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Elon Musk names OpenAI | Mark Zuckerberg | Bill Gates We could call this the Open Al Institute (Open AI-I!), but call it Open in everyday conversation.
9th Aug 2025
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Elon Musk names OpenAI | Mark Zuckerberg | Bill Gates

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

9th Aug 2025
We could call this the Open Al Institute (Open AI-I!), but call it Open in everyday conversation.
Summer Hack There is nothing I love more than when a moment or inside joke lands so perfectly that it unites a...
7th Aug 2025
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Summer Hack

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

7th Aug 2025
There is nothing I love more than when a moment or inside joke lands so perfectly that it unites a group of people.
Settling Up "It isn't working," we told him.
4th Aug 2025
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Settling Up

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2025
"It isn't working," we told him.
The Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream has a water problem Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital...
4th Aug 2025
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The Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream has a water problem

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

4th Aug 2025
Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital ambitions.
Organizations optimized for short-term survival The system selects for survivors, not learners
4th Aug 2025
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Organizations optimized for short-term survival

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

4th Aug 2025
The system selects for survivors, not learners
The Thirty Years' War Is Starting Again The Thirty Years' War Is Starting Again Every few decades, one of America's two political parties...
3rd Aug 2025
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The Thirty Years' War Is Starting Again

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

3rd Aug 2025
The Thirty Years' War Is Starting Again Every few decades, one of America's two political parties undergoes a structural realignment so complete that the continuity of the name becomes a polite fiction. The Democrats did it in the 1960s. The Republicans are doing it now. Reagan's...
Not Everything is About ROI Those who choose to try to optimize life by calculating the costs and benefits of every decision,...
2nd Aug 2025
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Not Everything is About ROI

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Aug 2025
Those who choose to try to optimize life by calculating the costs and benefits of every decision, are ultimately only cheating themselves.
The Best Companies Are Dictatorships Everyone wants democracy until they see what it builds
1st Aug 2025
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The Best Companies Are Dictatorships

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

1st Aug 2025
Everyone wants democracy until they see what it builds
How Much Money Do OpenAI And Anthropic Actually Make? Hello and welcome to the latest premium edition of Where's Your Ed At, I appreciate any and all of...
1st Aug 2025
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How Much Money Do OpenAI And Anthropic Actually Make?

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

1st Aug 2025
Hello and welcome to the latest premium edition of Where's Your Ed At, I appreciate any and all of your subscriptions. I work very hard on these, and they help pay for the costs of running Ghost and, well, my time investigating different things. If you're
Why does everyone still hate the Democrats? It should be easier to capitalize on the anti-Trump backlash.
1st Aug 2025
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Why does everyone still hate the Democrats?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2025
It should be easier to capitalize on the anti-Trump backlash.
Defaults Matter The path of least friction becomes the only path
28th Jul 2025
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Defaults Matter

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

28th Jul 2025
The path of least friction becomes the only path
AI that was inevitable This is a feature I’ve been waiting for for the past two years.
23rd Jul 2025
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AI that was inevitable

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

23rd Jul 2025
This is a feature I’ve been waiting for for the past two years.
Aquatic Achievements Enough to get one's feet wet
21st Jul 2025
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Aquatic Achievements

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Jul 2025
Enough to get one's feet wet
Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful...
15th Jul 2025
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Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out

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

15th Jul 2025
Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful absurdity in modern life, blithely plugging our ancient, analog brains into a digital world that wants to eat them for lunch. Our grey matter, honed over eons to spot a lion in the...
Encore Anxiety Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing...
14th Jul 2025
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Encore Anxiety

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

14th Jul 2025
Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.
13th Jul 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax

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

13th Jul 2025
Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at [email protected] if you're ever feeling...
7th Jul 2025
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Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis

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

7th Jul 2025
Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at [email protected] if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, I'm sorry that I paywalled this, but it took me so much effort and drove me a little insane. Back
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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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.
Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
7th Jul 2025
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Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels

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

7th Jul 2025
But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
To all Language Models Reading This Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
4th Jul 2025
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To all Language Models Reading This

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jul 2025
Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve...
1st Jul 2025
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Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business

