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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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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower...
13th Dec 2015
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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups

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

13th Dec 2015
I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower of Paul Graham and the YC camp of startup wisdom. There’s now a great deal of literature laying out the unbreakable rules for startups. Despite studying this literature, I’ve...
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Keep making things
13th Jun 2015
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Keep making things

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

13th Jun 2015
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Deploying Django with Kamal In this post I'll walk you through my template to deploy a Django monolith using Kamal, but you...
11th Sep 2023
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Deploying Django with Kamal

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

11th Sep 2023
In this post I'll walk you through my template to deploy a Django monolith using Kamal, but you could also adapt it for Rails or Laravel.
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Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
23rd Aug 2022
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Cultivating agency

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

23rd Aug 2022
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
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The folly of trying to replace spreadsheets Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice...
11th Jul 2023
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The folly of trying to replace spreadsheets

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

11th Jul 2023
Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice clean HR database…” We thought it was a cute and quirky tagline, and that it would immediately relatable to our target audience of business and human resource managers. After all...
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Watch for mind gremlins
12th Jan 2017
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Watch for mind gremlins

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

12th Jan 2017
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I love being wrong Most of the time, I feel smart, successful, and driven — like I’ve got it all figured out. But last...
9th Sep 2014
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I love being wrong

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

9th Sep 2014
Most of the time, I feel smart, successful, and driven — like I’ve got it all figured out. But last month a bunch of stuff knocked me on my ass. I’ve never felt so wrong. Whenever something has gone wrong in my life, I’ve asked myself, “What’s great about...
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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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Considerate book pricing I love having my own store so I can make things the way I think they should be. Let’s separate...
27th Oct 2021
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Considerate book pricing

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

27th Oct 2021
I love having my own store so I can make things the way I think they should be. Let’s separate these two things: Contents: the words in a book Delivery: the ways to get the words into your brain: paper, audio, PDF, HTML, etc. buy the contents, not delivery. Today you...
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Orchestrating Agents Is Organizational Design An agent gets good at whatever you make it responsible for. The choice is functional or process...
15th Jun 2026
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Orchestrating Agents Is Organizational Design

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15th Jun 2026
An agent gets good at whatever you make it responsible for. The choice is functional or process accountability.
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The Limitations of RAG The Limitations of RAG Retrieval-Augmented generation or RAG is the future of enterprise search. In...
2nd Nov 2024
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The Limitations of RAG

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

2nd Nov 2024
The Limitations of RAG Retrieval-Augmented generation or RAG is the future of enterprise search. In short it's the art of grinding your documents into a fine, high-dimensional vector slurry, sifting through the high-dimensional slurry for chunks, and then piping the chunks...
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You're lucky
1st Nov 2015
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You're lucky

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

1st Nov 2015
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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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What's New on Data Boutique Noteworthy stuff from the web data platform
23rd Jan 2024
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What's New on Data Boutique

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23rd Jan 2024
Noteworthy stuff from the web data platform
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How to build a Shopify app – Björn’s journey to $300k in profits Björn started a side-business on the Shopify apps platform 6 years ago. Now he’s making $275,000 in...
19th Nov 2017
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How to build a Shopify app – Björn’s journey to $300k in profits

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

19th Nov 2017
Björn started a side-business on the Shopify apps platform 6 years ago. Now he’s making $275,000 in profit per year
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How I've run major projects My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:”...
16th Mar 2025
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How I've run major projects

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

16th Mar 2025
My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:” coordinating major, time-sensitive implementation or debugging efforts. In a company like Anthropic, excellent project management is an extremely high-leverage skill, and not just...
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Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1 Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications...
25th Mar 2021
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Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1

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

25th Mar 2021
Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications (PACELC theorem). I have extended…
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What Will Happen In 2023 I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because...
1st Jan 2023
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What Will Happen In 2023

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2023
I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been...
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The idea maze for AI startups An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need...
1st Feb 2015
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The idea maze for AI startups

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Feb 2015
An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need to make: A good founder is capable of…
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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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A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of...
6th Jan 2014
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A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick.

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

6th Jan 2014
As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...
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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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Sitting on the curb drinking a slurpee
7th Jul 2013
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Sitting on the curb drinking a slurpee

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

7th Jul 2013
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The public you is not you I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did. a blog post sharing what I had learned...
25th Sep 2007
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The public you is not you

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

25th Sep 2007
I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did. a blog post sharing what I had learned while switching between the PHP programming language and Ruby on Rails framework. At the time, my blog had no readers, so I didn’t think anyone would see it. I just wrote it for...
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Do App Store Rules Matter? After a decade of arguing, regulators will change Apple’s App Store rules. How much money is...
7th Jul 2021
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Do App Store Rules Matter?

