“The new rule represents a major change for the online lead generation industry, including comparison shopping websites, by requiring lead generators to obtain consumer consent to receive robocalls and robotexts from one seller at a time, rather than having a […]
I learned about Twist in October 2021, when I shared a link from Alex Danco. He was excited about an API for biotech, enabling a new class of bio founders. In April 2022 I was impressed by Twist’s CEO speaking on a podcast about […]
From Mitchell Hashimoto, the founder of HashiCorp ($HCP). “I also figured a local branch of a global bank is just a fungible tentacle of the giant banking machine, so also… who cares.” ~ learn more
“When someone is born, chemical parts once scattered across the world converge to form a human. Days, years, and decades before, those atoms were always somewhere in the world. I recently got curious about this: where do people come from? […]
Japanese workplace culture is the opposite of America’s at-will employment. “Japanese companies are barred both by societal and legal constraints that make it very difficult to fire employees.” So they invented “the oidashibeya, literally the banishment room or the expulsion room.” ~ learn […]
“So, with the goal of attracting enough buzz to help him land writing gigs, he doubled down on writing his newsletter, then a substack on tech and finance, with an audience of around 1200, largely made of tech and startup […]
“The bitcoin spot ETF is rumored to gain approval in early January 2024, which will kick off a global competition between financial heavyweights for billions of dollars in assets under management.” ~ learn more
Hartmut Winkler is a Professor of Physics at University of Johannesburg and a contributor to the 2023 edition of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He thinks the planned nuclear plants for Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania are a bad […]
A long piece in The New Yorker digs deep into the carbon offsets market and one of its big players, South Pole. “Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold […]
“To develop this tool, CNN examined nutrition labels and ingredient lists for menu items sold by popular fast-food and lunch cafés around the country.” ~ learn more