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Author here! It sounds crazy, but poop might be worth a trillion dollars. Specifically, communities of microbes could return humans to a pre-industrial baseline gut microbiome, tre…

"You don't work at SpaceX - the largest project we're working on right now is a big spreadsheet that is nonetheless six months behind schedule. Sleeping is higher energy than that.…

Yeah!! Wrote a blog post about this recently: https://startupspeed.substack.com/p/mental-shifts-for-deep-t...

"there is no reason to use overized MCUs/mini computers like the Pi and expensive modules e.g. from Adafruit." Definitely not for scaling, but for deploying prototypes this approac…

It feels like the best solution here is "Institutional Verification", ie OS makers building verification systems. Author calls this "fraught with problems, susceptible to abuse, an…

I started SPEED to help founders, and many of the lessons are highly applicable to startup CTOs and early engineers, especially the episodes with founders from Substack, Athelas, S…

Calvin, Peter, Ilya, and Ian built the prototype that became Segment in Dec 2012, after 24 months of trying different ideas and spending $500k. Eight years later, @Twilio acquired …

Clicks on name : Karma >900. Moment of destiny

John and Ryan McLinko started Astranis in 2015. Both spent time in traditional aerospace and wanted to use geostationary satellites to deliver internet to billions of people, at a …

Shameless plug! Erik and I recorded a podcast on the early days of Cobalt, including the first fundraise. Check it out! https://open.spotify.com/episode/45mdsE71r7wNHtEQyz13wl

Would love to support you on this journey! I'm on the team at Fifty Years, we've backed teams like Noya (carbon removal) and Solugen (Carbon negative chemical manufacturing). Would…

You may enjoy http://www.technovelgy.com/

With a name like generator2 it's hard to know who to believe. In all seriousness, I think it's been fairly well optimized to generate outrage and get people clicking the article, w…

Wow this is fascinating, GINI for wealth inequality is definitely not talked about enough

Has anyone seen research linking dream content to the causes of the dream? What I'm imagining is dream journals like the ones on the website, accompanied by things that are happeni…

Load small things into the dishwasher: Do you want an internet-connected device that can pick up a butcher knife and move it at waist level, that has a human watching its camera to…

There are lots of ~$150 meters on Amazon. (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/GZAIR-Temperature-Relative-Humidity-0... ) I've used some of these meters and the quality you can get for $15…

Thank you for the wiki link! What's crazy is the migrants per capita numbers. Idaho is 3x Texas!

If you're wealthy maybe you're also savvy enough to deal with the system. When a few second opinions with doctor friends are only a phone call away it's not hard to imagine better …

Debt tends to be hard for super new companies, even with orders in hand. If you are developing a new product and don't have cash up front, there's a good chance you never deliver, …

Check out represent.US . The fundamental issue in much (not all) of American politics is the "company -> lobbying -> legislation -> company" feedback loop, and Represent.US is taki…

I wonder how much you'd have to pay someone in severance to make it worth it. If there's typically a 20% yearly salary piece for a recruiter, paying 10% direct to the employee in s…

So encouraging to see people promoting represent.us here!! Thank you!