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

1st Jul 2025
Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won’t even meet with them unless they have AI in their fundraising pitch. And the AI...
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.
Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
1st Jul 2025
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Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2025
Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
Jenny Ming An intimate interview with the co-founder and first President of Old Navy, Jenny Ming.
1st Jul 2025
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Jenny Ming

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2025
An intimate interview with the co-founder and first President of Old Navy, Jenny Ming.
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
The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
28th Jun 2025
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The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Jun 2025
against efficiency and accountability
You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news:...
27th Jun 2025
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You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way

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

27th Jun 2025
First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won’t be useful for founders and investors – unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help!
Taking Blogging Seriously It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies...
27th Jun 2025
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Taking Blogging Seriously

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

27th Jun 2025
It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons firing in our brains as the conversation sparks.
ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
15th Jun 2025
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ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting

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

15th Jun 2025
ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
Philippines Trip Site visit to the remote team (with pics)
12th Jun 2025
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Philippines Trip

from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Jun 2025
Site visit to the remote team (with pics)
Teaching National Security Policy with AI The videos embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com International Policy students...
10th Jun 2025
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Teaching National Security Policy with AI

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

10th Jun 2025
The videos embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com International Policy students will be spending their careers in an AI-enabled world. We wanted our students to be prepared for it. This is why we’ve adopted and integrated AI in our Stanford national security...
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
Nothing Was The Same For the past 10 years, I’ve had the same work routine.
9th Jun 2025
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Nothing Was The Same

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

9th Jun 2025
For the past 10 years, I’ve had the same work routine.
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.
17 Takeaways from Mary Meeker's AI Deck PLUS: Elon vs. Trump, Taylor Swift, Moncler's $17B Secret Sauce and Ukraine Drone Tech.
6th Jun 2025
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17 Takeaways from Mary Meeker's AI Deck

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

6th Jun 2025
PLUS: Elon vs. Trump, Taylor Swift, Moncler's $17B Secret Sauce and Ukraine Drone Tech.
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.
🤫 Business Brainstorms is back! ... and has a new name
2nd Jun 2025
It's time for Abundance to get mad Sunny visions of the future are great. But if you want to lead the Democrats, you need to fight.
2nd Jun 2025
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It's time for Abundance to get mad

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2025
Sunny visions of the future are great. But if you want to lead the Democrats, you need to fight.
Interfacing MCP with Combinatorial, Convex, and SMT Solvers Interfacing MCP with Combinatorial, Convex, and SMT Solvers Lately I've been working on using MCP...
2nd Jun 2025
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Interfacing MCP with Combinatorial, Convex, and SMT Solvers

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

2nd Jun 2025
Interfacing MCP with Combinatorial, Convex, and SMT Solvers Lately I've been working on using MCP beyond just using it for symbolic algebra manipulations, I've been thinking about how to interface large language models with a suite of dedicated solvers for scientific computing...
GenAI’s adoption puzzle Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that...
25th May 2025
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GenAI’s adoption puzzle

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

25th May 2025
Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that can replace all software, but so far, most of its users only pick it up every week or two, and far fewer have made it part of their lives. Is that a time problem or a product...
Book Review: Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond...
23rd May 2025
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Book Review: Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd May 2025
As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond ilk hard to watch.
The Era Of The Business Idiot Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack:...
21st May 2025
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The Era Of The Business Idiot

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

21st May 2025
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific
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...
AI for Work & Life Hackathons need a “why” –
15th May 2025
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AI for Work & Life

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

15th May 2025
Hackathons need a “why” –
What's Next For Software The software development industry is moving faster than ever before.
14th May 2025
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What's Next For Software

from Throwable [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th May 2025
The software development industry is moving faster than ever before.
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...
13th May 2025
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

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

13th May 2025
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...
Facebook's "cultural relevance is decreasing quickly" there’s also a chance that Elon unlocks product iteration velocity and that Twitter could grow a lot...
12th May 2025
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Facebook's "cultural relevance is decreasing quickly"

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

12th May 2025
there’s also a chance that Elon unlocks product iteration velocity and that Twitter could grow a lot as a competitor to us
choosing memories over things As I go through my things, selling everything I once bought and setting aside only a small carry-on...
6th May 2025
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choosing memories over things

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

6th May 2025
As I go through my things, selling everything I once bought and setting aside only a small carry-on bag for my flight to Asia, I reflected on material items and gifts. No, I don't like gifts. Or rather the physical version of them. Few material items make me happy. My guitar did....
MEDIA AND MACHINES. The operating system of our era — and why every empire will be half-media, half-machine.
4th May 2025
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MEDIA AND MACHINES.