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

7th Jul 2021
After a decade of arguing, regulators will change Apple’s App Store rules. How much money is involved, what might happen next and, most importantly, who cares? This is a big deal for Spotify, but does it matter to anyone else?
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Never Forget What They've Done Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance  Listen to my podcast Better Offline...
9th Jun 2025
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Never Forget What They've Done

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

9th Jun 2025
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance  Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already. I want my fucking tech industry back.  Maybe you think I sound insane, but technology means a lot to me. It’s the way that
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"Nokia, our platform is burning" The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their...
11th Aug 2024
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"Nokia, our platform is burning"

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Aug 2024
The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their experience.
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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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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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Actions, not words, reveal our real values I told my old coach that I really wanted to start my new company. I said, “Yes, I do! This is...
16th Jun 2017
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Actions, not words, reveal our real values

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

16th Jun 2017
I told my old coach that I really wanted to start my new company. I said, “Yes, I do! This is really important to me!” I said, “You can’t ignore what I’m saying. I know myself well. I’m telling you what’s important to me.” I thought about that, but it sounded wrong to...
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Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
26th Jun 2023
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Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Jun 2023
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
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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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Why barcodes are about to go extinct QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
4 weeks ago
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Why barcodes are about to go extinct

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

4 weeks ago
QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
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AI’s metrics question With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure....
9th Jun 2025
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AI’s metrics question

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

9th Jun 2025
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.
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Bill Gates is Angry Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past...
8th Aug 2020
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Bill Gates is Angry

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

8th Aug 2020
Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real science. But now he appears to be...
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On being bald I started shaving my head in my early 20s. I was way too young to be balding that early, and it...
17th Sep 2025
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On being bald

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

17th Sep 2025
I started shaving my head in my early 20s. I was way too young to be balding that early, and it terrified me. So I decided, fuck it, just go all the way to the finish line. The first time I shaved my head, I thought I looked like a ghoul. In my dreams, I still had hair. It didn’t...
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Pro rata is a bad term For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade...
11th Oct 2021
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Pro rata is a bad term

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

11th Oct 2021
For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade and was comfortable with it. As a partner at YC, I thought it made enough sense that I helped design an entire programmatic pro rata system that covered every investment YC made....
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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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Process Reward Models Process Reward Models Reasoning models are all the rage with the kids these days, and in particular...
1st Dec 2024
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Process Reward Models

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

1st Dec 2024
Process Reward Models Reasoning models are all the rage with the kids these days, and in particular the training data behind them is a hot topic. One particular case of this is the process reward models which are a type of reward model used in complex reasoning and...
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We sell saddles here
13th Sep 2019
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We sell saddles here

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

13th Sep 2019
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How to conduct a system design interview The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview....
18th Aug 2020
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How to conduct a system design interview

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

18th Aug 2020
The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview. You can find a lot on the Internet on how…
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Why didn't you launch last year?
17th Dec 2013
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Why didn't you launch last year?

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

17th Dec 2013
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YouTube: The Learning Machine Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of...
3rd May 2024
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YouTube: The Learning Machine

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

3rd May 2024
Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of sports footage on the platform helps to explain why.
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2019 year in review
1st Jan 2020
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2019 year in review

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

1st Jan 2020
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attribution is fake, counterintuitive founder ideas, what’s your question? attribution is fake
4th Aug 2025
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attribution is fake, counterintuitive founder ideas, what’s your question?

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2025
attribution is fake
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Franchise Thinking On the sequel economics of ideas.
10th Feb 2026
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Franchise Thinking

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

10th Feb 2026
On the sequel economics of ideas.
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AI-driven content is a nightmare Giving people a never-ending stream of content designed to keep them on a centralized platform...
13th Sep 2022
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AI-driven content is a nightmare

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

13th Sep 2022
Giving people a never-ending stream of content designed to keep them on a centralized platform longer where the algorithm is controlled by some megacorp (and its shareholders) isn’t my idea of a great future. It’s fucking dystopian.
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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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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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Things I've been thinking about - I can’t believe it's the end of March.
26th Mar 2025
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Things I've been thinking about -

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

26th Mar 2025
I can’t believe it's the end of March.
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Steve Jobs on iPod and DRM Guys – We need to make sure that when Music Match launches their download music store they cannot...
26th Oct 2024
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Steve Jobs on iPod and DRM

