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Hacking the bureaucracy to get stuff done (2020)
The Dangerous Professional finds the seams between the policies, and slips inside them to Get Stuff Done
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Why is every consumer startup selling me what I already own for 10x the price?
Why would I pay $36 for a pair of underwear?
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2 Years at Twitter
I was a Staff Engineer at Twitter’s Build/Bazel Migration team. After two incredible years, November 17 was my last day (I took the voluntary separation offer and resigned, not that it matters). Twitter has been a special place to work for, for its culture of excellence, diversity, and outpouring of care for all the…
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“A solution in search of a problem” is a low-rates phenomenon
Plus! Money and Equilibria; eSports; The Price of Liquidity; Plausible Deniability; The Illiquidity Premium, Continued; Diff Jobs
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Leaked Chats Show Lapsus$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code
KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times in March, stealing source code for a range of company projects…
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The recent Bank of Japan meeting and its implications for markets
Listen now | The Bank of Japan sudden change of heart has important global implications
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How to create a more effective homepage
A step-by-step guide on improving your homepage content & copy to increase conversion
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Take my app ideas
I would rather give away my favorite ideas than to let them go to waste. Please do something with them.
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A/B test improved your website's conversion rate? Not so fast
Many internet companies use A/B testing to evaluate the performance of website changes they want to make. A typical metric in such scenarios is the conversion rate (CVR) of a user, i.e. the probability that a user converts (e.g. makes a purchase) on the website. A typical A/B test setup in such a situation would…
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The Capital Sponge
January 16, 2022 Latest Article: The Importance of Price Signals This newsletter issue takes a look at the self-reinforcing cycle that stuffed excess global capital into the US stock market over the past 40 years (and especially the past decade) like a sponge soaking up water, along with an examination of catalysts…
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Talking to your customers: a disruptive Agile framework
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Startup childhood – Tiny startups are not Google-in-miniature-form
Tiny startups are not Google-in-miniature-form
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Scrum has failed the developers
But there’s a way out of the misery
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The legal implications of remote working cross-border
I wrote my law school dissertation on a very niche area of law which interests me a lot, and perhaps interests you too.
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How will the correction in the stock market impact startup fundraising?
Analyze how the 52% public market correction impacts startup funding rounds, with data showing divergent effects on Series A vs. Series D valuations in 2022.
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What I Learned at Clubhouse
25 lessons, 2 years, from 1,000 users to millions
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How to earn money by hacking a “walking for money” app
Or how to reverse engineer React Native apps, and abuse API.
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Work Somewhere Dysfunctional
The rewards are great if you can survive…
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Reversible and irreversible decisions (2018)
When decisions are reversible, speed them up. The biggest risk is dragging your feet. When decisions are irreversible, slow them down. The biggest risk is making the wrong decision.
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Why is American administrative capacity in decline?
Some speculative hypotheses
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Virtual offices are not remote-friendly workplaces
The pandemic made evident how much work can, and should, be different. The forced change to accommodate remote workflows also brought to light what I like to call “virtual offices”. Unlike truly remote friendly workplaces optimized for asynchronous communication, these aim to merely transport the office into a virtual…
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Do data-driven companies win?
Some gut-based judgements on the effectiveness of data.
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Interview with CEO of Flexport: Supply chain crunch, modern logistics
The supply chain crunch, modern logistics, and that famous trip around the Port of Long Beach
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The Economics of Data Businesses
How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.
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Engineers should do customer support and success
The best PLG founders, startups, strategies, metrics and community. Every week.
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Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC
A potential $50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.”
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Is there a housing shortage or not?
The housing shortage in the US is a perennially popular topic of conversation for the urbanist crowd (which online includes basically everyone.) The basic argument is that housing starts collapsed after the financial crisis and have never truly recovered.
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The branch banking model
Ever wondered how bank branches work at a nuts-and-bolts level? Let's dig into the logic and economics of them.