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Jamesin’s Substack
Another Instinct Article It has been an insanely busy 2 weeks - and in the time it took me to have time to write this,...
22 hours ago
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Another Instinct Article

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22 hours ago
It has been an insanely busy 2 weeks - and in the time it took me to have time to write this, Instinct went from raising a $250M Series B at a $2.5B valuation to reportedly raising $1B at $10B.
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Balancing Act
Divorced from reality Fundamentals will matter
a week ago
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Divorced from reality

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a week ago
Fundamentals will matter
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Scope of Work
Tuesday My breathing was a constant problem.
a week ago
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Tuesday

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a week ago
My breathing was a constant problem.
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Better than Random
Industry roundup #13 When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
a week ago
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Industry roundup #13

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a week ago
When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
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Essays - Benedict...
AI, tools and transformation It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just...
2 weeks ago
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AI, tools and transformation

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2 weeks ago
It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and...
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Hyphen Nation
Paralyzed by the Perfect Resume Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
2 weeks ago
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Paralyzed by the Perfect Resume

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2 weeks ago
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Hyperscale Normalization If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, $18 a...
2 weeks ago
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Hyperscale Normalization

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2 weeks ago
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of
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Hustle Originals
The tiny logos behind a global power shift Your gadgets are entering a safety arms race.
2 weeks ago
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The tiny logos behind a global power shift

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2 weeks ago
Your gadgets are entering a safety arms race.
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Stratechery by Ben...
Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company...
2 weeks ago
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Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face

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

2 weeks ago
Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company does is about avoiding a consolidated world.
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Noahpinion
Roundup #87: Technology BAD!! The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The...
2 weeks ago
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Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!

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2 weeks ago
The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The Electric Revolution
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Platformer
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
2 weeks ago
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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

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2 weeks ago
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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Stephen Diehl
The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early...
3 weeks ago
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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

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3 weeks ago
The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early internet. It was slow, ugly, unreliable, and full of cranks, a strange world of wheezing dial-up modems, Usenet flamewars, <marquee> tags, and dancing babies. It was also...
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Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs and hiring | Anthropic cofounder's cold email We would have a problem if it is related to cell phone handsets, etc.
3 weeks ago
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Steve Jobs and hiring | Anthropic cofounder's cold email

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3 weeks ago
We would have a problem if it is related to cell phone handsets, etc.
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Balancing Act
Everything is downstream of ambition Everyone wants to build the one person billion dollar company. But how many people you need used to...
10th Aug 2026
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Everything is downstream of ambition

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10th Aug 2026
Everyone wants to build the one person billion dollar company. But how many people you need used to be a decision you made last, not first.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The AI Demand Bubble If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
4th Aug 2026
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The AI Demand Bubble

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4th Aug 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
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Jamesin’s Substack
Some things I've been thinking about - This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -”...
4th Aug 2026
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Some things I've been thinking about -

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4th Aug 2026
This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -” post on Twitter & LinkedIn.
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Platformer
Notes on the third era of slop Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
4th Aug 2026
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Notes on the third era of slop

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4th Aug 2026
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
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Stratechery by Ben...
Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail Meta's earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting.
3rd Aug 2026
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Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail

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

3rd Aug 2026
Meta's earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting.
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Better than Random
Should you take the startup offer? The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
3rd Aug 2026
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Should you take the startup offer?

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3rd Aug 2026
The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
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Noahpinion
Slopulism is taking over America Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological...
2nd Aug 2026
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Slopulism is taking over America

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2nd Aug 2026
Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological reasons.
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Internal Tech Emails
Anthropic and Dario Amodei I unfortunately don’t see a way forward
19th Jul 2026
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Anthropic and Dario Amodei

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19th Jul 2026
I unfortunately don’t see a way forward
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Scope of Work
Scope Creep, 2026-07-14 This causes multiple problems.
14th Jul 2026
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Scope Creep, 2026-07-14

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14th Jul 2026
This causes multiple problems.
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Jamesin’s Substack
Some areas we've been investing in - I get asked all the time what we’ve been investing in and areas we’re excited about - so I thought...
13th Jul 2026
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Some areas we've been investing in -

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13th Jul 2026
I get asked all the time what we’ve been investing in and areas we’re excited about - so I thought I’d write down some thoughts -
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Justin Jackson
The value of software in a Fable world What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
11th Jul 2026
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The value of software in a Fable world

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11th Jul 2026
What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
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Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about token pricing AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will...
9th Jul 2026
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Ways to think about token pricing

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9th Jul 2026
AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price, but why won’t they end up as low-margin commodity infrastructure?
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Balancing Act
Sanitized Slop Startup launch videos have become sanitized slop. A VC on why polish stopped working, what the box...
8th Jul 2026
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Sanitized Slop

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8th Jul 2026
Startup launch videos have become sanitized slop. A VC on why polish stopped working, what the box office proves, and what actually earns attention.
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Stratechery by Ben...
A Script for Mark Zuckerberg A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.
7th Jul 2026
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A Script for Mark Zuckerberg

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7th Jul 2026
A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Premium: The Hater's Guide To SoftBank Soundtrack: Ozzy Osbourne — Mr. Crowley A lot of people have been making a lot of fun of the...
6th Jul 2026
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Premium: The Hater's Guide To SoftBank

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6th Jul 2026
Soundtrack: Ozzy Osbourne — Mr. Crowley A lot of people have been making a lot of fun of the SoftBank 46th annual shareholder meeting and Masayoshi Son’s (to quote Bryce Elder of the Financial Times) Untethered Goose Game, specifically referring to slides that, well, looked like...
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Better than Random
An empty dance floor Awkwardness kills data-driven decision making
6th Jul 2026
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An empty dance floor

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6th Jul 2026
Awkwardness kills data-driven decision making
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Platformer
Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
2nd Jul 2026
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash

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2nd Jul 2026
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
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Noahpinion
Roundup #84: Bears on bikes Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers;...
1st Jul 2026
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Roundup #84: Bears on bikes

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1st Jul 2026
Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers; Deindustrialization; Russian oil revenue; GLP-1s; AI and jobs
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Hustle Originals
Meet the guys you call when AI breaks your brain For the thousands of people experiencing AI psychosis, there is help
1st Jul 2026
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Meet the guys you call when AI breaks your brain

