Tech

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1. The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions★(favorite)Chris Dixon · 1 min

   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.

2. Compounding OptimismMorgan Housel · 5 min

   Housel argues progress is easy to underestimate because it comes from small ideas recombining and compounding over generations, the way Edwin Land influenced Steve Jobs, rather than from lone geniuses.

3. When You Change the World and No One NoticesMorgan Housel · 5 min

   Housel argues world-changing inventions are usually ignored for years, as the Wright brothers were by the New York Times until 1906, so innovators need patience to wait for the world to notice.

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• Compounding OptimismMorgan Housel Sep 25 5 min
• When You Change the World and No One NoticesMorgan Housel Sep 24 5 min
• A QuestionSam Altman Aug 28 1 min
• Electrons and AtomsSam Altman Aug 27 2 min
• Technology predictionsSam Altman Aug 27 1 min
• Halvar’s Guide to EntrepreneurshipThomas Dullien Aug 22 53 min
• Things You Should Never Do, Part IJoel Spolsky Aug 22 6 min
• Exponential curves feel gradual and then suddenChris Dixon Aug 15 1 min
• It all blossomed out of this tiny little seedChris Dixon Aug 15 1 min
• The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just paleChris Dixon Aug 15 1 min
• The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions★(favorite)Chris Dixon Aug 15 1 min
• What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten yearsChris Dixon Aug 15 1 min
• Operant Conditioning by Software BugsJohn Regehr Aug 12 5 min
• Defining AggregatorsBen Thompson Aug 3 7 min
• Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. AmazonJoel Spolsky Aug 3 13 min
• The Iceberg Secret, RevealedJoel Spolsky Aug 3 9 min
• Does data make us cowards?Benn Stancil Jul 13 11 min