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David Perell
Lifting Alone Gyms were once communal places. Nobody wore headphones. People helped each other out and talked...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Gyms were once communal places. Nobody wore headphones. People helped each other out and talked between sets.  Today, things have changed. Everybody is plugged into their own virtual reality world where they craft their desired mood and intensity level, which definitely gives...
Platformer
How banning one Palestinian slogan roiled Etsy The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees...
a year ago
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a year ago
The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees aren’t happy
Tech + Economics +...
Feels bad, man: how memes escape from their creators and fuel extremism. Meme content is so contextually bound and temporally sensitive that yesterday’s viral sensation is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Meme content is so contextually bound and temporally sensitive that yesterday’s viral sensation is today’s digital fossil. Writing about memes, then, is a delicate dance on a stage where every word and interpretation risks obsolescence as the cultural tide swiftly changes....
Internal Tech Emails
Apple exec on App Store complaints In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to distribute apps on their own, bypassing our store.
Rest of World -...
A changing tech landscape makes for weird birthdays online As social media as we know it crumbles around us, birthday greetings have become the province of...
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Delivery riders are fighting each other over bike-shares in Brazil Almost half the riders from Brazil’s largest delivery app now use city bikes to get around.
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Brazil’s flood disaster set off a torrent of AI misinformation Platforms like Instagram and Facebook are failing an early test of misinformation safeguards.
a year ago
Articles
Are you in love with the idea, or with customers?
over a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Let Tim Cook Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next version of the iPhone’s software) in a presentation that FastCompany called “uninspired,” Futurism called “boring,” and Axios claimed “failed to excite investors.”  The
Rest of World -...
Apple’s biggest gamble isn’t the Vision Pro — it’s India Don’t be distracted by this week’s gadget hype cycle.
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Lose Time and Money
over a year ago
Articles
Why didn't you launch last year?
over a year ago
Articles
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
over a year ago
Articles
Using JTBD to build better products
over a year ago
Raw Thought (from...
What are the optimal biases to overcome?
over a year ago
Noahpinion
The American socialist worldview is just totally broken (repost) Plus a new update showing how right I was.
a year ago
Steve Blank
Lean Launchpad at Stanford – 2025 The PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished the 15th<>annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching it in both the winter and spring sessions. During the 2025 spring quarter...
SatPost by Trung...
Hayao Miyazaki: 9 Creative Lessons Notes on the creative process for the legendary Japanese filmmaker and founder of Studio Ghibli.
2 months 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
I can't work from home For me, this is the ultimate setup: remote work, but at a coworking office
over a year ago
AVC
Software That You Can’t Shut Down The term “censorship resistant” is used a lot in the decentralized computing/web3/crypto space to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The term “censorship resistant” is used a lot in the decentralized computing/web3/crypto space to talk about a core feature of these systems. I don’t love the term censorship resistant because it is a wonky term. Software that is encoded in smart contracts (and other ways) on...
Stephen Diehl
Bitcoin: The Postmodern Ponzi
over a year ago
Aaron's Essays
VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
Working Theorys
Zero-Sum vs. Positive-Sum Product Theory | Theory No. 25 What kind of product are you building?
a year ago
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The Turkish TikToker teaching young women to be religious girlbosses Şule Kayatürk has become a star by making videos about being an observant Muslim who is also a...
11 months ago
Articles
How to make big decisions
7 months ago
Rest of World -...
Global fact-checkers were disappointed, not surprised, Meta ended its program Groups in Pakistan, Argentina, and Brazil have been diversifying revenue streams and many saw the...
7 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
How we turned into assholes The internet was supposed to unite us. So what the fuck happened? And how did we become a...
a year ago
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a year ago
The internet was supposed to unite us. So what the fuck happened? And how did we become a cross-generational digital nation of assholes? We dreamed of a global, decentralized network spreading information, enabling communication, and connecting humanity. But somewhere...
Noahpinion
Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI Comparative advantage is very subtle, but incredibly powerful.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Amazon and Walmart didn’t defeat India’s mom-and-pop stores. But rapid delivery might Services like Blinkit and Zepto are estimated to put more than 25% of India’s neighborhood kirana...
9 months ago
Noahpinion
Is immigration raising rents in America? No, but in a few big cities it might be.
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Uber wades into a fierce price war to stay competitive in India Upstarts and political pressures are forcing Uber to play by new rules as they reshape India’s...
4 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Incumbents Almost every startup has big companies (“incumbents”) that are at some point potential acquirers or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Almost every startup has big companies (“incumbents”) that are at some point potential acquirers or competitors.  For internet startups that…
Articles
The vague headline I see new startups emulating the vague, aspirational, "benefits-driven" headlines from established...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I see new startups emulating the vague, aspirational, "benefits-driven" headlines from established brands, and I think it's a mistake.
Nothing Human
Marl Meetups it is a truth universally acknowledged: a man with a mailing list must organize a meetup
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Mainframes, ML and digital transformation ‘Digital transformation’ sounds like a parody of meaningless tech marketing, but actually captures...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
‘Digital transformation’ sounds like a parody of meaningless tech marketing, but actually captures some pretty interesting and important shifts in big company tech. It’s not as exciting as crypto or AR, and it takes a decade or two, but it’s just as big as smartphones.
Noahpinion
Go read some Vernor Vinge R.I.P. to my favorite science fiction author
a year ago
Noahpinion
Only fools think Elon is incompetent Underestimate a man like this at your peril.
6 months ago
Stephen Diehl
FPTs: Pure Fungibility on the Blockchain
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Hackers and Painters
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Real estate is China's economic Achilles heel It's the country's biggest engine of growth an employment, financial asset, and source of government...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's the country's biggest engine of growth an employment, financial asset, and source of government revenue.
Articles
Why growing old in tech is hard This year, I gave a personal talk about growing old in tech, becoming jaded and depressed, and how I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This year, I gave a personal talk about growing old in tech, becoming jaded and depressed, and how I overcame it.
Working Theorys
Accountability as a Service Hey you, did you do the thing you said you would do?
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Travelogue: Central & Eastern Europe 17 thoughts from a trip to Munich, Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Dubrovnik
a year ago
Noahpinion
Popular econ books: What to read, what not to read A long overdue list.
6 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
Tom Blomfield
Automate Everything Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (or hope) that this behaviour is inherent in being human. But being able to hack together scripts simply makes it much easier to go from a state of...
Articles
A better office
over a year ago