General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.

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  Superforecasting

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  Lots of interesting learnings and relevant to those making startup investments also!

  andrewchen.com

Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Age of Ambition

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  If you don’t really understand or know a lot about China today, this is one perspective. Good book.

  radex.io

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  It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work

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  Podcast. Another classic manifesto from Jason Fried and DHH, challenging the status quo of business today. Properly sparkled with both “fuck”s and wisdom. Fuck 50 or 80-hour work weeks, the always stressed, always anxious way of working, constant crunch. Let’s all calm down. It doesn’t have to be crazy at work.

  radex.io

Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.

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  The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits

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  The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits, by Zeynep Ton

  tompeters.com

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  Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits

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  Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, by Tony Hsieh, Zappos

  tompeters.com

Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway from 1970 to 2025, when Greg Abel became CEO; chairman as of 2026. Wrote the annual Letters to Berkshire Shareholders from 1977 to 2024, read closely across the investing world for decades.

From one piece Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letter 2 beliefs · berkshirehathaway.com

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  Investors do better over time in a low-cost index fund than in a group of hedge funds, on average.

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  Investors, on average and over time, will do better with a low-cost index fund than with a group of funds of funds.

  Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com

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  When trillions of dollars are managed by high-fee Wall Street managers, it is the managers who reap the outsized profits, not their clients.

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  The bottom line: When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits, not the clients. Both large and small investors should stick with low-cost index funds.

  Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com

Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  ScreenFlow

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  ScreenFlow - I believe the future of my business is in video + video courses. I'm in ScreenFlow almost every day. Sometimes I use it to "hijack audio" during interviews. Sometimes I use it to edit video. It's getting a lot of use.

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Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.

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  Past a certain hiring rate the marginal value of another engineer falls towards nothing, because training and interviewing consume the engineers you already have.

  Their words

  this is where the oft raised concern that hiring is slowing us down comes from: at high enough rates, the marginal added value of hiring gets very slow, especially if your training process is weak.

  Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.lethain.com

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  The feeds businesses design to be addictive are obstacles to anyone whose aim is to make something.

  Addiction

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  Every business wants to get you addicted to their infinite updates, pings, chats, messages, and news. But if what you want out of life is to create, then those are your obstacles.

  Disconnectsive.rs

Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.

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  The Business Blockchain

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  the book makes a complex subject, blockchain technology, accessible for the non-technical

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Zero to One

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  Thoughts on building innovative new companies. There’s some startup BS in Zero to One that turned me off, but still enough interesting insight to recommend the book.

  radex.io

Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway from 1970 to 2025, when Greg Abel became CEO; chairman as of 2026. Wrote the annual Letters to Berkshire Shareholders from 1977 to 2024, read closely across the investing world for decades.

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  His advice to his own estate's trustee is the same advice he gives everyone: almost all of it into a low-cost S&P 500 index fund, not with a high-fee manager.

  government

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  My advice to the trustee could not be more simple: Put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund. (I suggest Vanguard’s.) I believe the trust’s long-term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors – whether pension funds, institutions or individuals – who employ high-fee managers.

  Berkshire Hathaway 2013 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com

Co-founder and chief strategy officer of Intercom; writes and speaks about product strategy, customer support and, lately, what AI does to both.

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  A real product decision says a proposal is a great idea and still turns it down for something else.

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  Real product decisions aren’t easy. They require you to look at a proposal and say “This is a really great idea, I can see why our customers would like it. Well done. But we’re not going to build it. Instead, here’s what we’re doing.”.

  Product strategy means saying nointercom.com

Economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago's Harris School, studying conflict, organised crime and development; author of Why We Fight.

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  Aid is not development: transfers can relieve poverty, but the work that actually lifts a country out of it is not work donors do.

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  Third, a cash transfer to help the poor build business is like aspirin to a flesh wound. It helps, but not for long.

  chrisblattman.com

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  The Endurance

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  I'm reading The Endurance and "by endurance we conquer" (Ernest Shackleton's family motto) struck me as a great piece of startup wisdom.

  blog.samaltman.com

Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group; former vice president at Apple; founding director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego.

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  Design thinking is practised by all great thinkers, but design is the one field that tries to teach it as a systematic method rather than leave it to the exceptional.

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  I was correct in my original article: what we call design thinking is practiced in some form or other by all great thinkers, whether in literature or art, music or science, engineering or business. But the difference is that in design, there is an attempt to teach it as a systematic, practice-defining method of creative innovation.

  Rethinking Design Thinkingcore77.com

Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  Attaching advertising revenue to links changed the web for the worse, because a link stopped being an act of expression and became a transaction.

  Google

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  The web was an interesting and different place before links got monetized, but by 2007 it was clear that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links.

  The Web We Lostanildash.com

Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.

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  Founders, designers and developers need to develop their taste the way a sushi chef develops a palate, and appreciating culture is how.

  startups

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  Like sushi chefs, we as founders, designers or developers, need to develop our tastes, in order to build things people can be impressed about.

  Jiro’s Dreamkarrisaarinen.com

Software engineer and PostgreSQL contributor who ran the Postgres Open conference; later a senior engineering leader at Mozilla and CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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  Arq

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  I use Arq for backups, LastPass for passwords, Chrome for my browser and have four users set up inside Chrome to handle business and personal account separation.

  usesthis.com

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  LastPass

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  I use Arq for backups, LastPass for passwords, Chrome for my browser and have four users set up inside Chrome to handle business and personal account separation.

  usesthis.com

Software engineer and interface designer; one of the main developers of the original Apple Macintosh, later at Radius, General Magic, Eazel and Google, and author of Revolution in the Valley.

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  Calibre

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  I use Calibre to manage my ebooks, and harbor an ambition to rewrite its web UI.

  usesthis.com

Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.

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  Every new drug has to beat the cheap generics that came before it, and that competition with our own back catalogue is why drug discovery gets harder over time.

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  I think that this is insufficiently appreciated outside of the drug business. Nothing goes away unless it's well and truly superseded.

  Eroom's Lawweb.archive.org

Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

From one piece Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Engineers are hired to create business value rather than to program things, and the only goals are adding revenue and cutting costs.

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  The person who has decided to bring on one more engineer is not doing it because they love having a geek around the room, they are doing it because adding the geek allows them to complete a project (or projects) which will add revenue or decrease costs.

  kalzumeus.com

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  Calling yourself a programmer marks you as a cost to be eliminated; describe yourself instead by the revenue you raised or the costs you cut.

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  If you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired.

  kalzumeus.com

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  An employee’s startup equity grant is most likely worth nothing, because people overestimate both the odds of success and their own share of it.

  startups

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  Because you radically overestimate the likelihood that your startup will succeed and radically overestimate the portion of the pie that will be allocated to you if the startup succeeds.

  kalzumeus.com

Media theorist and writer; author of Program or Be Programmed and Team Human, and host of the Team Human podcast.

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  iPhone

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  I got an iPhone because Helio went out of business (I had a phone I loved called the Ocean2), but I don't like the iPhone because I need keys.

  usesthis.com

Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.

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  Photoshop

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  Adobe Photoshop gets some use, mostly when my business partner sends me designs and buttons and such to turn into markup and CSS, but also when I want to goof around a bit with images or process screenshots for my writing.

  usesthis.com

Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

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  What Investors Really Want

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  Meir Statman, one of my favorite behavioral economists, has written a great book on how investors can overcome their base urges and make better decisions:

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