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Technical Copywriting:What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing
Notes on building, technology, health, and living deliberately by Ayush Kumar.
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Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market
I wasn’t really paying attention, so maybe I’m the only one that hadn’t noticed, but Tesla’s market cap as of December 9th 2020 is a touch over 616 billion US dollars. That makes it kind of a big deal. In fact, it accounts for a full third of the global automaker market cap:
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The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system
Published December 2, 2020 Since autumn of 2019, I’ve been bearish on the dollar, meaning I have a longish-term outlook towards a weaker dollar. This view began forming when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in summer 2019, and then the view solidified with a catalyst after an overnight repo rate spike in…
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Unlimited is like a Ponzi Scheme
You shouldn’t be surprised when unlimited ends, because unlimited is more often than not an unsustainable Ponzi Scheme.
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I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel
Alaa Abdulridha — Engineering Director at SerpApi & Cybersecurity Researcher. Expert in web application penetration testing, reverse engineering, bug bounty programs, and secure code development. Passionate about discovering vulnerabilities, building scalable systems, and teaching practical cybersecurity techniques.
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Buy Don't Build
This is my new hugo site
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Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
Amazon owns almost 110M IPV4 addresses. At the lower end of the market price this is over $2B.
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The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
Silicon Valley couldn't have designed a better way to further radicalize Trump voters
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Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
Explains through a model of selling coconuts while value added taxes distort the economy less than sales taxes.
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How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years
Here's the tell-all behind the scenes story of how Cloakist got to $9.99 MRR after just 7 years
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Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max
“Oh, that’s a nice button. It has a good click.” “Is it a $550 click?” I asked. He clicked it a few more times. “It’s not *not* a $550 click.”
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Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week
Tips on running successful Black Friday sales for creators and Indie Hackers
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Common Problems in Financial Services Reconciliation
Common problems in financial recon, for fintechs, particularly those building deposit products and managing their own ledger.
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Pandemic Villains: Robinhood
Have a pair of gangly Stanford grads built the perfect mousetrap?
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Death of an open-source business model
Eulogy for a simpler time
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Games people play with cash flow
One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.
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Little Tasks, Little Trust
Why Delegating Responsibilities Beats Micromanagement
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An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft
Salesforce-Slack and Penguin-Simon & Schuster both show a failure to enforce antitrust laws creates monopolies.
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Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship
In this final post of a three-part series, we discuss how Apple's approach to content is an anticompetitive slippery slope.
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Thought Leaders and Chicken Sexers
From the moment I started paying attention to the tech industry, Paul Graham was there. My first job out of college was in SoMa, around the corner from the Justin.tv offices, and his essays were just floating around in the ether, impossible to ignore. His popularization of Lisp was a small part of why I tried Clojure…
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Why Programming Is Hard to Fundamentally Improve (2017)
My thoughts on why programming hasn’t changed that much and where the next generation of improvements will come
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Lessons for Early Stage Founders
In Segment’s early days, we hit countless problems as a founding team. And at the time, I thought those problems were unique to our own special snowflake of a founding journey. I chalked it up to us being new grads and first-time founders.
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How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant
Within two emails, a merchant went from blatant dismissal to full payment, and I owe it to The Organized Professional Method.
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Why a land-value tax is inevitable
A decade after the late 2000s recession, much of the world is now back at the top of the economic cycle, and critically near the next…
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