Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020
A eulogy for a larger-than-life thinker
Growing an audience ain’t what it used to be
Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs
Three Shorts: Notion, Roam, and “Time Preference”
A radical new take on email
How the founder of WorkLife Ventures built one of Silicon Valley’s most sought after emerging funds from scratch.
A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking
Hiten Shah on why “garbage in, garbage out” applies to strategy, too.
Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”
Jesse Beyroutey, partner at IA Ventures, on why some companies achieve dominance while others get bogged down.
The two types of “death tech” companies
The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible
Decoding Apple's intentions
Sonos filled homes with silky smooth sound, but it’s questionable if their strategic decisions made them anything more than commodity hardware.
Hello again! Yesterday after I published the Sahil Lavingia interview I received a tweet from my friend Alex: https://twitter.com/CantHardyW
(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)
One new strategy. Two new websites.
Can disruption be simplified?
The Divinations Podcast is back! (If you want to add it to your podcast app, press “add to podcast app” by the audio player above!) This wee
Trying something new - what do you think?
Six attributes of high-traction startups
A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup
A new talk show starring Li Jin and yours truly