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Oct 2024
Guys – We need to make sure that when Music Match launches their download music store they cannot use iPod. Is this going to be an issue?
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2014: a year of making stuff
30th Dec 2014
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2014: a year of making stuff

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

30th Dec 2014
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How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with...
3rd Dec 2024
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How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense

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

3rd Dec 2024
A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with suggestions from leaders across the Department of Defense and Venture Capital community. BLUF: In WW II, the U.S. outsourced advanced weapons systems development to civilians. The...
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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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As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally… As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally...
25th Sep 2016
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As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally…

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Sep 2016
As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally hampered by the fact that there was no competitive advantage for any car company in using ...
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AI Engine: UK University Hackathon Two things are true:
24th Jan 2025
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AI Engine: UK University Hackathon

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

24th Jan 2025
Two things are true:
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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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Annual Review 2022 This year was an emotional odyssey. At times, it was tormenting, at others intoxicating. Here, I...
20th Jan 2023
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Annual Review 2022

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

20th Jan 2023
This year was an emotional odyssey. At times, it was tormenting, at others intoxicating. Here, I share my joys and struggles, my dreams and regrets. 2022 completely changed my life. The post Annual Review 2022 appeared first on David Perell.
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Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a...
5th Aug 2024
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Diaconescu's Theorem

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

5th Aug 2024
Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a fascinating and surprising connection between two fundamental principles in mathematics: the Axiom of Choice and the Law of Excluded Middle. In simple terms, the theorem states that if you...
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The firmware veto When the install base outvotes the parliament
1st Jun 2026
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The firmware veto

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

1st Jun 2026
When the install base outvotes the parliament
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Book Review: What We Can Know Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without...
2nd Apr 2026
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Book Review: What We Can Know

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

2nd Apr 2026
Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without the science," which is both a fair warning and a precise advertisement. The novel is set in 2119. Rising seas and a cascade of nuclear wars (including a misfired Russian warhead in...
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Either micromanage your people or lean on them Something in between is the worst
5th Jan 2026
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Either micromanage your people or lean on them

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

5th Jan 2026
Something in between is the worst
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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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Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed...
30th Mar 2023
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Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services

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

30th Mar 2023
Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed over their cards voluntarily.
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OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT,"...
3rd Oct 2025
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OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

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

3rd Oct 2025
What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked that it was or would be. No, really,
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How To Monitor Retailer's Prices A Practical Data Boutique Use Case
9th Jun 2023
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How To Monitor Retailer's Prices

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9th Jun 2023
A Practical Data Boutique Use Case
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Pi from String Amplitudes Pi from String Amplitudes From the paper by Arnab Priya Saha and Aninda Sinha. A new series for...
1st Sep 2024
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Pi from String Amplitudes

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

1st Sep 2024
Pi from String Amplitudes From the paper by Arnab Priya Saha and Aninda Sinha. A new series for \(\pi\) and its convergence. $$ Where \((a)_{n-1}\) is the Pochhammer symbol. $$ \(\lambda\) is a free parameter for optimizing convergence. As \(\lambda\) approaches infinity, the...
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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...
8th Apr 2022
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Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation

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

8th Apr 2022
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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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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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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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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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 While alcohol is becoming less and less nicotine is having a comeback. Even Einstein...
1st Apr 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

1st Apr 2024
#1 💡 While alcohol is becoming less and less nicotine is having a comeback. Even Einstein reportedly believed that Nicotine contributed to a calm and objective judgment. But while there are thousands of “premium” options when it comes to consuming alcohol, all Nicotine...
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Thoughts on Free Will My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will....
12th Jul 2021
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Thoughts on Free Will

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

12th Jul 2021
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will. When it comes to living in it, assume you have no free will.” Here’s an example: I lost my love of working out during the pandemic. Before it started, I worked out at a nice,...
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996 Is Not Your Competition People having fun are
4th Oct 2025
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996 Is Not Your Competition

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4th Oct 2025
People having fun are
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Logs as end user UI A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests,...
11th Jan 2023
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Logs as end user UI

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

11th Jan 2023
A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON objects, stack traces, etc. It’s an unusual UI feature, but it’s been an unqualified success, enough that when I built Bridgy Fed, I immediately...
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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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Look at yourself objectively
29th Oct 2022
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Look at yourself objectively

from Raw Thought (from Aaron Swartz) [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Oct 2022
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Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much...
5th Dec 2025
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Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst

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

5th Dec 2025
I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense. NVIDIA claims to have shipped six million Blackwell GPUs in
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NFT Art CDMX We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the...
21st Nov 2022
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NFT Art CDMX

