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  • The feed multiverse

    What used to be a single Facebook newsfeed is now a multiverse of vertical feeds across many disparate services
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  • Maker’s Schedule 2021

    Since Paul Graham (PG) wrote “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” in 2009, we’ve seen office work and schedules change drastically at least twice.
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  • How to work like elite athletes train

    How might we apply athletic training principles to train our productivity, do our best work, and reduce burnout?
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  • Find your Podcast Pals (Spotify only for now)

    We launched a way to find your podcast pals! Find out which podcasts and specific episodes you and your friend both listen to!
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  • March Forward: small projects I worked on this month

    In the last few weeks, Ricky and I have worked on a few different experiments that I'd love your thoughts/feedback on!
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  • It's important to do things for the right reasons

    Similar to running, others may not be able to tell the difference between founders doing it for the wrong reasons vs. the right reasons. But it'll matter during the lowest valleys. I think those that are doing it for the right reasons will tend to make it through the dip more often.
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  • How DFS, poker, basketball, Starcraft and strong opinions, weakly held (SOWH) can help your startup

    The central thesis of Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (SOWH) is that action is usually the best way to gain more information, and action based upon a strong opinion brings about the best information.
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  • You google "burnout"

    You google, "burnout". Slowly, like confirmation of an injury or flu symptoms as you read down the WebMD list.
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  • 17 thoughts on running, startups, and life while running 2017 miles in 2017

    Once you do something that much, people usually like to say “X is your life”. That’s partially true— it takes up a lot of your life, but more importantly, you start to see lots of analogies for life in it. Running has given me both more meaning in life as well as more time to reflect upon it. Here are 17 ruminations from those runs.
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  • Should you apply to YC? YES, but here’s one reason why you shouldn’t

    -202 days. That’s what Mark’s Demo Day countdown widget reads. This time last year, Ricky and I had submitted our YCombinator app and were in the middle of finals during our senior year at Stanford when we were invited to interview at YC. A few days after that, I left for a seven-day Mexican Riviera cruise that got back the day before our interview.
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