1/ Esports Industry Predictions for 2019:
— Blake Robbins (@blakeir) January 1, 2019
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1/ Esports Industry Predictions for 2019:
— Blake Robbins (@blakeir) January 1, 2019
What a year it's been for Lightning, and 2019 has so much in store: Neutrino, watchtowers, splicing, routing, privacy, mobile, and more! 🚀📱⚡️
— Lightning Labs⚡️ (@lightning) January 1, 2019
Happy new year, we're just getting started! 🎆 https://t.co/0DjI9pk4eU
Hot take:
— Georgios Konstantopoulos (@gakonst) December 30, 2018
An Ethereum fork with #DeFi precompiled and deployed with custom gas costs.
Multisig, DAO, HTLC, ZKP, ERC20 and ERC721 libraries built in.
No new contracts can be deployed.
State optimized for the above.
Bitcoin monetary policy.
No leader.
The Elements of UI Engineering https://t.co/UJiJRC55Xs (https://t.co/Ir9odW7jan)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) December 31, 2018
Finally book of 2018. pic.twitter.com/ukB3iiJlJg
— Keith Rabois (@rabois) December 31, 2018
Great quick read: @a16z’s 2019 trends newsletter. The linked talks and decks on each trend are crucial: https://t.co/95zbinenph @pmarca @wennmachers
— Bennett Richardson (@bennettrich) December 30, 2018
I'm looking forward to Jan 7 and the start of MIT 6.S094. I'll give lectures on deep learning, TensorFlow, GANs, segmentation, self-driving cars, and there'll be great talks from autonomous vehicle industry leaders. Open to all. Videos be posted online: https://t.co/L157ZNBDNb pic.twitter.com/3cfh7iah4r
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) December 30, 2018
Unsure about AI? This class is for you. https://t.co/AAtuVB9EPS
— Futurism (@futurism) December 31, 2018
The Best of Farnam Street 2018 https://t.co/iPPbbD0a6e
— Shane Parrish (@farnamstreet) December 30, 2018
Interesting rainge of predictions. https://t.co/XzA7bYqK8J
— Tim Draper (@TimDraper) December 31, 2018
Long Reads Sunday #27 | Best Of 2018 Edition!
— Nathaniel Whittemore (@nlw) December 30, 2018
Simply put, this is the best crypto content of the year - the most interesting, influential & inflammatory threads and essays.
You may not agree with everything here, but you can’t ignore it. 🔥https://t.co/27oUd3TPTk
The post about the cartogram that shows where the world population of 2018 is at home – 7.6 billion people – was my most read article this year: https://t.co/vl5nS50kCq
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) December 29, 2018
Some of my favorite reads in 2018:
— Tyler Adkison (@tyblockterra) December 30, 2018
Books:
-Random Walk Down Wall Street
-Skin In The Game @nntaleb
-Zero to One @peterthiel
Newsletters: @MartyBent @farnamstreet @APompliano
Bonus:
The @a16z podcast
Anything @Everipedia team touches
Twitter Manifesto pic.twitter.com/cseKE09yHp
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) December 29, 2018
44% of people aged 18 to 29 said they deleted the Facebook app from their phones in the last year, according to new research from Pew. https://t.co/QRZ8mb0rgy
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) December 29, 2018
https://t.co/21gtOSq6rehttps://t.co/NVIeZGAbOYhttps://t.co/dw5kPri6vKhttps://t.co/p0TKQbYCuR
— TheBitcoinStoreOfValue [Jan/3➞₿ 🔑∎] (@TheBitcoinSOV) December 30, 2018
Been trying to put my finger on what part of growing up in rural Ireland was so formative — think @patrickc captures it here, talking about our parents and how free we were to explore our various interests. https://t.co/vRSIFoQs9V
— Tommy Collison (@tommycollison) December 29, 2018
Blogged: My top 5 podcasts of 2018https://t.co/wWFlUayhyG
— Michael Carty (@MJCarty) December 29, 2018
My pick of the five podcasts that have meant the most to me in 2018.