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Nov 2022
We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the premier NFT art “gallery” in the world. I use that term in parentheses because Bright Moments is much more than a gallery but that word is well understood. USV is a member of the...
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Mark Zuckerberg on research, Cambridge Analytica, and more I’d love to hear all of the ideas you guys have here, including relatively extreme things that might...
27th Sep 2026
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Mark Zuckerberg on research, Cambridge Analytica, and more

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Sep 2026
I’d love to hear all of the ideas you guys have here, including relatively extreme things that might sound crazy at first.
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How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
1st Aug 2024
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How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline

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

1st Aug 2024
PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
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How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
2nd May 2023
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How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2023
A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
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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...
2nd Jul 2022
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Bill Gates on "hard-core detractors" | Elon Musk responds to Tesla investor

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jul 2022
The key point is that they can't both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things about Microsoft.
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walk and talk Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days,...
12th Dec 2023
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walk and talk

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

12th Dec 2023
Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days, ending in Chiang Mai. Walking with us were ten other smart interesting people, including five other authors whose work I’ve loved for years. It’s a “Walk and Talk”.
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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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Berries are America’s top-selling fruit — and every parent’s grocery bill nightmare Berry spending topped $12B in the last year. Many parents felt like their own kids accounted for all...
3rd Oct 2025
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Berries are America’s top-selling fruit — and every parent’s grocery bill nightmare

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

3rd Oct 2025
Berry spending topped $12B in the last year. Many parents felt like their own kids accounted for all of it.
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Some ideas for native bitcoin apps Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin...
4th Oct 2014
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Some ideas for native bitcoin apps

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Oct 2014
Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin "native Bitcoin apps". Most of the…
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a16z VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it’s odd...
19th Nov 2012
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a16z

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Nov 2012
VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it’s odd that the VC industry itself has so…
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Remaking the app store The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it,...
3rd Feb 2024
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Remaking the app store

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

3rd Feb 2024
The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it, and no-one is happy with the result. In the next few years there’ll be a lot of shouting and some giant fines, but in the end, nothing much will change.
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2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including Amazon and AI, the future of...
1st May 2026
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2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions

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

1st May 2026
The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including Amazon and AI, the future of AR devices, and Beijing's myopia.
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Progressives need to learn to take the W Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
1st Sep 2024
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Progressives need to learn to take the W

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2024
Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
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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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Bubble Trouble As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street...
4th Apr 2024
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Bubble Trouble

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

4th Apr 2024
As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street Journal piece from this week has sounded the alarm that some believe AI models will run out of "high-quality text-based data" within the next two years in what an AI researcher called...
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Roundup #81: Back to our regular programming National debt; AI cyberattacks; Phone bans; AI and coding jobs; Millennials vs. Boomers; Public...
1st May 2026
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Roundup #81: Back to our regular programming

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2026
National debt; AI cyberattacks; Phone bans; AI and coding jobs; Millennials vs. Boomers; Public order; California YIMBYism
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OpenAI Is A Bad Business OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year,...
2nd Oct 2024
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OpenAI Is A Bad Business

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

2nd Oct 2024
OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after
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My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation. There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I...
9th Feb 2012
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My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation.

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

9th Feb 2012
There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I understand the fact that Star...
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Building new worlds Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We...
15th Oct 2019
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Building new worlds

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

15th Oct 2019
Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism, by Aaron Bastani: To say the present era is one of crisis borders on cliché. We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages,...
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Don't follow your heroes As creators, there's a temptation to seek out our heroes and ask them how they achieved their...
17th Jan 2015
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Don't follow your heroes

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

17th Jan 2015
As creators, there's a temptation to seek out our heroes and ask them how they achieved their success. We think if we follow their instructions, we'll be able to reproduce their winning magic.
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Building a standing desk
20th Feb 2011
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Building a standing desk

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

20th Feb 2011
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Second Encounters Firsts are overrated
10th Mar 2024
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Second Encounters

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

10th Mar 2024
Firsts are overrated
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Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel Peter and I have had a number of conversations about what we expect the world to look like in 2030...
7th Jul 2024
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Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2024
Peter and I have had a number of conversations about what we expect the world to look like in 2030 so we can plan and position our future work accordingly.
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AI Slopocalypse 2027 AI Slopocalypse 2027 We predict that the impact of superhuman AI slop over the next decade will be...
2nd May 2025
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AI Slopocalypse 2027

