Luc Cheung

A good test when reading the news is to constantly ask, “Will I still care about this story in a year? Two years? Five years?”

The classic way to burn through cash is by hiring a lot of people.

This bites you twice: in addition to increasing your costs, it slows

you down—so money that's getting consumed faster has to last

longer. Most hackers understand why that happens; Fred Brooks

explained it in The Mythical Man-Month.We have three general suggestions about hiring: (a)... See more

Cost of sequencing a human genome 🔬 • 2001 - $95 million • 2008 - $342,502 • 2011 - $7,743 • 2023 - $200 with the new Illumina machine Cc: @PeterDiamandis @azeem @erikbryn @rtnarch

“My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know they had.” — Edwin Land

Interfaces used to be the solution. “There’s an app for that” was music to our ears.

But now interfaces are overused. They’re getting in the way. Instead of pragmatic solutions, we’re building clunky apps.

The solution is not a better app. The solution is no app – no interface.

Example: an app to open your car. Krishna explains how such an app can... See more