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Jiayan Luo

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  • startups that are building payment ecosystems and networks geared toward the supply chain sector.
    Why fintech is the next supply chain frontier - Bessemer Venture Partners
  • This unlocks opportunities for a host of new applications that we are excited about
    Why fintech is the next supply chain frontier - Bessemer Venture Partners
  • As we've seen with other vertical SaaS categories, vertical-specific financial services tend to follow SaaS products as a second wave, after an industry's initial adoption of SaaS platforms.
    Why fintech is the next supply chain frontier - Bessemer Venture Partners
  • The variance of cluster quality across hardware providers is so high that it is literally a lottery pertaining to how much pain one would have to go through to train good models.
    Training great LLMs entirely from ground zero in the wilderness as a startup — Yi Tay
  • ogram managers at Microsoft gather requirements, figure out what the code is supposed to do, and write the specs. There are usually about 5 programmers for every program manager
    Painless Functional Specifications – Part 3: But… How? – Joel on Software
  • Instead of worrying about debugging every function, the master programmer would basically just prototype each function, creating the bare outline, and then throw it to one of the junior programmers to implement. (Of course, Simonyi would be the Master Master Programmer.) The term “Master Programmer” was a bit too medieval, so Microsoft went with “Program Manager.”
    Painless Functional Specifications – Part 3: But… How? – Joel on Software
  • One of the main things you should try to achieve by age 20 is some sense for which kinds of things you enjoy doing. This probably won't change a lot throughout your life and so you should try to discover the shape of that space as quickly as you can.
    Advice · Patrick Collison
  • Services have only really been exportable en masse for a short amount of time, thanks to the advent of the internet, so there isn’t a long record of countries that exported a bunch of services, as there is for manufactured goods.
    Can India industrialize? - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
  • World bank numbers suggest that India’s exports of services are 60% as large as its exports of goods.
    Can India industrialize? - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
  • So maybe we should have ‘organic’ software as well, made by companies that: Are not funded in such a way where the primary obligation of the company is to 🎡 chase funding rounds or get acquired (so bootstrapping, crowdfunding, grants, and angel investment are okay) Have a clear pricing page Disclose their sources of funding and sources of revenue
    In Search of Organic Software
  • systems which eat items quickly are fed more items. Slow systems starve.
    Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog
  • three major forces that collectively bind together successful democracies: social capital (extensive social networks with high levels of trust), strong institutions, and shared stories. Social media has weakened all three.
    Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid - The Atlantic
  • The top six companies by market capitalization in the U.S. are technology companies, two of which were founded less than 20 years ago. Twenty-five years ago, none of the top six companies were tech companies. The prevailing trend of this century is not that we’re destined for decline. It’s that technology is and will continue to improve civic functions in this country, especially in areas where the government is failing.
    The Case for American Seriousness - by Katherine Boyle
  • the trait that is most meaningful is the hardest to describe. It is the fire in the eyes, the ferocity of speech and action that is the physical manifestation of seriousness. It is the belief that God or the universe has bestowed upon you an immense task that no one else can accomplish but you. It is a holy war waged against the laws of physics. It is the burden of having to upend sometimes hundreds of years of entrenched interests to accomplish a noble goal.
    The Case for American Seriousness - by Katherine Boyle
  • 2 | Power those devices with clean energy instead of fossil fuels. We need to swap out all of the 'dirty' energy supply (coal, oil, natural gas) for 'clean' energy supply (solar, wind, etc.). Good news: It turns out that the mere act of finding and extracting coal, gas and oil is incredibly emissions intensive. So, by switching to clean energy, much of this part of the chart on the bottom of the right disappears for free.
    A mental model for combating climate change
  • Remember what you're trying to achieve, identify your quality target, and aim for that: no higher, no lower.
    Half-assing it with everything you've got
  • Ambition means you're motivated to play games that others have already created in the world, while agency means you're driven to play a game of your own.
    Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in
  • Is this a large market? Does the population have money to spend? Is there enough connectivity for a technological solution? How much retail spend is already online?
    Elenas: The Quest to Become LatAm’s Social Commerce Leader | The Generalist
  • Is this a large market? Does the population have money to spend? Is there enough connectivity for a technological solution? How much retail spend is already online?
    Elenas: The Quest to Become LatAm’s Social Commerce Leader | The Generalist
  • Societies ancient and modern have organized themselves around centers of commerce; bazaars, markets, and malls act not only as a loci of transaction but also of connection. E-commerce's early movers mostly neglected this reality. When you navigate to Amazon or Flipkart or Alibaba, there is no sense of personal contact – only an endless, faceless aisle to be perused. Pinduoduo recognized this absence and reversed it. In doing so, the Chinese business became the face of a new kind of online buying: social commerce.
    Elenas: The Quest to Become LatAm’s Social Commerce Leader | The Generalist
  • Culturally, we've been led to believe that over-stressed and tired people are the ones trying their best. It is right and proper to be kind to such people, but let's not go so far as to support the delusion that they are inputting as much effort as their joyful, boisterous peers bouncing off the walls. You're not trying your best if you're not happy.
    Pain is not the unit of Effort
  • you can have everything you want, you just can’t have it all at once
    you can have everything - by Nicole - startingfromnix
  • Life is a pretty delicious dream if you know what you want out of it. Brian Eno once said: for the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
    you can have everything - by Nicole - startingfromnix
  • But if you choose your future work solely based on your past experiences, you can suffer from heuristic and sunk-cost bias.
    My Principles for Exploration
  • Most good people tend to underestimate their potential because they intuitively project their path forwards linearly, and if you follow an exponential curve upwards, you’re going to end up somewhere far above most of the options you’re presented with at any given moment. The solution, then, is not to settle for opportunities that seem great, but wait for the ones that seem like true outliers – the once-in-five-year opportunities that are far above your obvious, linear path forward, but are probably on your exponential curve upwards into the future.
    How to commit to the few right things | thesephist.com