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1st Jul 2026
For the thousands of people experiencing AI psychosis, there is help
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Jamesin’s Substack
Hiring With AI We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).
30th Jun 2026
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Hiring With AI

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30th Jun 2026
We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).
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haseeb qureshi
The Rise of the 149-Person Company @SemiAnalysis_ recently found something bizarre in the economics of AI coding subscriptions. If you...
22nd Jun 2026
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The Rise of the 149-Person Company

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22nd Jun 2026
@SemiAnalysis_ recently found something bizarre in the economics of AI coding subscriptions. If you run them at max usage limits, you’re actually paying 20x-70x cheaper than you would buying tokens through the API. Many people looked at this and said: oh my god, look how much the...
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Stephen Diehl
Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects This is going to be a very nerdy post so...
20th Jun 2026
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Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects

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

20th Jun 2026
Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects This is going to be a very nerdy post so bear with me. Here is a function. Read it the way you would read any other function, and then tell me its type. fn fib(n) = var a := 0 var b := 1 repeat(n) fn let t = a + b ...
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Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp messages I’m not going to say it’s my personal main focus when I have a number of other areas I’m more...
19th Jun 2026
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Mark Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp messages

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19th Jun 2026
I’m not going to say it’s my personal main focus when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse
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Entrepreneur's Edge
Orchestrating Agents Is Organizational Design An agent gets good at whatever you make it responsible for. The choice is functional or process...
15th Jun 2026
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Orchestrating Agents Is Organizational Design

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15th Jun 2026
An agent gets good at whatever you make it responsible for. The choice is functional or process accountability.
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Balancing Act
Decisions and Dollars Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
12th Jun 2026
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Decisions and Dollars

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12th Jun 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
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Shilin typing
A short film for my friend's birthday When I first met Pierre, I couldn't have foreseen what the next three years of our friendship would...
11th Jun 2026
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A short film for my friend's birthday

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11th Jun 2026
When I first met Pierre, I couldn't have foreseen what the next three years of our friendship would be like. I had just come back to Montreal. Twice I'd failed to get a place in Toronto. My dream of traveling in a van had also fallen apart. So I rented a U-Haul and went to pick...
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Working Theorys
New Media is Insider Media Working Theory #100
10th Jun 2026
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New Media is Insider Media

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10th Jun 2026
Working Theory #100
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Hyphen Nation
Stepping Into Your Own Light Stop internalizing failure and externalizing success. Own your achievements with confidence.
9th Jun 2026
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Stepping Into Your Own Light

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9th Jun 2026
Stop internalizing failure and externalizing success. Own your achievements with confidence.
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Allen Pike
Test Coverage Won't Save You Forestwalk’s CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she’s been learning about tests, after a couple years of...
8th Jun 2026
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Test Coverage Won't Save You

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8th Jun 2026
Forestwalk’s CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she’s been learning about tests, after a couple years of increasingly coding with agents: Most discussions about AI-native development jump from this problem – agents’ tendency to accumulate tech debt – directly to tests. … Tests verify...
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Steve Blank
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught...
8th Jun 2026
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations

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8th Jun 2026
We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asymmetric warfare, (drones, off-the-shelf technologies, etc.,) disruptive technologies (AI, commercial access to space) and a startup friendly...
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Scope of Work
Saturday I write this sentence down, and then spend ten minutes sitting here, thinking about it.
8th Jun 2026
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Saturday

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8th Jun 2026
I write this sentence down, and then spend ten minutes sitting here, thinking about it.
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tomcritchlow.com
Of Termites & Tokens Maybe the future of work is… termites? Let me explain.
8th Jun 2026
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Of Termites & Tokens

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8th Jun 2026
Maybe the future of work is… termites? Let me explain.
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SatPost by Trung...
Blumhouse: How Jason Blum Created A Hollywood Horror Hit Machine Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
5th Jun 2026
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Blumhouse: How Jason Blum Created A Hollywood Horror Hit Machine

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5th Jun 2026
Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
AI Doesn't Have ROI If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
2nd Jun 2026
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AI Doesn't Have ROI

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2nd Jun 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
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Noahpinion
How much more software do we really need? Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
2nd Jun 2026
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How much more software do we really need?

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2nd Jun 2026
Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
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Justin Jackson
Necessary but not sufficient Most business advice is necessary but not sufficient on its own to achieve success. For a business...
2nd Jun 2026
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Necessary but not sufficient

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2nd Jun 2026
Most business advice is necessary but not sufficient on its own to achieve success. For a business to win, you need to check multiple boxes.
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Hustle Originals
The small businesses trying to prop up the tandem bike industry A small company in Southern California popularized tandems in the US and outlasted Trek,...
1st Jun 2026
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The small businesses trying to prop up the tandem bike industry

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1st Jun 2026
A small company in Southern California popularized tandems in the US and outlasted Trek, Specialized, and other giants. But can bicycles built for two survive an anti-social age?
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Better than Random
The firmware veto When the install base outvotes the parliament
1st Jun 2026
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The firmware veto

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1st Jun 2026
When the install base outvotes the parliament
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Allen Pike
Building for Voice In, Visuals Out Recently, Andrej Karpathy argued that the ideal interaction pattern for AI models is voice in,...
31st May 2026
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Building for Voice In, Visuals Out

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31st May 2026
Recently, Andrej Karpathy argued that the ideal interaction pattern for AI models is voice in, visuals out: Audio is the human-preferred input to AIs, but vision is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to...
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Justin Jackson
Do the hardest thing Most small business ideas are a hard job attached to an easy idea. Instead, you should do your...
28th May 2026
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Do the hardest thing

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28th May 2026
Most small business ideas are a hard job attached to an easy idea. Instead, you should do your hardest idea.
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Essays - Benedict...
Predicting AI job exposure Many people would like to analyse which jobs, companies and industries are most exposed to AI, and...
24th May 2026
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Predicting AI job exposure

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24th May 2026
Many people would like to analyse which jobs, companies and industries are most exposed to AI, and assign scores, build charts, and map that against the progress of LLMs. I think this is mostly impossible: you don’t know how the jobs will change, you don’t know what else...
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Balancing Act
The Coddling of the Tech Mind We built daycares for adults
22nd May 2026
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The Coddling of the Tech Mind

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22nd May 2026
We built daycares for adults
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Hyphen Nation
Founder Stories: Li Lu of Himalaya Capital A story of survival, success and advocacy
20th May 2026
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Founder Stories: Li Lu of Himalaya Capital

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20th May 2026
A story of survival, success and advocacy
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Stephen Diehl
Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume is a planned...
20th May 2026
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Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume

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20th May 2026
Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume is a planned septology about a Danish antiquarian book dealer who falls out of time, and the first five volumes are one of the most original and brilliant literary projects I've read in years....
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Jamesin’s Substack
Always keeping score. Now with Claude, there is no excuse not to be tracking everything.
6th May 2026
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Always keeping score.

