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I love work, by which I mean I love the feeling of focusing my energy toward a particular goal and watching the nebulous mist between here and there slowly thin to reveal wobbly, winding stepping stones. I love the satisfaction of a certain type of exhaustion that comes from having pitted my brain and my hands against a problem and found myself a l... See more
Jenny Zhang • Labour of Love
It was March 26, 2012. Brian Armstrong posted a self-described “hail mary” on the tech discussion forum Hacker News. YCombinator was interested in his startup, which Armstrong wrote “brings an emerging tech to the masses…and has a good shot at changing the world.” But he had a big problem - he didn’t want to go at it alone, and kept striking out on... See more
Olivia Moore • How Coinbase gave away BTC to get its first users
"What would it look like if you took X seriously?"
If you accept this premise that there is no tragedy of the commons – that open source software cannot be over-grazed by having more people use it – that freeloaders are free, and scarcity is not an applicable concept, then you’re forced to look skeptically at other assumptions we’ve been starting to make lately in the broader open source community.
David Heinemeier Hansson • Open source beyond the market
In 2021, Spotify reached out to buy @ConvertKit for hundreds of millions.
I said no.
Instead we came up with an innovative way to get liquidity for our team:
Nathan Barryx.comThis understanding of publishing, which suggests that rough-and-ready, quasi-automatic writing done on a regular, frequent schedule is ultimately more financially sustainable than refined and thoughtful writing published when necessary and appropriate, can seem counterintuitive, if not unbelievably cynical and depressing.
Matthew Yglesias • Matt Yglesias and the Secret of Blogging
Mythology
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Branding and
Why there still haven’t been more billion-dollar acquisitions for direct-to-consumer commerce startups
The New Consumernewconsumer.com
If you ask yourself that, you'll come up with all sorts of clear answers, and if you keep walking that road you'll find the borders of your TAM taking on greater and greater definition.