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The FANG Playbook – Kickstart your startup using an existing network [2016](stratechery.com)
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Also, you need a lot of rep to get the right to use the downvote button, which also removes a large chunk of the would-be-downvoters
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I disagree. What Reddit brings to the table is: 1. Easy sharing: Subreddits, which are an easy location to share interesting information about a common topic. Creating your own website is an order of magnitude harder, especially if you wa
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It's true. I've painted every bike shed on Mars, but none of the ones on Earth
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Five police officers stopped 3000 hide-and-seekers In a previous life they used to be Spartans
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Related: Shopify and the power of platforms https://stratechery.com/2019/shopify-and-the-power-of-platfo...
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@patio11 is a huge fans of their business model: "I think this and remote work are the best bull case for WeWork. In 2025, every Fortune 500 company will have 10k+ remote workers, and every purchasing department will approve a reimburs
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WeWork is the Starbucks of corporate offices (@patio11)(twitter.com)
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by ZainRiz 7y ago
Are you saying my high school economics professor taught me something without verifying it's authenticity and just relying on social proof? mild_shock.jpg <seriously>that was a good reminder though to revisit my cached belief, th
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The article presented and dismissed a valid alternative in the same breath: "average net monthly payroll gains have now slowed [and] aggregate hours worked for production and non-supervisory workers are now contracting..., something th
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Related note: This is a variation of a winning sales technique taught by Jay Abraham [1]: Reverse the risk to get a competitive edge People are unwilling to take on risk. Do what you can to reduce that risk (even if it means taking more of
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There are two different mental models I find really useful when thinking about electricity. The second one will answer your question more directly, but the first one helps set the stage better. Mental Model #1 (useful for most work with el
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Google 2018 Founders’ Letter(abc.xyz)
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+1 to that (and I don't live in California either) It seems more like the proponents of cheap housing want to encourage lots of people to move into the city (which is how the existing supply becomes insufficient), at the expense of the
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How to Run a Meeting (1976)(hbr.org)
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Basically. The one who controls the servers is King. The code needed to run those servers is the secret sauce and a huge competitive advantage, but with open source software you're giving away the secret sauce and the business victory
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It's not that cryptocurrency is inherently a scam, but people have found no good use case for it yet (other than scamming people). It seems like that for any problem that you could conceivably use a cryptocurrency to fix, we can easily
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The word for "when an idea that seems obvious in retrospect" is "hindsight bias" That's generally not a useful bias to base beliefs off of :)
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The sanctions should include pencils too, since they can be used to do math which can be used to figure out nuclear equations, thus violating the nuclear sanctions
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Would you expect China to arrest you on Chinese soil if you did something in the US that was illegal in China? If China creates a law that says "no one in the world may drive faster than 40 mph" and you, an American citizen, fly t
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Did they release a model to go with this (so that the average dev can actually use this in their app) or is this just a tool for researchers?
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Link: https://hbr.org/1976/03/how-to-run-a-meeting
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I wouldn't say it comes naturally. It comes from noticing points of confusion in the world and making an effort to ask the big Why? question. And then refining your question to arrive at a different question, which may be a better ques
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I don't think these are your potatoes... "Talk about a ‘superload’! Check out what just crawled along Washington highways" http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/talk-about-a-superl...
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"A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas" It's a very insightful read on how you can see the world differently by simply asking questions (even if you never get an answer) https:/&#x2
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Isn't that just toilet paper? (long ass-papers)
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Now can we redefine 1 pound to equal 1 kg? (the opposite of https://xkcd.com/2073 )
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Curiosity and Procrastination in Reinforcement Learning(ai.googleblog.com)
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[Google AI Blog] Curiosity and Procrastination in Reinforcement Learning(ai.googleblog.com)
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That advice applies no matter which brokerage you're going to

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