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The Epic Story of Dropbox's Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire
Half-a-billion people stored files on Dropbox. Well, sort of. Really, the files were in Amazon’s cloud. Until Dropbox built its own. And threw the switch.
A Framework for Evaluating the Right Strategy for Your Startup by @ttunguz
Why City Life Has Gotten Way More Expensive
Something beyond rising energy and labor costs is leading to sticker shock on once-cheap urban amenities.
Amazon Prime Video’s attempt to become the everything store for Indian streaming
Amazon wants to be a marketplace for India’s 40-plus streaming platforms, with the impending launch of Prime Video Channels in the country.
There’s no such thing as data
Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own our data, and be paid for it. But really, there is no such thing as data, it’s not yours, and it’s not worth anything.
What's Better than a Cookie? A Wallet - How Crypto Will Revolutionize Marketing
The Most Popular Financing Round in 2022
Be Single-Minded Long Enough to Get Lucky
Recently I was sitting outside at a restaurant and my ears perked up when the gentleman at the table behind me started talking about entrepreneurs with his guest. When pressed by his companion as t…
The loan-cost tradeoff: higher EMI or higher total interest?
When interest rates rise, keeping EMIs constant may be more trouble than it’s worth Read this edition online Monday, 20 June 2022 A weekly newsletter about how finance is getting supercharged by tech in India, and how you can make money work for you.
Bottom-Up Idea Exploration
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
Seeking intensity — Ada Nguyen
This newsletter was originally published on Substack and archived here for posterity.
Dev tools: The ex-Googler guide
After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here's one ex-Googler's guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you're feeling, and introducing these to your new team.
Hasura's biggest strength is its greatest weakness
India’s first open source unicorn, Hasura has shattered the notion that proprietary solutions are the sole path to building a $1Bn business
Don't work in venture capital
Separate the “job to be done” from the the job you think you want
If it isn't going to work, just shut it down.
Don’t build the startup ship of Theseus.
Be a star or a janitor. - by Yoni Rechtman
How to prioritize at work early in your career.
Don't be a generalist. - by Yoni Rechtman
You can have generalist knowledge or a generalist skill set — not both.
Productivity
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets...
The willpower paradox: when self-talk becomes counterproductive
People using interrogative self-talk seem to perform better than those who use declarative self-talk. That’s the Willpower Paradox.
how your “emotional temperature” impacts your decisions
We constantly make decisions that will affect our lives in the future. That future can be one hour from now (what’s for lunch?) or one year from now (should I hire an assistant?). Unfortunately, the brain has a hard time imagining what our future selves will need. Instead, it takes mental shortcuts and makes choices ... Read More
why we underestimate the influence of emotions
“I would do much better!” you think, watching someone give a presentation about a topic you are familiar with. “I don’t feel like smoking at all, I’ll definitely be able to quit tomorrow,” you say with a relaxed tone, right after smoking a cigarette. These are illustrations of the empathy gap: our tendency to underestimate ... Read More
The danger of emotional reasoning and using our emotions as proof
The problem with emotional reasoning is that it can lead to worsening feelings of anxiety, fear or worry in situations that are already stressful.
how we react to the threat of losing our freedom
Psychological reactance is a reflex reaction to being told what to do, or feeling that your freedom is under threat. It can occur in personal, professional or social settings when you feel that you need to regain a sense of control over your autonomy.
The dangers of apophenia: not everything happens for a reason
Apophenia is the tendency to detect patterns that do not exist. Also known as patternicity, apophenia occurs when we try to make predictions, or seek answers, based on unrelated events.
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DALL•E 2 - Sam Altman
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions. Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful....
Being Passionate about the Wrong Things
Umm… It’s been an eventful couple of months. I broke up with my girlfriend of 5+ years, I went from being a designer to a developer, and I learned how to be a slightly better human in the process.
In Search of Organic Software
So over the last couple weeks, I’ve been talking to VCs and founders who have and haven’t taken VC to learn whether it makes sense for Kinopio. I don’t think it does.
The Ken announces angel funding - The Ken
The Ken formally launched on 3 October 2016 as India’s first subscriptions-only business news site. Today, we’re announcing our angel funding round. In a short span of four months, we’ve managed to create a subscriber base composed not just of founders, venture capitalists, CEOs, lawyers and senior management but also college students and young professionals. Our readers trust us because we’re honest about our journalism. This means: 1. We do only one story every weekday, and that story is original, analytical, deeply-reported and well-narrated. 2. Subscribers like reading our articles, so they pay us. 3. Thus, we’re India’s first pure…