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Given these realities, I find the furthest extreme of the free and open source philosophy not only unethical in its own right in that it incentivizes wide-scale consumption over production and thus impoverishes the software world, but divorced from reality in that it misunderstands the economic forces responsible for the production of software (and... See more
Ryan Fleury • Software Kingdoms
Unconventional for a company of Rippling’s size, Parker has no executive assistant. This means you can’t simply slide onto his calendar. The result is that he spends far less of his time in meetings, and far more on product, than the average founder. A compound product requires undivided attention.
John Luttig • Rippling and the Return of Ambition
In traditional journalism, there are strong incentives to act maliciously. Journalists are incentivized to optimize for views and clicks. The answer is not to reform the industry. We can change media through radical decentralization. Everyone becomes a journalist. Each person writes about their local issues or areas of expertise
Tim Ferriss • #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
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Frank Slootman • TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story
Covid-19 has mobilized a trillion-dollar reallocation of capital from commercial to residential real estate.
Scott Galloway • 2021 Predictions & Person of the Year | No Mercy / No Malice
The only attempt we can recall by a general trade publisher to eliminate returns was by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in the early 1980s. They introduced a new discount schedule that gave booksellers much higher discounts than were normal in the trade but without the right of return. The reception by booksellers to the attempt was so chilly that it was
... See moreMike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The halo effect also works in reverse, as the press points out the shortcomings in poor-performing companies. The press’s tendency to focus on extreme performance is so predictable that it has become a reliable counter-indicator.