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In honor of someone’s bad bug today, I will retell a story of my worst bug:Once upon a time I was the CEO and entire engineering team of a company

A popular misconception about herd immunity is that it's a binary thing.The goal is achieving broad *exponential decay* of the pool of coronavirus infections and then limiting the spread of

I'm a linguistic descriptivist not a prescriptivist, but I lament how "front running" has been in the popular lexicon reinterpreted to mean "anticipating someone's future action and acting before it

Doing the annual usage of hometown tax in Japan (see below) and I just love this option in a survey from one farming community, from which we are ordering a

Conversion rate will tend to go down as you get better at marketing, which is extremely counterintuitive to many people (including marketers), and sometimes you're "running to stay in place."

One of the most interesting things for me, coming from a small software company background, is seeing how much and little changes between that and the most sophisticated companies in

Angel investment is a product and some people with products have marketing challenges.A brief thread:https://twitter.com/kwuchu/status/1321482978132959232 All of the following presupposes that you actually have a product in the market, mean

Yep.A model which is more successful is no-permission-required integration against a popular ecosystem, getting traction via your own efforts, *and then* getting the ecosystem to promote you via their mailing

One of the biggest questions in the world with the most grossly insufficient amount of brainsweat applied to it:Are we experiencing unprecedented levels of institutional failure or unprecedented levels of

A lot of founders choose markets based on the availability heuristic, which tends to overconcentrate brainsweat in predictable places. Some of them make for poor businesses specifically because they're interesting

FAQ: “How do I get better at writing?”Me: Write a million words.Follow up: “Hah but seriously.”Me: Start with 20,000 words. Everyone gets to that 50 times in their first million.Follow

Oh I somehow missed my yearly exhortation:If you work in tech, you are likely underinsured on term life. You should have plural million dollars of coverage, including *outside* coverage offered