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When I'm trying to help founders find new startup ideas, I usually start by trying to figure out what's unusual about them. What do they know or care about that few other people do...
When you're doing a deal with a large organization, find out if the people you're negotiating with actually have final say. Usually they don't, and that means the deal you've agree...
Any organization with a large, protected income will tend by default toward administrative bloat. It's the same in government, at Harvard, at Google. Unless you take explicit measu...
According to a new study by David Rozado, there has been a big increase in news headlines suggesting fear, anger, disgust, and sadness since 2000, and especially since about 2010....
These early railway carriages are a good illustration of how much old stuff gets dragged along into the first versions of new things. At first even the inventors of trains couldn't...
"Scaling bad unit economics, hiring quickly and badly, listening to investors, raising too much money, and not really understanding our users." β a founder's list of the mistakes...
Someone interested in writing essays asked how I dealt with contrarian ideas in the era of cancel culture. I said I expressed them obliquely, so that good faith readers would under...