The Magic Roundabout. One day I will drive it.

If you find yourself in a position where you feel like there aren’t enough resources to work faster, just ruthlessly cut the least important projects. It sucks but moving slowly on the most valuable thing is death.

Does diversity make teams work better?

Apparently not!

A new, comprehensive preregistered meta-analysis found that, whether the diversity was demographic, cognitive, or occupational, its relationship with performance was near-zero.

Maternal deaths have halved in the last 35 years.

The Canadian law proposal is outright mad. It is retroactive, which goes against all our Western legal tradition, according to which you can be punished only if you infringed a law that was valid at the time when you committed a crime: 'And it isn’t just stuff you’ve posted after

An underappreciated determining factor of one of the greatest economic shifts in history may very well have been that one of the key YC partners was a super people reader.

Mass graves uncovered in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied before they were killed and buried. Among the dead are doctors, zip tied and still wearing their scrubs.

Further evidence of Israeli forces extrajudicially executing Palestinian civilians.
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Data showing a plateau in both fentanyl-related and total drug-overdose deaths is the first positive news in the field since the current epidemic started.

I got 25/36 on this facial expression reading test. I was curious how Jessica would do, so I sent it to her. She got 36/36. She really is the social radar. (via Mark Essien)

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What's the best paper or essay out there explaining why the number of college administrators—at expensive schools, certainly; at all schools, possible—is growing infinity-times faster than the number of tenured faculty?

Y Combinator applications for the summer batch were up 12.5% from a year ago. Don't worry, though, this doesn't necessarily mean you have a lower chance of being accepted. If more good startups apply, the partners just accept more.

Season 3 of The Social Radars podcast launches today! Our first guest is Yuri Sagalov, who is the insider's insider. He was funded by YC, then worked for YC, and now runs his own fund, Wayfinder Ventures, which invests in a lot of YC companies.

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tbh sleeping in a tent on a city street seems like a pretty good life skill to practice for a humanities grad in 2024

Parker is just getting started. Rippling's published ambitions, big as they are, are a proper subset of their actual ones.