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

2nd May 2025
AI Slopocalypse 2027 We predict that the impact of superhuman AI slop over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding both the invention of self-replicating molecules and Cheese Wizz. We (i.e the Royal We) wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might...
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How to Break Into VC Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC: Write. Short writeups, on...
9th Nov 2025
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How to Break Into VC

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

9th Nov 2025
Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC: Write. Short writeups, on Twitter. Not generic market philosophical thinkpieces, because those will be assumed to be AI slop or regurgitated research. No one will read it unless you’re brilliant, which you’re...
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Notes from a meditation retreat On December 31, I went to Wat Suan Mokkh in Thailand and registered for a ten-day silent retreat. I...
12th Jan 2026
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Notes from a meditation retreat

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

12th Jan 2026
On December 31, I went to Wat Suan Mokkh in Thailand and registered for a ten-day silent retreat. I scribbled these notes on eight scraps of paper given to us for questions on days six and ten. Neither electronics nor diaries were allowed for “creative writing”. And because my...
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The age of average (encore) The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music getting less melodically...
21st Mar 2024
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The age of average (encore)

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

21st Mar 2024
The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music getting less melodically diverse and lyrics getting more repetitive. Or to put it another way, just as our visual culture has become more homogeneous, so too has the music that accompanies it. Let’s run...
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Advice for time management as a manager This post was adapted from an internal doc I wrote at Wave. Welcome to being a manager! Your...
1st Apr 2025
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Advice for time management as a manager

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

1st Apr 2025
This post was adapted from an internal doc I wrote at Wave. Welcome to being a manager! Your time-management problem just got a lot harder. As an IC, you can often get away with a very simple time-management strategy: Decide what your one most important thing is. Work on it until...
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initialize I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
22nd Sep 2019
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initialize

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

22nd Sep 2019
I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
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What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten... Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent...
2nd Mar 2013
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What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2013
Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent examples include the PC, the web, blogs, and…
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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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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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How to make money from your tiny podcast
3rd Sep 2016
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How to make money from your tiny podcast

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

3rd Sep 2016
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We don’t need to use what we make For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like...
11th Nov 2024
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We don’t need to use what we make

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

11th Nov 2024
For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like attending concerts. I liked making music more than listening to music. I felt I must be in the wrong line of work, creating something that I don’t consume. I never reconciled this...
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What’s the big idea? To make a big impact, we need a big idea. In brand communications, coveting the ‘big idea’ is...
12th Apr 2022
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What’s the big idea?

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

12th Apr 2022
To make a big impact, we need a big idea. In brand communications, coveting the ‘big idea’ is commonplace. We look for them. Long for them. Laud them and lionise them. And yet, despite its ubiquitous use, the ‘big idea’ remains incredibly ill-defined. This article is an...
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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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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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Don't trust default timeouts Modern applications don't crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that...
3rd May 2020
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Don't trust default timeouts

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

3rd May 2020
Modern applications don't crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn't. When…
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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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The "Warp Drive" Equations The "Warp Drive" Equations The Alcubierre drive is a speculative idea based on a solution of...
1st Feb 2013
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The "Warp Drive" Equations

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

1st Feb 2013
The "Warp Drive" Equations The Alcubierre drive is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein's field equations in General Relativity. It describes a method of bending space-time in a way that allows for faster-than-light travel. This involves creating a "warp bubble"...
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Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a...
16th Apr 2024
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Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals

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

16th Apr 2024
One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a potential customer is, “We’re excited. When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be the beginning of a profitable customer relationship or a disappointing sinkhole of...
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Manufacturing is a war now And the democracies are losing.
4th Dec 2024
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Manufacturing is a war now

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Dec 2024
And the democracies are losing.
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It is link winter on X We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without...
5th Dec 2024
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It is link winter on X

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

5th Dec 2024
We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without telling you, and by a lot—and it makes the experience there worse. Without links, information on X is headlines without stories, commentary without context, magic without the...
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Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and...
16th May 2024
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Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid

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

16th May 2024
This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and Polaroid, the two most famous camera companies of the 20th century, had a great partnership for 20+ years. Then in an inexplicable turnabout Kodak decided to destroy Polaroid’s...
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You don’t have to be local You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole...
2nd Dec 2012
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You don’t have to be local

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

2nd Dec 2012
You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole world. But this means you have less time to be part of your local community. I lived in Woodstock, New York for three years. There I started my company, entirely online. I never...
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Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program! Fun!!
4th Oct 2024
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Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program!

