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What’s trending on Spotify in Africa? Jocelyne Muhutu-Remy talks about the most surprising user behavior on the music streaming app.
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Deal Structures A couple of people have asked about deal structures so here are a few we commonly use for buying...
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A couple of people have asked about deal structures so here are a few we commonly use for buying micro saas companies. All Cash Pretty straight forward. You do all cash. Usually it's 100% into escrow.com and release maybe 50% before asset transfer and 50% after asset
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More stuff or better stuff?
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David Perell
Should You Write Every Day? When I started working out, I hated it. I wanted to gain muscle but dreaded working out. Eventually,...
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When I started working out, I hated it. I wanted to gain muscle but dreaded working out. Eventually, a friend got fed up with my laziness and told me what I needed to hear: “If you want to build the habit, go to the gym every single day without fail.” So that’s what I did. The...
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Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida From Havana to Key West on a surfboard and a cellphone.
over a year ago
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Options on early stage companies I believe that what I’m about to say is accepted by venture capitalists as fact, even trivially...
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I believe that what I’m about to say is accepted by venture capitalists as fact, even trivially obvious fact, yet very few entrepreneurs I…
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Finding your "zone of genius"
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Paul Graham: Essays
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Unleashing the AI jobs revolution in Africa While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help...
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While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help create jobs that never existed before.
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An end of an era for Latin American tech Foreign businesses are making strides in the region while local tech companies reshuffle.
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Congressional Letter Campaign
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Who cares about tech regulation? Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but most people in tech don’t...
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Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but most people in tech don’t seem to care much. It’s boring, and years away, but more fundamentally, it really doesn’t affect what people spend their time working on.
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In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data Brazil is piloting dWallet, that lets citizens earn money from their data, but experts warn it could...
3 months ago
Stephen Diehl
FTX: Greed, Grift and Grandiosity
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Getting Out on a High Note Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin and Quentin Tarantino show the psychological power of walking away at...
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Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin and Quentin Tarantino show the psychological power of walking away at the top.
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "VR / AR strategy" We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. We would...
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We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. We would like a stronger strategic position in the next wave of computing.
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How distributed systems fail At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes,...
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At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
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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
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Jarrod Drysdale's advice for starting
over a year ago
Noahpinion
A pivotal moment for Japan's national defense A guest post by Jonathan Grady
a year ago
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What business are you really in? I spoke with an entrepreneur recently who, after 5 years of running a successful and growing...
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I spoke with an entrepreneur recently who, after 5 years of running a successful and growing business, said "After 5 years I finally know the real business we're in.". It means they outwardly do X but on the inside the hard part is Y. As an
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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...
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Google has created a multibillion-dollar economy based on keywords.  We use keywords to find things and advertisers use keywords to find…
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After U.S. failure, Vietnam’s EV leader turns to markets dominated by Tesla and BYD VinFast follows its Vietnam playbook in Asia and targets the luxury market in the Gulf.
5 months ago
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Indian government gives itself the power to “fact-check” and delete social media posts Journalists, opposition parties, and advocacy groups are worried what this “absolute power” means...
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Heresy
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Scale AI is on a hiring spree for speakers of under-represented languages But some languages pay a lot better than others.
over a year ago
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Moving To A Paid Community I've been debating / delaying this moment for 3 years. They say to build a business these days, one...
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I've been debating / delaying this moment for 3 years. They say to build a business these days, one smart way to do it is build a community first. We do have a community. It's on discord. It's been useless for all but the past
Business Brainstorms
Squeeze page builders, better Bible App, why you're stuck, 1X vs. 2x Founders, talk to people! Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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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 “There is a desperate need for new software devs in the...
Paul Graham: Essays
Economic Inequality
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Apple finally breaks Android’s grip on Southeast Asia Rising wealth in the region has young professionals ditching cheaper Chinese smartphones for...
over a year ago
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...
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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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8 habits for a better day at work
over a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Haskell For a New Decade
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Will this be the Chinese Century? Probably yes, though that may not mean what people expect.
4 months ago
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Middle East tech giants are building super-apps to dominate digital life From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single...
3 months ago
Noahpinion
Trudeau was a poor steward of Canada's economy No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
8 months ago
Inverted Passion
Becoming a Republic The following is the essay I had submitted as part of the one week summer course I took at the...
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The following is the essay I had submitted as part of the one week summer course I took at the Oxford University, where we read Plato’s Republic. The essay includes a few references to structure and specific content from the book, so if something doesn’t make sense, it’s probably...
Working Theorys
24 Working Theorys for 2024 Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators,...
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Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators, and lifestyle
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Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
7 months ago
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
a year ago
Steve Blank
Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian... It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot...
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It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.  (Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief Operating Officer of a company – but in this case the company has 3 million...
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Content negotiation considered harmful Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers...
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Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers return, different content types based on the request’s Accept header. Sounds great, right? Well, no. Content negotiation is the classic example of an idea that sounds good in theory, but...
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The UAE is giving away its advanced AI The Gulf nation offers advanced software without fees or restrictions, positioning itself as a...
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The Gulf nation offers advanced software without fees or restrictions, positioning itself as a neutral tech power between the U.S. and China.
Noahpinion
The Tech Right is not succeeding Technologists once again prove ham-handed when it comes to politics.
4 months ago
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If you asked people in 1989... "If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
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"If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said that a decentralized…
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How do you consume digital media?
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Stephen Diehl
The Joy and Agony of Haskell in Production
over a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Dive into GHC: Pipeline
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Six strategies for overcoming “chicken and egg” problems Products with so-called networks effects get more valuable when more people use them.  Famous...
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Products with so-called networks effects get more valuable when more people use them.  Famous examples are telephones and social networks…