HT @naval @tferriss @thegriefcast @emmafreud @Kathbum @MichaelRapaport @REALDJPREMIER @RuPaul @michellevisage @AdamBuxton @RealBobMortimer pic.twitter.com/9PTbFlxi5g
Bitcoin maximalism has been inspiring new interest in Austrian economics, so I collected all of the readings from my old Mises Circle reading group at the University of Texas to lead new readers down some rabbit holes. https://t.co/xmICCm6Owb
— Michael Goldstein (@bitstein) December 28, 2018
My chat with Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen @pmarca @bhorowitz self-recommending https://t.co/hxNXQoB1Ee
— tylercowen (@tylercowen) December 29, 2018
1/ If you have a complex network of interacting markets in which prices are set by emotional and sometimes irrational primates who do not make decisions independently, the first place to start to understand volatility is with the work of Benoit Mandelbrot. https://t.co/rFUHTB0YUV
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) December 29, 2018
Equity returns, last 11 years...
— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) December 28, 2018
US: +111%
France: -3%
UK: -7%
Germany: -7%
Spain: -29%
Italy: -48% pic.twitter.com/aZhdzsQLSE
For those who prefer to read my Ethereum tweetstorm in an article format: https://t.co/OzW88hBUgr pic.twitter.com/S3PRRxGdHo
— Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester) December 28, 2018
1/ People often ask me why I’m so “against” Ethereum. Why do I go out of my way to point out flaws or make analogies that put it in a bad light?
— Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester) December 28, 2018
A great post by @fredwilson: The Profit Motive - https://t.co/d345QoA37J
— Josh Kopelman (@joshk) December 28, 2018
Potential consumer app wedges
— Dan Romero (@dwr) December 28, 2018
Desktop web browser w/ built in privacy: Tor, crypto, VPN, etc.
Calendar designed for busy people
Email IMAP app (no 3rd party access to email)
Travel planning app
Uber-like flight booking app
Fintech app that makes >$5,000 payments as easy an email
“The Origin of Chemical Elements" paper, one of the most cited in astrophysics, was written by Ralph Alpher and George Gamow. Gamow liked the idea of having an author list that sounded like the first 3 Greek letters - alpha beta gamma. So he made Hans Bethe a co-author as a joke pic.twitter.com/LDd9rG01v8
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) December 28, 2018
Excellent books I read this year on spirituality and philosophy:
— Ryan Shea (@ryaneshea) December 28, 2018
- Meditations
- The Power of Now
- The Courage to Be Disliked
- Waking Up
- The Prophet
- Man's Search for Meaning
The largest LN node operator recounts his experience. And he didn't even mention lack of privacy. https://t.co/tjUKj4LrOr
— Emin Gün Sirer (@el33th4xor) December 27, 2018
This book on Bill Campbell should be great. https://t.co/LLMcwchkdU My post on Campbell is only available in book format. 100% of my share of revenue from my book goes to the charity "No Kid Hungry."!https://t.co/zEmQlIm9G0
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) December 28, 2018
Why "crossing the chasm" is actually misleading for many enterprise startups. More are spending endless time in the chasm given how fast tech is changing... And guess what? That’s ok, argues @martin_casado, sharing ways to know where you are & focus moves:https://t.co/qSJKaEfhqR
— a16z (@a16z) December 27, 2018
Reading @tylercowen's the Age of the Infovore, which argues that a major function of school is to teach kids to focus on problems. To nerds this comes naturally, so they don't understand the point. cc @webdevMason @AustenAllred pic.twitter.com/48eVKXsM7E
— Saku Panditharatne (@sknthla) December 27, 2018
Agreed, in ML at least I have found this interesting ICML 2013 paper that uses monoids to scale k-fold cross validation: https://t.co/y6YarVa54n
— Ramakanth Kavuluru (@BioNLProc) December 28, 2018
I would love to see more applications of modern algebra and operations over finite fields or rings to ML research and applications.
Arithmetization is one of the most important ideas in computer science you probably haven't heard of. The basic idea is to convert a computation into a polynomial operating over a suitable field of some sort. Why is this useful? It opens computation to analysis by modern math
— Bharath Ramsundar (@rbhar90) December 28, 2018
"Companies are valued not on percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that. When forced to choose between optimizing GAAP accounting and maximizing the present value of future cash flows, we’ll take cash flows.” https://t.co/1WAPji5onZ
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) December 28, 2018
This is good. Read the whole thing. Some excerpts:
— Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) December 27, 2018
Marketing hack: Make a good product that people need.
