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The four phases of a partner/co-founder relationship.
Carlos Espinal of Seedcamp shares some thoughts on the phases of these relationships, which apply to both investment firms and startups. | learn more
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The incentives for groupthink.
Academic departments are trending toward conformity. “According to arguably the best-designed survey of American faculty beliefs since the early 1970s, which was carried out in the mid-00s, only 3.6% of humanities faculty members and only 4.9% in the social sciences […]
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The McRib effect.
“When the McRib is available, the S&P 500 has an average daily return about 7 basis points (0.07%) higher than on days when it is not available. To put that into perspective, when annualized, that difference would be 19% every year.” […]
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If humility is so important, why are leaders so arrogant?
Bill Taylor, co-founder of Fast Company, tackles this question in the Harvard Business Review. | learn more
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A hard-to-read font promises to help boost your memory.
The science behind Sans Forgetica, which incorporates a learning principle called ‘desirable difficulty.’ | learn more
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How to talk to strangers.
If you struggle with talking to strangers, maybe this can help! “Kio Stark has always talked to strangers. She shares 5 ways to spark a meaningful interaction with someone you’ve never met before.” | learn more
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Tricking your brain into learning more.
“When 50,000 of Mark Rober’s 3 million YouTube subscribers participated in a basic coding challenge, the data all pointed to what Rober has dubbed the Super Mario Effect. The YouTube star and former NASA engineer describes how this data-backed mindset […]
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Fireside chat: Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Naval Ravikant.
I really like Naval Ravikant, and I like Taleb’s ideas (maybe not his personality 😀). The talk is a nice digest of Taleb’s writing, interspersed with Naval chiming in. |learn more
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How your brain decides without you.
You may already know, but cannot be reminded too often, that your brain’s priority is not truth, but rather narrative consistency. | learn more
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All things sales: 16 mini-lessons for startup founders.
This series of short videos by a16z partner Peter Levine is aimed at teaching sales basics to technical founders. | learn more