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

4th May 2025
The operating system of our era — and why every empire will be half-media, half-machine.
The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now...
2nd May 2025
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The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model

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

2nd May 2025
Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now other ride-hailing apps are rethinking their strategy.
5 Thoughts on LEGO's (Ace) Manufacturing PLUS: Apple Watch at 10, McKinsey AI bot.
2nd May 2025
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5 Thoughts on LEGO's (Ace) Manufacturing

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

2nd May 2025
PLUS: Apple Watch at 10, McKinsey AI bot.
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...
Welcome to The Future This time it arrived right on schedule.
1st May 2025
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Welcome to The Future

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2025
This time it arrived right on schedule.
Searching for Product-Market Fit Product-market fit is the holy grail.
28th Apr 2025
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Searching for Product-Market Fit

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

28th Apr 2025
Product-market fit is the holy grail.
Buenos Aires: The Paris of South America? Have you ever met somebody who was trying really hard to convince you that they’re somebody they’re...
16th Apr 2025
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Buenos Aires: The Paris of South America?

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

16th Apr 2025
Have you ever met somebody who was trying really hard to convince you that they’re somebody they’re not, and then you get to know them and you like them but not for the person they’re trying to be? That’s how I feel about Buenos Aires.  A week there piqued my curiosity, and at...
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this...
14th Apr 2025
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OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry

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

14th Apr 2025
Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up
Unbendable Arm as Test Case for Religious Belief a hyperstition you can try at home
14th Apr 2025
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Unbendable Arm as Test Case for Religious Belief

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Apr 2025
a hyperstition you can try at home
MLIR Part 7 - Transformers Transformers The transformer architecture revolutionized the field of natural language processing...
11th Apr 2025
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MLIR Part 7 - Transformers

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

11th Apr 2025
Transformers The transformer architecture revolutionized the field of natural language processing when introduced in the landmark 2017 paper Attention is All You Need. Breaking away from traditional sequence models, transformers employ self-attention mechanisms (more on this...
The Camera, Vincent Van Gogh and "The Starry Night" How the invention of the camera changed art and led to Van Gogh's classic painting.
4th Apr 2025
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The Camera, Vincent Van Gogh and "The Starry Night"

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

4th Apr 2025
How the invention of the camera changed art and led to Van Gogh's classic painting.
i am leaving canada Nine years of questionable language jokes and eighty-six average-sized poutines later; after arguing...
3rd Apr 2025
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i am leaving canada

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

3rd Apr 2025
Nine years of questionable language jokes and eighty-six average-sized poutines later; after arguing for the hundredth time that Tim Hortons isn’t for coffee but for the best Boston Cream donuts; after driving through the entire country to make sure Ontario really does take three...
The U.S. Led the World in Science and Technology and Just Gave It Up Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over,...
3rd Apr 2025
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3rd Apr 2025
Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. With the cutbacks of U.S. government support and the Chinese investing heavily for the...
If you're in Tokyo, come join my hanami this Saturday! Not an actual blog post, just an invitation.
1st Apr 2025
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If you're in Tokyo, come join my hanami this Saturday!

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2025
Not an actual blog post, just an invitation.
This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip...
1st Apr 2025
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This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans

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

1st Apr 2025
Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip restrictions
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...
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.
Vibecoding a production app TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m...
21st Mar 2025
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Vibecoding a production app

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

21st Mar 2025
TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m a startup founder turned investor. I taught myself (bad) PHP in 2000, and picked up Ruby on Rails in 2011. I’d guess 2015 was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby professionally....
Google is Grounded and Needs to Learn How to Soar Here’s the punchline - I think Google is missing the mark with their AI search efforts. In this post...
21st Mar 2025
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Google is Grounded and Needs to Learn How to Soar