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6th May 2026
Now with Claude, there is no excuse not to be tracking everything.
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Entrepreneur's Edge
Introducing SPEAR: The Management Framework for AI The strong-start-weak-finish problem in AI is a process problem, not a model problem.
5th May 2026
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Introducing SPEAR: The Management Framework for AI

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5th May 2026
The strong-start-weak-finish problem in AI is a process problem, not a model problem.
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Better than Random
Spec-driven development Documentation first, SQL second
4th May 2026
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Spec-driven development

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4th May 2026
Documentation first, SQL second
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Internal Tech Emails
Musk v. Altman begins This is a bait and switch
2nd May 2026
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Musk v. Altman begins

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2nd May 2026
This is a bait and switch
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Hustle Originals
Why you’re more likely to buy something for $4.99 than $5.00 Charm pricing has endured for centuries.
1st May 2026
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Why you’re more likely to buy something for $4.99 than $5.00

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1st May 2026
Charm pricing has endured for centuries.
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Stratechery by Ben...
2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including Amazon and AI, the future of...
1st May 2026
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2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions

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1st May 2026
The best Stratechery content from the week of April 27, 2026, including Amazon and AI, the future of AR devices, and Beijing's myopia.
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Noahpinion
Roundup #81: Back to our regular programming National debt; AI cyberattacks; Phone bans; AI and coding jobs; Millennials vs. Boomers; Public...
1st May 2026
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Roundup #81: Back to our regular programming

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1st May 2026
National debt; AI cyberattacks; Phone bans; AI and coding jobs; Millennials vs. Boomers; Public order; California YIMBYism
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SatPost by Trung...
Sabastian Sawe, Adidas and the Sub-2 Hour Marathon How the super running shoe arms race helped two athletes break the 2-hour mark at London Marathon...
1st May 2026
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Sabastian Sawe, Adidas and the Sub-2 Hour Marathon

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

1st May 2026
How the super running shoe arms race helped two athletes break the 2-hour mark at London Marathon 2026.
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Platformer
We may now know what kind of AI bubble this is Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one...
1st May 2026
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We may now know what kind of AI bubble this is

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1st May 2026
Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one of the OpenAI-Elon Musk trial
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Allen Pike
We Can Do Hard Things Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business. You see,...
30th Apr 2026
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We Can Do Hard Things

from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Apr 2026
Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business. You see, back then the most frustrating thing about mobile dev was the final step: getting your app on actual phones. Builds, provisioning, and code signing made for a harrowing trial,...
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benkuhn.net
You should try contra dancing A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days is “How would you spend your life if AGI meant...
24th Apr 2026
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You should try contra dancing

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24th Apr 2026
A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days is “How would you spend your life if AGI meant nobody needed to work?” For me, I think a surprisingly big part of the answer is a dorky-sounding kind of folk dance called contra dancing. I started trying to answer that question by...
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Justin Jackson
What has technology done to us? All this technology, in everyone's hands, has just produced so much stuff. It's had so many effects,...
19th Apr 2026
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What has technology done to us?

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

19th Apr 2026
All this technology, in everyone's hands, has just produced so much stuff. It's had so many effects, in every direction.
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Working Theorys
The Season Finale of TBPN On the show, the meta-show, and stocking up on cultural power.
14th Apr 2026
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The Season Finale of TBPN

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14th Apr 2026
On the show, the meta-show, and stocking up on cultural power.
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Entrepreneur's Edge
The SMILE Curve Has Come for Software Why software value is migrating to the edges, just like hardware did decades ago
14th Apr 2026
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The SMILE Curve Has Come for Software

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14th Apr 2026
Why software value is migrating to the edges, just like hardware did decades ago
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Jamesin’s Substack
I launched a mobile app. Mobile development has always felt like the holy grail of engineering.
13th Apr 2026
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I launched a mobile app.

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13th Apr 2026
Mobile development has always felt like the holy grail of engineering.
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Scope of Work
The Sofa I would commit.
13th Apr 2026
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The Sofa

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13th Apr 2026
I would commit.
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Balancing Act
Your Only Competition is You The playbook is a commodity now
10th Apr 2026
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Your Only Competition is You

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10th Apr 2026
The playbook is a commodity now
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Steve Blank
Nowhere Is Safe Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The...
9th Apr 2026
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Nowhere Is Safe

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

9th Apr 2026
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and missile defense systems (THAAD, Patriot batteries) designed to counter tens or hundreds of aircraft and missiles is insufficient...
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Better than Random
How can I help? For starters: don't be a prick
6th Apr 2026
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How can I help?

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6th Apr 2026
For starters: don't be a prick
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Premium: AI Isn't Too Big To Fail Soundtrack — Soundgarden — Blow Up The Outside World A lot of people try to rationalize the AI...
3rd Apr 2026
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Premium: AI Isn't Too Big To Fail

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

3rd Apr 2026
Soundtrack — Soundgarden — Blow Up The Outside World A lot of people try to rationalize the AI bubble by digging up the past. Billions of dollars of waste are justified by saying “OpenAI just like Uber” (it isn’t) and “the data center buildout is
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Hustle Originals
Can anything stop Kalshi? The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember...
3rd Apr 2026
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Can anything stop Kalshi?

