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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.

Game analogies can be helpful when you're playing to win. But there's a limit to how useful they can be when thinking about life.

What can software engineers learn from the shutdown of the company? Exclusive details.

Cross-browser end-to-end testing for modern web apps

The network effect of Big Tech comes for words

The RBI’s new guidelines on digital banking units give banks a head start in the race Read this edition online Monday, 11 April 2022 A weekly newsletter about how finance is getting supercharged by tech in India, and how you can make money work for you.

The payments industry in Japan is evolving rapidly. Some trends are globally relevant.

Revenue recognition for software companies sounds boring but is actually fascinating and frequently hilarious.

BNPLs (Buy Now Pay Later) are an interesting, relatively novel payment method. Here is how they work.

BNPL products, business models and why consumers and merchants like them

Credit cards make money through net interest, interchange, fees, and marketing contributions.

And why loan prepayments are a matter of opportunity and comfort Read this edition online Monday, 27 June 2022 A weekly newsletter about how finance is getting supercharged by tech in India, and how you can make money work for you.

Nhost is an open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL, built with the following things in mind: Open Source, GraphQL, SQL, Great Developer Experience

Appwrite provides web and mobile developers with a set of easy-to-use and integrate REST APIs to manage their core backend needs.

A mini-grand theory on what he's up to with Twitter

Algorithmic stablecoinsHere is how an algorithmic stablecoin works. You invent two tokens, call them Dollarcoin and Sharecoin. You list them Algorithmic stablecoins Here is how an algorithmic stablecoin works.

Hint: it's not a technology problem.

Plus! Facebook Apologetics; Food Delivery and Unit Economics; More Air Taxis; Business and China

India is caught between the strategic needs of its friends in the West and ensuring economic security of its citizens

There are a few ways to make a stablecoin. Not all of them absolutely guarantee loss of tens of billions of dollars.

The obvious follow-up: Why Netflix Should Not Sell Ads. Plus, thoughts on Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter.

Spurred by cheap loans and investors desperate to boost returns, buyout firms roam every corner of the corporate world.

What free cash flow has to do with growth, and why Chinese businessmen in the South East Asian diaspora obsessed over it.

We are not minds that happen to have bodies to do their physical work. Rather, we are bodies that seem to have minds. We are bodies in motion that happen to produce a subjective sensation we call consciousness, which gives us the impression that we are something more than, or something other than, bodies. This is the remarkable illusion we call mind. — Simon Penny, Making Sense

Why we love consuming stories about other people's failure

EDIT April 20, 2022This article is out of date as we have since switched back to an open-source license. While we still stand for the principles in...

How to create and use technical wedges strategically as a software business. Lenny Rachitsky of Lenny's Newsletter wrote a piece [https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/wedge] on finding a wedge. He defines a wedge as follows, > A wedge is simply a strategy to win a large market by initially capturing (1) a tiny part of a larger market or (2) a large part of a small adjacent market. He goes on to give examples across different industries that have been impacted by software: Doordash, Stripe, Uber,

We are pivoting from PKM and creating a new category, CKM. Our vision is to create a Collective Brain, a social network for learning, collaboration, and innovation.