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Power and Craft I notice a tension in me, a tension between doing what is expedient and doing things with love.

Follow your contribution Ben Horowitz has a famous commencement speech where he tells the graduating class not to follow their passion.

You don’t live life in your books.

Thanks to DALLE-3.

Ongoing list of live players.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of education over the past couple of years, and here are my favourite resources on it.

The basic ingredients How do you know if you’ve made something people actually use?

I will add more to this as I come up with more What companies will be applying to YC in 3, 5, 10 years time?

Some notes from The Uncertainty Mindset, by Vaughn Tan.

How a question from Game of Thrones helped me work out what I want to be when I grow up.

An introduction to the best distribution channel you’ve never heard of.

It’s been a smidge over a year since I started this blog.

Pharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing and Development Organisations are the billion dollar companies you’ve never heard of.

Coronavirus upended my life.

Why do some easy things take groups of people so long to do?

I admire Josh Wolfe and have learned a lot from him over the past year.

In the film Monster’s University, Sully and Mike Wazowski learn how to scare humans.

Hurtling at full speed across the savannah, a man flees a charging lion.

A perfect storm of a global pandemic, a bleak love life, and impending global recession caused one of my friends to consider making an OnlyFans account.

After two weeks of struggle, it seems I have overcome COVID-19.

Despite studying physics for four years, I never did a single experiment.

This is a short essay based on the readings and discussions from week 1 of Organising Genius.

What Blue Ocean Strategy and Carlotta Perez’ theory of techonological revolutions have in common.

A summary of Richard Hamming’s talk “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics”.

A summary of “Destruction and Creation” by John Boyd.

A summary of More is Different by the great P.

An adequate summary of Michael Porter’s ‘What is Strategy?’

A summary of this paper which provides a coherent framework for analysing hysteresis and phase coexistence in bistable systems.

A summary of this great game theory paper which provides a continuous framework for analysing all classes of games.

This is a transcript of a 3-minute thesis I gave on this paper about Big Data in biology in 2018.