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Editing trick: Try running your writing through AI and asking what some people might find obnoxious. It’s a surprisingly powerful editing trick.

“Medicare for all” is a version of a single-payer healthcare system. Instead of having a private insurer pay for your healthcare, the government would be the only (single) entity paying for healthcare (hence the name single-payer). This doesn’t necessarily mean that there wouldn’t be private insurance — people can choose to get private insurance... See more

The bottom line is that by some estimates Amazon owns close to 40% of U.S. retail e-commerce — so much that House lawmakers are calling for it to be broken up. Walmart accounts for a mere 5%.

This may not seem like a big deal, but what happens is that each investment you do isn't just a one-click expenditure of $X today. It's $Y in ongoing maintenance cost to keep up with a stream of irregular documents. It's not uncommon for angels to accumulate dozens if not hundreds of investments over the years. At a certain point the maintenance... See more

It’s critical to start with the right set of early customers to kick off all the self-reinforcing growth cycles we’ve discussed above. You have to start by knowing who your best early customers will be — for productivity/collaboration companies that’s often knowledge workers on remote and distributed teams, and often engineers.