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AVC
Sleep I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep...
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I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep habits ever since. For much of my adult life, I have been a poor sleeper. I have always been able to fall asleep quickly, but I have been plagued by two sleep issues. The first […]
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How UAE is shifting gears to lead Middle East’s EV revolution The oil-rich nation is racing toward an electric future with ambitious targets and expanded...
3 months ago
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"A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket" Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the...
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Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the inception of the wireless system, I saw that…
Data Boutique
How To Improve QA With Data Boutique For In-House Web Scraping Independent data help you get to 99% reliability
over a year ago
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India’s electric cab companies can’t find enough cars to put on the road There are only a handful of electric taxi manufacturers in India today, slowing the country’s EV...
10 months ago
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Gordon Ramsay's Apprenticeship The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high...
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The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high standards and how to take the reins.
Articles
Forget about your heroes We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
over a year ago
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Increasing velocity Two common discussions in the startup world right now are 1) the increasing speed at which new...
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Two common discussions in the startup world right now are 1) the increasing speed at which new apps/websites can gain mass adoption…
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From Beatlemania to Taylor-mania How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the...
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How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the first tour ever to gross $1B.
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Desperate for dollars, Argentina just gave digital nomads another advantage over locals Foreign bank card holders now get better exchange rates than Argentines.
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Platform Risk Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with...
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Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with Twitter's enforcement of a policy they claim had been around for a while. Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients | Engadget Twitter has quietly updated its...
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Technology predictions For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past...
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For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what…
Noahpinion
Market-rate housing will make your city cheaper Yes, market-rate!
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
The Oncoming Ransomware Storm
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Lesson to Unlearn
over a year ago
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Last-mile delivery is so normalized that we can’t see the endgame approaching Latin American delivery businesses are now entering a new phase of consolidation into their own...
over a year ago
Noahpinion
What happens when we gut federal science funding? An experiment I would prefer not to conduct.
5 months ago
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A traveler’s dream: Cash-free payment systems link up across Southeast Asia From Bali to Bangkok, people are ditching cards for QR code payments. There’s a catch: For now, it’s...
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#36) The silent majority and the Palestine protests; immigration is fine; batteries make solar work;...
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The silent majority and the Palestine protests; immigration is fine; batteries make solar work; building warships in Japan; the decels of the Right
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The U.S. shouldn’t make its semiconductor policy all about China American chip policy doesn’t just hurt China. It hurts Taiwan, too.
over a year ago
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9 Best Things of 2023 My favourite book, film, podcast, meme, investment and more for the year.
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Elon Musk and OpenAI Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw.
9 months ago
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The phrase that ruled the Indian internet in 2023 Looking like a wow.
a year ago
Articles
What happened to Paul Jarvis? I hadn't heard from my friend Paul Jarvis in a while, so I sent him a message.
over a year ago
Unpacked
Y Combinator W23 batch, AI value chain and startup trends YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their...
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YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their Winter 2023 cohort and, unsurprisingly, ~31% of startups have a self-reported AI tag.
Varun's Notes
The Future of No Code is Low Code Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
over a year ago
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China wants tech companies to monetize data, but few are buying in A first-of-its-kind policy allows Chinese firms to treat data as an asset, but compliance hurdles...
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A first-of-its-kind policy allows Chinese firms to treat data as an asset, but compliance hurdles are keeping many companies on the sidelines.
Noahpinion
Skilled immigration is a national security priority A joint blog post by Noah and Minn Kim on America's need for a national skilled immigration...
a year ago
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Four categories of Bitcoin-related projects New Bitcoin-related software projects are launching every day. From what I can tell these projects...
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New Bitcoin-related software projects are launching every day. From what I can tell these projects fall into four main categories: Bitcoin…
Unpacked
Epic Games, Google and App Store Monopolies In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive...
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In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by suppressing other app stores and banning alternate payments
David Perell
The TWA Hotel The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel...
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The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel appeared first on David Perell.
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“Walking meetings” are not going to bring people back to the office. Joy Adan, senior thought leadership manager at Reward Gateway, an Australian human resource...
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Joy Adan, senior thought leadership manager at Reward Gateway, an Australian human resource consulting company, said that connecting with co-workers and building those relationships were a critical part of work and should not be trivialised. “Coffee badging...
Nadia Asparouhova
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...
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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...
Working Theorys
How to Do Business School Right | Theory No. 22 There’s an age-old debate about whether you should go to business school or not. It rarely comes up...
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There’s an age-old debate about whether you should go to business school or not. It rarely comes up these days but yes, I went to business school — arguably to the most business-school-y of business schools, Harvard Business School. Business school isn’t “popular” in modern...
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Hype Staying disciplined is hard. With all the hype around "AI" or more specifically all the hype around...
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Staying disciplined is hard. With all the hype around "AI" or more specifically all the hype around gpt-3 enabled products, it's never been more important to stay disciplined with your investing thesis. Moments like these create fortunes. A few of the 2,000 AI writers are
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Firing Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious...
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Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious mistakes. Here are a few things I’ve observed…
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Who will control the software that powers the Internet? Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over...
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Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually…
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#38) WW2 production; "Neopopulism"; fake science; desire modification; deregulation ideas
a year ago
AVC
What Will Happen In 2024 As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has...
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As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely. That is good news for the innovation economy because...
Steve Blank
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...
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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...
Articles
Test articles
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Trump’s tariffs are testing Nvidia’s chip supremacy. Can Jensen Huang weather the storm? Stephen Witt, author of a new book on Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang, on how the leading AI chip...
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Stephen Witt, author of a new book on Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang, on how the leading AI chip designer is navigating geopolitical tensions around its products.
Articles
Why many products struggle, and only a few succeed
over a year ago
Articles
Landing page teardown: Serial podcast
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Will data centers crash the economy? This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.
3 weeks ago
David Perell
Annual Review 2020 Writing this Annual Review, I realize that I’m incredibly fortunate.  While some people spent the...
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Writing this Annual Review, I realize that I’m incredibly fortunate.  While some people spent the quarantine alone, I moved into my childhood home and spent five months with family. While America saw the worst unemployment spike in recent history, my business grew because the...
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A Ponzi scheme targets desperate workers amid Zimbabwe’s employment crisis E-Creator offered an opportunity to earn money by writing fake reviews for e-commerce websites.
over a year ago
essay – snarfed.org
Blockchain’s real world problem A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised...
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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!...
XO Capital - Field...
Turning $300k into $1.3M (2022 Annual Review) 2022 proved XO's business model. We were able to source deals, close them, grow them, and in some...
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2022 proved XO's business model. We were able to source deals, close them, grow them, and in some cases sell them. We grew to 6 full time people (not including myself and Henry). We joined the 6 figure club and proudly bootstrapped our way to low six figures
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“Meaningful” startups There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry...
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There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry that too many startups are working on…