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Adam Gopnik: In my lexicon – which may be idiosyncratic but I think is also illuminating – “achievement”represents all the outer-directed, institutionally compelled things we do to advance our lives or those of our children. Getting grades, passing classes, pushing forward into select colleges. All of that. “Accomplishment” on the other hand, means... See more

Google Search is, of course, an extraordinarily useful product. But there are an increasing number of search use cases where Google falls short. If you’ve been in crypto for a while, you probably primarily use Twitter to get the day’s news, and a mix of Twitter, Medium, Substack, and podcasts to learn about new technologies. You probably rarely use... See more

We expect to see many new sleep-related products and sleep-related supplements that promise to help people sleep better and offer an alternative to medication. We also expect to see more consumerization of sleep medicine, with wearables and more accessible sleep labs helping people who suffer from sleep apnea and other diagnosable ailments.

Whether chemists, physicists, or political scientists, the most successful problem solvers spend mental energy figuring out what type of problem they are facing before matching a strategy to it, rather than jumping in with memorized procedures.

Lenny Rachitsky’s research shows that the vast majority of unicorn marketplaces focused on tackling supply before demand. If you have an exclusive lock over supply, that can be used as a unique and compounding moat.

“Different is better than better” – Sachit Gupta

The bigger issue, though, is what I have come to think of as note-taking’s camera roll problem: no matter how well they organize themselves, most notes are still doomed to be forgotten. When it came to pictures, Timehop and later Google Photos addressed this problem by making an effort to resurface old photos in a variety of ways: on the anniversar... See more