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The Prosperous Software Consultant (2018)
Are you curious about breaking into software consulting? In this post, I’ve laid out 7 steps to living a fulfilling life as a consultant…
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 580 posts.
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Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report is strange
According to new data, the most popular post on Facebook is a business that sells golfing dates with former Green Bay Packers players. What?!
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How to handle difficult clients
If you've never had to wrangle a difficult client, this blog post is your opportunity to prepare. Disagreements happen, some people handle them better than others, how we conduct ourselves in these situations have a profound impact on the trajectory of our careers.
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The World's current and next Innovations depend on a single country, Taiwan
The world’s current and next innovations depend on a single country: Taiwan. It’s probably one country you might never hear about, or perhaps confuse with its neighbor, Thailand, or even think it’s a part of China. I’ve been living in Taiwan for 3+ years, and am baffled that I never pay attention to semiconductors…
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The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
OnlyFans has become part of the zeitgeist recently. The rise of e-girls and the prospects of making millions make it a fun thing to gawk at in a
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Taxes Are for the Little People
If you wanna do crimes, make them incredibly complicated and technical. Like the hustlers that came into the bookstore I worked at and spun these long-ass stories about why they needed money for a Greyhound ticket home.
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If AT&T Had Managed the Phone Business Like Google
Imagine a Silicon Valley strategy implemented with the United States phone system 100 years ago. It's not a pretty picture.
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The SaaS Metrics That Matter
Plus now you can easily generate them using our secret sauce SaaSGrid.
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Hacking Is the Opposite of Marketing
What you call love was invented by guys like me... to sell Nylons.
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Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021
The entire plot is generated by an R script that you can found here. Any suggestions (you can find my e-mail address on the "about" page) are welcome. There's a secondary plot here that displays the raw number of postings (total and remote). Caveats, and why this is just an …
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What Happened to Treehouse?
In September 2021, online coding school Treehouse laid off close to 90% of its staff without severance pay.
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How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay
Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I want it to work. But the growing cho…
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There is no “us” in team
I’ve talked before about the non-team team dynamic that is “one person per task”. Where the management and engineers collude to push the organisation beyond a sustainable pace by making sure that at all times, each individual is kept busy and collaboration is minimised. I talked about the deleterious effect on…
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Epic vs. Apple injunction doesn't allow for alternative in-app payment mechanism
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Building Remote Teams for Startups
Most of the companies in the last year had to try out remote work in one way or the other. These are my highly notes on #remote #teams.
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The Great Bifurcation
Tracing the evolution of tech’s three eras, and why the fourth era — the Metaverse — is defined by its bifurcation with the physical world.
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Elite Biases Make Policy Biases
A 2014 paper predicted U.S.
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Geothermal's path to relevance: cheap drilling
The following is part one of a proposal detailing the need for a geothermal focused research organization (FRO) . FROs try to push promising technologies through the chasm to reach wide commercialization.
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Effective altruism is not effective
Blog by academic philosopher on ethics, philosophy, politics, economics, theory, and current affairs
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NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft
A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Nicholas Truglia was part of a group alleged to have stolen more than $100 million from cryptocurrency investors using…
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What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2)
I like to learn about business through writing. Day Job: Helping founders with their VC pitches at deckrooster.com. Past: Goldman Sachs, IIM Bangalore
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Storming Reddit's Moat
A Guide to Reddit, Its Key Competitive Advantages, and How to Unbundle It
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I Failed to Transform the Enterprise
how management power plays win out over measurable profit increases, risk mitigations and years of track record