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RSS is a civilized way of following updates from disparate sites you like, aggregating them in one central place that's separate from the mailbox where they can be saved to be read later, organized by source if need be. Newsletters —stuff that hits your inbox— strike me as barbaric.

in 1964, Marshall McLuhan observed that once horses were no longer needed for work, they took on new jobs in entertainment and leisure activity. Saying so, he hinted at what might become of machines or even humans once many of them are no longer needed to produce basic necessities

The number of people who are willing to start something is MUCH smaller than the number of people willing to contribute once someone else starts something.

In one sense, it’s unsurprising that Airbnb would be so adaptable, and that they’d be able to bend their growth trajectory upward despite an ongoing pandemic. The company’s cereal entrepreneurship days have been well-covered—to pay the bills in 2008, they made novelty breakfast food celebrating Barack Obama and John McCain. Less emphasized is the f... See more

Software used to be the hard thing about startups. Now software is easier, and networks are hard. The rare skill today is network bonding and community building.

Here’s the version of the story we’re usually taught: Before money, commerce happened through bartering. If I had extra wood and you had extra grain, we could negotiate and swap for mutual benefit and both be better off.