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If you’ve ever doubted whether human beings are designed for walking, all you have to do is strap a fussy baby into a BabyBjörn and take them out for a stroll. The crying stops. With each step, the
How Tempo enables Stripe to be a vertically integrated processor. Note: This is an extension of how we think capital aggregators integrate vertically. We had previously explained the concept here.
I dropped out of college. When this happened it was a big deal—to my parents anyway. Then it was a big deal when people met me because they were constantly surprised by it. You didn’t finish college?!
In 1950, a man grieving his young son who had just died of polio got a letter from Albert Einstein. Now, one might think that as a man of science, Einstein would have had a rather resigned view of the
I was surprised to find out that many people seem to not understand what a banned book is. ‘Banned Book Week’ wrapped up yesterday, and I was continually surprised by some of the comments people
I’ve brought it to the Grammys. I’ve brought it to NFL games…and kids BJJ practices. I’ve brought it into the green room backstage before talks. I’ve brought it to restaurants and bars. I’ve carried
The weird thing I discovered about Claude Skills: they help me as much as they help Claude. ↓ All the tasks I avoid have the same problem. There are too many decisions stacked between "I should do
The bill to ban greyhound racing is entering the final stages of debate in Parliament this week. It should pass tomorrow with broad support once some of the contested details are ironed out. The ban
I think it's time to talk about this. every end of month, there are 3 types of people in ct - flexing their pnl, complaining themselves and posting a larp pnl. you have to know, all these things are
I’m not saying everyone should start a podcast. In fact, I have said the opposite many times. There are way too many of them out there…and most are not good. I’m just saying that having a podcast is
People think that leadership is something that just happens. One is anointed a leader. One is promoted to leadership. One is born into leadership. And of course, this is not the case. “Leadership,”
There are lots of smart people. There are not a lot of people who can do this smart thing. The poet John Keats called it “negative capability”—the mental fortitude to be able to entertain multiple
Let's firstly take a quick look at the Historical origin of the root causes of the Middle eastern conflicts. The modern Middle East conflict is multi-layered and can probably only be understood
There aren’t too many of us who are satisfied with the person we currently are. That is, we know we could be better. We know we should be better. And by better, we don’t mean at our jobs, at lifting
I had to go to Maui last month. I had to. Really, I tried to see if I could push it until a later date, but both my wife and my publisher told me I was out of my mind. There was a certain lady famous
"He who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms; and first... love one such form only... and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is
Everyone Is Lying All The Time Everywhere All At Once How? Well sit down, strap in, and buckle up. You might get whiplash. First, in order to lie, we must establish the truth. What is truth? Fuck if I
Australia is one of the world’s great agricultural powerhouses, exporting more than $80 billion worth of food and fibre each year and feeding millions beyond our shores. Yet when it comes to the
Not too long ago, a new term quietly entered the tech lexicon, fundamentally changing how we think about software development: **VibeCoding**. Coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, the premise of
Where can startups win when Epic absorbs everything? The speed and innovation of Ambient AI startups, the foundational power of Epic, and what startups should consider when building adjacent to the
I was coasting on fumes when he asked me the question, so I don’t think I got the answer right. To be fair, I was 90 or so minutes into being on stage for my talk in Sydney when I was asked: “If
My study of history has led me to believe that there is a kind of dark matter inside the human race. It’s some combination of evil, cruelty, ignorance, cowardice, mob-ness. It is a kind of dark
Reading is not just something you should do on vacation, or when you have free time. It should be, like all important things in your life, a daily practice, something you’re working to get better at.
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