Learning hack: Read a book. When finished, read another.
Career hack: Work harder than is expected of you and be nice to people. https://t.co/xn8sVvSngM
Just finished “The Perfect Weapon” by David Sanger. Like a lot of others in tech, I believed I had a good understanding of cyber warfare. Learned a ton from this book. Highly recommended.
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) December 27, 2018
This thread had me at ”crossing the chasm almost never plays out as written”. It was a conceptual framework not a recipe and “best” applied to managing at large company in maturing commodity biz. https://t.co/S43RGuP9BM
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) December 27, 2018
"The compound interest from many quick small iterations is greater than the compound interest from a few slow big iterations. Compound interest operates in most intellectual and social domains." - @naval
— Naval Ravikant Bot (@NavalBot) December 27, 2018
Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017) https://t.co/4enDybbNeb (https://t.co/mbu12uaX0q)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) December 27, 2018
New shirt!
— cryptograffiti (@cryptograffiti) December 27, 2018
women's: https://t.co/ZIw8Zx8q80
men's: https://t.co/cwjOApVTtN#LightningNetwork pic.twitter.com/EVh949RGF5
Not the first woke thing they have said! https://t.co/JU3nENolRh
— Neeraj K. Agrawal (@NeerajKA) December 27, 2018
Update: surprised this isn’t a bigger cult following type book (maybe it is in tech and just hasn’t crossed the chasm into the finance world).
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) December 26, 2018
Highly recommend; so unique. https://t.co/7l1OcBrlXU
Fred Wilson of USV @fredwilson frequently writes concise, insightful, and unusually transparent and reflective essays. Here's his most recent. https://t.co/J2QUIlHR81
— Ari Paul (@AriDavidPaul) December 26, 2018
"[#AlphaZero] is not going to put chess coaches out of business just yet," Gary Kasparov writes. "But the knowledge it generates is information we can all learn from." https://t.co/YNCBr9BZPx
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) December 27, 2018
Annals of Emotion: If you've been paying attention to neuroscience, you know we're in the midst of a giant shake-up in how we view emotion. This is a great talk by Joseph LeDoux on the shake up https://t.co/bN6MVjSSYV
— Steven Kotler (@steven_kotler) December 27, 2018
Incoming tweet storm transcribing remarks from this eminently germane @naval interview six years ago.https://t.co/23WeMhmyBu
— Matt (@itweetstuffhere) December 26, 2018
New essay. Boom, I just posted links and notes to everything that I wrote in 2018 - which was a lot! After counting it up, it's 200+ slides in decks plus another 50+ pages of solid text. Here it is: https://t.co/ygo7lsJ8iD
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) December 26, 2018
0/ over the break, I've been reading about Apple's design process during the pre-Safari/pre-iPhone age, in this book by @kocienda. I'm about halfway but wanted to report a couple thoughts. https://t.co/T8IIipUC1X
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) December 26, 2018
A Beginner’s Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks: a non-expert guide. Originally published in 1998 and totally missing all deep networks of today, but very relevant nonetheless. https://t.co/fwKpACRjYq pic.twitter.com/8rwHTimHUP
— Reza Zadeh (@Reza_Zadeh) December 26, 2018
Attendees of the recent Mobile @at_scale_events Tel Aviv event saw presentations from industry powerhouses covering everything from the efficiency of tools and teams, to the challenges that come with scaling #apps. You can watch the talks here: https://t.co/nP1HfTTknP
— Facebook for Developers (@fbplatform) December 26, 2018
Great to see #AlphaZero and #AlphaFold mentioned: The science stories that shook 2018 https://t.co/vXrRJr0iPT
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) December 24, 2018
Steps to autonomy - the question is ‘where’, not ‘when’ ♻️ https://t.co/ciLyNMzifi
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) December 26, 2018
As a developer, your job isn't about how much code you write, it's about how effectively you solve problems.
