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Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in November 2025(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
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Key take-aways "Regardless of technological innovations, the raw materials in question [wood, coal, oil] have never yet been obsolete. Exceptions to this rule are exceedingly rare. Whale oil offers a unique example of the disappearance
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Q&A wiht Jean-Baptiste Fressoz on "The myth of energy transition"(news.cnrs.fr)
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October 2025 roundup lists online events for bootstrappers including Bootstrappers Breakfast and Lean Culture. There are also in-person Bootstrapper Breakfast meetings in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. These events are for “e
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Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in October 2025(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
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Conclusion: Gall's Law: Successful complex systems evolve from successful simple systems. "As in the years after the Second World War, the temptation will be to use this vast increase in computational power and intelligence to ‘so
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Magical Systems Thinking(worksinprogress.co)
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September 2025 roundup lists online events for bootstrappers including Bootstrappers Breakfast and Lean Culture. There are also in-person Bootstrapper Breakfast meetings in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. These events are for
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Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in September 2025(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
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Key graf: "The problem facing the U.S. is not simply the short-term: the real problems will arise in the 2030s and beyond. Semiconductor manufacturing decision-making does not require nimbleness; it requires gravity and the knowledge t
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Key points We had the DeepSeek Moment because of a confluence of factors misled people: 1. The ‘six million dollar model’ narrative gave a false impression on cost. 2. They offered a good clean app with visible chain of thought, it went vir
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GPT-5: The Reverse DeepSeek Moment(thezvi.substack.com)
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key graf: Bots are docs: LLMs can’t keep secrets, no matter how well prompted, we need to store memories in a secure, separated way. Fortunately, we already have a good mechanism for this kind of semi-shared secret: documents. Asking an age
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Do you own your memories? You should(sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com)
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Is there a mailing list I can sign up for to be notified. The check back soon protocol reminds me of my youth.
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Thanks for pointing this out. I think this is an insightful analogy. We will likely manage generated code in the same way we manage large cloud computing complexes. This probably does not apply to legacy code that has been in use for severa
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The paid tax preparer also signs the return and is still "in the loop" from a liability perspective. See for example https://www.irs.gov/payments/tax-preparer-penalties
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Randy Bias also claims authorship https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of... this tweet by Tim Bell seems to indicate shared credit with Bill Baker and Randy Bias https://x.com&#x2F
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Roundup lists online events for bootstrappers including Bootstrappers Breakfast and Lean Culture. There are also in-person Bootstrapper Breakfast meetings in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. These events are for “entrepreneurs
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Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in August 2025(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
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In his letter to his friend Guy Hickok Hemingway described an out-of-body or near-death experience triggered by the close explosion of a mortar shell that killed a soldier next to him: "There was one of those big noises you sometimes h
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Key points 1. Treat your spouse as an investor and board member from the beginning. You will need their advice and support. They don’t have to join you full-time in your startup–they are unlikely to be as entrepreneurial as you are. But a d
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Treat Your Spouse as an Investor(skmurphy.com)
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Key graf: "The Bay Area is getting old fast, and it’s accelerating. Though aging is a global trend, the San Francisco metro area — which includes San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Marin counties — is already the third
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SF Bay Area Aging Demographics(sfchronicle.com)
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Matthew McConaughey mines 35 years of his personal journal entries to offer a playbook for entrepreneurs in "Greenlights." His opening line is, "This is not a traditional memoir." He tells stories from his life and share
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"Greenlights" offers a playbook for entrepreneurs in(skmurphy.com)
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The sources I was familiar with on this list are of uniformly high quality. I am going to check out the res. Thanks for sharing!
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This is a review of the Reuters Institute 2025 Digital News Report that highlights some of its most striking findings. Additional comments on social media, misinformation, and politics. Full Reuters report at https://reutersinst
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The Decline of Legacy Media, Rise of Vodcasters, and X's Staying Power(conspicuouscognition.com)
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