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David Shayer worked at Apple for 14 years, and he has a wild experience to share. Apple has a unique culture, and David will give us an insider view of what it was like for him at Apple during the 2000s, roughly between 2001 to 2015 when Apple transformed into the powerhouse that it is today. David worked as a…
Build it and they will come! In the 1989 classic: Field of Dreams an Iowa farmer has a vision to bulldoze a portion of his corn crop in…
Prediction markets are fun, at least if you're making money.
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said, it’s because compensation isn’t merely…
IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials. IRS illegal activities guidance helps taxpayers determine how to report their income.
We're shifting from rapid development and iteration of our algorithms to a slower and more hand-crafted approach.
Write better headlines with tactics from our analysis of 100 million headlines. Discover the best headline trigrams for Facebook, Twitter & more.
When I was in college I took two intro economics courses: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macro was full of theories like “low unemployment causes inflation” that never quite stood u…
One thing is for sure: tech companies are willing to fill the “live audio seats” as soon as possible.
Analyzing a national cancer database, researchers find a bump in diagnoses at 65, suggesting that many wait for Medicare to kick in before they seek care.
We thought the deck we used for our seed round could be helpful to some companies, especially those that are open source or developer tools.
In The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, Charlie Munger explains why we behave the way we do. This is a transcript of the fully updated talk.
Peeling back the curtain of running a viral meme website for 5 days. More details than you could ever hope for.
Over the past few years, Apple seems increasingly willing to cooperate with authoritarian governments, uninterested in protecting its own users, and unwillin...
Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning...
Learn how Valisure’s work in pharmaceutical quality and transparency was recognized in the U.S. Senate Aging Committee report, highlighting their collaboration with the Department of Defense and commitment to innovation.
Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false information to the press.
Jack MacDonald was a frugal attorney who wanted to build a big net worth to give it to charity thanks to his hobby of investing in the stock market.
I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today. The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration. This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will
Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format.
We have raised money to enable the millions of web programmers out there to maximally leverage their craft.
One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes. Bitcoin at first was “weird internet money” and then it was “a protocol” and then it was “digital gold”. Ethereum is “ICOs”, or maybe “DeFi”, or maybe “Web3”, or maybe all three, or maybe something...
I’m working on a list of corporate jargon alternatives. There are already plenty of resources telling you what you should be saying instead, such as “soon” for “ASAP” or “waiting” for “holding pattern” and the like. But they usually lack that flair of ostentation we have come to be accustomed to. Therefore, I had the…
