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What a year it’s been. Last February, before joining Shopify, I wrote a post called Debt is Coming that provoked a great discussion around how fixed income is finally going to challenge the all-equity

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I’m immensely privileged, and that’s an understatement. If I wanted to gain maximal monetary leverage, my entire emergency fund could consist of $500 for a flight back to my parents place in Canada. I

We invited Patrick McKenzie to talk about the business side of writing during our 2021 Substack On! conference. Below, you’ll find Patrick’s insights on business matters such as: Which type of busines

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Who’s buying GameStop? Yesterday many big retail brokerage firms told their customers that they would no longer be able to buy GameStop Corp. stock because it was getting too crazy. This led to a lot

daniel debow Jan 10, 2017 · 5 min read My first job was working for David Ossip at Workbrain . David used to jokingly call me GPSG: General Purpose Smart Guy. I was young, I was inexperienced, but I w

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College, 2012—Internship recruiting season. “What are you looking for in your internship?” the recruiter asks. “I’d like to solve hard technical problems,” I reply. I end up at Jane Street writing software to calculate numeric integrals of a function that is costly to evaluate. (They don’t tell me…

The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in. Possessions 1 .If you want to find out about people’s opinio

In the past few weeks I wrote about corporate politics , distribution of power , and disregard for ethics . Dozens of people reached out to say the posts were dark, cynical and depressingly accurate.

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story. At around 7 am on a quiet Wednesday in August 2017, Ma

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In the past I’ve written both an essay on the philosophical aspects of what I learnt from OCD and another essay on the practical measures that helped me keep it under control. Now I wanted to convey t

(NASDAQ:NKLA) Today, we reveal why we believe Nikola is an intricate fraud built on dozens of lies over the course of its Founder and Executive Chairman Trevor Milton’s career. We have gathered extens

You are in a room built out of your framework of the world. The beliefs you can describe make up the walls, and the beliefs you can’t make up the floor. The ceiling is a mishmash of memory, patterned

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There is an experimentally conversational version of this piece with insightful annotations from my friend Matt at Stanford. Also, this piece inspired a much longer and much more biting analysis of el

The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.” For 20 years, Bill Gates has been easing out of the roles that made him rich and famous—CEO, chief so

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in school when we learned about computers they were intricate and abstract: transistors assembled into raw logic, compilers that compiled themselves, networks of matrices that found patterns in shapel

In November of 2017, Bytedance acquired Musical.ly for $1 billion . In August of 2018, Bytedance officially rebranded Musical.ly and TikTok into one app. Turner Novak @TurnerNovak Just played around o

July 13, 2019 · 11 min read The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Yet it was a simple mechanical invention. It would seem to require no brilliant inventive

I’ve been a newlywed for exactly one week , and I have learned exactly one thing: The idea that marriage changes everything is kind of a myth. Sure, you’re now legally bound to each other, but your pa

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