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Somehow, today’s best-in-class email apps are hybrids, combinations of the best ideas every other email app brought before. It’s hard to imagine email without web apps, limitless storage, notifications, archive search, and a bit of over-the-top self-promotion. Each feature, at one time, was enough to launch a new email app, to convince us all to sw... See more

If you’re forming a startup, there are generally two kinds of stories to choose from about what the startup is for. Keep in mind that startups are companies that are trying to take over some subsection of the world. It’s ambitious stuff, so they tend to take on lots of early investment. They get somebody to give them a lot of money so they can hit ... See more

In the future, either you're telling a computer what to do or a computer is telling you what to do—and you don't want to be on the wrong side of that transaction. If you're an Uber driver, the computer's telling you what to do. You're following orders. Your days are numbered in that job because you're not in a creative job. On the other hand, if yo... See more

in public” mindset is the digital garden, where indie thinkers cultivate their knowledge in public. For instance, the use of Git-based solutions such as GitBook lets users explore the evolution of ideas, their contributors, and the various branches of knowledge being explored.

Originally, circulation’s responsibility was to get as many people to subscribe to subsidize the cost of the physical product so that profits could be generated from advertising. Now we think about the subscription as the means of generating actual bottom-line profit. Circulation is not just to provide an audience for ad revenue; it’s to generate a... See more