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Tesla holds bitcoin on its balance sheet, and may soon resume accepting bitcoin payments as bitcoin mining shifts towards renewables

Notion is the opposite and that flexibility makes it incredibly useful in some situations, but sadly also distracting and mediocre for most use cases.

It Works Too Well. Early research suggests that psilocybin therapy can cause remission of depressive symptoms in one to three sessions. Contrast that with SSRIs like Prozac, which patients take (and insurance companies pay for) for the rest of their lives. That means that there’s little recurring revenue, so COMPASS needs to convince the payers to ... See more

If you want to see the future of B2B software, look at what Excel users are hacking together in spreadsheets today. Excel’s success has inspired the creation of software whose combined enterprise value dwarfs that of Excel alone.

Advertising seems like some fat vampire squid sucking value out of everything, while from the inside it feels like being stuck in the dilemma of giving away an expensive service (run by people in your company who don’t give a shit about ads and frankly would rather they disappear), and flaky advertisers who are always one bad quarter away from bail... See more

There's this ever-present myth that we've slashed funding for public education in the US over the last 40 years, but meanwhile we've tripled it in terms of cost per student — and results have been flat: a massive price increase with no positive change to quality.

This is a future in which, for the privileged, almost everything is home delivered, either virtually via streaming and cloud technology, or physically via driverless vehicle or drone, then screen “shared” on a mediated platform. It’s a future that employs far fewer teachers, doctors and drivers. It accepts no cash or credit cards (under guise of vi... See more