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Personal Knowledge Management is Bullshit
Knowledge is a brute force attack, not a bureaucratic spider web.
Buy Now, Pain Later?
Plus! TikTok; Factors; Replacing Passwords, and a Big Tech Truce; Solve for the Disequilibrium You're on the free list for The Diff.
Breaking Analysis: The Improbable Rise of Kubernetes to Become the Cloud OS
The rise of Kubernetes came about through a combination of forces that were in hindsight, quite a long shot. AWS’ dominance created momentum for cloud native application development and the need for simpler experiences beyond easily spinning up compute as a service. This wave crashed into innovations from a startup named Docker and a reluctant […]
What Happens When Most Media Is Produced for an Audience of One?
Plus! Universal Prime; Strategic Shifts; Bundling; Enterprise Twitter; Energy Leaks; Diff Jobs You're on the free list for The Diff.
Growing apart and losing touch is human and healthy
I quit Facebook back in 2011 for a lot of reasons, but perhaps the most crucial was to rebel against its core mission: Connecting the world. I was over-connected with the world, acquaintances and friends from the past, and I wanted out. Zuckerberg has repeatedly doubled down on the toxic idea that we should only have one self, one pers...
I Have all the Problems I Want
Several years ago there was an entrepreneur that I’d meet with regularly. As is custom, I’d ask the standard meeting intro, “How are things going?” Now, with 99% of the peop…
Breaking from the news
I’m not sure exactly when I became addicted to the news. But I clearly remember the time before I was checking the latest developments in the world three times per day (or four or five!). I remember momentous events like 9/11 or the swine flu pandemic from an era before being hooked into an IV feed of BREAKING NEWS. World events that r...
It's hard to escape being ordinary in a connected world
There's a scene at the beginning of The LEGO Movie where the main character Emmet is faced with the brutal assessment of his bland ordinariness by the people he works with. A few quotes: "Look at Randy here, he likes sausage. That's something. Gail is perky, that's something... I mean, all [Emmet] does is say yes to everything everybod...
Datadog Launches Application Security Monitoring
On Thursday, while investors were poring over Amazon and Apple's earnings results, Datadog snuck out another product release. In this case, they brought their
Power
“Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.” — Claude Lévi-Strauss As a young man, I thought my success was solely a function of my being awesome. My character, my grit, my talent. What a fucking child. […]
Product-Market Fit in Different Capital Environments
What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story
Confluent's approach of growing from open source to commercial product has worked out well — the company defied conventional wisdom and still ended up thriving.
What it feels like when you've found product-market fit
Stories from the founders of Netflix, Uber, Airbnb, Substack, Stripe, Datadog, Github, Segment, Dropbox, Superhuman, Instacart, Nextdoor, and many more
The Future of Search Is Boutique
The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
💳 Stripe
Everything you didn't know about the Stripe 0->1000 story
Beyond Aggregation: Amazon as a Service
Amazon’s new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify.
Tailscale raises $100M… to fix the Internet · Tailscale
We’ve raised $100M in a Series B financing led by CRV and Insight Partners, with participation from our existing major investors: Accel, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital, along with a cast of many prominent angels and smaller investors.
Celebrating the end of The Good Times
It's deja vu all over again for founders looking for easy money on soft terms to chase dreams of unicorns and waterfalls. With interest rates shooting up, a recession in the forecast, and three whirlwinds of economic hurt spinning at the same time, the fair-weather funding conditions are over. Good. See, The Good Times™ all too often s...
India dominates Y Combinator’s latest startup batch (again)
Y Combinator’s latest startup batch
Shawn Wang / swyx
Interview occurred in February, 2022. Read more from Shawn on his blog, twitter, and his book, The Coding Career Handbook. Tell us a little about your current role: where do you work, your title and generally the sort of work you and your team do. I’m currently Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io, an open source workflow engine for long running, durable processes powering companies as small as 2-person YCombinator startups, to enterprises as large as Stripe, Snap, Datadog, Netflix, Doordash, etc.
Kevin Kelly: ‘103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known’
UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. The bits were extremely popular, and they were widely shared by others. I was encouraged to write … Continue reading →
Play Long-term Games With Long-term People
Talk a little bit about what industries you should think about working in. What kind of job you should have? And who you might want to work with? So, you said, “One should pick an industry where you can play long-term games with long-term people.” Why? Yeah, this is an insight into what makes Silicon Valley work, and what makes high trust societies work. More
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Games Not Worth Playing: Limited Resources
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