Josh Bowen
@joshbowen
Josh Bowen
Loneliness and Reading
My observation is that most people expect learning to decelerate. It’s not uncommon to see this attitude among fresh college grads.
Dan Wang • 2017 Letter | Dan Wang
introducing "the fourth place" & why "third places" have fallen short on their promise
Patricia Mouthesfcommons.substack.com
“Luck never sent a few hundred emails, wrote an autoresponder, handled a contract negotiation, etc, but both people who do these things and people who don’t do these things attribute a good deal of their outcomes to it.”
-Patrick McKenzie
Presentation for Betawork's THINK Camp Demo Day
youtube.comAs early as 2017, executives at the ride-sharing platform Uber reportedly met with US Securities and Exchange Commission officials about granting company stock to their independent-contractor drivers.
By February 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that, with their initial public offerings approaching, Uber and its competitor Lyft found a way to... See more
By February 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that, with their initial public offerings approaching, Uber and its competitor Lyft found a way to... See more
Nathan Schneider • User Trusts: Broad-Based Ownership for Online Platforms
A phrase I heard recently and found useful: I agree with the idea, but I disagree with the tone.
Many ideas get dismissed because they are delivered in a cocky or hostile or dismissive tone—or because of who delivers them.
Separate substance from style.
Michael Lewis on how your narrative crafts your character:
If you listen to people, if you just sit around and listen, you’ll find there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves. Some people are always the victim. Some people always get unlucky. Some people are always in the middle of some impossible... See more