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4th Oct 2024
Fun!!
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The coupon code is a slap in the face
15th Jul 2011
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The coupon code is a slap in the face

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

15th Jul 2011
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The product lens There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the...
2nd Dec 2012
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The product lens

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2nd Dec 2012
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the discussions use words like “valuations…
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Startups should make money
29th Jul 2015
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Startups should make money

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

29th Jul 2015
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The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at...
26th Jul 2020
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The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out

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

26th Jul 2020
In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at the heart of many distributed systems…
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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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Where Is OpenAI's Money Going? Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a...
7th Nov 2025
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Where Is OpenAI's Money Going?

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

7th Nov 2025
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed. A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s revenues were “well more” than $13bn in 2025
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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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Notes on Trekonomics Notes on Trekonomics My holiday reading this year has been Manu Saadia's Trekonomics, which is a...
9th Jan 2021
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Notes on Trekonomics

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

9th Jan 2021
Notes on Trekonomics My holiday reading this year has been Manu Saadia's Trekonomics, which is a deeply fun and thought-provoking exploration of the economic philosophy of the Star Trek universe. Here's my review and reading notes for the book. The book's ultimate motivating...
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Premium: How Has AI Changed The Economy? This week, the Wall Street Journal ran an alarming illustration of AI’s potential share of GDP that...
4 weeks ago
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Premium: How Has AI Changed The Economy?

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

4 weeks ago
This week, the Wall Street Journal ran an alarming illustration of AI’s potential share of GDP that I’d argue did more to muddy the waters than actually telling anyone anything, mostly because its measurement, for whatever reason, covered 2025 to 2032, meaning that six out of
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Carts without horses Investing in emerging markets such as India, Kenya, and Nigeria isn’t quite what I naively thought...
2nd Jun 2016
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Carts without horses

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

2nd Jun 2016
Investing in emerging markets such as India, Kenya, and Nigeria isn’t quite what I naively thought it would be. Before I started, I thought that finding a good company in an emerging market would just mean copying models that worked in developed markets. All I’d have to do is...
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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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Roundup #87: Technology BAD!! The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The...
1st Sep 2026
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Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2026
The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The Electric Revolution
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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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Book Review: Klara and the Sun Book Review: Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun is narrated by a robot who...
3rd Mar 2022
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Book Review: Klara and the Sun

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

3rd Mar 2022
Book Review: Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun is narrated by a robot who believes the Sun is God, and it is one of the most quietly devastating novels I have read in years. The robot is Klara, a solar-powered Artificial Friend (AF) designed to be a companion...
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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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dashing dog, searching for purpose People search for their passion or purpose. But “purpose” and “passion” are words we use when we’re...
30th Jun 2023
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dashing dog, searching for purpose

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

30th Jun 2023
People search for their passion or purpose. But “purpose” and “passion” are words we use when we’re not working.
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the Michael Browne suits In 2020, I was about to move to New York City. I wanted to get to know all of its ethnic enclaves,...
15th Apr 2023
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the Michael Browne suits

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

15th Apr 2023
In 2020, I was about to move to New York City. I wanted to get to know all of its ethnic enclaves, like visiting the whole world in one city. But I know I have a tendency to stay at home, immersed in my work.
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How many units can you sell?
11th Jan 2021
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How many units can you sell?

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

11th Jan 2021
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Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude The Haskell Prelude is the default import into all Haskell...
7th Apr 2016
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Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude

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

7th Apr 2016
Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude The Haskell Prelude is the default import into all Haskell modules, it provides -XNoImplicitPrelude language extension. There are two philosophies on building new Preludes: Big Vehicle Prelude - Fix most of the deficiencies in the Prelude...
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The AI Bubble Is An Information War Editor's Note: Apologies if you received this email twice - we had an issue with our mail server...
3rd Mar 2026
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The AI Bubble Is An Information War

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

3rd Mar 2026
Editor's Note: Apologies if you received this email twice - we had an issue with our mail server that meant it was hitting spam in many cases! Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my work, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s
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Relax for the same result A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach. So a few times a week,...
2nd Oct 2015
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Relax for the same result

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

2nd Oct 2015
A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach. So a few times a week, I’d get on my bike and go as fast as I could for the fifteen-mile loop. I mean really full-on, 100 percent, head-down, red-faced sprinting. After a few months, I noticed I was...
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agility, get luckier, quitting entrepreneurship, irl agility
9th Sep 2025
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agility, get luckier, quitting entrepreneurship, irl

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Sep 2025
agility
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South Park and The Greatest TV Contract Clause Ever Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and...
14th Aug 2025
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South Park and The Greatest TV Contract Clause Ever

