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In November 2020, SFWA came forward with a stunning accusation: Disney had told the beloved writer Alan Dean Foster (author of the original, bestselling Star Wars novelization) that they would not ever pay him the royalties he was owed.
Manu Cornet's personal website.
Syncing Up, Circling Back, Learnings and Asks, Oh My
The second part of a three part piece on incentives. It turns out that if you've grokked the primary incentives of an industry, you can do one other thing: identify aberrations, and use that as a guide to dig further.
Out of context, you might think they were scouting actors or models, but these are baseball players ("A" is Lloyd Moseby, "B" is Jim Abbott, and "C" is Derek Jeter), ones that were quite good (Lloyd Moseby was arguably only a very good player for perhaps four years, but that makes him extraordinary compared to most…
Have you heard that it is complicated to start a business in Germany?
An arms dealer makes millions on junk fees from National Parks visitors.
In einem konkreten Fall hat die Datenschutzbehörde die Nutzung von Shopify, bzw. der verwendeten Dienste für rechtswidrig erklärt.
Before we begin, I’m not just some crypto FUDster.
A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a journalist at the New York Times, who asked if I felt that film critics were losing touch with the tastes of the broader public.
Have you ever though about building an iOS app? I did, but I now wish that I hadn’t.
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be captured in incredible detail by smartphones and social media. This changes everything.
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Construction is something you probably either love or hate, depending on your commute or profession. Obviously, as a civil engineer, it’s something I think a lot about, and over the past 6 years of reading emails and comments fr
Are we witnessing a major VC pullback? Is it temporary? What does that mean for startups? Certainly the topic du jour in startup circles. Here’s what I’m seeing
I spent 20 years slaving away at companies doing development, maintenance, troubleshooting, architecture, management, and whatever else needed doing. For all those years I was a permanent hire, working on technology from within.
When Steve Jobs announced the transition from PowerPC to Intel processors in 2005, he revealed something that, in hindsight, seemed obvious to everyone who didn’t anticipate the switch: There are two major challenges in this transition. The first one is making Mac OS X sing on Intel processors. Now,
Fake news. Misinformation. Mental health crises. Election meddling. Extremism. Partisanship. Eating Disorders. Body Dysmorphia. Vulnerability porn.
Bootstrapped operators who take their hiring seriously all eventually end up designing a system with the same fundamental approach. Here's how you can do it too.
If you look at a “Web3” offering and just think of it as a pump-and-dump onto retail investors, everything will make much more sense.
Meta deserves a bit of a discount off of its recent highs, but a number of myths about its business have caused the market to over-react.
Building software looks a lot like building a house, but selling the two couldn't be more different.
A $750,000 a month advertiser has left Twitter. One of hundreds. But in her post she explained the bases for the decision vis-a-vis her advertising investment in a neutral, non-ideological way. Peo…
Because your lifeblood, Revenue and Funding, are drying up
