Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

First, a piece of literary history. The phrase needle in a haystack is commonly credited to the book Don Quixote from the early 1600s (“needle is a bottle of hay”) but there’s also a Fujian proverb “To dive into the sea, to feel for a needle” that is thought to be even older and gets to the same point. The idea that it’s nearly fruitless to blindly search for a single small object when it’s located in a vast container.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Algorithms needed for unpredictable journey. Significant compute costs, endless data processing, long periods of unexplained failures. Safe convergence doubtful. Honor & recognition in event of success. What Shackleton might have written in 2025. AI isn’t perfect but its productivity gains are undeniable. ServiceNow, Microsoft, and Amazon, plus nimble startups generating tens of millions in ARR with teams small enough to feed with a few pizzas all have benefitted.

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A Smart Bear: Longform

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Competing against big firms? Their revenue streams are their Achilles heel. Learn how smaller startups have a shot.

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Derek Sivers

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Imagine youre a ghost. You drift through the world but nobody sees you. Youre disconnected. Then one day, after years of being invisible, someone sees you! You get to know each other, and become friends. Through that one connection, your life begins. I have few memories of childhood, maybe because it felt like nobody saw me. My life began at age 12 when I met my first best friend.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

In light of recent findings, we dive deeper into the implications of a significant disinformation campaign revealed by Cyabra and Arcadia, which identified a staggering 1,000fake accountsorchestrating targeted misinformation strategies aimed squarely at influencing German voters.

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