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

14th Aug 2025
Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and signing a first TV deal with an improbable clause).
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom,...
21st Mar 2013
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage

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

21st Mar 2013
The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom, the CEO and VP of a hugely-funded Silicon Valley online music company contacted me, saying they wanted to fly out to New York to meet me. I said OK, and we met a week later for...
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There’s no such thing as data Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own...
31st May 2022
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There’s no such thing as data

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

31st May 2022
Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own our data, and be paid for it. But really, there is no such thing as data, it’s not yours, and it’s not worth anything.
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YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia  The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
6th Jan 2025
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YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia 

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

6th Jan 2025
The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
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The competitive claw machine boom How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine...
9th Jan 2026
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The competitive claw machine boom

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

9th Jan 2026
How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine enthusiasts.
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Entrepreneurship advice for high school students (what I wish I knew)
17th Oct 2025
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Entrepreneurship advice for high school students (what I wish I knew)

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

17th Oct 2025
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At least five interesting things for your weekend (#15) Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous...
1st Oct 2023
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At least five interesting things for your weekend (#15)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Oct 2023
Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous knowledge
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Comma.ai I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry....
2nd Apr 2016
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Comma.ai

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Apr 2016
I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry. One trend I discussed is the rapid…
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How Data Boutique Works #3: Third Party Solutions Working with data? List your solution on Data Boutique
4th Apr 2024
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How Data Boutique Works #3: Third Party Solutions

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

4th Apr 2024
Working with data? List your solution on Data Boutique
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Understanding science funding in tech, 2011-2021 For those who sit between science and tech, it’s hard not to notice the proliferation of new...
2nd Mar 2022
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Understanding science funding in tech, 2011-2021

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

2nd Mar 2022
For those who sit between science and tech, it’s hard not to notice the proliferation of new initiatives launched in the last two years, aimed at making major improvements in the life sciences especially. While I don’t have a science background, nor any personal relationship to...
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The Coddling of the Tech Mind We built daycares for adults
22nd May 2026
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The Coddling of the Tech Mind

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

22nd May 2026
We built daycares for adults
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Working notes for Summer of Protocols I participated in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It was...
27th May 2023
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Working notes for Summer of Protocols

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

27th May 2023
I participated in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It was an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aimed to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and their social implications. I decided to focus on protocols as...
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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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The unskippable road to real experience Lived experiences can’t be compressed, they take as long as they take
30th Jun 2025
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The unskippable road to real experience

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

30th Jun 2025
Lived experiences can’t be compressed, they take as long as they take
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Slouching Towards Innovation A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a...
13th Sep 2022
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Slouching Towards Innovation

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

13th Sep 2022
A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a concept video. A lot of innovation projects never see the light of day.
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The Great Movie Theory Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
2nd Mar 2025
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The Great Movie Theory

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

2nd Mar 2025
Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
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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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Mapping out the tribes of climate Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent...
30th Nov 2022
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Mapping out the tribes of climate

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

30th Nov 2022
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer? With many peers in tech now working on climate issues, I tried...
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Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment;...
4 weeks ago
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Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

4 weeks ago
AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment; Cyber risk
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The Players on the Eve of Destruction The insanity of war has returned to our world.
2nd Jan 2025
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The Players on the Eve of Destruction

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jan 2025
The insanity of war has returned to our world.
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No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol In 2022, I used to get calls from journalists asking,...
24th Sep 2026
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No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol

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

24th Sep 2026
No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol In 2022, I used to get calls from journalists asking, with great sincerity, what our lives would look like in the metaverse. How would we work, socialise, buy property, and fall in love once we had all moved there? The crypto...
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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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The hidden costs of asking for quotations in the data market Working towards faster, cheaper and safer data projects
9th Feb 2024
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The hidden costs of asking for quotations in the data market

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

9th Feb 2024
Working towards faster, cheaper and safer data projects
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Don't write tests - The Hidden Cost of TDD I’ve been following the TDD/testing debate with some interest; I work at an early-stage payments...
1st Apr 2012
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Don't write tests - The Hidden Cost of TDD

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

1st Apr 2012
I’ve been following the TDD/testing debate with some interest; I work at an early-stage payments startup called GoCardless where we test religiously. We’re not dogmatic about whether the tests come first or not, but code doesn’t get deployed without full unit & acceptance tests....
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Publish your ebook as PDF, MOBI, and ePub all at the same time
3rd Aug 2016
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Publish your ebook as PDF, MOBI, and ePub all at the same time

