Author: Cixin Liu, Translated By: Ken Liu This book is Chinese-language science fiction, translated into English. I’ve heard from a few folks that it’s all the rage among China’s tech community, and I couldn’t resist a chance to read it (hear […]
This is published in the NYT opinion section, but interesting anyway. The author discusses the links between sugars, sugar substitutes, and germs that live in the microbiome. | learn more
Future Meat Technologies founder: “It is difficult to imagine cultured meat becoming a reality with a current production price of about $10,000 per kilogram,” said Yaakov Nahmias, … “We redesigned the manufacturing process until we brought it down to $800 per […]
I’m still digesting this post by Dr. Jason Fung about Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). Though the name sounds great, apparently the evidence is incredibly biased, leading to bad conclusions. It’s not just this guy who thinks so – editors at […]
This short post by Tomasz Tunguz reminds me that the world is probabilistic, and good decisions won’t always lead to good outcomes. Nevertheless, the best way to get good outcomes is a good decision-making process. | learn more
Fred Wilson, a top VC, has some great advice: “In many sports, like diving, gymnastics, skating, etc, the way to win is to perfectly execute a high degree of difficulty move. In startups, I advise founders to avoid that way of […]
Kyle Samani from Multicoin Capital is back with another thoughtful post. What happens when your innovative open-source product is blatantly copied by a competitor with better distribution? | learn more
“In the world of tokens, amount of waste that results from the ‘build it and they will come’ mentality is already staggering and will likely exceed that of the dot-com era.” | learn more
The “next big thing of 2016” never happened. Dave Feldman, former design manager of Facebook’s Messenger bot platform, offers his insights into why. | learn more
Hunter Walk, partner at seed stage vc Homebrew, makes a call for a standardized, human-readable privacy policy format. I love this idea! | learn more