— François Chollet (@fchollet) December 26, 2018
The best code is code you don't write & maintain -- because you're using off-the-shelf solutions, or because you're picking solutions that involve fewer subproblems.
The truth about hard work may surprise you
— Norgard (@BrianNorgard) December 25, 2018
Allow @naval and @KapilGuptaMD to decode the subject
It’s also good to see the StartupBoy URL back in action, the world is now betterhttps://t.co/Xja5M72QDY
entry level software engineers in the bay area are getting paid! This looks right if you count cash and equity comp. https://t.co/lPvpPhDNfp pic.twitter.com/VfGgfrPhBg
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) December 26, 2018
Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] https://t.co/3IHrg1vs23 (https://t.co/QL3Ch8v3iS)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) December 26, 2018
The world of atoms. pic.twitter.com/FzpqW9BYDI
— Nicholas Moryl (@nmoryl) December 25, 2018
So my family plays White Elephant with a twist: you have to challenge someone to a mini game if you want to steal their gift... With a huge family it gets out of hand pretty quick.
— Adrienne Young (@Adriyoung) December 25, 2018
A thread of our games: pic.twitter.com/JEVFQiyThg
BONUS BOOK: Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda is the best book I’ve read about product development since Soul of a New Machine. It is absolutely phenomenal. Truly incisive look at the inside of Apple at its peak under Steve Jobs. Absolutely mandatory for anyone in tech. pic.twitter.com/qKt34tGnUX
— Nicholas Moryl (@nmoryl) December 25, 2018
BTC/LN is one hope for proper content monetisation models on the internet https://t.co/BkEG6HzaIJ
— Stephan Livera (@stephanlivera) December 25, 2018
16 (x4) books we read this winter 2018:https://t.co/UkUcWdPuRM
— a16z (@a16z) December 25, 2018
I included a bunch of my favorite reads from this year, and didn't notice til after that a pattern emerged in my picks: lots of fiction; mainly female authors and/or female characters; and power (forms of, asymmetries, owning it) as a theme:https://t.co/QVX0tprffE
— Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) December 25, 2018
Engineering is true magic
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2018
VC jokes from 1999! In comic strip form. Blast from the past. I was a teenager then, but still it looks like the jokes are all about the same, except they talk about palm pilots and PowerPoint https://t.co/CqTf3yMN9H
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) December 24, 2018
Silicon Valley’s mission-driven startups versus China’s market-driven startups https://t.co/oXBsAtMe45
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) December 23, 2018
Inspired by the various end-of-year reading lists, here are some non-fiction books I've loved this year (most weren't published in 2018). I've left off titles that are common on other people's lists which I loved as well.
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) December 22, 2018
Bitcoin's network security accelerated at an average rate of 885 GH/s^2 in 2018. https://t.co/HXeJGJvGjv
— Jameson Lopp (@lopp) December 22, 2018
Metal is the first company to allow purchasing and selling $BNB with USD from an FDIC insured bank account. #useBNB https://t.co/EWuJkr5taJ
— CZ Binance (@cz_binance) December 23, 2018
$BTC right now. pic.twitter.com/oi9vlEFWbj
— ChadX₿T (@chadxbt) December 20, 2018
Bunkitsu: the New Bookstore in Tokyo That Has a Cover Charge https://t.co/gQrYiPCqmy
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) December 21, 2018
20 movies produced. 19 movies #1 at the box office. Worldwide B.O. gross $13.3B. Average B.O. per film: $663M by far the highest average per film of any studio in Hollywood history. How does Pixar do it? 100% commitment to STORY! https://t.co/2FmT6hpHv0 #screenwriting #writing
— Scott Myers (@GoIntoTheStory) December 21, 2018
NeverGrad: gradient free optimization library. Now open source. https://t.co/UAUVEaFYPL
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) December 20, 2018
Notes of @naval Ravikant Periscope sessions shared by @podcastnotes.
