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Noahpinion
Yes, reshoring American industry is possible Americans can make stuff, after all.
7 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The core growth process in the…
Platformer
The platforms give up on 2020 lies For a time, they fought the good fight — but not any more
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Welcome to The Future This time it arrived right on schedule.
3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Come see me speak about Japan! Plus: A bunch of fun posts I've written about Japanese urbanism and Japanese society.
a year ago
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The Philippines is creating a ChatGPT rival that speaks Filipino and Taglish ITanong will be a local version of ChatGPT, its developers say, built with considerably fewer...
8 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Stubborn optimism edition (#64) YIMBY wins; America calming down; Biotech miracles; Progress in education; The good kind of...
3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Disconnecting Distraction
over a year ago
AVC
Voice Input Smartphones have had voice input for over a decade now and yet I don’t know that many people who use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Smartphones have had voice input for over a decade now and yet I don’t know that many people who use voice input regularly. I would guess that maybe 10 to 20% of smartphone users are using voice input regularly. That’s a guess based on absolutely no data other than observing...
Noahpinion
Service costs aren't exploding anymore Another common economic narrative that's out of date.
2 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
The $650m+ Spirit Halloween business Spirit Halloween has over 1,450 pop-up shops and makes all its money in only 2 months (September,...
a year ago
Noahpinion
Interview: Sarah C. Paine A scholar of the 20th century explains the conflicts of the 21st.
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs emails Adobe's CEO One of us must change our policy. Please let me know who.
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Do What You Love
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
African universities are failing to prepare tech graduates for jobs in AI Dozens of new AI training startups are filling the gap, offering online courses, hackathons, and job...
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The rise of enterprise marketing Building an enterprise software company used to be largely about sales, because enterprise software...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Building an enterprise software company used to be largely about sales, because enterprise software was sourced and purchased by high-level…
Platformer
Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone
over a year ago
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The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard...
a year ago
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Kenya’s bus fleets want to go electric, but manufacturers can’t meet demand Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
7 months ago
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Disturbed by tragic deaths, Indian students are raging against celebrity YouTube teachers Students feel betrayed by the lack of support from these educators who enjoy near-cult popularity.
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Andrej Karpathy announced that he’s building an AI + education company.
a year ago
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The viral AI portrait app sweeping across China Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that many say are shockingly accurate.
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AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse BPO workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting them with customers, and scoring...
9 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
What I Did this Summer
over a year ago
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Amid a surge in violence in Tijuana, ride-hailing apps and authorities implement new safety measures Uber launched a panic button linked to state-run emergency centers to keep drivers and users safe —...
11 months ago
Noahpinion
New technologies, new totalitarians Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind of opponent.
AVC
The Heist On Saturday, September 9th, the Gotham Gal and I arrived at JFK airport after an eight-hour flight...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Saturday, September 9th, the Gotham Gal and I arrived at JFK airport after an eight-hour flight from Paris. While waiting for our luggage, I got pushed a notification in my web3 wallet that there was an NFT drop underway that I could participate in. So I clicked on the link,...
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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...
2 months ago
Noahpinion
Who cares about the Ivy League? (repost) Too much of our education discourse focuses on a handful of tiny elite schools.
over a year ago
Inverted Passion
Notes on how Supercell is run Supercell, the company behind the massively popular Clash of Clans game, has one of the highest...
a year ago
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a year ago
Supercell, the company behind the massively popular Clash of Clans game, has one of the highest valuation per employee figures out there: they’re valued at $32mn per employee. That’s insane! How do they do it? 1/ What struck me is the sheer number of games they kill each year?...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
a16z VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it’s odd...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it’s odd that the VC industry itself has so…
Steve Blank
How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from...
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TikTok creators are being arrested for violating religious laws in Nigeria Digital rights advocates say social media companies like TikTok have a responsibility to protect...
over a year ago
David Perell
The Jerry Seinfeld Guide to Writing Writing and editing should be separate activities.  When I’m in this creation mode, I shoot for a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Writing and editing should be separate activities.  When I’m in this creation mode, I shoot for a flow state. I keep my fingertips on the keyboard and measure progress by how many words I put on the page.  My physical environment helps me be generative too. If I’m sitting down at...
Articles
Virtual reality could save the planet
over a year ago
Articles
What stops us from building products?
over a year ago
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An end of an era for Latin American tech Foreign businesses are making strides in the region while local tech companies reshuffle.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
over a year ago
Articles
Customers don't care about your solutions
over a year ago
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India’s persistent, gendered digital divide As the government moves towards gender parity, India’s glaring digital gap is an extension of all...
a year ago
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a year ago
As the government moves towards gender parity, India’s glaring digital gap is an extension of all the biases women contend with.
Articles
Compounding returns
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The return of podcasting Kevin Roose recently wrote about the renaissance of podcasting: Sometime around 2009 or 2010, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kevin Roose recently wrote about the renaissance of podcasting: Sometime around 2009 or 2010, the podcast scene seemed to wither. The…
David Perell
Learning to Actually Listen I’ve been listening the wrong way my entire life — with just my ears. True listening is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been listening the wrong way my entire life — with just my ears. True listening is a totalizing, full-body experience. The post Learning to Actually Listen appeared first on David Perell.
Nadia Asparouhova
Idea machines Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished? One of the most visible ideologies in tech is effective altruism (or EA), a...
Essays - Benedict...
Stepping out of the firehose What does a mailbox with 351 thousand unread emails say about Bauhaus, the Arts and Crafts...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What does a mailbox with 351 thousand unread emails say about Bauhaus, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the Metaverse?
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Political campaigns embrace AI to reach voters across language barriers Advocacy groups like AAPI Victory Alliance are using ChatGPT and Claude to reach speakers of Hindi,...
11 months ago
tomcritchlow.com
Featured on People & Blogs Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of this blog and how (and why) I write online…
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Despite tensions, US-China AI research collaborations are alive and well Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.
7 months ago
Noahpinion
Europe's fate is in Germany's hands now That's a scary thought, but not for the reason it used to be.
a year ago