Monthly Archives: February 2019

My favorite links this week:

• An excellent post on how Eden has pivoted several times
• Watch a zygote become a tadpole in 6 minutes
• Have empathy. Startups are hard.
• How should we think about, and talk about, wealth?
• James Hamilton (of AWS): Collision at Sea: USS Fitzgerald
• A harmful fallacy: affirming the consequent
• HBR: The Founder’s Dilemma
• Top people lessons from Auren Hoffman
• Schools are child jails (I couldn’t agree more)
• Theory of Constraints (Wikipedia)
• Facebook Has a Right to Block ‘Hate Speech’—But Here’s Why It Shouldn’t
• The Twitter Takeover of Politics Is Just Getting Started — my favorite quote: “Social media is allowing individual politicians to further their own careers at the expense of their party’s reputation. The result is that U.S. politics is quickly changing into a parade of celebrities.” (and, as if on command, this happened)
• Why tech companies hire so many economists

Have a great weekend!

When we’re feeling overwhelmed by negative headlines, we remind ourselves that none of us has the right to sit back and expect that the world is going to keep getting better. We have a responsibility to do everything we can to push it in that direction.

From their 2019 Annual letter (read it!)

My favorite links this week:

• VCs are less amibitous than PE or hedge fund managers
• I agree with this take on Privacy vs. Control
• Comparing Super Mario Odyssey vs. Zelda Breath of the Wild
• Laws and Sausages: How and Why of the electoral college
• Fred Wilson on Capitalism and Inequality
• Starting a new startup is difficult (but fun): YC’s Essential Startup Advice is always a worthy read
• Hypothetically, how Amazon could up-end and dominate venture capital and venture lending
• ISIS is almost dead, but it’s still alive and well in Asia
• The Bill of Rights vs. The Constitution
• Spaghetti Towers bear a striking resemblance to bazaars

Have a great week!