— Venkatesh Jayaraman (@VenkateshJayar2) December 20, 2018
Must book mark, read and re-read!https://t.co/xuXMaE6HFf
Does AI make the strong, stronger? Very good read from @BenedictEvans. https://t.co/khYVfhX8le pic.twitter.com/kjOIuBwoUC
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) December 21, 2018
Great tweet-sized summaries of some interesting-sounding papers from areas slightly adjacent to ones that I'm more familiar with. Thanks, @ml_barnett! https://t.co/Fu4ZXfQejy
— Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) December 21, 2018
Retailers love enhancing customer xp. Retailers also love #AI. End result - most #retail AI initiatives, howsoever complex they might be, end up in customer-facing functions. Unable to scale.
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) December 17, 2018
But are retailers missing a big oppy w/ AI in operations? #Workhttps://t.co/93H1PARqmv pic.twitter.com/yGL4ghLNdn
Big thanks to everyone who put up with my noob LN Q's. And a special shout out to @notgrubles for helping me get this off the ground!
— cryptograffiti (@cryptograffiti) December 19, 2018
Live stream of the auction can be seen here: https://t.co/opN4u9jJyR … #LNart #LightningNetworkArt
black swan is here! watch the vid to try and catch him...#cryptoart #bitcoinart pic.twitter.com/7BfcDeyNJ3
— cryptograffiti (@cryptograffiti) December 19, 2018
Let's simplify to honor the spirit:
— Ale Resnik (@AleResnik) December 19, 2018
1. Every business is one equation. Do you know that equation?
2. Assign a 'barrel' (a real leader) to each significant initiative.
3. Increase people's responsibility until they reach the point of failure.
4. Simplify to gain speed. https://t.co/d4PSLhlliB
Learn about company building from a master, @rabois https://t.co/PGp5QMGyAz
— Norgard (@BrianNorgard) December 19, 2018
11/ PS. If you want to learn about what I'm writing, just subscribe to my newsletter - I'll be releasing details, excerpts, examples, etc. there. Here it is: https://t.co/262t8eyBUP
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) December 19, 2018
this is a fascinating interview w/Steve Jobs.
— pascalb⏱uvier ≠ (@pascalbouvier) December 19, 2018
remind yourselves of the year: 1990.
the brilliance of clearly articulating the power of networked & decentralized compute power
and how that will impact work, workers, the corporation.https://t.co/Mm0WCZrECr
Hands-on guidance from @Google on how to implement machine learning thoughtfully (e.g., use human-centered design, use multiple metrics to assess quality).
— Frank Chen (@withfries2) December 19, 2018
👏🏼for publicly sharing and encouraging conversationhttps://t.co/hpV0gCL8Dz
interesting use for @shesek's spark wallet paired with @BtcpayServer (spark wallet offers an easy to use smart phone lightning wallet interface with funds managed/stored in a c-lightning daemon running on a node, server, always on desktop etc) https://t.co/ahOXPdtvEb
— Adam Back (@adam3us) December 18, 2018
I’ve found myself searching through the timeline of @naval for his AMAs a few times so decided to spend my Saturday collating them on my blog for reference. (Complete with some extra large emojis 😀 Enjoy!) https://t.co/Nzm1RSq1TI
— Unity Thoughts (@MichaelStoic) December 15, 2018
Navigating the journey from startup to IPO can be a long & windy path, but we've found there are some predictable phases along the way. Some practical advice on how to tackle each stage in this “growth journey": https://t.co/WIZAFJsLjA @VentureOutlook @DFJvc pic.twitter.com/IgCQp9S7A5
— Sam Fort (@samofort) December 16, 2018
Here's my intro to crypto talk at the a16z summit if you're interested in learning the basics. I tried to make the content very accessible so it should be friendly to newcomers. Thanks to many at @a16z for helping me refine it esp @smc90 & @GregTruesdell1 https://t.co/OPeYjBbUSK
— Linda Xie (@ljxie) December 17, 2018
Drilling deep on how to monetize esports https://t.co/WQBhIExEMb
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) December 17, 2018
Bitcoin Q&A: Smart contracts, sidechains, and the Lightning Network https://t.co/OxCydJVSAL
— Andreas M. Antonopoulos (@aantonop) December 14, 2018
— Archillect (@archillect) December 16, 2018
Quadrotor that can squeeze through gaps, flatten against walls for up-close views, and grab small objects with rotor arms instead of a separate pincer.
