it's fine money is just a social construct
@packym
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Startup culture clash: managing expectations when recruiting from Big Tech
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This is awesome: "This happened because I changed the deal after people joined. I tried to lure people from Big Tech, promising a better place to work. A more sane startup. A startup more like your big tech job. I wasn't clear enough up front on the values and expectations that
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Hard Tech Startups Debt Financing When Interest Rates Hit Zero
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When you realize all of the good hard tech startups are going to hit debt financing right when rates hit 0 again
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Nuclear Energy and Medical Breakthroughs Advance Science
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The NYT gets nuke-pilled.
China's reactor passes meltdown test.
India's advanced reactor approved to load.
Researchers find protein that slows aging in mice.
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Blackbird: Crypto Restaurant App Scaling Loyalty Programs Onchain
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Blackbird wants to scale the "regular" experience across multiple restaurants, and make restaurants more profitable in the process. It's a crypto app that doesn't feel like a crypto app. It feels like a restaurant app. Onchain AmEx. This week's Deep Dive is on @blackbird
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Why Companies Shift From Attract to Extract Strategy
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It's excellent. Best explanation of why companies go from attract to extract that I've read.
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Internet Monetization and Monopolies: Economic Impact Analysis
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This is one of the best things I've read on the internet in a long time. Monetization & Monopolies: How The Internet You Loved Died by @ConradBastable "Sometimes, Monopoly is actually good for society." h/t @ByrneHobart for surfacing it in The Diff
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AI breakthroughs, healthcare innovation, and human data dependencies
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Injection protects against HIV 100%.
— Packy McCormick (@packyM) 26 juillet 2024
Big week for the artificial intellicenges.
AI still needs that handcrafted human data.
How BRADA invests like a VC to stop COVID etc.
GLP-1s just keep fighting new things, in new ways.
+ OLYMPICS
What a week for the optimists. pic.twitter.com/CdUiiIi3yHInjection protects against HIV 100%.
Big week for the artificial intellicenges.
AI still needs that handcrafted human data.
How BRADA invests like a VC to stop COVID etc.
GLP-1s just keep fighting new things, in new ways. + OLYMPICS What a week for the optimists.