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3rd Apr 2026
The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember what happened then.
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SatPost by Trung...
The Disneyland Dilemma Disney's cash cow is the theme parks division. Can new CEO Josh D'Amaro milk Disneyland to complete...
2nd Apr 2026
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The Disneyland Dilemma

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

2nd Apr 2026
Disney's cash cow is the theme parks division. Can new CEO Josh D'Amaro milk Disneyland to complete the cable-to-streaming transition?
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Stephen Diehl
Book Review: What We Can Know Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without...
2nd Apr 2026
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Book Review: What We Can Know

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2nd Apr 2026
Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without the science," which is both a fair warning and a precise advertisement. The novel is set in 2119. Rising seas and a cascade of nuclear wars (including a misfired Russian warhead in...
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Hyphen Nation
The Exponential Life Have you ever wondered why some people are able to achieve so much?
1st Apr 2026
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The Exponential Life

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1st Apr 2026
Have you ever wondered why some people are able to achieve so much?
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Noahpinion
If you're in Tokyo this Friday, come to my hanami! An annual tradition.
1st Apr 2026
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If you're in Tokyo this Friday, come to my hanami!

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1st Apr 2026
An annual tradition.
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Platformer
Can you have child safety and Section 230, too? The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s...
1st Apr 2026
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Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?

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1st Apr 2026
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech
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Allen Pike
The Rise of Transparency Small companies are, by default, very transparent. When there are 4 people working in a room, you...
31st Mar 2026
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The Rise of Transparency

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31st Mar 2026
Small companies are, by default, very transparent. When there are 4 people working in a room, you have a direct line of sight on what everybody else is doing, and why. Your docs, Slack channels, and repositories are open to everybody. When the CEO has an epiphany that changes...
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Steve Blank
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s...
17th Mar 2026
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Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival

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17th Mar 2026
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, building, recruiting, fund raising, etc., and take stock of what changed around you. Or your company...
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Scope of Work
Sublime Capability It's no big deal.
9th Mar 2026
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Sublime Capability

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9th Mar 2026
It's no big deal.
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Stephen Diehl
Book Review: Piranesi Book Review: Piranesi Susanna Clarke's Piranesi is a book about a man who lives in a House. The...
9th Mar 2026
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Book Review: Piranesi

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

9th Mar 2026
Book Review: Piranesi Susanna Clarke's Piranesi is a book about a man who lives in a House. The House has an infinite number of marble halls. Ocean tides flood the lower floors. Clouds drift through the upper ones. Thousands of statues stand in the middle halls, each one unique,...
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Internal Tech Emails
"I wonder if we should consider buying Instagram" I'm worried we're so far behind that we don't even understand how far behind we are
8th Mar 2026
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"I wonder if we should consider buying Instagram"

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8th Mar 2026
I'm worried we're so far behind that we don't even understand how far behind we are
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Hustle Originals
How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents US parents toilet train their kids much later than they used to. And that trend is a sales bonanza...
6th Mar 2026
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How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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

6th Mar 2026
US parents toilet train their kids much later than they used to. And that trend is a sales bonanza for Pampers and Huggies.
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SatPost by Trung...
The Sphere's $4B Business, explained The eye-catching Las Vegas attraction cost James Dolan $2.3B to build. After an uncertain start, the...
6th Mar 2026
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The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

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

6th Mar 2026
The eye-catching Las Vegas attraction cost James Dolan $2.3B to build. After an uncertain start, the recent success of "The Wizard of Oz" has created a clear playbook for global domination.
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Justin Jackson
Will Claude Code ruin our team? AI coding is blurring the lines between engineers, PMs, and designers. In the short-term, it's going...
4th Mar 2026
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Will Claude Code ruin our team?

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

4th Mar 2026
AI coding is blurring the lines between engineers, PMs, and designers. In the short-term, it's going to cause havoc. What happens long-term?
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The AI Bubble Is An Information War Editor's Note: Apologies if you received this email twice - we had an issue with our mail server...
3rd Mar 2026
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The AI Bubble Is An Information War

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

3rd Mar 2026
Editor's Note: Apologies if you received this email twice - we had an issue with our mail server that meant it was hitting spam in many cases! Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my work, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s
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Platformer
What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out? Sam Altman’s deal with the Pentagon seems too good to be true. What happens when the public realizes...
3rd Mar 2026
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What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out?

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Mar 2026
Sam Altman’s deal with the Pentagon seems too good to be true. What happens when the public realizes that?
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Balancing Act
Revealed Preferences Every keystroke is a vote
3rd Mar 2026
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Revealed Preferences

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3rd Mar 2026
Every keystroke is a vote
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Stratechery by Ben...
Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate,...
2nd Mar 2026
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Anthropic and Alignment

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

2nd Mar 2026
Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.
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Better than Random
The next horses AI capex and the SWE replacement theory
2nd Mar 2026
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The next horses

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2nd Mar 2026
AI capex and the SWE replacement theory
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Noahpinion
The shape of the multipolar world is a little clearer A few thoughts on the new Iran war.
1st Mar 2026
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The shape of the multipolar world is a little clearer

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1st Mar 2026
A few thoughts on the new Iran war.
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Essays - Benedict...
How will OpenAI compete? OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with...
19th Feb 2026
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How will OpenAI compete?

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

19th Feb 2026
OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage...
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haseeb qureshi
Crypto was not made for humans We’re a crypto fund. If anyone should believe in crypto, it’s us. And yet, when we sign a deal to...
18th Feb 2026
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Crypto was not made for humans

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

18th Feb 2026
We’re a crypto fund. If anyone should believe in crypto, it’s us. And yet, when we sign a deal to invest into a startup, we don’t sign a smart contract. We sign a legal contract. The startup does the same. Neither of us are comfortable doing the deal without a legal...
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Stephen Diehl
Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean? Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean? I have a little category theory library I've been dragging...
16th Feb 2026
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Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean?

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

16th Feb 2026
Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean? I have a little category theory library I've been dragging around for about a decade now. It started life in Haskell, got ported to Agda, briefly lived in Idris, spent some time in Coq, and has now landed in Lean 4. I call it Kitty Cats....
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Balancing Act
Token Anxiety Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
13th Feb 2026
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Token Anxiety

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13th Feb 2026
Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
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SatPost by Trung...
How does DocuSign have 7,000 employees? And other thoughts about B2B SaaS in the age of AI coding agents.
13th Feb 2026
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How does DocuSign have 7,000 employees?

