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When you're faced with uncertainty, the best thing you can do is analyse your inputs, synthesise a new model, and then destroy it to start over again.

One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.

Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.

How using frameworks can get in the way of actual sensemaking, and what to do about it.

You're only able to adapt quickly under uncertainty if you see the world as it is. Here's why it's difficult to do that during a pandemic.

I find it a little difficult to believe that expertise is 'merely' pattern-matching. And yet it seems to have resulted in the some of my best learning outcomes over the past year. A look at my scepticism, in the context of several ideas we've covered in this blog.

What do metagames have to do with the acquisition of expertise?

Make sure you're playing the real game, not some more complicated game you've made up for yourself.

Every good idea and every admirable trait can be taken too far.

The original definition of Aggregation Theory emphasized the importance of commoditized supply; that makes Spotify more of an Aggregator than Netflix

There are three important facts about bullshit: It’s everywhere, it’s influential, and it’s dangerous.

There's a saying commonly attributed to Charlie Munger that goes 'Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously'. Work out all the implications. Seek out all the case studies. Here's a story of two investors who did exactly that.

If your existence is all about work, and work goes to shit, then life goes to shit too. If you live for your hobby, and your hobby hits the wall, then your life crashes too. If everything else is waiting until you hang with your mates, and your mates fade away, then you fade too. Betting your drive to get up in the morning on a single ...

My nuanced opinion on the #AppleBrowserBan

Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the US, with no stores. US pay TV subscribers have fallen by a third. Where do ad budgets go, where does rent go, and how many brands will there be?

Startup winter has come to India. What should you do next?

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind. —Dr. Augustus Napier The Metaverse The Zuck is obsessed with another Augustus, world-conquering emperor Augustus Caesar. But the boy-who-would-be-emperor has a problem, something standing between him […]

From CTO to unemployed overnight - what now?

DISH Network is deploying the first stand-alone, cloud-native, autonomous 5G network. The company envisions a complete cloud-native 5G network with all its functions, except minimal components of the Radio Access Network (RAN), running in the cloud with fully automated network deployment and operations. In this blog post, we describe DISH’s approach to building a scalable […]

This week, we’ve got new hope for my Google Glass app, using TypeScript to build backends, and Soulja Boy deep cuts from the Remix team. Welcome to #92. How are we supposed to fit all that code in this sandbox?

Hope everyone enjoyed the Oscars last night (watching one twitter clip over and over doesn’t count). But we’ve got something much better for you today (better than the Oscars, not the twitter clip).

We hope everyone survived all the cringe April Fool’s content last week. It’s always a great day for branded social media accounts and influencers who think they’re funny – but hell for the rest of us.

Prevent legacy creep, supply chain security, BIG week in AI, auth in microservices, prevent bugs?, start self hosting, Postgres auditing, Postgres wire compatible SQLite proxy, fundamentals & deployment

Check out Grafana's Big Tent, are you Go-curious?, Headlines or HeadLIES?, UIs for ML apps, the story of Docker Swarm, cross-platform Notepad++, ultimate personal security checklist, write better code, switching to asdf

Plus, why his VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has spent $3 billion on web3 startups.

5-min read To: Omid R. KordestaniExecutive Chairman Twitter, Inc.1355 Market Street, Suite 900San Francisco, CA 94103 December 6, 2019 Mr. Kordestani, A part-time CEO who is relocating to Africa? Enough already. My name is Scott Galloway (@profgalloway). I am a Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business, an entrepreneur, and a U.S. citizen. As of […]

Can infra.market build on its incredible growth to win India and beyond?