Chris Dixon
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First saved Agency problems on August 15, 2026.
A ten-step list of how people react to a transformative technology, from never having heard of it to calling it too powerful and demanding regulation.
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Uses the hill-climbing algorithm to explain why smart people stay on career paths they don't want, and why moving to the higher hill early beats climbing the wrong one.
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Big companies constantly fight misaligned incentives between employees and the firm, so selling to them means knowing what each decision maker is rewarded for.
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Feedback loops between platforms and apps produce exponential growth that looks slow for years and then sudden, with smartphones as the main example.
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Steve Jobs in 1985 on watching kids grow up with Apple IIs and the leverage of an idea that a few people design and many others build on.
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Steve Jobs on pushing past the convoluted middle stage of a hard problem to find its underlying principle and an elegant solution.
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A quote arguing that today's free internet in your pocket would have sounded insane twenty years ago, and that the biggest technological changes are still ahead.
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Mike Moritz on judging each startup on its own, and why generalizing about whole markets is dangerous when your job is finding the exceptions.
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Extends Eric Ries's vanity metrics to milestones: celebrity investors, brand partnerships, and press that feel like progress but don't help the company.
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Engineers spend free time on interesting problems rather than near-term returns, which is why today's tech hobbies tend to become tomorrow's industries.
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