This is a great article and it’s lessons are broadly applicable to businesses. “There are many different moats but they have at their root only a few different principles. This post is an attempt at categorizing the best-known moats by […]
From Farnam Street: “Innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Doers and thinkers from Shakespeare to Jobs, liberally “stole” inspiration from the doers and thinkers who came before. Here’s how to do it right.” | learn more
“Tech exec, VCs, and analysts—from WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart to AOL cofounder Steve Case—on the pandemic’s lasting impact on how we live, work, and think.” Pay close attention and you’ll see how everyone’s views are colored by their businesses. One example: […]
I love this concept, and the name too. “It’s called DeltaV — an engineering term for a change in velocity — and the idea is to formulate startup ideas, get them up and running, then when they’re at the Series […]
“After lifelong Cubs fan Don Costello died last week, his son unearthed 1981 letters from MLB teams rejecting his offer to come to their team as a “free-agent fan.” | learn more
Since car traffic has decreased pedestrians and bikers have taken a larger share of the road. How can we keep it that way? | learn more
“In 1922, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that effectively granted Major League Baseball a legal monopoly over professional baseball in the United States — a situation that persists to this day.” | learn more
I was once a devout double-spacer. I gave up when I realized that web browsers treated multiple spaces as a single space anyway. One more generation and the double-space will go the way of the long s. | learn more
There’s a bank in the game Animal Crossing. It slashed interest rates to near zero. | learn more
Human digestion is a sticky, complex subject. Even in previous reading on the gut microbiome, I didn’t know how digestion actually worked. Reading Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders helped fill in some […]