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- Ideas and Radical Thoughts
- What Dating Apps, Nigerian Scammers, Guerrilla Insurgents, and Asymmetrical Warfare All Have in Common: Lessons for Computer Security, Go-to-Market, and Life
- I Traveled for a Month on the Worst Public Transit in the US
- Could You Bear Being a Side Kick?
- Surfer Mentality in Business and Life
- Fame is Playing Capitalism on Easy Mode
- What is Your Hammer?
- Five Types of Friends
- Great Opportunities Are Found Top Down. Great Problems Are Solved Bottoms Up
- Consumer is Like Playing Music. Enterprise is like Serving at a Restaurant
- Chinese Occulus Knockoffs and Mail-Order Brides: A Pro-Social Proposal for Virtual Reality
- The Mind Has No Firewall
- Low Status
- Proximity is Power
- Software for the Mind
- Structural Intelligence
- Elites make the rules. Laypeople Break Them. How Latin Became French.
- Plausible Social Deniability
- Dumb, Like a Fox...
- Tech Trends
- New York's (Consumer) Tech Revolution in 2024
- Bay Area Tech Is Dying. Long Live Bay Area Tech.
- Rise of AI Enable Vertical SaaS 2024
- A Revolution in On-Premise Software and AI's Acceleration of the Self-Hosted Movement
- AI is The CPU of Modern Knowledge Work
- Boston Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Stanford vs. Harvard vs. MIT and Silicon Valley vs. East Coast
- Themes on Excel for Fun and Profit
- Product vs. Project Management
- The Rise of First-Party Data
- Bitcoin as a Battery: Steel Smelting, Renewable Energy, and Three Letter Agencies
- Five Types of Power
- Legitimate Expectations
- Startups
- Different Ways to Understand Product Market Fit (PMF)
- What to Do as a Non-Technical Founder (From Someone Technical)
- What I Wish People Told Me About Fundraising
- How to Make a Pitch Deck that Raises Eight Figures
- What I Wish People Told Me About Founders' Agreements
- What I Wish People Told Me About Startup Advisor Agreements
- The Best B2B Conference and Exhibit Booth Marketing Hacks
- "The Full Product"
- How to Write (the Best) Job Ad (in the World) and Ernest Shackleton
- Advice for a Company Just Out of YC Demo Day
- How to Write a Founding Story
- How to Save Money, Win Cases, and Have Your Startup Lawyer Love You
- First, Unique, and Different: What Startups Can Learn from Jean-Claude Biver
- Building Enterprise Systems for Old Chinese Filipino Families in Southeast Asia
- IDD: Investor Driven Development (or "A sure-fire way to run your startup into the ground by making your investors happy")
- Technical
- How I Started at Data Center in My Basement (And Why You Should Consider Doing It Too)
- Using rclone on a Personal Gmail Account for Backups
- Using Cloudflared Tunnels and Docker for Residential Hosting
- The 80/20 basics of Docker
- How to Tame Any Nontechincal Executive as a CTO: The Simple Feature Matrix (SFM)
- MVET - "Minimum Viable Enterprise Test"
- The Five E's of Product Development
- "I could do that in a weekend"
- Programmers are Nice
- The 5 Es of Software Development Projects
- Travel
- Roman Recommendations
- Tokyo Tips
- Bookshelf
- Other
- Indiana Jones's Original Screenplay
- Lessons from Living in the Desert
- Dropshipping in the 1979
- The Time I Connected The Founder of One of The World's Largest Crowdfunding Sites to an ASIS Agent to Help Exfiltrate Refugees from Afghanistan
- How to Find Anyone's Information Online
- The Unsung Heroes of Life Science
- Everything I Know About Selling
- All Things Equal, Choose the Better Story
- Good, Stable Dinner Party Gifts
- What I Wish They Taught Me at the World's Best Boarding School
- What I Learned at Business School
- How to Write a Recommendation Letter
- How to Apply to YC
- How to Prepare for Your HBS Interview
- How to Ace Harvard Business School
Rev: 2020-12