This year I delegated almost everything in my 3 companies. I no longer have a day-to-day role. I ordered my dream car, we broke ground on our cabin, and life was pretty great as a Dad. It was a jam pa
By now effectively all ;login:’s readers have heard the term “web3” and “dapps” bandied about as if they are some great revolution. They are not. The technical underpinnings are so terrible that it is
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Getty Many people I know have parents who are suffering from Early Fox News Dementia, ranting about the perfidy of Anthony Fauci and the possibility of catching critical race theory from an open jar o
Days, months, and years all make sense as units of time—they match up, at least roughly, with the revolutions of Earth, the moon, and the sun. Weeks, however, are much weirder and clunkier. A duration
Simon Mottram, CEO and founder of cycling clothing giant Rapha , is set to step down as the chief executive of the British brand after 17 years in the role. In his place, William Kim, a former CEO of
[return] [return] [return] [return] As with many other qualities, there can be high variance within a company as well as across companies. For example, there's a team I sometimes encountered at a comp
Founded in 2009, Strava has become the preeminent social network for athletes. But the path has been anything but smooth. The company has endured privacy fiascos, overhauled management, and changed course on its way to a $1.5B valuation. Riding the pandemic booms of running and cycling while…
This is a short story about what happened to the U.S. economy since the end of World War II. That’s a lot to unpack in 5,000 words, but the short story of what happened over the last 73 years is simpl
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Upgrade from free WITI to premium WITI here: Subscribe now Colin here. Supply chains increasingly define our world. When there’s a disruption, the knock-on effect is seismic. This supply chain isn’t j
So I joined the SF home invasion club this weekend. 🧵 👇 (CC @michelletandler @DavidSacks @hknightsf @SFPDIngleside @SFPDTenderloin @LondonBreed @Scott_Wiener @garrytan) First some table setting. All 4
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Happy Monday! On Friday I published an in-depth post on OlympusDAO , one of the more impressive DeFi projects to launch this year that aims to create the reserve currency of DeFi. And if you're intere
I hang out around a lot of effective altruists . Many of them are motivated primarily by something like guilt (for having great resource and opportunity while others suffer) or shame (for not helping
I think there are three main paths to regulate FB and other social media apps: access, content, and personal data. In this post I will use FB as the main example. Access A good example of access regul
Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned. First off, the boat captain said we wer
There's a sort of inescapable wastefulness to having a cup of coffee, unless you happen to do your coffee drinking in the relatively narrow belt of the planet that supplies coffee beans to the whole r
1/ It's been about a year since my mission-focused blog post. It wasn't easy to go through at the time, but looking back, it turned out to be one of the most positive changes I've made at Coinbase, an
A glitch in the Matrix. Two weeks ago Netflix released the Closer , the company’s final Dave Chappelle special in a multiyear, hundred-million dollar comedy series, and many people on the internet wer
Everything you have been told about stopping climate change is wrong. Buying a Tesla doesn’t matter. Not flying/eating vegan/turning off lights doesn’t matter. As a serial climate entrepreneur (raised
By Adam Grant Oct. 8, 2021 10:54 am ET As the Covid-19 pandemic moves into a new phase, many companies have started insisting that we come back to the office full-time. In response, people are quittin
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… Today I’m going to write about Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen an
Wow, it’s finally here: New_ Public Magazine is launching this week with our premiere issue on decentralization. Today we have an exclusive preview: an article by the writer and YACHT rocker Claire L.
Are you someone who enjoys the unsolicited opinions of strangers and acquaintances? If so, I can’t recommend cancer highly enough. You won’t even have the first pathology report in your hands before t
When an industry has thus chosen a locality for itself, it is likely to stay there long: so great are the advantages which people following the same skilled trade get from near neighbourhood to one an
The iPad Pro, iPad Air, and new iPad mini. For the past week, I’ve been using Apple’s sixth-generation iPad mini, which is officially launching this Friday. I’ll cut right to the chase: I’ve been wait
Chances are you have already heard something about who anarchists are and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard is nonsense. Many people seem to think that an
“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.” — G.K. Chesterton Dear friends, A short story: The princess kisses a frog, and creates the prince. ~ ~ ~ Over t
To find truly interesting ideas, step away from the algorithmic feeds of Big Tech. Published in UX Collective · 7 min read · Aug 26, 2021 -- “Wilderness”, by Dr. Matthias Ripp Recently I read a terrif
People still call the iPhone ‘sexy’. Not only tech dudes or horny teenagers but ordinary people. In tweets and reviews, Reddit posts and YouTube videos, thousands make this absurd statement every year
In the 1990s, a 16-year-old girl wrote a letter to Dan Savage, the advice columnist for the Stranger, Seattle’s alternative weekly newspaper. “I have never had a girl-on-girl relationship,” she wrote,
I first heard about NounsDAO from this tweet: Packy McC◎rmick @packyM Just catching up on the business news. "Nounder *vapeape* told Decrypt today that the project came together following a Twitter pr
The unhelpfulness of helping. Published in How to fight well · 6 min read · Jul 9, 2020 -- There’s a model in psychology called ‘The Drama Triangle’, created by someone called Dr Stephen Karpman in th
The world is a very malleable place. When I read biographies, early lives leap out the most. Leonardo da Vinci was a studio apprentice to Verrocchio at 14. Walt Disney took on a number of jobs, chiefl
People change their behavior when they know they’re being watched. And on social media, somebody can always look at you. We used to hand-write personal thoughts in our diaries. Even when we dropped ou
Hi, Nathan here! It’s been too long, I know!! I’ve got a big piece on product wedges coming out next week, but today I am so excited to share with you this special guest post from one of my favorite w
This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. This article was updated on July 8, 2021. As Black Lives Matter protesters flooded New York streets
a review of Anna Wiener , Uncanny Valley: A Memoir (Macmillan, 2020) by ~ Uncanny Valley , the latest, very well-publicized memoir of Silicon Valley apostasy, is, for sure, a great read. Anna Wiener w
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