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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  Startup CXO

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  It is the kind of book you will keep by your desk and pull out from time to time to figure out how to approach an issue or to help one of your senior leaders figure out how to do that.

  avc.com

American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  Obliquity

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  One of those business books (and there are many) that you can get the main idea within the first 20 pages and can stop reading there. I skimmed through most of it.

  markmanson.net

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  Shoe Dog

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  A must-read for anyone who wants to start a business, has started a business, wishes they started a business or has ever thought about starting a business.

  markmanson.net

Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management; author of the Oaktree memos.

From one piece Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients) 3 beliefs · oaktreecapital.com

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  Value investing should mean buying whatever offers the better value proposition on all factors, not buying one side of the value/growth divide.

  value investing

  Their words

  Rather than being defined as one side of this artificial dichotomy, value investing should instead consist of buying whatever represents a better value proposition, taking all factors into account.

  Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com

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  The value-versus-growth distinction does not serve investors well in a fast-changing world.

  Their words

  My extensive discussions with Andrew led me to conclude that the focus on value versus growth doesn’t serve investors well in the fast-changing world in which we live.

  Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com

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  Readily measurable indicators of cheapness are no longer sufficient on their own to produce a sustainable investing edge.

  value investing

  Their words

  Not only are the traditional staples of classic value investing (readily discernable quantitative measures of cheapness in the here-and-now) no longer likely to produce a sustainable edge on their own, but the world has gotten more complex, with many more dynamics that can drive a decoupling of near-term metrics from valuation, both to the positive and negative.

  Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com

Makes Asianometry, video essays on the history and economics of semiconductors and East Asian industry.

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  TSMC exists because Morris Chang concluded that competing with Intel on Intel's own business model was guaranteed to fail.

  Their words

  Adopting the traditional semiconductor manufacturing business model to compete head to head against the likes of Intel would guarantee automatic failure.

  TSMC, Briefly Explainedasianometry.com

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

From one piece A few ways to make money in FOSS 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Making a living from your own open source means running it as a business and acquiring business skills, not waiting to be funded.

  open source

  Their words

  And yes, you are building a business. You need to start thinking of your project as a business and of yourself as a business owner.

  A few ways to make money in FOSSdrewdevault.com

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  Venture capital is the wrong money for an open source business, because its constraints make it hard to stay true to the mission.

  open sourcestartups

  Their words

  The fast route — venture capital funded — is going to impose constraints on your business that will ultimately make it difficult to remain true to your open-source mission.

  A few ways to make money in FOSSdrewdevault.com

Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of Salesforce.com

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  Want to know the story behind how Salesforce was built? This is that story in founder Marc Benioff's own words. At times I found him overly prescriptive without an appreciation for his unfair advantages he had (getting to start it while having a big salary at Oracle, having $6Mn in "bootstrapped funding", etc). However, he also helped pioneer the cloud and SaaS as a business model, so there are many great lessons to glean if you're building a high-growth SaaS business.

  jasonevanish.com

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  What Customers Want

  Their words

  This book was written before the Lean Startup movement, but espouses many of the same concepts. If you feel like you're starting at zero in understanding what to do to become customer driven, this is a good place to start.

  jasonevanish.com

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  The Lean Startup

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  If you actually want to learn how to actually BE a lean startup or how to actually do it, this book will not help you. If you want to learn the high level concepts only then this is a great book. The other books I have above I encourage you to read before this one if you want to truly learn and implement lean practices. 7. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (3.13.18)

  jasonevanish.com

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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  Startup Communities

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  has updated his excellent book on startup ecosystems

  avc.com

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  The Startup Community Way

  Their words

  The timing of this book is excellent.

  avc.com

Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

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  Pre-modern subsistence farmers were minimising the risk of starvation rather than maximising output, and their apparently backward practices are rational once that is understood.

  Their words

  These small subsistence farmers generally seek to minimize risk, rather than maximize profits. After all, improving yields by 5% doesn’t mean much if everyone starves to death in the third year because of a tail-risk that wasn’t mitigated.

  acoup.blog

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  The Ride of a Lifetime

  Their words

  But I recently read another business book that I will happily recommend to anyone who asks: The Ride of a Lifetime, by former Disney CEO Robert Iger.

  gatesnotes.com

Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  The Fish that Ate the Whale

  Their words

  One of the craziest, most impressive stories of business smarts I’ve come across and from someone otherwise unknown. Like a real-life Francisco d’Anconia from Atlas Shrugged.

  nateliason.com

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  The 12 Week Year

  Their words

  It’s okay, didn’t feel like there was anything groundbreaking here in the planning, productivity, or business space though.

  nateliason.com

Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  If intelligence is the process of acquiring skills, no single task demonstrates intelligence unless it is a meta-task of skill-acquisition across many tasks.

