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With the move to more and more remote workers and teams a number of companies are struggling with basic payroll and benefits for non-US employees. This is particularly true if the company is a startup or has many small teams around the world.

Elad Gil • Products I Wish Existed, 2020 Edition

was the guardian of the Facebook Ads team, sussing out obscene

Antonio Garcia Martinez • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.

Cory Doctorow • The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok

Google, Facebook, Then Sierra | Bret Taylor

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David Heinemeier Hansson, a computer programming star who created the Ruby on Rails website development framework, which currently provides the foundation for some of the Web’s most popular destinations, including Twitter and Hulu. Hansson is a partner in the influential development firm Basecamp (called 37signals until 2014). Hansson doesn’t talk

Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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Taylor Lorenz substack.com

Uber and Instacart don’t represent Silicon Valley. Why we’re voting “No” on Prop 22

Li Jin li.substack.com

With more than 300 million users for ChatGPT alone, and up to 10 products in the market, OpenAI ought to be living the dream. But with the cost realities involved, the dream of every startup is, in this case, OpenAI’s nightmare.