Archive
2019
- How to Get Rich: Every Episode
- Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products
- Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today
- Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid For
- Price Discrimination: Charge Some People More
- Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier
- Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games
- Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating
- Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin
- Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner
- Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive
- Being Ethical Is Long-Term Greedy
- We Should All Be Working for Ourselves
- Accountability Means Letting People Criticize You
- Productize Yourself
- There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes
- A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
- Reject Most Advice
- Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve
- Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
- Escape Competition Through Authenticity
- Keep Redefining What You Do
- Be Too Busy to ‘Do Coffee’
- Work As Hard As You Can
- Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate
- Judgment Is the Decisive Skill
- Example: From Laborer to Entrepreneur
- Pick a Business Model With Leverage
- Product Leverage is Egalitarian
- Product and Media are New Leverage
- Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage
- Take Accountability to Earn Equity
- Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage
- There's No Actual Skill Called “Business”
- The Foundations Are Math and Logic
- Read What You Love Until You Love to Read
- Learn to Sell, Learn to Build
- Specific Knowledge Is Highly Creative or Technical
- Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge
- Partner With Rational Optimists
- Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
- Play Long-term Games With Long-term People
- The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
- Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
- Live Below Your Means for Freedom
- You Won't Get Rich Renting Out Your Time
- Make Luck Your Destiny
- Making Money Isn't About Luck
- Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans
- Make Abundance for the World
- Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status
- The Need for Indifference
- A Founder's Anxiety
- On Humility
- On Meditation
2010
- There is No Angel Bubble. There are Many Angel Bubbles.
- The Unbundling of the Venture Capital Industry
- Funding Markets Develop in Reverse
- Privacy Violations
- Interview on Entrepreneurship up at GigaOm TV
- Why (Private) Investors are Herd Animals
- Who has time for meetings?
- Venture Hacks Meetup and Panel at SXSW
- Docverse and Mixer Labs exit stage right
- Self-Promotion
- The iPad is imPortant
- Y Combinator vs. Graduate School
- Why You Need to be in Silicon Valley
- Live Appearance
2009
2008
- Users bring you traffic
- Charlie Munger on Getting Ahead
- Warren Buffett on Effort and Value
- Samuel Adams on Freedom
- Keynes on the Currency
- Tumblr customer service blows me away
- Yahoo!'s Search Brand is Done
- New year, new blog
- Perpetual Stimulation Machine
- A User Model for Social Software
- Churchill on Persistence
- Life Formulas I
2007
2006
- Be Chaotic Neutral
- Why We May Think
- Bill Burnham on the future of Google Base
- Vast.com launches Credit Card Search!
- Web 2.0 Meme Wars Begin
- Mobbin'
- Something Vast This Way Comes
- Web 2.0 + Web 2.0 = Web 3.0
- Craigslist is Worth More than EBay
- Dare Microsoft Kill Google? (updated)
- Job Opening at my New Company
- Craigslist takes on Sand Hill Road