• The Godzilla Speech

    The founder of Startmate, who went on to found Australia’s best venture capital firm (Blackbird VC), always gave what he called “the Godzilla speech” to people when they joined.

  • Dictator Book Club: Orban

    Dictator Book Club: Orban from Astral Codex Ten describes the rise to power of Viktor Orban, dictator of Hungary.

  • Living a Rich Digital Life

    With so much of our time spent with computers and the internet, we ought to think about the quality of our digital lives.

  • Voluntary Disclosure Agreement

    A Voluntary Disclosure Agreement is a process in which a company comes clean about not collecting or paying taxes when they should have (usually sales tax and corporate income tax).

  • Mark Zuckerberg as Anti-Hero

    Current consensus is that Mark Zuckerberg is an evil billionaire. A contrarian view would be this: Zuckerberg is an anti-hero who, in an unprecedented position of power, advances technological progress and well-being.

  • What Is a Tech Company

    In What Is a Tech Company on Stratechery, a tech company is defined by the following characteristics.

  • The Great Resignation

    More people in the US have quit their job in 2021 then ever before (since it started being tracked).

  • Self-Presentation Causes Zoom Fatigue

    In an experiment testing the causes of zoom fatigue, researchers found that having the camera on during virtual meetings resulted in fatigue (likely due to self-presentation), not time spent or frequency of meetings.