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COVID-19 and Managing Risk
COVID-19 and Managing Risk
This is where we have no choice other than to trust the people whose job is to help with this stuff. The only thing we can do is stay inside, stay sane and be patient. ​ There are no quick fixes to this. No amount of shady scientific papers or tweet threads will change any of this. ​ We can find something new every minute of every one of these days, yet, none of it really makes a difference.
·themargins.substack.com·
COVID-19 and Managing Risk
A place to not just live, but breathe.
A place to not just live, but breathe.
how venture capital, in its essence, is a call option and how that explains the odd ways startups sometimes behave. I’d write about, in my most financially-ambitious piece, how the maniacal focus on the upside is why companies build their technologies as generally throw-away, how people constantly change jobs after 2-3 years, and other such things. ​ But one of the reasons I had moved to the U.S. more than 15 years ago was [...] a sense of sanity. A place to not just live, but breathe.
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A place to not just live, but breathe.
Innovation and the 2010s
Innovation and the 2010s
Is there an argument to be made that they choked off real innovation over the past decade. ​ We’re still using the same exact apps and they kind of look and feel the same.
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Innovation and the 2010s
Mark Zuckerberg and Existential Threats
Mark Zuckerberg and Existential Threats
It’s not a political movement. It’s not even some coordinated, nicely branded “techlash.” It’s just regular people, watching inaction and outcomes, who are fed up. ​ I know Zuck’s persona of nerdy programmer has long disappeared, but the level of NFL Wide Receiver cockiness is still jarring to hear. but the anger is not the problem to solve, it’s the lung cancer.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Existential Threats