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Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too
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“Me-too” products are fine
This is a guest post from Alex Yumashev. Alex is a founder of Jitbit – a UK-based self-funded startup with a suite of customer support oriented products. You can find his blog at blog.jitbit.com and meet him at the Business of Software 2012 this October. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Does this sound…
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IBM to Acquire Cloudant
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
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Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects
In honor of the 4th year of our Open Source Pledge, we’re excited to continue driving this important conversation. See what we’ve accomplished in 2024 here.
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Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable (2005)
Project plans that are reviewed, approved, and then filed away are useless, especially when these are unaccompanied by ongoing updates. Worst yet, when such plans are developed by a lone expert, the process of creating the plan fails to accomplish the true value of the planning process--to engage stakeholders in…
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Agents of Chaos
Natalie Shapira 1 Chris Wendler 1 Avery Yen 1 Gabriele Sarti 1 Koyena Pal 1 Olivia Floody 2 Adam Belfki 1 Alex Loftus 1 Aditya Ratan Jannali 2 Nikhil Prakash 1 Jasmine Cui 2 Giordano Rogers 1 Jannik Brinkmann 1 Can Rager 2 Amir Zur 3 Michael Ripa 1 Aruna Sankaranarayanan 8 David Atkinson 1 Rohit Gandikota 1 Jaden…
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Rich Hickey is retiring from Nubank
Tech team thanks Rich Hickey for leadership as he retires from his position at Nu.
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Doubling Down on Open Source
Open Sourcing all Product Features in Langfuse under the MIT license
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Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill
The proposed infrastructure bill will place restrictions on investment options. Act now to protect your self-directed IRA.
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Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles
We're building a $3M missile for $300k.
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YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders
Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved — and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology. As a result, we’re piloting a program called “Open Office Hours”. We are reaching out to…
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American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
A review of "Amtrak, America's Railroad"
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How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
Office Hours question asked by by Ian H. on May 1, 2026 Q: Memory prices could move from 15% to 40% of the BOM of a device. This seems incredible. So how can Apple deal with this? This has been on …
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The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into discussions of AI. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book about why I'm sick of writing about AI⹋, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in 2026.
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Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?
Jeffrey Lee Funk and Gary Smith have a list of startups with $3 bllion or more in cumulative losses:
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Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State
Greenpeace Nordic and Natur og Ungdom (Young Friends of the Earth Norway) secured a historic win against the Norwegian State
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Apple, FedEx and the cookie apocalypse
As cookie-based ads go away, does the targeting move from the cloud to the client, or from the reader to the content? Does this make the strong stronger? Or does the money go to Fedex instead?
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Why we are leaving Dropbox
I have been using Dropbox almost since its incubation back in 2007, ultimately ending up using 320+ GB for business and 375+ GB of personal…
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Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years
Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years, and for the first time in the U.S. we have simultaneous bubbles across all major asset classes.
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Apple Won a Battle to Lose the War
Apple v. Epic indeed…
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Big tech has disrupted the social contract
I rented a car from Turo this weekend and it might as well have exploded...
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The Sudan crisis and the Sahel gold rush
Sudan is a pivotal link in the increasingly fragile and violent geopolitics of both the Sahel and the Red Sea/Horn of Africa regions.
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Google+ names policy discriminates against American Native Indians
I find it absurd that Google+ doesn't recognize certain names. The latest outrage was when they rejected Elaine Yellow Horse . It was only a...