3151
The Relentless Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is retiring, and will go down as one of the great CEO’s in tech history, in part because of how he transformed Amazon into a tech company in every respect.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,981 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
Any year
3152
My product is my garden
I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investor...
3153
Product Manager vs. Product Marketing Manager vs. Product Owner
Product Owner is a role you play on a Scrum team. Product Manager is the job. — Melissa Perri.
3154
3155
3156
3157
3158
3159
Suck It, Wall Street
In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker
3160
Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations
I've worked in open source my entire career1. To say that I'm worried about the impact recent events have on the open source ecosystem would be an understatement. In the past couple months: Red Hat effectively killed CentOS Elastic effectively killed Elasticsearch People may rightfully refute these statements, but the…
3161
3162
Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content
Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. The latest target: live content
3163
3164
3165
The high price of mistrust
When we can’t trust each other, nothing works. As we participate in our communities less and less, we find it harder to feel other people are trustworthy. But if we can bring back a sense of trust in the people around us, the rewards are incredible.
3166
Making is show business now (2020)
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: …
3167
Escaping the Roadmap Trap
Stop chasing your feature development plan and start crafting strategic product roadmaps
3168
Proof of X
I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about different proof-of-work mechanisms. When I say proof-of-work, I’m not talking about consensus algorithms like the ones that some crypto currencies use. I’m talking about social networks.
3169
Make Boring Plans
You’re probably familiar with the concept of Choose Boring Technology. If you’re not, I’ll wait for you to read the excellent blog post by…
3170
The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
Alex Danco's Newsletter, Season 3, Episode 2
3171
How Homogeneous Is Japan?
It depends on what you mean by homogeneity.
3172
No one knows how much the government can borrow
Perhaps macroeconomists should think about studying this interesting question.
3173
Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
Recent events have made me reflect on a few things in my life I was already thinking about for a while. Also, responses on social media have made me realize that people have strange expectations from me, and what my role in the Bitcoin Core project is.
3174
Management by metrics leads us astray
Let’s say my goal this year is to get to 10k monthly recurring revenue (MRR).
3175
The Left-NIMBY Canon
Standing athwart urban history, yelling Stop
3176
The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct.
3177
Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines
Sections of this post were co-authored by Cornelia Scheitz. Noah Leidinger created a German translation. Piotr Kwapin created a Polish translation. Last updated on February 7, 2021. Bert Hubert’s excellent and widely shared article about Reverse Engineering the source code of the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine is…
3178
Storming Reddit's Moat
A Guide to Reddit, Its Key Competitive Advantages, and How to Unbundle It
3179
3180
Intel Problems
Intel is in much more danger than its profits suggest; the problems are a long time in the making, and the solution is to split up the company.