Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash Ben Horowitz: Why We Prefer Founding CEOs Naval Ravikant: Presentation Hacks Fred Chong: The Forces of Long Tail Software and Services Mixergy Interview: How SiteAdvisor Went From Startup Vision To A Career-Making Exit – with Chris Dixon
A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do Dilbert: That Lost 4G Phone How many Steve Nash high-fives per game? (video) Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish (video) Kevin Donaldson: Summary of Startup Lessons Learned Conference
Bradford Cross & Hamilton Ulmer: 7 Tips for Successful Self-Learning Mike Taylor: Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search? Evan Miller: How Not To Run An A/B Test Mark Suster: Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Gabriel Weinberg interviews Eric Ries on [...]
Michael Burry edition. Scion Capital Letters (pdf links): – 2000 Annual Letter – 2001 Q1 – 2001 Q2 – 2001 Q3 – 2001 Annual Letter – A Primer on Scion Capital’s Subprime Mortgage Short – There is some more information on the Scion Capital website Tariq Ali: Learning from Michael Burry
Aaron Iba: How I Cured my RSI Pain, comments on the essay on HN Paul Graham: Organic Startup Ideas Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers. From Jeff Bezos of Amazon, then know as Cadabra. Steve Blank: Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups Steven Strogatz on sync
Gabriel Weinberg interviews Patrick McKenzie on SEO & AdWords for Bingo Card Creator. Follow up questions answered by Patrick on HN The Inspiring Story Of The Man Behind SmugMug And FatBrain – with Chris MacAskill (Mixergy interview) Andrew Chen: Minimum Desirable Product Mark Wieczorek: Why Most Businesses Fail (A Theoretical Model)
Micheal Burry: I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed? Jonah Lehrer: The Superstar Effect Edward Tufte: Megan Jaegerman’s brilliant news graphics Robert Cialdini: The Neuroscience of Influence
How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? – W. Daniel Hillis, Clay Shirky and Nassim Taleb Jonah Lehrer: Costco Freebase Gridworks: Overview & Faceting (video) EconTalk interviews Arthur De Vany
DuckDuckGo is a new search engine I have been using for the past 7 months and absolutely love it! DuckDuckGo captures the essence of search and delivers great results with some interesting features. Here are a few of my favorite features: Zero-Click info: Easy to access information right on the search page. Disambiguation: Narrow your [...]
David Leadbeater: Wikipedia over DNS. Presentation here. Open information extraction from the Web (pdf), talks about TextRunner among other things. Gabriel Weinberg interviews Paul English on early Kayak and how hiring impacts traction Clay Shirky: The Collapse of Complex Business Models Arthur De Vany: Evolutionary Fitness (pdf)