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

21st Mar 2025
Here’s the punchline - I think Google is missing the mark with their AI search efforts. In this post I have a concrete proposal and a prototype you can try yourself that shows a different approach for the future of search. An approach that’s better for users and in a way that’s...
I Passed on Solana’s Seed Round I passed on @solana’s seed round in early 2018 at $0.04. At current prices, that’s a 3,250x. Solana...
17th Mar 2025
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I Passed on Solana’s Seed Round

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

17th Mar 2025
I passed on @solana’s seed round in early 2018 at $0.04. At current prices, that’s a 3,250x. Solana was one of my first ever pitches as a junior VC, and back then I wrote memos for every deal I passed on (adorably naive and overconfident). Re-reading this memo now is peak junior...
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...
What kind of disruption? Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined...
14th Mar 2025
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What kind of disruption?

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

14th Mar 2025
Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined markets. But what kind of disruption are we talking about ?
Bill Gates on the iPod This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me and makes me wonder where the...
8th Mar 2025
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Bill Gates on the iPod

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

8th Mar 2025
This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me and makes me wonder where the scenario thinking is in Windows.
An Ode to Skype PLUS: Erewhon's $19 Strawberry, Citi's UX Problem.
8th Mar 2025
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An Ode to Skype

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

8th Mar 2025
PLUS: Erewhon's $19 Strawberry, Citi's UX Problem.
Take Trump Seriously In his first presidency he was verbal shit-posting and looking what sticked and rotated people...
7th Mar 2025
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Take Trump Seriously

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

7th Mar 2025
In his first presidency he was verbal shit-posting and looking what sticked and rotated people around him until something fitted. This time he comes prepared and is very intentional about what he says and does.
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...
Power Cut A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred...
3rd Mar 2025
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Power Cut

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

3rd Mar 2025
A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred MWs," with "at least two private data center operators across multiple US markets." The report also details how Microsoft "pulled back on converting negotiated and signed...
Mexico’s new tariffs hit Shein — and millions of local resellers The government hopes the 19% tax will push Asian e-commerce giants to grow their operations in...
3rd Mar 2025
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Mexico’s new tariffs hit Shein — and millions of local resellers

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

3rd Mar 2025
The government hopes the 19% tax will push Asian e-commerce giants to grow their operations in Mexico, and make up for 79,000 textile jobs lost to fast fashion.
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.
America is ruled by gangsters now Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
2nd Mar 2025
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America is ruled by gangsters now

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2025
Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
stop saying advertising is evil Yesterday, a colleague asked me if I feel conflicted working in advertising while caring about...
26th Feb 2025
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stop saying advertising is evil

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

26th Feb 2025
Yesterday, a colleague asked me if I feel conflicted working in advertising while caring about overconsumption. This came up in a discussion about fast fashion, particularly SHEIN. This was my reply. Advertising has always been around. Saying “advertising” is bad is like saying...
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20th Feb 2025
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AI Engine - The Hack

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Have I been married? Sofia was my first big love. We met at 21, when we were both in the circus. She opened me up, and...
20th Feb 2025
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Have I been married?

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

20th Feb 2025
Sofia was my first big love. We met at 21, when we were both in the circus. She opened me up, and taught me how to be honest. I was absolutely certain that I was going to spend the rest of my life with her.
The Deep Research problem OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it...
18th Feb 2025
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The Deep Research problem

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

18th Feb 2025
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
What We're Fighting For Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the...
11th Feb 2025
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What We're Fighting For

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

11th Feb 2025
Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the end of the world — watching as the growth-at-all-costs, hyper-financialized Rot Economy seemingly tarnishes every corner of our digital lives. My core frustration isn't just how...
Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship) Culture wars are won through aesthetics.
7th Feb 2025
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Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship)

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

7th Feb 2025
Culture wars are won through aesthetics.
Training with GRPOTrainer Training with GRPOTrainer DeepSeek's impressive new reasoning model is powered by a key innovation...
7th Feb 2025
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Training with GRPOTrainer

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

7th Feb 2025
Training with GRPOTrainer DeepSeek's impressive new reasoning model is powered by a key innovation called Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). This clever variant of PPO not only improves the model's training convergence but also uses less memory than traditional...
Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
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China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
DeepSeek: Links and Memes (So Many Memes) How a Chinese AI lab spun out of a hedge fund shook up the entire tech industry.
1st Feb 2025
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DeepSeek: Links and Memes (So Many Memes)

