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What's one way to maximize your startup's chance of success? Be a big TAM founder working on a smaller TAM startup.
a year ago

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Untitled Future, 1

a short story serial

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Writing Wrapped

I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).

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How a Chinese AI lab spun out of a hedge fund shook up the entire tech industry.

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Andrew Rose, part 2: solving coordination

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6 hours ago 2 votes
Patrick Collison interview + at least five interesting things (#58)

Patrick interviews me; the energy transition; Americans die young; family and fertility; educating the poor; AI and growth

20 hours ago 2 votes
Non-Western founders say DeepSeek is proof that innovation need not cost billions of dollars

The Chinese app has just “blown the roof off” and “shifted the power dynamics.”

3 days ago 3 votes
Deep Impact

Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos. This won’t be a lengthy, technical write-up — although there will be some inevitable technical complexities,

4 days ago 6 votes