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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 […]

From CTO to unemployed overnight - what now?

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 […]

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?

My nuanced opinion on the #AppleBrowserBan

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.

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.

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

The best Commonplace posts in one place.

A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series that examines the idea of putting Charlie Munger's Elementary Worldly Wisdom to practice in one's life in the pursuit of better decision making.

The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't.

Curiosity leads to obsession, which leads to mastery. And only through mastery do you become the best in the world at what you do - and get paid well for it. But, it all begins with your genuine curiosities. If you want to get rich, the first thing you need to do is get your curiosity back. Society

How to Predict the Future and Make the Most of It

This is part two of the crossover project. Part one is here and part three is here. No one thinks about moving the starting or ending point of the bridge midway through construction. -Justin Cave I had to move a bridge. -Anonymous1 Carl worked as a mechanical verification engineer: he tested oil rigs to see how much they vibrated. Humans work and live on oil rigs for long stretches of time, and if they vibrate too much it can be impossible to sleep.

This is part three of the crossover project. Part one is here and part two is here. I met William at Deconstruct 2019.1 We were walking back from the pre-party—too loud for my comfort level—and I took the chance to interview him. He knew about my project and wanted to share his memories of mechanical engineering. “Most of my skills transferred seamlessly. There’s one book, Sketching User Experiences, that’s aimed at software engineers.

A look at the trade-offs with local development in a world that is increasingly cloud-native.

An interview with “The Metaverse” author Matthew Ball about Metaverse timing, challenges, and Netflix’s content challenges

I'm not saying the only reason I've categorically refused to invest in tech startups in the past was my instinctual aversion to the term "angel investor", but it surely did play a part! There's just something so ridiculously self-serving about this angelic charade that turned me off for the longest time. So too did the fact that every ...

Fifteen years later, developers are still trying to recreate the developer experience of Heroku. Yet, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Why did Heroku fail? Was it just incompetent management? Was the idea too early? If developers demand Heroku, why haven't they (or a competitor) figured out how to make it viable? Here are four hypotheses about Heroku's successes and failures and why they may be wrong. Market Timing Hypothesis. > Heroku was acquired too early and s

The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen plans “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar.

In this article, Lago's cofounder Raffi gives an overview of the technical challenges we faced while implementing a hybrid pricing model at Qonto, and what we learned during this journey.

You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…

A few things I strongly believed when I was a junior developer which turned out to be wrong.

Run by 19YO tech entrepreneurs, Zepto competes with industry leaders Grofers—now BlinkIt—and Dunzo to bring your daily grocery items

Revolutionizing the most foundational developer tool is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.

How to write more, faster, and better by decoupling writing from pre-writing

An overview of Datadog's platform, and where it is taking it next.