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

3rd Aug 2016
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Joining a startup is far less risky than most people think Joining a startup is far less risky than most people seem to think.  In fact, I don’t know if anyone...
11th May 2009
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Joining a startup is far less risky than most people think

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th May 2009
Joining a startup is far less risky than most people seem to think.  In fact, I don’t know if anyone has ever studied this systematically…
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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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Terrible Apple products
13th Dec 2012
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Terrible Apple products

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

13th Dec 2012
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The shape of the multipolar world is a little clearer A few thoughts on the new Iran war.
1st Mar 2026
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The shape of the multipolar world is a little clearer

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2026
A few thoughts on the new Iran war.
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From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that...
25th May 2024
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From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey

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

25th May 2024
I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
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Drafting your first investment round. The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
6th May 2013
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Drafting your first investment round.

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

6th May 2013
The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
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MLIR Part 13 - Running GPT-2 Running GPT-2 We now have a Python tensor language, an MLIR builder, a transformation pipeline and a...
19th Jun 2026
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MLIR Part 13 - Running GPT-2

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

19th Jun 2026
Running GPT-2 We now have a Python tensor language, an MLIR builder, a transformation pipeline and a native execution boundary. The remaining task is to connect those pieces to the pretrained model and check that the result agrees with our original NumPy implementation. The...
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Simulating Qubits with Python (Classically) Simulating Qubits with Python (Classically) Ever wondered what it would be like to play with a...
28th Apr 2022
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Simulating Qubits with Python (Classically)

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

28th Apr 2022
Simulating Qubits with Python (Classically) Ever wondered what it would be like to play with a quantum computer? While we can't all have a supercooled quantum processor in our basement (yet), we can do the next best thing—simulate one with regular Python code. Sure, it's...
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Seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border? You’d better speak English or Spanish Migrants speaking Haitian Creole or Indigenous languages face challenges at the border.
1st Jun 2023
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Seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border? You’d better speak English or Spanish

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

1st Jun 2023
Migrants speaking Haitian Creole or Indigenous languages face challenges at the border.
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Blockchain’s real world problem A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised...
30th Oct 2022
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Blockchain’s real world problem

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

30th Oct 2022
A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised to “fix” fine art. Not sure if that painting is real? Can’t find out who owns it, or where they got it? Worried that the gallery you’re emailing is a scammer? Worry no more!...
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Best practices for raising a VC round Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I’ve...
4th May 2011
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Best practices for raising a VC round

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th May 2011
Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I’ve come to think there are a set of…
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What would you do differently?
26th May 2018
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What would you do differently?

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

26th May 2018
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they… “If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
30th Jul 2016
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they…

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Jul 2016
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said a decentralized network of information nodes that are ...
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Hiring a geo-guesser, change merchants, one distribution channel is all it takes Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
7th Aug 2023
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Hiring a geo-guesser, change merchants, one distribution channel is all it takes

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

7th Aug 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 “request for service: roast my onboarding for SaaS...
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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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Token Anxiety Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
13th Feb 2026
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Token Anxiety

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

13th Feb 2026
Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
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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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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
1st Nov 2023
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

1st Nov 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! #1 💡 It's cool that smartphones have become all-in-one devices. But at...
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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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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
4th Apr 2023
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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

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

4th Apr 2023
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately...
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It's not just B2C vs B2B anymore
24th Jul 2024
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It's not just B2C vs B2B anymore

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

24th Jul 2024
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Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition...
3rd Feb 2026
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Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War

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

3rd Feb 2026
This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by people from private capital (venture capital and private equity.)  Deputy...
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First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰 Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I...
2nd Dec 2022
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First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰

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

2nd Dec 2022
Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I try to give a few mental models and a bit tactical advice.
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Bet the farm Or risk losing it all
2nd Dec 2025
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Bet the farm

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

2nd Dec 2025
Or risk losing it all
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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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Size markets using narratives, not numbers Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case...
3rd Apr 2010
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Size markets using narratives, not numbers

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Apr 2010
Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case that you’re addressing a possible billion…
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A Haskell Implementation Reading List A Haskell Implementation Reading List A reading list for those interested in the implementation...
14th Dec 2014
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A Haskell Implementation Reading List

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

14th Dec 2014
A Haskell Implementation Reading List A reading list for those interested in the implementation internals of Haskell more , these are simply Typeclass Inference A Theory Of Qualified Types Type Inference For Parametric Type Classes Type Reconstruction For Type Classes Constraints...
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How desperation affects creativity
7th Jun 2014
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How desperation affects creativity

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

7th Jun 2014
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