Luc Cheung
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Luc Cheung
Focus is good. But so is following your enthusiasm.
All my most valuable work has happened when I wasn’t doing what I was “supposed” to be doing.
No easy answers here, but I do think enthusiasm is more important than most people realize, and should be taken more seriously.
Nathan Baschezx.comEvery few years a great unbundling occurs
In 2010, Andrew Parker wrote a defining post about the "unbundling" of Craigslist where he outlined the opportunity to carve out niche products from broad horizontal networks like Craigslist. The broad networks are everything to everyone, the niche ones are something special to a certain group. If you add... See more
In 2010, Andrew Parker wrote a defining post about the "unbundling" of Craigslist where he outlined the opportunity to carve out niche products from broad horizontal networks like Craigslist. The broad networks are everything to everyone, the niche ones are something special to a certain group. If you add... See more
Greg Isenberg • The Guide to Unbundling Reddit
Ads have ruined company priorities
It used to be that we design for the best possible experience. But then “free” came around. Nothing is really free, however – you may not pay for it but you do with your data to improve ad targeting.
As a result, the incentives for the creators of these products is not to create a better experience for you. It’s to... See more
It used to be that we design for the best possible experience. But then “free” came around. Nothing is really free, however – you may not pay for it but you do with your data to improve ad targeting.
As a result, the incentives for the creators of these products is not to create a better experience for you. It’s to... See more
Golden Krishna • Notes on The Best Interface is No Interface
Our ideas, too, will disappoint us if we don’t give them the right environment to develop in. They’ll be shallow, derivative, dull, repetitive, or take too long to show up. Or they’ll just not show up at all. We must find the perfect glass jar and lid for them to appear in.
What is that perfect glass jar, though? Our ideas appear primarily in one... See more
What is that perfect glass jar, though? Our ideas appear primarily in one... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
Reasons you should still get into AI
- Broad Potential of AI/Rate of Growth
- Jeff Bezos famously quit finance to start Amazon at age 30.
- He did this because Internet usage was growing 2,300% a year in 1994.
- Rollouts of
general purpose technologies
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span decades. - Imagine being a “latecomer” to tech in the year 2000 or 2010 and concluding it was “too