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• Scrum made sense at companies/teams that shipped a new version of their product every 2-3 months (or less frequent) As soon as a team got to shipping daily or had CD: they only held teams back Most startups + Big Tech moved on a decade+ ago, legacy companies remained only
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• This is SO interesting because the OS market share for developers seems to be the inverse, based on devs in my “bubble” (those at startups + Big Tech) #1 MacOS #2 Linux #3 Windows I ran a survey here + on LI with 4,000 responses each - it’s what I mean by “bubble”
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• Bonnes Journées européennes du patrimoine à toutes et à tous. Nos monuments, nos paysages, nos forêts, nos savoir-faire et nos traditions : notre patrimoine raconte notre histoire et fait vivre nos territoires. Depuis 2017, nous avons fait de sa sauvegarde une priorité. Restaurer, protéger, faire renaître. Avec la Mission Patrimoine et le Loto du patrimoine, avec une mobilisation exceptionnelle de la Nation, nous avons agi partout en France pour préserver cet héritage commun. La renaissance de Notre-Dame de Paris a montré ce dont nous sommes capables lorsque nous unissons nos forces. Cet élan…

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• So many people in the replies saying it's overcomplicated, and no proof that this works And then plenty other folks saying that at their startup/company they built this the below pretty much, and then a few new things Different speedlanes when it comes to agents + pipelines
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• Does anyone have a high resolution copy of Shishkin’s Brook in a Forest (Stream by a Forest Slope)? Wikipedia has the highest resolution I can find, but not nearly high enough to print at a reasonable size. I’ve already looked through the top hits on Google and Yandex in both English and Russian. Is this just a dead end?

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• If we are to avert the worst risks from AI, we need ambitious efforts outside the for-profit sector. @coeff_giving is launching an open call for founders to build new AI safety organizations. Their grantmakers are thoughtful about which risks matter most, so if you’ve been considering starting an organization, I encourage you to apply.
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• I've been surprised to find that sometime in past six months or year, ChatGPT has generally started returning better results than Google for me. OpenAI probably has fewer employees than Google Search alone, and what fraction of OAI works on search? On the order of 1%? Arguably an unfair comparison because ChatGPT takes 20x longer to return a result, but Google doesn't have a "20x slower but don't return https://danluu.com/seo-spam/ knob"

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• Every Expert Intelligence notebook we feature includes a note from the author and extra sources curated by them. Here's @AnnieDuke explaining how exploring her fascinating book Thinking In Bets in @Gemini_Notebook can help you make smarter decisions.

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• Chapter 24.1: The Third Row Eleven people know there are three founders, not two. Their lawyer cuts every promise. These are the people trying to save her. "She's twenty-nine. It was thirty-one degrees in Leadville last night." "Then find her."

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• Before AI: - hardware is hard - teams > solo founders - technical founders only - PhDs build tech in search of a problem - hot SaaS startups get 100x ARR multiples After AI: - hardware is the only thing AI can't build - solo founders are 100x engineers - anyone can build - PhDs building AI infra name their price - SaaSpocalypse Am I missing anything?

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• . @yurimilner was that world class investor. After one meeting he said he wanted to invest and asked me for a valuation. I threw out a number 10 pct below what i figured our next round would be. He said he would wire the money next week. I think it was $150m. Never asked for board seat or any terms. He ttly got what the founder of a high growth company cared about. No meetings. No terms. Dont bother us. Let us cook!
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• Ripped Google Analytics out of https://t.co/x3215Zppfi this past week and replaced it with a better, more detailed, home-grown setup that doesn't use any cookies! I didn't realize how much traffic I'm sending to museums - about 3,700 clicks per day!

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• This is such a cool list, published by Brex, based on startups' newsletter spending patterns. The Pragmatic Engineer one of the most frequently expensed newsletters, and it was, indeed, massive growth within startups over the last year: Thank you to everyone reading and supporting!

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• It's now the second blog post in a day sent over by an early-stage VC-startup I tried to read, but could NOT, after a few sentences. Verbose, weird... AI-generated. These companies think they made "content" more efficient. No: it's lower quality, slop +I no longer care about the startup

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• Startup employees and investors don't nearly pay enough attention to QSBS. Would have saved me millions of dollars at GitHub (ugh). QSBS got much more complicated, too, so I just shipped the most comprehensive QSBS calculator out there. Give it a shot:

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• QSBS is like, one of the most powerful things an angel investor can leverage. And it's crazy powerful for early startup employees too (with some caveats, of course). It's free money. Tracking QSBS treatment can save you thousands. Millions. Billions? Sure, maybe.
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• I disagree, I don't think this has to be "game-over" for Google. I do think they have only one play left now - to pull from their own Android/Kubernetes playbook and fully embrace open-models. It's the obvious move in this situation. Details here:

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• Quick new post: no, I probably won't pass you on to another investor. (I wish founders would stop asking me, too, for their sake.)

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• @MisterMoo @delric The thing to complain about isn't that they default to Google. It's that they only include search engines in the list that have paid TAC deals. Only search engines that agree to pay Apple for the traffic are in the list, and there's no option for users to add custom ones.

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• India is building startup cities.

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• Should the global tech community continue investing in Malaysia? Given recent events, I raise this question respectfully for the consideration of Prime Minister Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (@anwaribrahim), for the people of Malaysia, and for our friends in the Malaysian tech community. The answer will be of interest to anyone in global tech that’s considering building, investing, or expanding in Malaysia, including executives at Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, founders of tech unicorns like Coinbase and Solana, and investors at the world’s largest venture capital fu…

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