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Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket
Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket for Mega-Constellation Deployment
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Build a Business, Not an Audience
If you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure you’ve seen the following pattern over and over again:
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Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now Foundation (2008-17)
will go to Girls Incorporated of Omaha if Buffett wins, or Friends of Absolute Return for Kids, Inc if Protege Partners, LLC wins.
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NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer fundamentally better economics for creators by removing rent-seeking, enabling granular pricing, and reducing customer acquisition costs.
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Are You Trading or Gambling?
How to not be a degenerate trader
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A solo journey to $100k in sales
Follow our journey and learn from our work.
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The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years
There's a lot to consider when charting the rise and fall of developer salaries over the years. Let's dive in!
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Chicago Faces 135% Incr in Carjackings So Legislator Seeks to Ban GTA
My home city of Chicago continues to reel from soaring crime rates. Among the categories of increasing crime is a 135% spike in carjackings. One would think that the legislators would be focused o…
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Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
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Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic
During the pandemic, a dangerous business has prospered: invading students’ privacy with proctoring software and apps. In the last year, we’ve seen universities compel students to download apps that collect their face images, driver’s license data, and network information. Students who want to move...
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Is Google’s AI research about to implode?
What does Timnit Gebru’s firing and the recent papers coming out of Google tell us about the state of research at the world’s biggest AI…
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Abundant Capital
The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies are scarce. For most of the history of the industry, this has been true. I remember sitting at...
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TikTok and the network effects of creativity
TikTok’s Warp Scan filter is a bizarre concept for a filter in and of itself, but the myriad of ways TikTok users put it to use just shows what happens when you throw random tools to the masses and allow for emergent creativity. It only takes a handful of innovators to unleash a meme tsunami.
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Start with a Niche
The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.
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TransferWise changes name to Wise
Today, we’re changing our name from TransferWise to Wise. Our customers now need us for more than money transfers. Sending, spending, and receiving money...
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Reddit: One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued
One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued
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Modern software controls dependencies because it helps software authors
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus
Yet another calm weekend after months of lockdowns and I sit down to enjoy a book. After turning a couple of pages, I'm no longer able to keep going. In-between, I've managed to look at my phone four times and I've had my thoughts wander away. Why does something so simple feel suddenly so difficult?
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I paid for Spotify playlist placements so you don’t have to
As part of my ongoing mission to throw money into thin air I decided to promote some of Corserine’s songs on Spotify. Objectives: increase monthly streams on my Spotify artist page so I can g…
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The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem
History is bound to repeat itself and it has almost every year
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California State Legislator Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics
Today, California State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 519 to decriminalize certain psychedelics in the interest of public health and safety and to address some harms of the War on Drugs. The bill would decriminalize MDMA, LSD, DMT, psilocybin, psilocyn, ibogaine, and mescaline and…
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