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> It is my firm belief that any of the authors listed below (unless they’re dicks) would not want anyone to be prohibited from reading their work Hot take - any book authors who wa…

I propose this short ‘Google test’ when ranting about LLM advertising: replace ‘LLM’ with ‘Google’ and see what happens. ‘Will Google decide on which ads to place? Will it be part …

At this point why forcing people to use the service, if you can forcefully extract these eyeballs and then sell them directly to advertisers in large enough jars?

Modern version needs to be community focused, not platform focused. This could look like "old instagram" or "old reddit": people sharing findings with friends / small groups of lik…

Same thing happened with remote work. Things that were simple by-products of a face to face communication now need to be dissected and studied, and then carefully added back in, in…

> I make an effort to use Spotify to find and listen to albums, but it wasn’t built for this, and invariably find 90% of my listening happening on algo-generated playlists of songs…

> My goals for the end of 2027 are as follows: > Stop making stupid mistakes. I want to be able to finish a task fully without missing or skipping a step. One way to do this is to …

Sadly it is not unique to VC. Many in-house products of large companies follow exact same story: sunk cost fallacy, investing in expectation management instead of the product itsel…

The culture you are creating is actually the opposite: no ownership, and no autonomy You are delegating decisions that are in your responsibility to another person (=no ownership),…

If only things in life worked as well as things on paper

Once ‘them’ disappears brain loses the control, leading to unbearable stress, and we are back to where we’ve started with this article. It is ironic that original comment proposes …

You were probably thinking about geeks leaving heartwarming comments under a forgotten repository while reading this. But what really makes a trace valuable? Internet growth has pr…

People go to nature to interact with nature, not with traces of other human beings. You don't want to ride 4 hours to countryside only to find very same things you've been running …

> Jobs was flawed and everyone knew it, but it was all par for the course. He was aggressive in his ambition, uncompromising about even the most minute details of his company, and …

To expand on this: certain people have learned how to capitalize on “nerdiness” - i.e. how to virtue signal in a way so that investors and general public treat you like an engineer…

I wish we would start paying proportional attention to business news, instead of treating AI (or any other "cutting edge") companies as economy-defining and giving these 50+% of th…

“Biggest innovation in tech” at times feels like 2000 era Nokia smartphones. You got phone with circle keyboard! You got foldable phone that turns into a neat camcorder! You got mp…

It is the same with forums, trackers and private libraries. They are instantly more useful for information seeking purposes. And none of this really fits into attention-monetizing …

You are proposing to fix something that is not broken by adding things to it. My point is, the Internet has already evolved in this specific way for a reason. Few old school sites …

I think original web standards were solving a completely different problem: sharing information . Modern Internet is 45% appearances and 50% search traffic optimizations. For bette…

You are probably talking about people who just crunch out some half baked solutions for the sake of getting somewhere. But there are other nerds who care, just not about the code q…

I think you are mixing cause and effect in real life dynamics. In real organizations people tend to raise their performance to the [often unreasonable] level of expectations, even …

It is not a problem if you are an assembly line robot making motions. People, however, are not robots. They get held accountable by their higher-ups for delivering on these (often …