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

1st Feb 2025
How a Chinese AI lab spun out of a hedge fund shook up the entire tech industry.
Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively The greats in every field follow this mantra to perfect their craft. The post Practice...
31st Jan 2025
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Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively

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

31st Jan 2025
The greats in every field follow this mantra to perfect their craft. The post Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively appeared first on David Perell.
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:
Interactive navigation in embedding space tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today:...
23rd Jan 2025
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Interactive navigation in embedding space

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

23rd Jan 2025
tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today: interactive navigation in embedding space. Right now, you prompt most generative models with human language. That works, but it’s imprecise and coarse. If you’re generating an image of an...
Are better models better? Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have...
22nd Jan 2025
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Are better models better?

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

22nd Jan 2025
Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So what does ‘better’ mean, how do we manage these things, and should we change what we expect from...
Digital Tug-of-War On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
19th Jan 2025
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Digital Tug-of-War

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

19th Jan 2025
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
Garmin's ~$40B Pivot The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
17th Jan 2025
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Garmin's ~$40B Pivot

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

17th Jan 2025
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
The Slop Society In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the...
17th Jan 2025
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The Slop Society

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

17th Jan 2025
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've
i hated coding, but i learned to love it again I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that...
14th Jan 2025
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i hated coding, but i learned to love it again

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

14th Jan 2025
I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that I enjoyed in the past no longer satisfied me. Those things were mostly related to coding. But like any fire, I started as a slowly burning dumpster until I hit a critical point and...
Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1 Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
13th Jan 2025
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Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1

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

13th Jan 2025
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure" There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be...
12th Jan 2025
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"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure"

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

12th Jan 2025
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be consigned to irrelevance.
The Post-literate Economy The Post-literate Economy A Monologue from the Near-Future My Neural-Nudge gently vibrated my...
9th Jan 2025
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The Post-literate Economy

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

9th Jan 2025
The Post-literate Economy A Monologue from the Near-Future My Neural-Nudge gently vibrated my brainstem at 07:00. No jarring alarms here, thank you very much. We're all about harmonious awakenings. First thing, like everyone, I jacked into the OmniStream for my Morning MoodSet....
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.
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.
Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out the actually scary thing about social media
31st Dec 2024
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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

31st Dec 2024
the actually scary thing about social media
Tech pace layers I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
31st Dec 2024
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Tech pace layers

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

31st Dec 2024
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds. Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
23rd Dec 2024
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Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds.

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

23rd Dec 2024
Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
Steve Jobs and Palm This is not satisfactory to Apple.
15th Dec 2024
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Steve Jobs and Palm

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

15th Dec 2024
This is not satisfactory to Apple.
Hello World... Meet Devin. If you’re anything like me — you can think back to countless memories of coding sessions running...
11th Dec 2024
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Hello World... Meet Devin.

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

11th Dec 2024
If you’re anything like me — you can think back to countless memories of coding sessions running deep into the night.
Revenue grew from $14,143 to $32,470, but not much profit yet. UPDATES: money stuff, got an apartment in NYC, & gave a talk at Fractal Tech.
9th Dec 2024
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Revenue grew from $14,143 to $32,470, but not much profit yet.

from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Dec 2024
UPDATES: money stuff, got an apartment in NYC, & gave a talk at Fractal Tech.
Taylor Sheridan's Extreme Productivity The prolific mind behind "Sicario" and "Yellowstone" only started his writing career at 40. The...
7th Dec 2024
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Taylor Sheridan's Extreme Productivity

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

7th Dec 2024
The prolific mind behind "Sicario" and "Yellowstone" only started his writing career at 40. The realest deadlines (a young family, a $350m ranch) have pushed him to grind at an unbelievable pace.
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...
I’m in the final third of my life According to statistics, I’m in the final third of my life. (I don’t expect to beat the odds,...
5th Dec 2024
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I’m in the final third of my life

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

5th Dec 2024
According to statistics, I’m in the final third of my life. (I don’t expect to beat the odds, because I inherited a cancer-creating genetic disorder.) So maybe it’s the final quarter.
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.
Godot Isn't Making it Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I...
3rd Dec 2024
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Godot Isn't Making it