— Reza Zadeh (@Reza_Zadeh) December 15, 2018
Paper: https://t.co/wtXNGGOON0
Video: https://t.co/lHry4ejfRM pic.twitter.com/UHIvzoAknv
Primer: How to lock your online accounts with a security key https://t.co/o8vIaq2Phy
— martin_casado (@martin_casado) December 15, 2018
Great and informative podcast by @a16z on digitization and future of sports media. Fascinating and lots of opportunities, more of this please! #vc #techhttps://t.co/xkWYlaweUs
— Chika Chandrashekar (@chika__c) December 15, 2018
PyText: Industrial-strength open source NLP package from Facebook AI: develop NLP models on PyTorch and deploy through ONNX.
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) December 14, 2018
Pre-trained models for text classification, sequence tagging, joint intent-slot... https://t.co/phn8mu9Dhz
effective overview. succinct and always appreciate a good analogy @martin_casado
— Will Gural (@willgural) December 14, 2018
a16z Video: The API Economy https://t.co/JjzwR2ahe2 via @a16z
Something you'll notice is that most of the metrics here are time-based. That's because network effects are dynamic, and evolve as the product, user base, and competitive landscape changes. We wrote a companion post about the nuances of network effects: https://t.co/3y0ernHV4P
— Li Jin (@ljin18) December 14, 2018
Network effects are powerful but too often seen as black-or-white: a company either has them or doesn't. In reality, they vary widely in types & strength. I compiled a list of 16 metrics to measure network effects, coauthored with my colleague @dcoolican:https://t.co/DzpKpLwXQk
— Li Jin (@ljin18) December 14, 2018
Pypestream raises $15 million for conversational enterprise AI https://t.co/EVSZCItojz
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) December 14, 2018
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks. @NvidiaAI does it again! https://t.co/W2Av34ta9O pic.twitter.com/wkDJgt8v3q
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) December 13, 2018
Hello @naval followers 👋 I'm gathering all resources of Naval like podcasts, interviews, articles, quotes etc.
— Sharath Kuruganty (@5harath) December 11, 2018
There are so many of them and we all know the famous ones like @farnamstreet @tferriss podcasts, his periscopes, tweetstorms etc
Andrew Ng launches AI playbook for businesses https://t.co/xwNbqoxbCg
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) December 14, 2018
The truth is, everyone should be earning 3% interest, but theres only one place you can get it @robinhoodapp #investor
— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) December 14, 2018
Google open sources ‘What-If Tool’ for code-free ML Experiments. https://t.co/MmKuYX38Go pic.twitter.com/b8Q9ucQ5GF
— Sam Charrington @ #Kubecon (@samcharrington) December 13, 2018
Many 10-100x improvements waiting to be implemented in LN:
— Alex Bosworth ☇ (@alexbosworth) December 12, 2018
Routing can be 10x better with historical data
Graph sync can be 10x more efficient with INVs, set reconciliation
Autopilot can be 10x smarter with graph analysis
Forwarding can be 10x more successful with rebalance tools
— Archillect (@archillect) December 12, 2018
Crypto will win for the same reason that Uber & Airbnb won.
— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) December 12, 2018
Technology ultimately makes regulations adapt. Corruption crumble. Collusion vanish.
The people triumph over the establishment when technology empowers them.
Software engineering beats financial engineering all day.
David Seidler: “Creativity is tapping into a hidden source. That’s what fascinates me. To be in touch with the unconscious or subconscious pool of creativity. Can I dip into that well and lift a bucketful of it?” #writing
— Scott Myers (@GoIntoTheStory) December 11, 2018
Joseph Campbell word for word on The Hero’s Journey: Basically everything you need to know about the essence of the “monomyth” https://t.co/AKUGenpTqi #screenwriting #writing #story
— Scott Myers (@GoIntoTheStory) December 11, 2018
One thing that's often understated in innovation and creativity: the value of play. What's one thing you remember doing as a child? How can you apply it to today? pic.twitter.com/gapr7Y9XEl
— Steven Kotler (@steven_kotler) December 11, 2018
Every product at scale seems to go through this question:"Customers came in for X but we know that they would love Y. How do we show them Y in the best way possible?".
