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In a stressful, data-driven era, many young people find comfort and insight in the zodiac—even if they don’t exactly believe in it.

One thing that has always felt strange to me about the cryptocurrency world is the lack of attention to the client/server interface. When people talk about blockchains, they talk about distributed trust, leaderless consensus, and all the mechanics of how that works, but often gloss over the reality that clients ultimately can’t participate in those... See more

One way to think about it is that Amazon’s “people who bought this also bought” feature was never available to Shopify merchants since any given merchant only had info on who bought their products, not all the other products that people purchased across Shopify. But now, in some sense, the benefits of this data will be available to merchants.

VR is an interesting category but there are real hardware barriers to overcome. For the time being we still consider VR niche: let’s see when headset usage becomes more commonplace, and how that impacts the landscape upon which such companies are built.

💩 Querying data is hard. All pages have either the same or unpredictable attributes. Getting all high-priority features or all customers due to renew the next month is nearly impossible.

We often assume that some acute and looming threat — be it a foreign invader or a domestic demagogue — will be our downfall. But if we were to end, that end is just as likely to come from something far less dramatic: our failure to sustain the work.