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13th Feb 2026
And other thoughts about B2B SaaS in the age of AI coding agents.
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Allen Pike
Maggie Appleton on Gas Town and Coding Agent Orchestration Maggie was already perhaps the best writer on the intersection of engineering and design, but now...
13th Feb 2026
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Maggie Appleton on Gas Town and Coding Agent Orchestration

from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Feb 2026
Maggie was already perhaps the best writer on the intersection of engineering and design, but now that she’s joined Github Next, she’s also extremely keyed in to where tools for coding are going. Her piece on Gas Town and orchestrating coding agents is sharp and worth reading in...
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Working Theorys
Franchise Thinking On the sequel economics of ideas.
10th Feb 2026
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Franchise Thinking

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10th Feb 2026
On the sequel economics of ideas.
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Scope of Work
Supersaturate, Recharge *With one hand!*
10th Feb 2026
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Supersaturate, Recharge

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10th Feb 2026
*With one hand!*
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Shilin typing
Don't ever stop dreaming Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet...
8th Feb 2026
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Don't ever stop dreaming

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8th Feb 2026
Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet shoes. I still can't believe I did it. The constant winter overcast was reason enough to leave Canada and never look back. When I finally left, I had bought a ticket to a never-ending...
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Hustle Originals
The economics of dog shows Even the participants at the Westminster Dog Show, the best pups in the world, are unlikely to make...
6th Feb 2026
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The economics of dog shows

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6th Feb 2026
Even the participants at the Westminster Dog Show, the best pups in the world, are unlikely to make a fortune for their owners.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Premium: The Hater's Guide To Microsoft Have you ever looked at something too long and felt like you were sort of seeing through it? Has...
6th Feb 2026
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Premium: The Hater's Guide To Microsoft

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

6th Feb 2026
Have you ever looked at something too long and felt like you were sort of seeing through it? Has anybody actually looked at a company this much in a way that wasn’t some sort of obsequious profile of a person who worked there? I don’t mean
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Justin Jackson
Claude Code and the new age of software development
6th Feb 2026
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Claude Code and the new age of software development

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6th Feb 2026
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Aaron's Essays
1, 7, 30, 11, 12 Jews do mourning well. That’s what I’ve always thought from watching family and friends go through...
4th Feb 2026
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1, 7, 30, 11, 12

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

4th Feb 2026
Jews do mourning well. That’s what I’ve always thought from watching family and friends go through it. It’s what I’ve learned as fact since my father died eleven months ago. There’s a central tension to it. A constant fault line that our customs straddle. It’s the constant...
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Steve Blank
Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition...
3rd Feb 2026
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Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War

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

3rd Feb 2026
This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by people from private capital (venture capital and private equity.)  Deputy...
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Platformer
Five ways of thinking about Moltbook What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future. PLUS: Elon consolidates the X empire
3rd Feb 2026
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Five ways of thinking about Moltbook

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3rd Feb 2026
What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future. PLUS: Elon consolidates the X empire
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Better than Random
Industry roundup #11 Vercel testing AGENTS.md vs Skills
2nd Feb 2026
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Industry roundup #11

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2nd Feb 2026
Vercel testing AGENTS.md vs Skills
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Internal Tech Emails
"The fate of civilization is at stake" Text messages from Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk. Plus, Microsoft's CTO on why the OpenAI...
1st Feb 2026
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"The fate of civilization is at stake"

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1st Feb 2026
Text messages from Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk. Plus, Microsoft's CTO on why the OpenAI board fired Sam Altman.
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Derek Sivers podcast
No new instructions for the computer You load the program into the computer, and it begins its calculations. It’s computing. It’s...
1st Feb 2026
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No new instructions for the computer

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

1st Feb 2026
You load the program into the computer, and it begins its calculations. It’s computing. It’s working hard, and it’s going to take some time. People who tell me they are lost and running in circles have one thing in common: They say they keep listening to podcasts, reading...
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Noahpinion
International financial anarchy What happens after the Age of the Dollar ends?
1st Feb 2026
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International financial anarchy

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1st Feb 2026
What happens after the Age of the Dollar ends?
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Allen Pike
A Broken Heart You always know it’s a good bug when your first reaction is, “How could this even happen?” The other...
31st Jan 2026
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A Broken Heart

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31st Jan 2026
You always know it’s a good bug when your first reaction is, “How could this even happen?” The other day, I was refining the dashboard of a web app we’re working on – as you do – and I noticed it was taking forever to load. Like, it had been loading in a single second, but now it...
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Nothing Human
Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift "humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
19th Jan 2026
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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift

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19th Jan 2026
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one...
16th Jan 2026
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Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble

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

16th Jan 2026
Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one word kept coming up: bullshit.  LG, a company known for making home appliances and televisions, demonstrated a robot (named “CLOiD” for some reason) that could “fold laundry”
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SatPost by Trung...
Warren Buffett and the Reading Unlock One Buffett lesson I'll share with my kid: read, read, read.
16th Jan 2026
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Warren Buffett and the Reading Unlock

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16th Jan 2026
One Buffett lesson I'll share with my kid: read, read, read.
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Stephen Diehl
Hypothetical Divine Signatures Hypothetical Divine Signatures The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews famously claimed that "faith...
14th Jan 2026
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Hypothetical Divine Signatures

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14th Jan 2026
Hypothetical Divine Signatures The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews famously claimed that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," which was a perfectly serviceable theological patch for an era where the average person’s greatest...
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Shilin typing
Notes from a meditation retreat On December 31, I went to Wat Suan Mokkh in Thailand and registered for a ten-day silent retreat. I...
12th Jan 2026
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Notes from a meditation retreat

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12th Jan 2026
On December 31, I went to Wat Suan Mokkh in Thailand and registered for a ten-day silent retreat. I scribbled these notes on eight scraps of paper given to us for questions on days six and ten. Neither electronics nor diaries were allowed for “creative writing”. And because my...
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Hustle Originals
The competitive claw machine boom How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine...
9th Jan 2026
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The competitive claw machine boom

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9th Jan 2026
How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine enthusiasts.
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Hyphen Nation
What Game Are You Playing? Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.
7th Jan 2026
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What Game Are You Playing?

