We will have driverless minivans. We will not have driverless convertibles.

Cheating: A User's Guide to the Social Contract docs.google.com/document/d/1pi…

It's easier to turn attention into capital than it is to turn capital into attention.

Something’s rotten in startup land. When did we become orthodox? We used to celebrate mavericks. Now we only accept founders and startups from Innovation™️ University. We used to be pirates—now we’re the Port Authority. Stop gatekeeping disruption and raise the black flag! 🏴‍☠️

We Were the Pirates, Now We’re the Port Authority I knew something had curdled in startup-land when my feed lit up with dunk-tweets about Roy and Cluely. Here is a young, hungry, ambitious hacker who is unafraid to push social and technological boundaries and ultimately

Our very own Tina He reflects on frontier technologies and her return to investing at this year’s Vercel Ship — in conversation with the brilliant Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal of Acquired Podcast.

It’s only called open source if it comes from the Silicon Valley region of the United States. Otherwise it’s national security risk.

Chris Paik on the age of Big Startups

20%: The Price of Demand docs.google.com/document/d/17S…

You don’t just study markets in NYC—you watch them self-organize. Lonchera ladies outside construction sites: routing, inventory, pricing, throughput. No dashboards, just feedback loops. It’s beautiful equilibrium.

Wrapping a commodity makes you a landlord. Wrapping a monopoly makes you a tenant.

This is a perfect example of being confidently incorrect. OSS is metered billing, not subscription-based. Completely different business models. One is a paywall, one is not. To achieve business model-product fit, this is a critical nuance to understand.