tech, startups, internet

Venture studio online conference.

I’ve always loved the idea of a venture studio, but for many years I remained a skeptic because I had seen very few successful examples. I’ve turned my skepticism into excitement in large part thanks to research that Max Pog […]

oh, chicago

Maria Pappas 2024 calendar.

She’s the Cook County Treasurer. I hope this is real, though I’m still not sure. One problem is that July appears twice! But she does publish an annual calendar showcasing her collection of jackets — link to a story about […]

fun facts

5 of the most famous typos in history.

One is the Wicked Bible: “In a reprint of the King James Bible by royal printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the word “not” was egregiously left out of the Seventh Commandment, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” which was mistakenly […]

fun facts

Hearing bad grammar results in physical signs of stress.

“The new study reveals a statistically significant reduction in HRV in response to grammatical violations. This reduction reflects the extent of the grammatical violations, suggesting that the more errors a person hears, the more regular their heartbeat becomes—a sign of […]

fun facts

Rubberducking.

“The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck.” ~ learn more

profiles of people

Bridgewater had believability issues.

One of the funniest finance columnists of our age, Matt Levine, explains Bridgewater through the lens of Rob Copeland’s new book The Fund. “Copeland’s thesis is essentially that the “radical transparency” stuff is fake and Bridgewater is a pure cult of […]

on the blockchain

dNFTs are non-fungible and dynamic.

Remember that there are a ton of developers still pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with blockchain technology. “Imagine if every Tesla was tokenized as a dNFT with real-time metadata updates showing its service record, mileage, accident history, market value, […]