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7th Jan 2026
Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.
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Platformer
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I...
6th Jan 2026
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

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6th Jan 2026
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
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Balancing Act
The Case For Abundance Why I'm betting on depth over distraction
5th Jan 2026
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The Case For Abundance

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5th Jan 2026
Why I'm betting on depth over distraction
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Scope of Work
Five Rides for 2025 Some lists are just worth making
5th Jan 2026
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Five Rides for 2025

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5th Jan 2026
Some lists are just worth making
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Stratechery by Ben...
AI and the Human Condition AI might replace all of the jobs; that's only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if...
5th Jan 2026
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AI and the Human Condition

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5th Jan 2026
AI might replace all of the jobs; that's only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if they care, they will create new jobs.
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Better than Random
Either micromanage your people or lean on them Something in between is the worst
5th Jan 2026
1

Either micromanage your people or lean on them

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5th Jan 2026
Something in between is the worst
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Internal Tech Emails
Warren Buffett emails Microsoft exec I prefer to structure investing as a no-called-strikes game and just wait for the fat one
4th Jan 2026
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Warren Buffett emails Microsoft exec

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4th Jan 2026
I prefer to structure investing as a no-called-strikes game and just wait for the fat one
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Noahpinion
America's chip export controls are working Don't be fooled by the people who say we should sell China everything we've got.
2nd Jan 2026
1

America's chip export controls are working

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2nd Jan 2026
Don't be fooled by the people who say we should sell China everything we've got.
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Justin Jackson
2025 year in review
2nd Jan 2026
1

2025 year in review

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2nd Jan 2026
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Derek Sivers podcast
You can’t trust your mind There was a crime out on Park Avenue today, so the police are gathering information. The police...
1st Jan 2026
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You can’t trust your mind

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1st Jan 2026
There was a crime out on Park Avenue today, so the police are gathering information. The police said, “This is great information. How sure are you of this?” That’s your brain, in the dark, inside your skull. It can’t see or hear, or experience anything directly. It...
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haseeb qureshi
2026 predictions It’s that time again—as 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to drop 2026 predictions. I think 2026 is...
29th Dec 2025
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2026 predictions

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29th Dec 2025
It’s that time again—as 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to drop 2026 predictions. I think 2026 is going to surprise, both to the upside and to the downside. Organized by category: Macro / Chains $BTC is > $150K by year-end, but BTC dominance decreases in 2026. Despite the...
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SatPost by Trung...
11 Best Things of 2025 My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
19th Dec 2025
1

11 Best Things of 2025

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19th Dec 2025
My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
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Steve Blank
The Department of War Directory TL;DR   DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here. In November 2025 the...
16th Dec 2025
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The Department of War Directory

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16th Dec 2025
TL;DR   DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here. In November 2025 the Department of War (DoW) unveiled the biggest changes in 60 years of how they will buy weapons and services. This month Congress, with bipartisan support, rapidly made them into law in...
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Derek Sivers podcast
What’s this about? This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective...
12th Dec 2025
1

What’s this about?

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12th Dec 2025
This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective that’s useful to you right now, whether or not it’s universally true. This narrow definition is important because whatever you consider true is closed. No questioning. But when...
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Allen Pike
Why is ChatGPT for Mac So… Bad? Last week I wrote an exploration of Ben Thompson’s recent question, “Why is the ChatGPT Mac app so...
5th Dec 2025
1

Why is ChatGPT for Mac So… Bad?

from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2025
Last week I wrote an exploration of Ben Thompson’s recent question, “Why is the ChatGPT Mac app so good?” A lot of people on the internet, it turns out, do not agree with this premise! Many folks have been having problems with ⌘C not copying text. Hacker News sees the app as “not...
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Hustle Originals
The war over wine Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon...
5th Dec 2025
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The war over wine

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5th Dec 2025
Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon for once-overlooked Ontario wineries.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much...
5th Dec 2025
1

Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst

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5th Dec 2025
I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense. NVIDIA claims to have shipped six million Blackwell GPUs in
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Shilin typing
the myth of the grateful child As I fought with my mother for the hundredth time over a reason that was silly yet too hard for her...
5th Dec 2025
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the myth of the grateful child

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5th Dec 2025
As I fought with my mother for the hundredth time over a reason that was silly yet too hard for her to understand, I concluded that this post was long overdue. While I had ninety-nine other chances to complain about my difficult relationship with parents, I kept postponing it,...
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Jamesin’s Substack
Reconsidering "Self-Made" I have a strong memory arguing with a friend at 2am in SF, close to 10 years ago now, that someone...
4th Dec 2025
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Reconsidering "Self-Made"

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4th Dec 2025
I have a strong memory arguing with a friend at 2am in SF, close to 10 years ago now, that someone could be “self-made.”
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Balancing Act
Bet the farm Or risk losing it all
2nd Dec 2025
2

Bet the farm

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2nd Dec 2025
Or risk losing it all
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Schemers
do too much, sell before, going super-saiyan do too much
2nd Dec 2025
2

do too much, sell before, going super-saiyan

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2nd Dec 2025
do too much
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Platformer
How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics....
2nd Dec 2025
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How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm

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2nd Dec 2025
A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics. PLUS: The David Sacks discourse, and Claude Opus 4.5 debuts
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Stratechery by Ben...
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an...
1st Dec 2025
1

Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI

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

1st Dec 2025
OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
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Noahpinion
I love AI. Why doesn't everyone? Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.
1st Dec 2025
1

I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?

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1st Dec 2025
Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.
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Better than Random
On risk taking The real risk takers are not who you think they are
1st Dec 2025
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On risk taking

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1st Dec 2025
The real risk takers are not who you think they are
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Allen Pike
Why is ChatGPT for Mac So Good? This year, even as Anthropic, Google, and others have challenged OpenAI’s model performance crown,...
30th Nov 2025
1

Why is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?

