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A retrospective of an eight-year stint.

The replicants take the form but not the function, and miss the soul

— Itai Yanai (@ItaiYanai)

Here is a new essay by Nabeel Qureshi, excerpt: The combo of intellectual grandiosity and intense competitiveness was a perfect fit for me. It’s still hard to find today, in fact – many people have copied the ‘hardcore’ working culture and the ‘this is the Marines’ vibe, but few have the intellectual atmosphere, the sense […]

日本企業の研究開発（R&D）の投資効率が低迷している。国内総生産（GDP）に比べた研究開発費の規模は他の先進国と大差ないが、その投資が利益を押し上げる効果を比べるとおよそ30年間で他の国より大きく落ち込んだ。開発費の上位企業は長年変わっておらず、その間に割って入る新興企業の育成が反転のカギとなる。経済協力開発機構（OECD）の加盟国全体の2022年の研究開発費は物価変動の影響を考慮した

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Our life is increasingly dominated by screens. Giant screens in public spaces; TVs everywhere in bars and restaurants; everyone standing around and walking around with their faces in their phones; watches, glasses and goggles with screens built-in, etc. "Screen time" is a thing. Screens are amazing: full of information and entertainment. But they are also exhausting and over-stimulating. It feels to me that, one way or another, we're poised to experience some amount of cultural backlash again...

A new gimmick has entered the management world. It’s an old (1944) CIA manual on how to sabotage an organization’s productivity with poor management.

This is a list of people whose deaths were in some manner caused by or directly related to a product, process, procedure, or other technological innovation that they invented or designed.

High-signal-to-noise interview questions inspired by my 150+ podcast guests

This article first appeared in First Round Review.

I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?”

Primitive animals called comb jellies can fuse their bodies and nervous systems together.

Fujitsu researchers are stationed or stay for long periods of time at universities in Japan and overseas to conduct industry-academia collaborations with professors and students in various fields.

The game presents a social problem: How does one find comity among a group of jostling strangers?

Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point" grapples with the same reality, but more constructive and useful.

— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp)

— Ben Landau-Taylor (@benlandautaylor)

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