Business & Startups
- Richard Hamming on legal challenges computers face
- Patrick McKenzie on narratives and great marketing
- The back story of PUBG and Fornite
- John Collison on the history of some successful B2B companies
- Horace Dediu speculating about the Apple Glasses
- Horace Dediu on how Apple is usually not a first mover
- Horace Dediu on how Apple does beta testing
- Horace Dediu on Apple Silicon as a source of competitive advantages
- Elad Gil on product-market fit (again)
- Stewart Butterfield on the famous Slack pivot
- Steve Jobs pitching the App Store
- Elad Gil on how he spots product-market fit
- Andy Rachleff on how he defines product-market fit
Investing
- Charlie Munger deconstructing what made the success of Coca-Cola possible
- John Collison on the challenges of accounting for R&D and intangible capital
- John Collison on why it was a Telco Bubble, not a Dot-Com Bubble in the early 2000s
- John Collison on John Malone’s Liberty Media
Aging
- Julia B. on the limitations of animal models
- José Luis Ricón on noise and/or programmed aging as root causes of aging
- José Luis Ricón on death and the Stockholm syndrome
On Writing
- Michael Nielsen on writing as an antidote to the illusion of understanding
- Michael Nielsen on how hard it is to write well
- Patrick McKenzie on writing being useful for 1-on-1 conversations and as proof-of-work in job searches
- Patrick McKenzie on the discovery process for his online brand
- Patrick McKenzie on looking for where your niche currently meets online
Towards Greatness
- Charlie Munger on finding one’s special advantages
- Charlie Munger on business ethics
- Nima Arkani-Hamed on the important skill of turning big ideas into sharp questions
- V. I. Arnold on teaching mathematics
- Daniel Gross on the creative process of Swedish House Mafia
- Harj Taggar on the human motives in conversations
- Nabeel Qureshi on traits to cultivate
- Michael Faraday was used to recreate “everything” from scratch
Future
Book Recommendations
Nature
- V. I. Arnold on mathematics as an experimental science
- V. I. Arnold explaining the physical intuition behind some math concepts
