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Typefully helps more than 17k people craft great Twitter threads and track their performance. By observing its power users, my co-founder Francesco and I distilled our learnings into a series of insig
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . Watch how this essay was written . February 2009 One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learnedfrom Paul Buchheit: it's better
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#WEBSUMMIT2015 DHH Nov 4, 2015 · 12 min read About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp : A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthl
2013-08-04 The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is preordained. This neglects the years of toil that ent
Ideas are the currency for intellectual exchange. And there are two sets of ideas that travel through the network of neurones in our brain. The first set includes thoughts that we deliberately force o
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May 2021 Most people think of nerds as quiet, diffident people. In ordinarysocial situations they are — as quiet and diffident as the starquarterback would be if he found himself in the middle of a ph
There are two kinds of programmers, generally speaking. There are programmers who care more about code, and there are programmers who care more about product. The former – I’ll call them “code-first”
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Inspiration is the keystone of learning. It’s the engine behind a student’s motivation and the glue that makes ideas stick. But because our school system undervalues the necessity of inspiration, stud
August 2021 When people say that in their experience all programming languagesare basically equivalent, they're making a statement not aboutlanguages but about the kind of programming they've done. 99
By Humankind holds power over its creations for one silly reason: The mind doesn’t have an off switch. The mind’s superiority over the iPhone lies not in its computational power, but in its ability to
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Imagine it is a Saturday. You are in New York and decide to go to the Museum of Modern Art. There is a special exhibit on called The Artist is Present . Performance artist Marina Abramovic is sitting
Long-term thinking is easier to believe in than accomplish. Most people know it’s the right strategy in investing, careers, relationships – anything that compounds. But saying “I’m in it for the long
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1/ I recently finished Menon’s translation of Bhagavad Gita, the holy book of Hindus . There’s a lot to like about it, but it leaves a few issues unresolved. Here are my notes. 2/ The story revolves a
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It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of yo
One of the many things that used to baffle me was people’s behavior that’s evidently harmful to themselves. Take the case of Pune (a city in India where I live). It has simultaneously the lowest rate
Background This speech was delivered as the keynote address for the May 17, 2012 commencement ceremony at The University of the Arts. 1 Speech Transcript I never really expected to find myself giving advice to people graduating from an establishment of higher education. I never graduated from any…
Christian Busch teaches at the London School of Economics and at New York University, where he directs the Global Economy programme of the Center for Global Affairs. He is a co-founder of Sandbox Netw
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