Originally referred to "pulling yourself up by your BootStraps". (more)

Niccolo Soldo: The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen - Interviewed by a Retard. As to Substack, if we've learned one thing from the last 2,500 years of human history, it's that all progress out of humanity's default state of misery and despair comes from being able to freely think, write, and argue. The fine folks at Substack run a big tent in which writers of many flavors and stripes are welcome. (Questions are a bit gonzo-performative, but supported an interesting conversation.) (more)

Micro-SaaS guy https://tylertringas.com/

Tiny ISV - maybe One Man Show, max Two Pizza Company? Term from Eric Sink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_ISV (more)

earbud/headset for iphone

The unsuccessful-so-far attempt to create a human being. (Robert Anton Wilson?) (more)

Chet Richards book Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business ISBN:1413453767 (more)

Marc Andreessen meme - (2020-04-18) Its Time To Build Andreessen Horowitz

Makers of Tools For Thought/Collaboration Ware (more)

Connie Chan and David Pierce: A16z Podcast: Messaging As the Interface to, Well, Everything. Messaging app WeChat tells us a lot about mobile and business in China. In a recent deep-dive primer on the WeChat phenomenon, a16z partner Connie Chan analyzed WeChat and the notion of app-within-apps, payments as a gateway drug, platforms vs portals, and what happens when utility is more important than being “social”. Wired senior writer David Pierce also describes the power of conversational messaging as the main interface, further arguing that “A great messaging app could be to the web browser what the browser was to the internet before it.”

David Perell: The New American Dream. The Internet is a global talent show, and TikTok is the American Idol contest (more)

Marc Andreessen: audio will be “titanically important” and VR will be “1,000” times bigger than AR. The really big one right now is audio. Audio is on the rise just generally and particularly with Apple and the AirPods, which has been an absolute home run [for Apple]. It’s one of the most deceptive things because it’s just like this little product, and how important could it be? And I think it’s tremendously important, because it’s basically a voice in your ear any time you want. (more)

Tanner Greer On Cultures That Build. Marc Andreessen's (Time to Build) essay has got a lot of play in certain circles, and it generated many responses. (more)

Noah Smith: Interview with Marc Andreessen, VC and tech pioneer. The 15 months since I wrote It’s Time To Build have been dominated by three big events: the catastrophe of COVID-19, the systematic failure of virtually all public sector entities around the world (the formerly high functioning Asian nations are failing to vaccinate quickly), and the remarkable success of the private sector and in particular the American technology industry in helping us all get through this pandemic. (Not a great interview if you're already familiar with Marc.) (more)

Julian Lehr: Superhuman & the Productivity Meta-Layer. Kevin Kwok posted an excellent article (2019-08-15-KwokTheArcOfCollaboration) a while back about The Arc of Collaboration. The problem, Kevin argues, is that productivity and collaboration shouldn’t be treated separately. Instead, they should go hand in hand and that’s exactly what a lot of the latest productivity tools do: Figma, Notion, Airtable, etc all have messaging natively built in to their apps. (more)

a group that's good a Learning: Improvement Kata for Continuous Improvement (more)

Digital treatments can be real medicine. What if an app could replace a pill? That’s the big question behind an emerging trend known as “digital therapeutics.” (more)

Digital Therapeutics vs Digiceuticals: defining the software-mediated healthcare landscape (more)

Noah Smith: Science Fiction novels for Economists (more)

Vernor Vinge book (more)