Hypothesis: Although some newspapers can survive the switch to online subscriptions, none can do it and remain a politically neutral "newspaper of record." You have to pick a side to get people to subscribe.

Google's homepage from 1997 is a reminder that you don't have to wait until your product is perfect before it launches in order for it to become successful 😂

Stable Diffusion has made its way to millennial meme accounts.

Making hard decisions to fix things as a founder is only 25% of the battle. The other 75% is picking *which* hard decisions to make from the 100s of things they seem broken or suboptimal each day.

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I've been hired by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Asset Management and Citi to name a few. Here are 10 commonly asked interview questions and how to prepare for each so you stand out & get an offer: 1) What sets you apart from other candidates? 🧵1-15 with advice on each:

20 powerful life lessons from the greatest minds in history: 1. "It's impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case, you fail by default." —J.K. Rowling

The most powerful paradoxes of life:

five minutes into a conversation with my company's benefits provider and i regret to inform you i am a communist, now, hand me a torch

I love watching early pitch videos of iconic startups. $60B+ value created below. But at the start, there was only a raw deck and big dreams. Here are 7 behind-the-scenes gems ⬇️

Can Brazil become a superpower? It will be an uphill battle despite the heroic efforts of the Brazilians

cards are to fintech as mobile is to software. just like mobile, over the last 15 years, most great fintech businesses have been built around this one platform. 1/

1/ How to succeed with founder led sales: Last week, Garry Tan was nice enough to invite me to his home to speak with the current YC batch. The most common topic was founders figuring out how to close the first set of customers in time for demo day.

Microsoft Teams now has 270m users. Slack has 20m users. Wild chart.

Just hired a 21yo for their first job. What basic professional advice do they need? Here's what I tell all my new staff, but perhaps you can add. I'll start small. 1/ Use an online calendar. Have a foolproof system of reminders, so you never forget a deadline or obligation.

i'm blown away by how creative websites from the 90s were, despite the constraints. with slower internet speeds, websites needed to be more efficient, prioritizing function over style. but yet, they still managed to be useful and have flair. i've curated 15 of my favorites👇🧵

Jeff Bezos famously only allowed 4 different answers to a question at Amazon: 1. Yes 2. No. 3. A number 4. I don't know, but I'll know it by X If you're uncomfortable saying option 4, you've got work to do.

The cost of distraction is the life you could’ve lived. If you suffer from distraction, read this. Cal Newport’s protocol for deep work:

I surf the web daily, and Here are 20 incredibly useful websites you probably didn’t know existed. Trust me, you’ll want to bookmark these… 🔖

Ever thought about viewing the world differently..? This thread on cool maps is here to blow your mind 1. All roads lead to Rome