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I derive a lot of pleasure from watching street fights (on YouTube, obviously, not live fights in the streets). So I’ve watched a lot of them. I also enjoy professional martial arts, but street fights have an incomparable raw quality to them, a feeling that anything is possible…
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My job requires me to look at a bunch of rent contracts. The other day I was analyzing a list of them that looked something like this (I recreated the…
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One of the things I ask myself when deciding what to write about for this newsletter is “What are the things I know that I wish more people knew…
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For New Year’s Eve, I traveled with some friends to the beach. On the 30th, I started feeling a sore throat and a bit of fever. I ended up spending…
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When I began writing this essay, few people outside of tech and VC circles were talking about the metaverse. I figured I would explain what it was, who…
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On a flight in 1987, Alan Krueger sat next to a woman called Ginna Ashenfelter. Krueger was just finishing his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard…
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If you know something about evolution, but not enough, you may think it has something to do with “the survival of the species.” I hate to break it to…
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Whenever I would travel as a kid, I had this obsession with making my suitcase as light as possible. I thought of it as an act of manliness: taking too…
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