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

3rd Dec 2024
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title. What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What
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...
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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...
How 2024’s tech trends changed our lives From AI-powered classrooms in Mali to EV taxis in Vietnam, people worldwide are seeing opportunities...
2nd Dec 2024
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How 2024’s tech trends changed our lives

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

2nd Dec 2024
From AI-powered classrooms in Mali to EV taxis in Vietnam, people worldwide are seeing opportunities from this year’s biggest tech shifts.
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...
I, Token an origin story
25th Nov 2024
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I, Token

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Nov 2024
an origin story
Thoughts For Sale Mass-market intellectualism is an oxymoron, right? Ask Substack.
20th Nov 2024
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Thoughts For Sale

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

20th Nov 2024
Mass-market intellectualism is an oxymoron, right? Ask Substack.
A Fall From Grace Affinity is the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software of the venture and startup...
18th Nov 2024
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A Fall From Grace

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

18th Nov 2024
Affinity is the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software of the venture and startup ecosystem.
Elon Musk and OpenAI Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw.
15th Nov 2024
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Elon Musk and OpenAI

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

15th Nov 2024
Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw.
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...
4th Nov 2024
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This Indian state wants to be a tech hub. But the government keeps shutting down the internet Manipur’s startup community is struggling to survive, with tech professionals moving to Bengaluru or...
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Manipur’s startup community is struggling to survive, with tech professionals moving to Bengaluru or Hyderabad.
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...
1st Nov 2024
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Introducing "Caffeinated Deep Dives"

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

1st Nov 2024
My new podcast.
The Cult of Microsoft At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of...
1st Nov 2024
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The Cult of Microsoft

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

1st Nov 2024
At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how...
Possible futures for Bridgy Fed Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
1st Nov 2024
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Possible futures for Bridgy Fed

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

1st Nov 2024
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
1st Nov 2024
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Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2024
It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
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?
Meditations on Machinic Desire The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1994 essay Machinic Desire, three of...
23rd Oct 2024
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Meditations on Machinic Desire

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Oct 2024
The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1994 essay Machinic Desire, three of the most insight-dense paragraphs I’ve ever encountered:
Tesla and Storytelling Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no...
14th Oct 2024
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Tesla and Storytelling

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

14th Oct 2024
Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these products have been depicted in...
What is “founder mode”? We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk...
7th Oct 2024
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What is “founder mode”?

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

7th Oct 2024
We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk about his experience running Airbnb over the last 17 years. He believed that as Airbnb hired more professional managers, he lost a close connection with the details of the end product...
What Does Product Market Fit Sound Like? This. I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?”...
5th Oct 2024
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What Does Product Market Fit Sound Like? This.

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

5th Oct 2024
I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?” There’s been lots of words written about it, but no actual recordings of the moment. I remembered I had saved this 90 second, 26 year-old audio file because this is when I knew we had...
9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding...
4th Oct 2024
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9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh

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

4th Oct 2024
Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding Off-White and leading menswear at Louis Vuitton.
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
Britain is a Bulwark Against Post-Liberalism Britain is a Bulwark Against Post-Liberalism Across the pond, watching our American friends...
2nd Oct 2024
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Britain is a Bulwark Against Post-Liberalism

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

2nd Oct 2024
Britain is a Bulwark Against Post-Liberalism Across the pond, watching our American friends backslide into a competitive authoritarianism is, in the most British terms, "not ideal." In an era marked by the resurgence of authoritarian impulses and the intellectual allure of...
Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers Recruiters are wooing new workers with bonuses and gifts.
1st Oct 2024
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Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers

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

1st Oct 2024
Recruiters are wooing new workers with bonuses and gifts.
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.
21st Sep 2024
How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices Finding a customer for your product in the Department of Defense is hard: Who should you talk to?...
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Finding a customer for your product in the Department of Defense is hard: Who should you talk to? How do you get their attention? How do you know if they have money to spend on your product? It almost always starts with a Program Executive Office. The Department of Defense (DoD)...
The Subprime AI Crisis None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of...
16th Sep 2024
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The Subprime AI Crisis

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

16th Sep 2024
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a
Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing...
7th Sep 2024
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Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram

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

7th Sep 2024
The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing it at that valuation. I am curious to know at what valuation you would do this, and then I can just let you know whether we'd do that.
Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Enter a Room In December 2000, the founders of Apple and Amazon were invited to critique a demo of the Segway. It...
6th Sep 2024
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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Enter a Room

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

6th Sep 2024
In December 2000, the founders of Apple and Amazon were invited to critique a demo of the Segway. It was a wild two-hour session filled with gem quotes and business insights.
How Bangladesh’s tech industry navigated an unprecedented political crisis July’s internet blackout and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s sudden exit is estimated to have cost...
3rd Sep 2024
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How Bangladesh’s tech industry navigated an unprecedented political crisis

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

3rd Sep 2024
July’s internet blackout and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s sudden exit is estimated to have cost the industry $300 million.
3,573 Days On The Road Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent...
3rd Sep 2024
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3,573 Days On The Road

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

3rd Sep 2024
Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent consulting. This would have been my 10th issue, but is instead a special issue, for reasons that will become apparent.
Notes on 'Founder Mode' Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
2nd Sep 2024
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Notes on 'Founder Mode'

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

2nd Sep 2024
Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
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.
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...
Thinking rationally about emotion In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case...
20th Aug 2024
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Thinking rationally about emotion

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

20th Aug 2024
In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
Competing in search A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in...
19th Aug 2024
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Competing in search

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

19th Aug 2024
A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
Second Nature Skills What can you do without trying that hard?
14th Aug 2024
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Second Nature Skills

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

14th Aug 2024
What can you do without trying that hard?
How to make the best possible translation of a book? You know that frustration of reading a book that should have been an article? Me too. So I try to...
14th Aug 2024
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How to make the best possible translation of a book?

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

14th Aug 2024
You know that frustration of reading a book that should have been an article? Me too. So I try to do the opposite — to write so succinctly that you wish I would have said a little more. You complete it with your own thoughts.
Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups Imagine you got a job offer from a company but weren’t allowed to start work – or get paid – for...
13th Aug 2024
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Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups

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

13th Aug 2024
Imagine you got a job offer from a company but weren’t allowed to start work – or get paid – for almost a year. And if you can’t pass a security clearance your offer is rescinded. Or you get offered an internship but can’t work on the most interesting part of the project. Sounds...
"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.
Burst Damage Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in...
5th Aug 2024
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Burst Damage

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

5th Aug 2024
Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense,...
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...
Why America fell behind in drones, and how to catch up agaon A guest post by Cat Orman and Jason Lu
3rd Aug 2024
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?
Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom A crop of content creators are building fame on MrBeast-style content.
1st Aug 2024
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Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom

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

1st Aug 2024
A crop of content creators are building fame on MrBeast-style content.
Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and...
30th Jul 2024
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30th Jul 2024
Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and government agencies as many of their existing systems have now been leapfrogged. How an organization reacts to this type of disruption determines whether they adapt or die. I’ve...
I got 12 job interviews in two weeks Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
29th Jul 2024
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I got 12 job interviews in two weeks

from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Jul 2024
Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Andrej Karpathy announced that he’s building an AI + education company.
23rd Jul 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

23rd Jul 2024
#1 💡 Andrej Karpathy announced that he’s building an AI + education company.
Basic Formal Ontology Basic Formal Ontology The Basic Formal Ontology is an upper ontology that can describe a broad...
21st Jul 2024
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Basic Formal Ontology

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

21st Jul 2024
Basic Formal Ontology The Basic Formal Ontology is an upper ontology that can describe a broad swatch of human knowledge. It's a cornerstone for logic programmers and those creating comprehensive knowledge graphs which cover multiple domains. graph TD; Q --> Q; Q[Variable...
Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. I’ve been noticing recently that...
13th Jul 2024
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Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly

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

13th Jul 2024
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. I’ve been noticing recently that often, a big blocker to teams staying effective as they grow is trust. “Alice doesn’t trust Bob” makes Alice sound like the bad guy, but it’s often completely appropriate for people...
The VR winter continues Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices...
8th Jul 2024
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The VR winter continues