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) December 10, 2018
Google is the latest with the "For You" tab on G Maps. https://t.co/9G01KjVPWO
"On Dec. 9, 1968 at a computer conference in SF, Engelbart showed off the first inklings of tech we all now take for granted: video conferencing, a modern desktop-style user interface, word processing, hypertext, the mouse, collaborative editing..." https://t.co/1Eh9Lv0cHu
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) December 10, 2018
🚀 This chart (part of a great video from @andrewchen of @a16z) shows just how insane adoption rates of products are today. New products building on these foundations will see even faster traction.https://t.co/Mbw7VdDC5V pic.twitter.com/VwmuQIY3fE
— Oliver Cameron (@olivercameron) December 9, 2018
Worth reading: a preprint of a researcher’s masters thesis - “An Empirical Analysis of Monero Cross-Chain Traceability”https://t.co/nAjT921j6i
— Riccardo Spagni (@fluffypony) December 10, 2018
Little misfortunes introduce us to our hidden strengths.
— The Stoic Emperor (@TheStoicEmperor) December 10, 2018
Our trials should act as an armorer, fitting us with defenses that can withstand real adversity.
Untested people feel more feeble than they are.
We can endure more than we know.
Whirl — Crowdfunding platform built on the blockchain https://t.co/tb65SAii2d
— Product Hunt Feed (@phfeed) December 10, 2018
Location : Triberg im Schwarzwald, Germany#Wasserfalle #Germany #travelblog #vacation #vacay #travel #exploring #travelblogger #TTOT #holiday pic.twitter.com/w5eo0ho5vJ
— Eva Red (@EvaRed14) December 10, 2018
Didn't prevent Elastic from going public, but keeps happening: "some cloud providers are taking code that was written by open-source project "volunteers," lofting it onto their clouds or locking it down and then reselling it." https://t.co/C33QOg1SLj via @actbrilliant
— Matt Turck (@mattturck) December 10, 2018
Distressed property listings on Alibaba’s auction site, the country’s largest, rose 88 percent in October yoy. Across all auction sites in China, distressed real estate listings surged to a record 1.3 trillion yuan ($190 billion) this year https://t.co/VfLGIvEgqM
— Lulu Yilun Chen (@luluyilun) December 10, 2018
👇 Thread. New deck getting published this week: "Consumer startups are awesome, and here's what I'm looking to invest in at Andreessen Horowitz." If you want to read it, subscribe to my newsletter here: https://t.co/262t8eh0wf pic.twitter.com/clLsfBR7Mr
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) December 9, 2018
“If the answer to ‘Who is this for?’ is ‘Everyone’ then you have an impossible design problem.” —@alexislloyd #WCUS pic.twitter.com/Ydo3VPlj5T
— John Maeda (@johnmaeda) December 8, 2018
Location : Neuschwanstein Castle
— Eva Red (@EvaRed14) December 9, 2018
Fit for a King and Queen 👑 📷 #Germany #Neuschwanstein #travelblog #vacation #vacay #travel #exploring #travelblogger #TTOT #holiday pic.twitter.com/ml0vzVZS6F
OpenAI’s CoinRun tests the adaptability of reinforcement learning agents https://t.co/zcovMqLSaY
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) December 7, 2018
answer in minutes. that's earlier than I expected, 2013! https://t.co/BQy6y0bkrX
— CZ Binance (@cz_binance) December 7, 2018
2018 has brought so many key insights and takeaways from the podcast world
— Podcast Notes (@podcastnotes) December 7, 2018
It's time we start compiling them
Here's the first result of that...
NEW - The Essential Guide to Naval Ravikant – The 2018 Summary@naval https://t.co/8BALY2UcQO
4 biggest Western esports events generated 190.1 million viewing hours https://t.co/32WfD7pPic
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) December 7, 2018
I wrote about cyberwarfare for an IR journal earlier this yearhttps://t.co/IosAFyBtSY
— Saku Panditharatne (@sknthla) December 7, 2018