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Internal Tech Emails
"Thoughts on OpenAI" To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
a year ago
Noahpinion
America's semiconductor policy is missing a key piece A guest post by Steven Glinert.
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about AGI How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the experts agree only...
a year ago
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a year ago
How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the experts agree only that they have no idea?
SatPost by Trung...
YouTube: The Learning Machine Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of sports footage on the platform helps to explain why.
Working Theorys
What I Talk About When I Talk About Reading Optimize your life for good conversations.
a year ago
Noahpinion
The positive case for Joe Biden It's not just about being anti-Trump.
a year ago
AVC
I’ve Moved Onchain Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2...
a year ago
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Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2 services anymore. So I am starting a series called “I’ve Moved Onchain” to explain this journey to everyone and today’s opening post is about blogging, naturally. I’ve blogged at...
Rest of World -...
WhatsApp gives India an ultimatum on encryption Tracing the origins of messages is more complicated than it sounds.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Who's afraid of East Asian management culture? TSMC's difficulties in Arizona aren't due to the mystical superiority of Confucian values.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is...
a year ago
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With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is convincing people to have their irises scanned at Worldcoin Orb centers.
Working Theorys
Writer-Builders Theory #39 | The archetype of new kind of renaissance man
a year ago
Steve Blank
The Secret History of Polaroid CEO Edwin Land – part 1 The connections between the world of national security and commercial companies still has surprises....
a year ago
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a year ago
The connections between the world of national security and commercial companies still has surprises. December 1976 – Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military space port on the coast of California As a Titan IIID rocket blasted off, it carried a spacecraft on top that would change...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#35) Chinese defense spending, activists vs. normies, corporate diversity, phones in schools,
a year ago
Blog posts of...
🇪🇺 Dear Europe, please wake up – eu/acc Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe...
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Managing Up Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making technology products manifestly worse, this transformation was only possible thanks to...
Essays - Benedict...
AI and problems of scale Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now become practical to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now become practical to automate at a massive scale. Sometimes a change in scale is a change in principle.
Rest of World -...
African universities are failing to prepare tech graduates for jobs in AI Dozens of new AI training startups are filling the gap, offering online courses, hackathons, and job...
a year ago
Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX...
a year ago
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a year ago
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
Noahpinion
Biden is right that we need to raise taxes But his plan needs a lot of work.
a year ago
Articles
Track revenue, not traffic
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
The LEGO Star Wars Inception LEGO and Star Wars created a $1B+ a year toy monster by combining two iconic brands that appeal to...
a year ago
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a year ago
LEGO and Star Wars created a $1B+ a year toy monster by combining two iconic brands that appeal to both children and adults.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
In Response To Google Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable....
a year ago
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a year ago
Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable. Here is my response. (1) On the March 2019 core update claim in the piece: This is baseless speculation. The March 2019 core update was designed to improve the quality of our search
Rest of World -...
The TikTok ban is bigger than just ByteDance The U.S. clampdown on Chinese-owned companies won't end here.
a year ago
Noahpinion
What America needs to do now on national security The Ukraine-and-TikTok bill is a good start. Here are five more things we need to work on.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving...
a year ago
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Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving them access to better wages, benefits, and profit participation.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Man Who Killed Google Search Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That...
a year ago
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Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for...
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2023 Impact Report The global reach and impact of our journalism in 2023
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 It’s an easy trap to start making excuses when sales velocity is slow. It’s almost always a...
a year ago
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#1 💡 It’s an easy trap to start making excuses when sales velocity is slow. It’s almost always a symptom of a fundamental issue, not an unchangeable feature of the system. The one things missing from the growth model described here is prompts. In Brian Fogg’s model: B = MAP,...
Rest of World -...
Why African tech companies are ditching Google for a small Indian competitor Zoho has positioned itself as a cheaper alternative to Google and Microsoft, attracting the...
a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#34) Woke capital, university rigidity, social media toxicity, SUVs and pedestrians, and crime and...
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name" I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it...
a year ago
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a year ago
I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it works is still less than 50%.
Working Theorys
3 Hours or Nothing Musing #14 | The merits of being binary with your time
a year ago
Noahpinion
How Latin America started to beat inequality It can be done.
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Roger Ebert, MKBHD and the Job of a Critic The best critics (or reviewers) educate, entertain and help us spend our time better.
a year ago
Working Theorys
How to Go Direct Owning your own message, with intermediaries
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Looking for AI use-cases We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful...
a year ago
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We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thousands of new companies...
Noahpinion
Five things to be optimistic about in America today Enough doom and gloom, let's allow ourselves a moment of happiness.
a year ago
Data Boutique
The Web Data Landscape Map: Visualizing The Ecosystem Mapping actors and solutions
a year ago
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The regional flavors of labor-on-demand A new report digs into the social dynamics of gig work.
a year ago
Working Theorys
The Taste Discount Everything is easier when tastes align.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
How RRR’s success brought a wave of Telugu-language movies to Netflix Netflix in the U.S. now has more content in Telugu than in German, Russian, or any dialect of...
a year ago
Steve Blank
Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a potential customer is, “We’re excited. When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be the beginning of a profitable customer relationship or a disappointing sinkhole of...
Rest of World -...
How we’re tracking AI incidents around global elections Rest of World is collecting examples of AI being used for campaigning, misinformation, and memes in...
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
Working With Founders Who Have Conviction and Taste Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have...
a year ago
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Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have powerpoints. It’s easy to flip a few quick slides into a chunk of cash and cackle off into the mountains.
Noahpinion
Why so many of us were wrong about missile defense Writing about military spending is difficult.
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
They're Looting The Internet Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period....
Working Theorys
Some Thoughts on Airchat For people in a tiny slice of the world and internet, there’s no greater canon event than the...
a year ago
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For people in a tiny slice of the world and internet, there’s no greater canon event than the prospect of a new social app taking off. Sometimes there are multi-year droughts. In a plentiful year, there are one or two prospects that excite us. (And I wrote a stream of...
Rest of World -...
The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard...
a year ago
Noahpinion
Sizing up the New Axis A timely repost.
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Why I love Bluey (and hate Cocomelon) These are the two most-streamed children's shows. And Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps...
a year ago
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These are the two most-streamed children's shows. And Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps Cocomelon's engagement-hacking approach.