Dan Hon: s15e01: Marks on Flat Planes. Yes, I suppose I have thoughts about Apple Vision Pro just like everybody goddamn else and I don’t know – I’m just tired? (more)

Cedric Chin: The Idea Maze is a Useless Idea. In 2022, I launched an experimental series of cases on the ‘Idea Maze’. The term ‘Idea Maze’ is a Silicon Valley (or tech industry)-ism ; it was originally coined by former Coinbase exec Balaji Srinivasan and then expanded on in a subsequent essay by venture capitalist Chris Dixon. ((2022-08-23) Chin The Idea Maze Cases) (more)

FeedBack loop; see iterative for list of processes that include a feedback loop (more)

repeating, cycling (more)

Iterative process of "Plan-Do-Study-Act" (more)

product management guru with newsletter/community - 7yrs at AirBnb, 9yrs at WebMetrics; https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/ (more)

*The most powerful companies and leaders in the world don’t win by being “better.” (more)

In June 2010, he officially quit his job at Sixthman to focus on his own company called Nerd Fitness... Kamb's first published book, Level Up Your Life, was released on January 12, 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kamb (more)

Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund formed in 2005 and based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $17 billion in total assets under management as of 2025.[2][3] Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Palantir Technologies, and an early investor in Facebook.[4][5][6] The firm's partners have been founders, early employees and investors at companies including PayPal, Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries and SpaceX... Notable partners include Peter Thiel, Trae Stephens, and Mike Solana.[10][11][12] Former partners include Brian Singerman,[10][13] Keith Rabois,[14] Cyan Banister, Ken Howery,[10] Kevin Hartz,[15] Sean Parker,[16] and [Bruce Gibney]]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund

Michael James Burry (/ˈbɜːri/; born June 19, 1971)[2] is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He founded the hedge fund Scion Capital, which later went by the name Scion Asset Management. In 2025, Burry announced he was shutting down Scion Asset Management. He is best known for being among the first investors to predict and profit from the subprime mortgage crisis. (Credit Crisis 2008) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry

Palantir Technologies Inc. is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics platforms enabling government agencies, militaries, and corporations to combine and analyze data from multiple sources. Its flagship products—Gotham (for intelligence and defense) and Foundry (for commercial and civil use)—connect previously siloed databases to support intelligence operations, counterterrorism analysis, law enforcement, and enterprise analytics.[3] Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, it was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel,[4] Stephen Cohen,[5] Joe Lonsdale,[6] CEO Alex Karp,[7] and Nathan Gettings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

‘We’re the peace activists": my surreal, soul-sucking day at Palantir’s first AI warfare conference. On 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed America’s military-industrial complex. (more)

Keith Rabois (born March 17, 1969) is an American technology executive and investor. He is a managing director at Khosla Ventures. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and his executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide, and Square. Rabois invested in Yelp and Xoom prior to each company's initial public offering ("IPO") and sits on both companies' boards of directors.[1][2] He is considered a member of the PayPal Mafia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Rabois (more)

Finally following the advice from (2023-03-27) BiteCode on Python installation and packaging esp on Mac. (Started, stopped, then restarted further down page Apr'2025, finished laptop.) (more)

If I Were Building Mindvalley Again in 2026… It took me 20 years to build Mindvalley. If I were starting today, in 2026, I could build the same company in 12 months, with one-twentieth the people, and with far less friction, stress, and pain. (more)

Chase Jarvis is an American photographer, director, artist, and entrepreneur.[1][2][3][4] From April 2014 until July 2022 Jarvis was the chief executive officer of CreativeLive, an online education platform that he co-founded in 2010... Jarvis published his first book, The Best Camera: Is the One That's With You, in 2009. The book celebrates images taken with cameras in mobile phones, particularly iPhones, and Jarvis released an iPhone app called Best Camera in conjunction with the book.[27] In 2010, Jarvis released his second book, Seattle 100, which is a collection of black and white portraits and biographies of people defining Seattle's culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Jarvis (more)

Chris Aldrich found a Zettelkasten OnePager by Niklas Luhmann himself in the form of some lecture notes from 1968. (more)

I'm interested in getting my first-grader exposed to the gestalt of modern scientific thinking - nonlinearity, dynamics, Emergence, Complexity Theory, Evolution, etc. (more)

aka Google Office, later re-named G-Suite, then Google Workspace. (more)

Jake Saper: Most of the fastest-growing AI app companies today are PLG: think Bolt/Lovable, HeyGen/Synthesia, Cursor/Cline, etc. But many are repeating mistakes that cost the last generation of PLG companies market leadership—or even their independence. Take Slack.com and Zoom.* (more)