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Back when every person in the office required their own secretary to do the work that they now do with Saas, did you call secretaries rent-seekers? Saas is productivity growth at w…

Loving Mailbrew so far, but it's too half-baked at the moment for me to be willing to pay $10/month for it. For context, I happily pay for 1password, fastmail, workflowy, notion, s…

I love Tailwind but hate having to deal with build tools and purgecss and package management and [insert modern workflow hassle] just for a little side project. Is there anything s…

The sterile world you desire is not one I'd like to live in.

In fairness, all start-ups are "run like a circus." That's the point of a start-up--to figure out new/better ways of doing things. Most of the time it doesn't work, and then you tr…

From the guide it sounded like you need a Finnish limited liability company to be able to service domestic Finnish clients. Or would Finnish companies be able to pay an on-site fre…

Anybody have experience as to whether this applies to an American living in Finland? Due to FATCA and the US's draconian tax laws around ownership of foreign investment assets...I'…

The problem isn't that you don't make your own toilet paper. It's that an oddly high percentage of people you're competing against for the most desirable jobs do make their own toi…

Whatsapp's dominance everywhere outside the US has nothing to do with the generous texting plans here. These were common all over Europe as well. The reason the US has been slower …

Have you ever read about the history of the USSR? If you include the millions who died in various famines as well as those that were executed directly by Stalin, the number of vict…

Amazingly, none of these options are great. Bookmark OS comes close for me, but the ugly UI ruins the experience. Nothing is more annoying than the Russian doll experience of seein…

On the contrary, the idea the US government created this money from nothing is the backwards perspective. How does government deficit spending happen? Via the sale of debt (ie. Tre…

That depends on your relative definition of "widespread." Was globalization widespread in 1919 compared to 1819? Absolutely. But the globalization of our collective economies in 20…

Except, most companies make the world a better place. On the whole, private enterprise is almost entirely responsible for humanity's rise out of impoverished suffering over the pas…

Having worked in the field for a few years after graduation myself, I've come to think of "strategy consulting" as mostly bureaucratic arbitrage. 8 times out of 10, the organizatio…