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30th Nov 2025
This year, even as Anthropic, Google, and others have challenged OpenAI’s model performance crown, ChatGPT’s lead as an end-user product has only solidified. On the Dithering podcast last week (paywalled), Ben Thompson called out an aspect of why this is: I need someone to write...
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Essays - Benedict...
AI, networks and Mechanical Turks How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and recommendation system can be? Do...
23rd Nov 2025
1

AI, networks and Mechanical Turks

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

23rd Nov 2025
How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and recommendation system can be? Do they let you build one without needing a vast user base of your own?
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SatPost by Trung...
Dishoom's $400m Restaurant Playbook How a former Harvard MBA turned Bain consultant co-founded Dishoom and scaled the Indian fine dining...
20th Nov 2025
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Dishoom's $400m Restaurant Playbook

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

20th Nov 2025
How a former Harvard MBA turned Bain consultant co-founded Dishoom and scaled the Indian fine dining business to $180m in sales and a $400m valuation.
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Nothing Human
The Transformer and the Hash the building blocks of 21st century political science
13th Nov 2025
1

The Transformer and the Hash

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13th Nov 2025
the building blocks of 21st century political science
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Steve Blank
The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning,...
11th Nov 2025
1

The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed

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11th Nov 2025
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performance to delivering advanced weapons at speed. Taking decades to deliver weapons is...
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haseeb qureshi
How to Break Into VC Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC: Write. Short writeups, on...
9th Nov 2025
1

How to Break Into VC

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9th Nov 2025
Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC: Write. Short writeups, on Twitter. Not generic market philosophical thinkpieces, because those will be assumed to be AI slop or regurgitated research. No one will read it unless you’re brilliant, which you’re...
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Hustle Originals
Passive investing fueled a bull market — and could bring it down The growth of passive investing, through index funds found in the 401(k) accounts of average...
7th Nov 2025
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Passive investing fueled a bull market — and could bring it down

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7th Nov 2025
The growth of passive investing, through index funds found in the 401(k) accounts of average Americans, has propped up the stock market while also potentially setting it up for a nasty fall.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Where Is OpenAI's Money Going? Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a...
7th Nov 2025
5

Where Is OpenAI's Money Going?

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

7th Nov 2025
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed. A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s revenues were “well more” than $13bn in 2025
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Balancing Act
Tab Tab Tab How humans became training data with paychecks
4th Nov 2025
1

Tab Tab Tab

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4th Nov 2025
How humans became training data with paychecks
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Rest of World -...
The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.
4th Nov 2025
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The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks

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4th Nov 2025
For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.
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Platformer
The Bluesky exodus, one year later The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy?...
4th Nov 2025
1

The Bluesky exodus, one year later

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4th Nov 2025
The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy? PLUS: The NEO Home Robot goes viral + Ilya Sutskever's surprising deposition
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Hyphen Nation
We Are Golden Asians in America are having a moment in sports, entertainment and business
3rd Nov 2025
1

We Are Golden

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3rd Nov 2025
Asians in America are having a moment in sports, entertainment and business
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Better than Random
CDO stories #4 Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
3rd Nov 2025
1

CDO stories #4

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3rd Nov 2025
Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
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Noahpinion
The giant basket case countries More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
1st Nov 2025
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The giant basket case countries

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1st Nov 2025
More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
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Allen Pike
How to Not Get Acquired Building something new from 0 → 1 is hard, so it requires your full attention. Given that, a key...
31st Oct 2025
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How to Not Get Acquired

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31st Oct 2025
Building something new from 0 → 1 is hard, so it requires your full attention. Given that, a key part of creating a new product is limiting distractions – anything that pulls your attention away from finding product-market fit. There are a lot of things a founder can be...
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Schemers
A player myth, building the biggest thing you can, as software gets commoditized… as software gets commoditized…
27th Oct 2025
1

A player myth, building the biggest thing you can, as software gets commoditized…

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27th Oct 2025
as software gets commoditized…
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Stratechery by Ben...
2025.43: The Cost of Resiliency The best Stratechery content from the week of October 20, 2025, including the cost of resiliency, F1...
24th Oct 2025
1

2025.43: The Cost of Resiliency

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24th Oct 2025
The best Stratechery content from the week of October 20, 2025, including the cost of resiliency, F1 makes it official with Apple, and a new era for NBA broadcasting.
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SatPost by Trung...
J.R. Simplot Became A Billionaire Selling Potato Chips (and then Semiconductor Chips) How J.R. Simplot went from the largest seller of french fries to McDonald's in the 1960s to the...
17th Oct 2025
30

J.R. Simplot Became A Billionaire Selling Potato Chips (and then Semiconductor Chips)

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17th Oct 2025
How J.R. Simplot went from the largest seller of french fries to McDonald's in the 1960s to the largest shareholder of Micron Technology in the 1990s.
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Justin Jackson
Entrepreneurship advice for high school students (what I wish I knew)
17th Oct 2025
1

Entrepreneurship advice for high school students (what I wish I knew)

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17th Oct 2025
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Jamesin’s Substack
The Engine Room We’re launching a new program!!
14th Oct 2025
1

The Engine Room

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14th Oct 2025
We’re launching a new program!!
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Steve Blank
No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But...
13th Oct 2025
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No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

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

13th Oct 2025
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What do they do? And more importantly, why should anyone (outside of universities) care?...
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Hyphen Nation
A Legacy of Speaking Up A tribute to my late father in honor of being named an inaugural Centennial Alumni Catalyst by the...
6th Oct 2025
1

A Legacy of Speaking Up

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6th Oct 2025
A tribute to my late father in honor of being named an inaugural Centennial Alumni Catalyst by the Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Better than Random
The thin layer problem Outperforming your manager without getting fired
6th Oct 2025
1

The thin layer problem

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6th Oct 2025
Outperforming your manager without getting fired
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Internal Tech Emails
Facebook's plan to beat Google+ we will swallow sadness for every summer going forward if we do not move faster and smarter than the...
5th Oct 2025
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Facebook's plan to beat Google+

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5th Oct 2025
we will swallow sadness for every summer going forward if we do not move faster and smarter than the Google for these next 3 months.
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Balancing Act
996 Is Not Your Competition People having fun are
4th Oct 2025
1

996 Is Not Your Competition

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4th Oct 2025
People having fun are
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Hustle Originals
Berries are America’s top-selling fruit — and every parent’s grocery bill nightmare Berry spending topped $12B in the last year. Many parents felt like their own kids accounted for all...
3rd Oct 2025
1

Berries are America’s top-selling fruit — and every parent’s grocery bill nightmare

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3rd Oct 2025
Berry spending topped $12B in the last year. Many parents felt like their own kids accounted for all of it.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT,"...
3rd Oct 2025
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OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

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3rd Oct 2025
What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked that it was or would be. No, really,
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Rest of World -...
Livestream shopping stars face off against trolls, hagglers, and AI rivals Livestream sellers have built booming careers. Now, bots are threatening to steal their spotlight...
2nd Oct 2025
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Livestream shopping stars face off against trolls, hagglers, and AI rivals

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2nd Oct 2025
Livestream sellers have built booming careers. Now, bots are threatening to steal their spotlight and their customers.
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Noahpinion
Network State, or a Network of States? An idea for a new global Hanseatic League.
1st Oct 2025
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Network State, or a Network of States?

