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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
AI’s “tech tsunami” is coming for call center workers The Philippines’ 1.6 million outsourced workers fear they may soon be automated out of a job.
over a year ago
Business Brainstorms
Never launch, AI as an anti-signal, slow news, zero shame in pulling the plug. Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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 “Billing for software is broken. Stripe is REALLY good...
Essays - Benedict...
AI’s metrics question With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure. That’s partly a problem of data and definitions, but it’s really a question about what this is going to be.
Working Theorys
How to Do Business School Right | Theory No. 22 There’s an age-old debate about whether you should go to business school or not. It rarely comes up...
a year ago
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a year ago
There’s an age-old debate about whether you should go to business school or not. It rarely comes up these days but yes, I went to business school — arguably to the most business-school-y of business schools, Harvard Business School. Business school isn’t “popular” in modern...
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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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The problem with tranched VC investments In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over time when certain pre-negotiated…
Noahpinion
Should economists read Marx? Yes, but not for the reasons Marxists think.
7 months ago
Articles
Why most product ideas aren't that good
over a year ago
Noahpinion
The U.S. needs to pay more attention to electronic warfare A guest post by Steven Glinert.
11 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Sincerity Wins The War Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a weekly Friday column where I go over the most meaningful news and give my views, which I guess is what you’d expect. Anyway, it’s $7 a
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#48) Information war; Chinese VC; land reform; India's garment industry; degrowth research; Trump vs....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Information war; Chinese VC; land reform; India's garment industry; degrowth research; Trump vs. Harris on deficits; good news
Paul Graham: Essays
The Word "Hacker"
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The industry behind the industry behind AI It’s outsourcing all the way down.
over a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Bitcoin: The Postmodern Ponzi
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Feeling strangely optimistic about Egypt It has many of the building blocks for a successful industrialization story.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Welcome to Exporter A new way of thinking about the global tech industry.
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The role of trust in building fintech for Africa Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government regulations and the role of longevity.
Paul Graham: Essays
A Student's Guide to Startups
over a year ago
Articles
The secret is to sell what people are already searching for Most purchases start with a search. While some purchases are impulse-driven (like seeing something...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most purchases start with a search. While some purchases are impulse-driven (like seeing something cool on Instagram and buying right away), most sales come from intent-based searches.
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🤠 Democratize Luxury
11 months ago
Rest of World -...
“China’s K-pop moment”: Wukong’s global success sparks government embrace of video games as soft... China is changing its long-critical stance thanks to the smash hit, according to Chinese game...
11 months ago
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How we "judo'd" a server outage to create a customer evangelist Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash I was listening to Arvid Kahl’s latest podcast episode on my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash I was listening to Arvid Kahl’s latest podcast episode on my morning walk today, where he talked about Facebook’s recent 6 hour outage, and how you can ‘judo’ negative things like server downtime into a positive outcome. As a former student of the...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "speed and strategy" One way to make sure we can move quickly is for everyone to understand our strategy behind the major...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One way to make sure we can move quickly is for everyone to understand our strategy behind the major product areas we're working on. I've tried to summarize some of the key ones here.
Noahpinion
What would a real anti-China trade strategy look like? How we would do things if we were serious.
4 months ago
Platformer
How Facebook does (and doesn’t) shape our political views Four long-awaited studies paint a muddy picture of social media’s impact on public opinion
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#45) Intel; Canada's economy; infrastructure and state capacity; East Asian development; race in America;...
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Ideal first round funding terms My last 2 posts were about things to avoid, so I thought it might be helpful to follow up with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My last 2 posts were about things to avoid, so I thought it might be helpful to follow up with something more positive.  Having been part of…
Articles
Things to do when Amazon S3 is down
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
Articles
The person on the other side of the screen
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Trump takes a baseball bat to the U.S. economy Destroying Americans' livelihoods and wealth to satisfy the whims of a crazy ideology.
5 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Copy What You Like
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei and Manufacturing Intelligence at Scale PLUS: SpaceX's Starship miracle, Taco Bell's franchise model.
10 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on "hard-core detractors" | Elon Musk responds to Tesla investor The key point is that they can't both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things...
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Coinbase One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press and how it is understood by…
Articles
Do people still read blogs?
over a year ago
Noahpinion
In which I review almost every episode of Black Mirror Dammit, I really need a break from economics.
4 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Billionaires Build
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Make Wealth
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The secret ingredient to hustle culture: A virtual assistant in the Philippines How the office grind is being outsourced from Silicon Valley to Manila.
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The changing face of protest Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the...
a year ago
Noahpinion
Welcome to The Future This time it arrived right on schedule.
3 months ago
Articles
2017 year in review
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Roots of Lisp
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Bangladesh’s internet blackout immobilizes its booming tech industry The government and internet service providers blame each other for the blackout amid massive...
a year ago
Working Theorys
What I Talk About When I Talk About Reading Optimize your life for good conversations.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
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...
2 months ago
Working Theorys
How to Be Like Derek Guy If you spend any time on Twitter, you know the handle @dieworkwear by heart. And you know it’s the...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you spend any time on Twitter, you know the handle @dieworkwear by heart. And you know it’s the handle of Derek Guy, menswear expert extraordinaire. (I’m still unsure if that’s his real name, but I haven’t bothered to look it up because at this point I trust him implicitly.) I...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🔀 The Law of Line Extension
11 months ago