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How Singapore's government-run dating service works
Here are the 30+ questions in the matchmaking tool that Singapore is deploying on government workers.
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AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
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Norway should buy OpenAI
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
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Apple's Blue Ocean
I first read about the “ blue ocean ” strategy in a story (probably in Edge magazine ) about the Nintendo Wii . While its competitors were fighting for supremacy in the game-console market by producing ever-more-powerful hardware capable of high-definition visuals, Nintendo chose not to join this fight. The pursuit of…
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Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps
The landscape of OpenStreetMap-based mobile apps
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Impossible food sues to cancel earlier trademark owners
A multi billion dollar processed foods company called "Impossible Foods" is suing IMPOSSIBLE ® and seeking to cancel our federally registered trademarks. Here's our response.
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The rise of industrial software
> _**Industrial**_ > > _adj. (sense 3a)_ > > Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp.
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So you're a manager now
Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on.
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J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange
In October, OpenAI secured a 4 billion dollar revolving credit facility from J.P. Morgan and several other banks. I was surprised when I heard this because OpenAI is a young company with no earnings. Shouldn't all their capital come from investors? Let's run some numbers.
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Payment systems while working at a pizza place
Placing an order and capturing a payment are really different actions. I also learned a lot in a few days.
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Losing Money
I remember back in the mid 90s, I used to say with some pride that I had not lost money on any of my VC investments. Then one day, someone told me “then you are not taking enough risk.” I ended that streak of not losing money on VC investments in the late 90s in […]
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Buying a single character domain – and 3 character FQDN – for £15
Short domains are useful for security testing. If you only have a limited number of characters, you need to be able to reference code on a remote server in as few characters as possible. A few years ago, I tried to find a Minimum Viable XSS. The conclusion that I (and others) came to is that 20 characters is the bare…
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Bots won't replace apps, only better apps will replace apps
Why conversational UI fails in practice and what the West can really learn from Asian messaging apps.
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20 years on AWS and never not my job
While I created my AWS account because I was interested in Amazon S3, that was not in fact immediately available to me: In the early days of AWS, you had to specifically ask for each new service to be enabled for your account. My new AWS account did come with two services enabled by default, though — Amazon Simple…
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The Dollar Is Dead
When belief dies, fiat dies with it.
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Climbing the Wealth Ladder
On the 6 levels of wealth and why affluence increases in steps.
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Wage Stagnation
[Epistemic status: I am basing this on widely-accepted published research, but I can’t guarantee I’ve understood the research right or managed to emphasize/believe the right people. Som…
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1k True Fans (2008)
This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →
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Don't make me talk to your chatbot
It's fine that people talk to chatbots, but they shouldn't expect me to listen to theirs.
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A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD + Patents license
A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD+Patents license. Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, nor is this legal advice.
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The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis
"Humans. Here they are. Bottleneck, bottleneck. Hi, good to see you. And some of you are terrified. You're going to be even bigger bottlenecks." - Tyler Cowen
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Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer
My name is Molson Hart. I’m the CEO of a consumer products company I founded 10 years ago, called Viahart. We design and distribute toys…
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Using coding skills to make passive income
A decade of firsthand advice on going from an employed software developer to successful indie hacker running your own business(es).