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Casey Newton
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Andrew Mason founded Groupon as a basic website where he manually typed in deals and created PDFs to email to subscribers from Apple Mail. Pebble,
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
I’d write a chapter or a section of my book, post it as a blog post, send out the same thing as a newsletter, and then read it aloud — plus a little extra commentary
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
See, Largan Precision doesn’t really care if their camera phone modules end up in iPhones or Galaxys or Lumias, or if they’re physically integrated by Foxconn or Quanta or Compal. They survive – and survive quite profitably – based solely on their ability to manufacture the best miniature cameras in the world. I remain convinced that the most... See more
stratechery.com • Publishers and the Smiling Curve
We learned this about platforms a long time ago: following the old newspaper schematic, they aren’t the printing presses, but rather the assignment editors.
Robin Sloan • Platform reality
By contrast, consumer software tools that enhance human agency, that serve us when we are most creative and intentional, are often built by hobbyists and used by a handful of nerds. If such a tool ever gets too successful one of the Marl-serving companies, flush with cash from advertising or growth-hungry venture capital, will acquire it and kill... See more
Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User
For a technology company to succeed, he argued, it needed always to be looking to destroy itself. If it didn’t, someone else would.
Michael Lewis • The New New Thing
Smart Brevity is a new way to think about creating, sharing and consuming information in our cluttered, clanging digital world.