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1st Oct 2025
An idea for a new global Hanseatic League.
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Allen Pike
UX Entropy In the olden days, video calls were hard. Circa 2012, if your next meeting was online, it was...
30th Sep 2025
1

UX Entropy

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30th Sep 2025
In the olden days, video calls were hard. Circa 2012, if your next meeting was online, it was important to start the process 5-10 minutes early. The process, at that time, was some or all of the following incantations and rituals: Find the meeting URL Find the meeting...
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Jamesin’s Substack
Where to Look If You’re Looking for a Job Over the past week, I’ve sent the same email to three different people looking for a job.
22nd Sep 2025
1

Where to Look If You’re Looking for a Job

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22nd Sep 2025
Over the past week, I’ve sent the same email to three different people looking for a job.
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Shilin typing
things i learned about contracting Always sign a contract for any job Charge by project, not by hour Give a quote properly Charge 1/2...
20th Sep 2025
1

things i learned about contracting

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20th Sep 2025
Always sign a contract for any job Charge by project, not by hour Give a quote properly Charge 1/2 upfront Don’t start until the payment goes through or is wired and in transfer Do your work well. Go the extra mile. Underpromise but overdeliver Never complain to the people you...
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Working Theorys
The Self Is The Platform On Consumer AI, and why individual leverage is eating collective coordination.
18th Sep 2025
31

The Self Is The Platform

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18th Sep 2025
On Consumer AI, and why individual leverage is eating collective coordination.
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haseeb qureshi
On being bald I started shaving my head in my early 20s. I was way too young to be balding that early, and it...
17th Sep 2025
1

On being bald

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

17th Sep 2025
I started shaving my head in my early 20s. I was way too young to be balding that early, and it terrified me. So I decided, fuck it, just go all the way to the finish line. The first time I shaved my head, I thought I looked like a ghoul. In my dreams, I still had hair. It didn’t...
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Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs's drafts | Elon Musk's coinvestors For your eyes only. Thoughts?
14th Sep 2025
42

Steve Jobs's drafts | Elon Musk's coinvestors

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14th Sep 2025
For your eyes only. Thoughts?
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Steve Blank
How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a...
10th Sep 2025
39

How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory

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10th Sep 2025
Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a “Who buys in the government?” phone book. Finding a customer for your product in the Department of War is hard: Who should you talk to? How do you get their attention? What is the...
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Schemers
agility, get luckier, quitting entrepreneurship, irl agility
9th Sep 2025
2

agility, get luckier, quitting entrepreneurship, irl

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9th Sep 2025
agility
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America’s $37B Football Obsession The top two sports-leagues by revenue in the world are NFL ($23B)...and College Football ($14B), the...
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America’s $37B Football Obsession

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5th Sep 2025
The top two sports-leagues by revenue in the world are NFL ($23B)...and College Football ($14B), the latter alone makes more than NBA, MLB or English Premiere League.
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Hustle Originals
The U.S. town with a pumpkin-based economy How one small town in Illinois survived the Rust Belt’s manufacturing decline to become the world’s...
5th Sep 2025
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The U.S. town with a pumpkin-based economy

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5th Sep 2025
How one small town in Illinois survived the Rust Belt’s manufacturing decline to become the world’s canned pumpkin hotspot.
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Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI

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5th Sep 2025
Hello and welcome to another premium newsletter. Thanks as ever for subscribing, and please email me at [email protected] to say hello. As I've written again and again, the costs of running generative AI do not make sense. Every single company offering any kind of generative...
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Rest of World -...
High-paying tech jobs are fueling a mini baby boom in Taiwan’s chip hub As Taiwan’s fertility rate plummets and young women increasingly choose to remain single, the...
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High-paying tech jobs are fueling a mini baby boom in Taiwan’s chip hub

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3rd Sep 2025
As Taiwan’s fertility rate plummets and young women increasingly choose to remain single, the island’s Silicon Valley is bucking the trend.
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Justin Jackson
Time machine
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Time machine

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3rd Sep 2025
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Balancing Act
Entering the DOS era of AI Why I spent 12 hours in a terminal last week
2nd Sep 2025
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Entering the DOS era of AI

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2nd Sep 2025
Why I spent 12 hours in a terminal last week
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Noahpinion
Why I left Bloomberg The untold story, at last.
1st Sep 2025
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Why I left Bloomberg

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1st Sep 2025
The untold story, at last.
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Better than Random
There are no strong opinions weakly held It's a shield for loud conviction and quiet backpedaling if needed.
1st Sep 2025
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There are no strong opinions weakly held

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1st Sep 2025
It's a shield for loud conviction and quiet backpedaling if needed.
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Allen Pike
Building Something Big When I talk about building Forestwalk, people who’ve long known me are sometimes surprised that I’ve...
31st Aug 2025
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Building Something Big

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31st Aug 2025
When I talk about building Forestwalk, people who’ve long known me are sometimes surprised that I’ve been using terms like “runway”, “venture-scale”, and other jargon more associated with the VC world than indie or lifestyle businesses. And indeed, I do have a secret to come...
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Hustle Originals
How the Domino’s pizza tracker conquered the business world One cheesy progress update at a time.
22nd Aug 2025
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How the Domino’s pizza tracker conquered the business world

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22nd Aug 2025
One cheesy progress update at a time.
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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...
22nd Aug 2025
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Featured on People & Blogs

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22nd Aug 2025
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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South Park and The Greatest TV Contract Clause Ever Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and...
14th Aug 2025
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South Park and The Greatest TV Contract Clause Ever

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14th Aug 2025
Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and signing a first TV deal with an improbable clause).
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Marketing’s misleading metric Perverse incentives, and the unintended consequences that flow from them, can be found on every...
14th Aug 2025
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Marketing’s misleading metric

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14th Aug 2025
Perverse incentives, and the unintended consequences that flow from them, can be found on every continent, in every time, and in every industry. And marketing is no different. This article argues that a malevolent metric sits at the heart of many marketing discussions and...
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Justin Jackson
A good find
13th Aug 2025
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A good find

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13th Aug 2025
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Working Theorys
Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling. The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.
10th Aug 2025
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Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.

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10th Aug 2025
The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.
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