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Review: The Fund

Review: The Fund
Office workers stone tablets

I read Ray Dalio's Principles back in 2018. Without much knowledge beforehand of Bridgewater Associates or its emblematic founder, I found the book to be a reasonable autobiography paired with some scattershot advice. It didn't live…

Software Business Longevity

Reading about Artifact's announcement of their imminent shutdown was a bummer. Rereading some of the media coverage of the app when it came out of beta a year ago, much of what the founders said at the time…

Google's Villain Arc

Google's Villain Arc
Concept Art Villain

It seems so long ago when Google was the scrappy but growing technology upstart. It made sense of the morass that was the internet in the 2000s and early 2010s, and along the way rewrote the rules on digital advertising,…

Another Management Malpractice

Whenever an individual or a company garners fame and fortune, there's often intense interest in their processes and behaviors. The thinking is that there's some sort of secret sauce or hidden wisdom in how they operate,…

Verticalizing the Automotive Industry

Verticalizing the Automotive Industry
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Over winter break, we took a road trip from the Bay Area down to Death Valley National Park and the Vegas + LA metro areas for a week. As I traded a gas-powered Volvo XC90 for a Tesla Model X at…

Features ↔︎ Tech Debt Tradeoffs

This is a bit of old news at this point, but I can't help but be amused by this retelling of a small part of the ongoing Twitter drama: Geohot wants to “refactor” everything. Elno explains to him…