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GraphQL decouples the frontend team's data needs from the teams managing the API and data layers. GraphQL was first deployed for Facebook's native mobile applications. Clients and backends had rapidly diverging data needs. Mobile clients were different than web clients. Some APIs didn't even exist (e.g., hydrated serverside and sent as HTML). iOS applications might rarely (or never) be updated. * The ability to scale GraphQL is highly dependent on your underlying data architecture. Meta did i

The second part of a three part piece on incentives. It turns out that if you've grokked the primary incentives of an industry, you can do one other thing: identify aberrations, and use that as a guide to dig further.

Six weeks • One cycle An inside look at the specifics of how we decide what to do and then decide how to do it. “How do you guys actually work? How do you choose what to do? How big are your teams?…

We’re outspoken about running a profitable company in an industry that so often eschews profits for potential. So why? People ask us why all the time. Why choose profit? So I thought I’d detail som…

Dear SaaStr: When Should You Sell Your Startup? Having been through the acquisition process 4x -- twice as a founder, twice as a start-up exec, here's my

Amazon’s Fire Phone was a failure.

Steamboat Willie put Walt Disney on the map as an animator.

Richard Held and Alan Hein raised 20 kittens in pitch black darkness.

An irony of studying history is that we often know exactly how a story ends, but have no idea where…

An Analysis of Public Tech Company Valuations Versus the Capital They Raised

Why air-conditioned railway stations are political Read this edition online A paid 🔒 weekly emailer that explains fundamental shifts in business, technology and finance that happened over the last seven days in India.

Spare a thought for the poor guppy fish, who lives a miserable existence but teaches us something important about forecasting.

Cognitive Flexibility Theory: the caveats. Also: a look at kind vs wicked learning domains, and what this tells us about building expertise in messy, real world domains.

Cognitive Flexibility Theory: the caveats. Also: a look at kind vs wicked learning domains, and what this tells us about building expertise in messy, real world domains.

Some brief observations on the cases so far. Use this as a starting point, not an authoritative take.

Everything I know about learning in novel, ill-structured domains, summarised in one piece.

What Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the acceleration of expertise in ill-structured domains.

And that helps explain the premium its shares command Read this edition online Tuesday, 06 September 2022 A weekly newsletter about the biggest changes in commerce—focusing on shifts that matter to you.

A trick to learning a complicated topic is realizing how many complex details are a cousin of something simple.

I’ve been thinking about labor and the holiday meant to celebrate our nation’s workers. My observation: “Labor” Day is a ruse, just as “hero” is a moniker typically attached to someone we’ve decided to underpay — teachers, front-line workers, etc. A more honest name for a holiday describing who/what we value would be “Capital” Day. […]

In 1990, David Letterman asked his friend Jerry Seinfeld how his new sitcom was going.

The first attempt at building the iPhone came two decades too early.

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Customer acquisition is not the same as customer behaviour Read this edition online A paid 🔒 weekly emailer that explains fundamental shifts in business, technology and finance that happened over the last seven days in India.

Last week President Biden issued an executive order to forgive billions of dollars in student loan debt. It was met with mixed reviews. For some, it’s a miracle, others think it’s a “bailout for the wealthy.” Representative Lauren Boebert believes it’s “robbing hard-working Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory.” She […]

This past week I was talking to a potential entrepreneur and he asked about startup ideas, markets, fundraising, and more. After sharing that I believe market selection is the main determinant for …