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Noahpinion
If Trump loses the election, our nation can finally rest Let's not bring back the wacky 2010s.
10 months ago
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Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working Makers say Amazon Karigar has failed to distinguish their crafts from mass-produced items.
10 months ago
Noahpinion
Why America's future could hinge on Elon Musk Iron Man, or Dr. Doom?
10 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs on iPod and DRM Guys – We need to make sure that when Music Match launches their download music store they cannot...
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Guys – We need to make sure that when Music Match launches their download music store they cannot use iPod. Is this going to be an issue?
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The Dorito-fication of Media How the evolution of media created ultra-processed junk food for our mind.
10 months ago
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Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned Creators use euphemisms and emojis to get around what they say are arbitrary moderation...
10 months ago
Noahpinion
Realistically, how much damage could Trump do to the U.S. economy? The biggest risks are all about debt and inflation.
10 months ago
Nothing Human
Meditations on Machinic Desire The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1994 essay Machinic Desire, three of...
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The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1994 essay Machinic Desire, three of the most insight-dense paragraphs I’ve ever encountered:
Steve Blank
Quantum Computing – An Update In March 2022 I wrote a description of the Quantum Technology Ecosystem. I thought this would be a...
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In March 2022 I wrote a description of the Quantum Technology Ecosystem. I thought this would be a good time to check in on the progress of building a quantum computer and explain more of the basics. Just as a reminder, Quantum technologies are used in three very different and...
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India’s electric cab companies can’t find enough cars to put on the road There are only a handful of electric taxi manufacturers in India today, slowing the country’s EV...
10 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Requiem for Raghavan Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming...
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Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."  An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn&
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A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has...
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Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has acquired an ugly reputation for intimidating drivers and passengers.
Noahpinion
A better way to build a downtown It's time to learn a Japanese word: "zakkyo".
10 months ago
Inverted Passion
Getting things done by not trying I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned....
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I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned. It’s an unconventional self-help book disguised as a computer science research exposition (that’s why the publisher is Springer). I strongly recommend reading it. Here is a taste of...
Noahpinion
EVs are just going to win Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
10 months ago
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Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei and Manufacturing Intelligence at Scale PLUS: SpaceX's Starship miracle, Taco Bell's franchise model.
10 months ago
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Meet the mothers in small-town Hungary leading a fight against Chinese EV battery plants Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s goal to turn Hungary into a global EV battery hub is facing...
10 months ago
Dustin Curtis
Blocked A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
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A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
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The most popular payment app in the Philippines has a side bet: online gambling The GCash app is ubiquitous in the Philippines, and is being blamed for rising gambling addiction in...
10 months ago
Noahpinion
A Nobel for the big big questions Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson win a prize for their grand unified theory of development.
10 months ago
Dustin Curtis
Tesla and Storytelling Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no...
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Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these products have been depicted in...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a...
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You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist. First, you never get paid much, but you will get free records from the record company. [There’s] fuckin’ nothin' about you that is
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TikTok wants to turn millions of Americans into paid shopping influencers You only need around 1,000 followers to earn money eating noodles and selling toys on TikTok Shop.
10 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#51) Falling obesity; the red-state boom; U.S. housing supply; men avoiding college; China's economic...
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Falling obesity; the red-state boom; U.S. housing supply; men avoiding college; China's economic goals; implicit taxes on the poor; Garcia interviews Krugman and Cowen interviews Scanlon
Steve Blank
How Saboteurs Threaten Innovation–and What to Do About It “Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet...
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“Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet today?” coffee with Rohan, an ex-student. His three-year-old startup had been slapped with a notice of patent infringement from a Fortune 500 company. “My lawyers said defending this...
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Philippine chipmakers are embracing automation — and leaving low-skilled workers behind Hundreds of workers at the Philippine unit of Nexperia threatened to go on strike over layoff fears,...
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Hundreds of workers at the Philippine unit of Nexperia threatened to go on strike over layoff fears, a sign of growing discontent over automation in the industry.
Noahpinion
The Democrats are a strong party, the Republicans are a weak party It's Boss Tweed vs. Boss Tweet.
11 months ago
Tom Blomfield
What is “founder mode”? We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk...
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We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk about his experience running Airbnb over the last 17 years. He believed that as Airbnb hired more professional managers, he lost a close connection with the details of the end product...
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Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes As Brazilian law clashes with Meta’s policies, illegal vapes flood social media and the streets.
11 months ago
Steve Blank
What Does Product Market Fit Sound Like? This. I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?”...
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I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?” There’s been lots of words written about it, but no actual recordings of the moment. I remembered I had saved this 90 second, 26 year-old audio file because this is when I knew we had...
Noahpinion
Let us pause to appreciate the remarkable U.S. economy It really doesn't get much better than this, folks.
11 months ago
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9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding...
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Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding Off-White and leading menswear at Louis Vuitton.
XO Capital - Field...
Getting Smaller To Get Bigger 💡 We have another fresh round of capital to deploy into 1 business at up to $1.8M purchase price....
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💡 We have another fresh round of capital to deploy into 1 business at up to $1.8M purchase price. Must be b2b SaaS, low customer concentration, 80%+ gross margins, 50k+ MRR. If you have a tip, pass it along! We're underway with xo 2.0. That means,
Noahpinion
Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program! Fun!!
11 months ago
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Xiaohongshu has revolutionized Chinese tourism in Southeast Asia The lifestyle and social media platform, often compared to Instagram, is turning obscure sites into...
11 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
OpenAI Is A Bad Business OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year,...
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OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after
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How Presto became Libya’s most successful tech startup The delivery app now plans to expand to neighboring countries.
11 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🛰️ Starlink Plus
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Virtual tomb-sweeping keeps a Chinese tradition alive As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are...
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As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are helping them pay respects from afar.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#50) Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness;...
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Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness; tariffs; a bad union demand
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the app" I think it's a really big deal that we ship this photos app quickly.
11 months ago
Noahpinion
Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP I've explained it before, and I'll keep explaining it until the world understands.
11 months ago
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Jony Ive, Meta AR, Visa Monopoly and the Legend of Robert Caro PLUS: An incredible tech roast by John Mulaney.
11 months ago
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India shuts down the internet far more than any other country The country had 771 blackouts between 2016 and 2023, and there have been 51 so far this year. We...
11 months ago
Noahpinion
Strategies to secure America's supply chains A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
11 months ago
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China is six months behind the U.S. on AI, the US has to move faster: Div Turakhia The India-born tech investor, entrepreneur and billionaire businessman spoke to Rest of World about...
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The India-born tech investor, entrepreneur and billionaire businessman spoke to Rest of World about the promise of AI technology, why the U.S. needs to move faster to compete with China, and the advantage the UAE has in building AI.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Other Bubble Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic...
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Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up  capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom. In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year, Microsoft'
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Nigeria will become a net exporter of tech talent: Nigerian Minister Dr. Bosun Tijani The tech entrepreneur-turned-bureaucrat spoke to Rest of World about his year in government, his...
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The tech entrepreneur-turned-bureaucrat spoke to Rest of World about his year in government, his administration’s priorities for advancing AI in Nigeria, and the difficult task of choosing between allies.
Noahpinion
America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
11 months ago
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“China’s K-pop moment”: Wukong’s global success sparks government embrace of video games as soft... China is changing its long-critical stance thanks to the smash hit, according to Chinese game...
11 months ago