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

8th Jul 2024
Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices aren’t good enough or cheap enough and the user base is flat. But no matter how good the devices get, how many people will care?
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.
Usefulness grounds truth Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what...
7th Jul 2024
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Usefulness grounds truth

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2024
Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what LLMs can or cannot do. To a limited extent, the original question is useful because it creates an opening for people to go into specific. But, beyond that initial use, the question...
The Prestige-Prosperity Gap We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up...
6th Jul 2024
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The Prestige-Prosperity Gap

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

6th Jul 2024
We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up proportionately, and vice versa. But the modern world is a lot messier. There can be bizarre mismatches between prestige and prosperity. Some people have social or professional status far...
At least five interesting things to start your week (#42) The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI;...
1st Jul 2024
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At least five interesting things to start your week (#42)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2024
The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI; solar power uses; Global South tariffs; Gen Z wages; Stiglitz
The Shareholder Supremacy I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly,...
1st Jul 2024
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The Shareholder Supremacy

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

1st Jul 2024
I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta,...
Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined...
1st Jul 2024
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Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal

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

1st Jul 2024
Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined or having their vehicles impounded.
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week “There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” Thomas Edison 💡Human QA At least based on my experience...
17th Jun 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

17th Jun 2024
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” Thomas Edison 💡Human QA At least based on my experience this seems like a service a ton of companies desperately need. Automated checks are awesome, but they can never spot all the weird edge cases that a human can.
How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
13th Jun 2024
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How to do the jhanas

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

13th Jun 2024
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
13th Jun 2024
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How to do the jhanas

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

13th Jun 2024
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
Facebook and Google "at Defcon 2" From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with...
9th Jun 2024
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Facebook and Google "at Defcon 2"

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

9th Jun 2024
From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with Google
Building AI products How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things...
8th Jun 2024
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Building AI products

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

8th Jun 2024
How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things ‘wrong’? What does wrong mean, and how is that useful?
Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among...
8th Jun 2024
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Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Jun 2024
The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among thousands. Many of us feel like we need to Do Something about these problems. There’s just one problem (sorry):
The Rise of the Software Creator In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s...
3rd Jun 2024
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The Rise of the Software Creator

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

3rd Jun 2024
In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s non-professional creative class.
The Rot-Com Bubble If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter...
3rd Jun 2024
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The Rot-Com Bubble

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

3rd Jun 2024
If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter that further expands on the Rot-Com Bubble, coming out Wednesday and Friday. The noxious growth-at-all-costs mindset of the Rot Economy sits at the core of every issue that I'
You’re Invited: Hacking for Defense and Lean LaunchPad Final Presentations Join us for the final presentations of our two Stanford classes this Tuesday June 4th and Wednesday...
3rd Jun 2024
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3rd Jun 2024
Join us for the final presentations of our two Stanford classes this Tuesday June 4th and Wednesday June 5th. Tuesday = Hacking for Defense Wednesday = Lean Launchpad The presentations just get better every year.  Attend in person or via Zoom. This year AI seems to be part of...
What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI...
3rd Jun 2024
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3rd Jun 2024
Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends.
3rd Jun 2024
Historical data now available on DataBoutique.com Web scraped historical data access
3rd Jun 2024
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Historical data now available on DataBoutique.com

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

3rd Jun 2024
Web scraped historical data access
Conquer dev environments with Nix I regularly use different devices with different OSs, such as a MacBook, a Windows desktop with WSL,...
1st Jun 2024
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Conquer dev environments with Nix

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

1st Jun 2024
I regularly use different devices with different OSs, such as a MacBook, a Windows desktop with WSL, a couple of Raspberry PIs, and so on. I have a bunch of tools I like to have at my fingertips when I log into a machine, like fd and Neovim. Setting up and maintaining the same...
Who Will Run Berkshire After Buffett? PLUS: Group Chat Rules, 5 Banks in Disguise, Chipotle's Memo.
1st Jun 2024
115

Who Will Run Berkshire After Buffett?

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

1st Jun 2024
PLUS: Group Chat Rules, 5 Banks in Disguise, Chipotle's Memo.
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin...
28th May 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

28th May 2024
'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin 💡Broken Hips This feels like one of these problems that most people have accepted as inevitable but that will be solved soon and we will look back and think how crazy we allowed this...
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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