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This is similar to the Scott Adam's advise- which was great: https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car... If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take…

Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment, also known as Zawinski's Law, states: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are rep…

This is a great idea. You mention: "We noticed that the people we admired used plain lists on their personal websites" Any way to collect book reccomendations from public sources a…

How did you come to the conclusion AD is hugely profitable ? Thier ROIC is 6.7% https://www.gurufocus.com/term/ROIC/NAS:ADI/Return%2Bon%2BIn... This is below the SP500 ROIC. Visa /…

My mailing lists include: # avc.com # Ben Evans # azeem azhar # social capital # aeon # farnam street # nautilus # Axios's pro rata # mattermark # delancey place # quanta magazine

Not sure why you believe float is over-rated. Buffet himself has said that a $1 in float is equal to a $1 of value. BH's market cap is about $300 BN & their float is about $90BN wh…

He likes to praise his management and his management is sometimes good. BUT - when he buys or invests in a business - he wants to only do it such that ROI will work even if the man…

This is what I wrote to a friend in an email on this post: A few challenges with the trying to replicate the Berkshire model on the internet: ##Lower cost of Capital (Float): One o…

I would recommend reading Paul Graham's Paul Graham's Plan for Spam- one of the early extremely useful ML approaches to fighting spam. http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html In the ar…

I am a big fan of Lewis & I have read multiple accounts / variations of the sub-prime crisis. The Big Short tells only half the story but nevertheless a very important one especial…

I remember reading Silicon Valley company being frustrated with whatever emails they had sent on company policy being forwarded to journalists (Kara Swisher??) . One hack they came…

"My ad­vice for split­ting eq­uity is prob­a­bly con­tro­ver­sial, but it’s what we have done for all of my star­tups, and what we al­most al­ways rec­om­mend at YC: equal eq­uity …

Yes- 1905 is part of the Annus Mirabilis series because of Einstein's work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis#1905_.E2.80.93...

Yes - you can see thier archives. Here is an example : https://signalvnoise.com/archives/001050.php

https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch09_Three_State_Solution....

What do you mean by history of con games? I guess it's possible to build large businesses like Google, Facebook, Uber, Apple etc without taking VC money but its a choice that these…

I am big fans of 37s. I learnt a lot from reading thier blog posts especially thier unconventional (at that time) thinking to avoid crazy detailed requirement docs, focus on blank …

Here is a great article talking about the differences between RT & Metacritic: http://www.thecroakingfrog.com/blog/rotten-tomatoes-vs-metac... I personally find that there are less…