better doing

Our job is not to make our kids like us.

“Our job is to help our kids become who they are meant to be. Almost certainly, whoever they want to be has some precedent in our family—and history. We owe it to them to show these branches of the family […]

better doing

The cybernetic teammate.

Don’t let this title intimidate you. This post shares the results of very interesting field research among 776 professionals at Procter and Gamble, the consumer goods giant. The upshot: teams do better work than individuals. Yet, individuals with AI do […]

tech, startups, internet

USV’s slow hunch.

A rare interview with Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham. “Since founding USV in 2003, Fred and Brad have backed companies like Twitter, Etsy, Cloudflare, and Coinbase while developing an investment thesis focused on enabling new forms of value creation through […]

tech, startups, internet

AI is stifling tech adoption.

Of course AI assistants lower the bar for who can code and how quickly, expanding the universe of people who can create software. Yet as more code-writing comes through this pipeline, it also creates a choke point for the underlying […]

tech, startups, internet

How to build, scale and win in hard tech.

“Those that succeed are focused from day one on developing technology and building companies that deliver real economic value per dollar spent, not by leaning on government crutches, rich subsidies, or vague promises of economies of scale. They develop and […]

fun facts

Everyone knows your location.

So many apps secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. This developer decided to try and track himself through this backdoor data. He stopped short of buying his data in the database due to the hefty pricetag. “But still, I […]