Traditionally, high school students have taken assessments that are designed to identify strengths and talents and point to how those might map onto promising careers, but these have notable shortcomings. A new generation of assessments promises a better approach. Instead of assuming that individuals already know themselves, it puts them through a ... See more

None of this bodes well for many of the new VC entrants who have suddenly become enamored by the capital return potential of science. We have a view that real advances in science are relatively rare, that they are hard to produce, and they tend to be signaled by clear research evidence years if not decades in advance. Venture capital is not a fit f... See more

This  podcast  features the story of Constellation Software, a software conglomerate which owns more than 500 vertical market software businesses. It was founded by Mark Leonard (who amusingly started his career as a venture capitalist for 11 eleven years) in 1995 and has returned more than 100x to their shareholders since its IPO on the

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The fastest growing economies in the world are un sub-Saharan Africa, growing at 5-7% YoY.

1) a deep dislike of the "woke" US left, exemplified by the New York Times, 2) a combination of strong discomfort with the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarianism with an understanding of why the CCP often justifiably fears the United States, and3) an appreciation of the love of freedom of the US right (exemplified by Bitcoin maximalists) c... See more

You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years.

But before we dig any further into the specifics of the technology, and developments we’re starting to see on that front, it’s worth talking about the government — our current relationship, and how we might improve the way we work together.