion
The Tech Right is not succeeding Technologists once again prove ham-handed when it comes to politics.
3 months ago
Essays - Benedict...
GenAI’s adoption puzzle Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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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Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities...
a year ago
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a year ago
Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.
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How different languages laugh online Laughter is universal, but lol is not.
a year ago
Articles
Where are these signups coming from?
9 months ago
Noahpinion
A Nobel for the story of women in the workforce How Claudia Goldin brought all the threads together.
a year ago
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iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs Consumers ditch Apple for more advanced features and to support Chinese brands.
4 months ago
Stephen Diehl
The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban
over a year ago
XO Capital - Field...
Focus How to be consistently productive? This is Danny from XO Capital chiming in for this edition of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to be consistently productive? This is Danny from XO Capital chiming in for this edition of Friday Notes. Productivity is something I've struggled with over the past several years. Shouldn't I have this figured out as a 33-year old? Isn't my job as
Articles
The Freedom Ladder
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Fierce Nerds
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Putin is a rest stop on the road of post-Soviet collapse The narrative of Russian revitalization is more hype than reality.
over a year ago
Noahpinion
A three-state solution is the only viable future for Israel and the Palestinians Ethnic cleansing is off the table, and non-contiguous states just don't work.
a year ago
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A coupon-crazy Brazilian app figured out how to beat Uber Eats Out-discounting competitors: iFood’s bid to become Latin America's last-mile delivery king.
over a year ago
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Why AI advancement doesn’t have to come at the expense of marginalized workers In her new book, Empire of AI, Karen Hao insists that AI companies don’t have to choose between...
3 months ago
tomcritchlow.com
Becoming Creative I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few...
a year ago
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a year ago
I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few links that I deeply love about starting, finishing and promoting creative acts…
AVC
The Annual Computer Science Fair Ten years ago, a small group of folks in the K12 Computer Science Education community in NYC decided...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ten years ago, a small group of folks in the K12 Computer Science Education community in NYC decided to put on a “mock job fair” for high school students who were taking computer science classes in the NYC public schools. That was the start of an annual day of engagement and...
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Catching a break: How gig workers find rest Rest of World asked over 100 gig workers across 10 cities how they take a break between tasks.
a year ago
Noahpinion
If you're in Tokyo, come join my hanami this Saturday! Not an actual blog post, just an invitation.
4 months ago
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Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates The local gig workers’ union defends the practice, which Uber forbids, as a form of peaceful...
12 months ago
Noahpinion
Repost: Weebs! Everything you didn't realize you wanted to know about the non-Japanese people who love Japanese pop...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Everything you didn't realize you wanted to know about the non-Japanese people who love Japanese pop culture.
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A U.S. outsourcing company brought lofty promises to Nepal. Then came the layoffs Former employees say the company killed the dream it once sold them.
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Lies We Tell Kids
over a year ago
Working Theorys
The Co-Sign That Changes Everything Ascendancy in any domain is a game of two moves: self-made wins and high-status vouches. You...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Ascendancy in any domain is a game of two moves: self-made wins and high-status vouches. You alternate between the two, taking leaps from one step to the next, aiming for that mythical high point (before either crashing down or fading away under the same community’s judgment or,...
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How this startup bounced back from a crisis ThriveAgric fell into a crisis when the pandemic hit. Three years later, it has found its way back...
over a year ago
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Search and the social graph Google has created a multibillion-dollar economy based on keywords.  We use keywords to find things...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Google has created a multibillion-dollar economy based on keywords.  We use keywords to find things and advertisers use keywords to find…
Noahpinion
The economics of "Rich Men North of Richmond" It made some good points, and some not-so-good points.
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
6 thoughts on "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style...
a year ago
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a year ago
Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style and Big Tech beefs (Bill Gates, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos).
SatPost by Trung...
From Beatlemania to Taylor-mania How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the first tour ever to gross $1B.
Working Theorys
Background Social Theory #41: on apps that let you tell me what you're up to without telling me what you're up to.
a year ago
Aaron's Essays
Abundant Capital The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies are scarce. For most of the history of the industry, this has been true. I remember sitting at demo day in 2011 and marveling at the fact that the combined capital of all the VCs in...
Noahpinion
Why you should not ignore economists They aren't always right, but they almost always have something important to add.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Chinasplaining will backfire A review of "China's World View", by David Daokui Li
a year ago
Platformer
Meta doubles down on layoffs The company's recent products have flopped with consumers. Will a more focused team reverse the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The company's recent products have flopped with consumers. Will a more focused team reverse the trend?
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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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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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What you need to know about Africa’s first AI factory Nvidia and Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa join hands to bring supercomputer technology to...
5 months ago
David Perell
Gagan Biyani: Building Silicon Valley Startups My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor and an advisor) that helps teachers run Cohort-Based Courses on the Internet and has students from around the world. Gagan also founded a multi-billion dollar online education...
Articles
What affects customer motivation?
over a year ago
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China’s AI boom depends on an army of exploited student interns As part of China’s digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators – for low...
a year ago
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a year ago
As part of China’s digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators – for low pay and little future prospects.
Steve Blank
Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon failing its financial audit again would never have caught my attention. But having been in the middle of this conversation when I served on one of the Defense Department’s advisory...
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"There's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product" Steve Jobs in 1995: There's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a...
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
17 Takeaways from Mary Meeker's AI Deck PLUS: Elon vs. Trump, Taylor Swift, Moncler's $17B Secret Sauce and Ukraine Drone Tech.
2 months ago
Articles
Passion needs rigor In modern society, we talk a lot about following our passion. But passion isn't enough. It needs to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In modern society, we talk a lot about following our passion. But passion isn't enough. It needs to be molded through deliberate practice.
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Google’s feature creep Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most cluttered: I don’t use any of…