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The author is lying. Pangram is no panacea, but every time I have tested my own prose, it says it is 100% human written. Every single passage I tested from this post was evaluated …

Commitment requires us to make a choice, and to stay committed to that choice even when doing so becomes difficult or unpleasant. Without sufficient practice, we may lose our abili…

A detailed framework for automating coding via AI, including manager and engineer responsibilities, infrastructure, and practices.

I believe in the general principle that it is dangerous to deny reality. Note that this is different than saying that you have to accept reality as it is. But not only does denying…

It's hard to bring something new into the world. If it were easy, it would have already happened. Nearly all startups fail. They're trying to do something new, and the status quo i…

Lambda's marketing is deceptive and should rightly be stopped. But what is so bad about a bootcamp with no up front cost that gets 50% of its graduates a job? https://chrisyeh.com/…

For a while, I was writing up bullet-point summaries of the books I liked best. Haven't been able to keep it up, but I think it's the best way to really crystallize the learning. h…

As one of the co-creators of blitzscaling, it's important to note that we're careful in the book to say that most businesses shouldn't blitzscale. Basecamp is a great example of ho…

Instagram reached 100 million users and sold for over $1 billion with a 6-person team (they had just hired a few more people when they sold). Investors don't care how many people y…

I've also been looking into this as well. But I think the bets are going to be even more appealing than the futures, since I don't need to put any money down to make them!

My co-authors and I have written up a formal response, with quotes from our book to demonstrate how Dan Lyons' interpretation is 100% contradictory with the actual text of the book…

One of the more interesting things I read about is how Salesforce.com reviewed their employees and their salaries, realized that female employees were underpaid, and increased thei…

I'm going to have to check out Salary for Life. I can see that there are nuanced differences.

Yes, inequality is self-limiting. Either the haves realize that they need to avoid tearing apart the fabric of society, or the have-nots realize that they represent the majority of…