Founder Mode
[Paul Graham]"In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant...
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Threads is trading trust for growth
Yesterday the Internet Archive lost its appeal in the digital lending case it’s been fighting for the last few years.In March 2020, the Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, launched a...
View ArticleThe 19th wanted to ‘normalize’ women in power. In 2024, it’s dreaming bigger.
[Elahe Izadi at The Washington Post]I adore The 19th. It's making big moves, and that's good news for everyone."What [Emily] Ramshaw and fellow co-founder Amanda Zamora started in January 2020 — a...
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A conversation with myself about immigration
What is your ideal place to live?I grew up in Oxford, England, which has radically colored my view of what a home can look like. It’s hardly a city at all — one girlfriend derisively called it “a...
View ArticleFaster Filing With Tree View: A Step Forward for Large Writing Projects
[iA]"In a text editor, chapters are files. Organizing your files is work, but in a large text body it’s essential work. Your book or thesis will grow from it and get stronger as you clarify the...
View ArticleOne Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital
[Hunter Walk]"I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. There were no ground rules other than to specify that...
View ArticleGoing open-source as a VC-backed company
[Lucas da Costa at Briefer]"Some people call our strategy "open-core" and that's technically right. Still, I'd rather say that we have two pieces of software: one that is open-source and another that...
View ArticleBig tech is painting itself as journalism’s savior. We should tread carefully.
[Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos at NiemanLab]"To survive, journalism must continue to embrace technology. But doing so should never cost newsrooms their independence. News organizations should...
View ArticleHow Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Walz is a masterpiece of...
[David Allen Green at The Law and Policy Blog]"In essence: this endorsement is a masterpiece of practical written advocacy, and many law schools would do well to put it before their students."This is...
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Obviously I'm voting for Harris
It shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that I plan to vote for Kamala Harris. Just consider the alternative: who he is, what he stands for, what the world might look like if he gains another four-year...
View ArticleReconsidering my car
I have an electric car. All in, between car payments and insurance, but exclusive of the money it costs to actually charge it, I spend around $800-850 a month. That’s a ton of money!For all that cash,...
View ArticleApple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type
[Matt Burgess at Wired]"Today, a group of six computer scientists are revealing a new attack against Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset where exposed eye-tracking data allowed them to decipher...
View ArticleOpen Call: Join the Open Social Incubator | Media Economies Design Lab
[Media Economies Design Lab at University of Colorado Boulder]"The Media Economies Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder is launching a 5-month process of mentorship and peer-to-peer...
View ArticleHOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION (leaked PDF)
[Simon Willison]"Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos, this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company is a compelling read."It really is fascinating....
View ArticleMozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
[Sarah Perez at TechCrunch]"Mozilla is exiting the fediverse. Though the concept of the open social web, also known as the fediverse, has been picking up momentum ever since Meta last year introduced...
View ArticleCandi Miller Died Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban
[Kavitha Surana at ProPublica]"When the mother of three realized she had unintentionally gotten pregnant in the fall of 2022, Georgia’s new abortion ban gave her no choice. Although it made exceptions...
View ArticleWordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking
[Matt Mullenweg]"Those of us who are makers, who create the source, need to be wary of those who would take our creations and squeeze out the juice. They’re grifters who will hop onto the next fad,...
View ArticleResponding to work emails after hours contributes to burnout, hostility
[Myoung-Gi Chon in The Conversation]"We found a disturbing link between work-related communication outside of regular hours and increased employee burnout. Answering emails after hours was linked to...
View ArticleProject Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has...
[Jason Koebler at 404 Media]"The creator of an open source project that scraped the internet to determine the ever-changing popularity of different words in human language usage says that they are...
View ArticleFTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have...
[Federal Trade Commission]"A new Federal Trade Commission staff report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services shows they engaged in vast...
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