  Their words

  If intelligence lies in the process of acquiring skills, then there is no task X such that skill at X demonstrates intelligence, unless X is actually a meta-task involving skill-acquisition across a broad range of tasks.

  On the Measure of Intelligencearxiv.org

Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.

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  Bench

  Their words

  Bench handles all of the bookkeeping for my business.

  adamwathan.me

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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  This Is Marketing

  Their words

  A must-read for every entrepreneur. A holistic, generous, human, emotional, long-term, story-driven approach to your business. The world would be a much better place if businesses were led this way. You'll have a competitive advantage if you do this, since so few do.

  sive.rs

Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning

  Their words

  Scott Galloway, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning: Galloway should be familiar to readers as both the brand strategy professor at NYU Stern School of Business, a regular guest on Masters in Business, and as the author of The Four. He usually writes about technology and business, but concern with his students’ life issues led to this 10 minute YouTube video that garnered nearly 2 million views. That became this lovely short book which is likely to be a graduation and holiday gift for years to come.

  ritholtz.com

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  Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

  Their words

  Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life: Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of advertising giant Ogilvy; he describes his “attractively vague job title” as allowing him the freedom to create a behavioral science practice within the ad agency. This looks intriguing.

  ritholtz.com

Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

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  A service business in games rests entirely on retention: a genre that cannot hold people across sessions cannot be sold as a service.

  Their words

  There is no ongoing service without retention.

  What drives retentionraphkoster.com

Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises

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  His book Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises is an important read for investors that want to protect themselves from or benefit from recessions and other financial crises.

  lynalden.com

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  The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

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  Joel Greenblatt is one of the highest-performing value investors around, and this simple book gives an accessible outline of his formula.

  lynalden.com

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  The Lessons of History

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  It’s not an investing book, but The Lessons of History is one of the most important books for long-term investors to read, in my opinion.

  lynalden.com

CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.

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  The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

  Their words

  The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

  summation.net

Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

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  Odd Lots

  Their words

  Regular Rotation Investing Focused Interviews The Meb Faber Show Master in Business with Barry Ritholz Capital Allocators with Ted Seides Bloomberg’s Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal

  moontowermeta.com

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  Masters in Business

  Their words

  Regular Rotation Investing Focused Interviews The Meb Faber Show Master in Business with Barry Ritholz Capital Allocators with Ted Seides Bloomberg’s Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal

  moontowermeta.com

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  EconTalk

  Their words

  Economics or Business Interviews Conversations with Tyler with Tyler Cowen EconTalk with Russ Roberts General Interviews North Star Podcast with Dave Perell The Tim Ferriss Show

  moontowermeta.com

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

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  A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it.

  open source

  Their words

  A $250/mo recurring donation to would be a drop in the bucket of most businesses, but a major boon to any open source project, with which the business will almost certainly see tangible value-add as a result.

  The Commons Clause will destroy open sourcedrewdevault.com

Wine writer and Master of Wine; Financial Times wine columnist, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author of The World Atlas of Wine.

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  Thirsty Dragon: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best Wines

  Their words

  This a journalistic book, a very sound bit of journalism by Suzanne Mustacich. She is based in Bordeaux, but she clearly travelled to China an awful lot and unravelled a most amusing commercial battle that went on in the early years of this decade between the Bordeaux chateau owners and merchants on the one side and Chinese business people on the other.

  fivebooks.com

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

From one piece Staying on the path to high performing teams. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A team should grow in bursts followed by periods of consolidation, because continuous hiring never lets it gel.

  Their words

  Adding new folks to a team disrupts that team’s gelling process, so I’ve found it much easier to have rapid growth periods for any given team followed by consolidation/gelling periods where the team gels.

  Staying on the path to high performing teams.lethain.com

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  Spreading scarce hiring evenly across every team that needs it is indecision dressed as fairness; staff one team to health at a time.

  Their words

  Many folks try to move all teams at the same time, peanut buttering their limited resources, but resist that indecision-framed-as-fairness: no one getting anything is not a fair outcome.

  Staying on the path to high performing teams.lethain.com

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  A team that is falling behind can only be fixed by hiring more people; no amount of process or patience will move it.

  Their words

  When falling behind, the system fix is to hire more people until the team moves into treading water.

  Staying on the path to high performing teams.lethain.com

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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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.

  Their words

  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.

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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.

  justinjackson.ca

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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

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

  avc.com

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

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  Zero to One

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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.

  Their words

  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.

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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.

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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.

  Their words

  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.

  Their words

  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.

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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

  Their words

  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:

  aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com