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Mean People Fail

November 2014It struck me recently how few of the most successful people I know are mean. There are exceptions, but remarkably few.Meanness isn't rare....

Reverse Engineering a 1979 Camera’s Spec

I bought a 1979 Chinon CM-4 film camera in Tijuana. Film is expensive, so before wasting a roll I decided to learn exactly how...

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PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports

Author: Pablo Galindo , Germán Méndez Bravo , Thomas Wouters , Dino Viehland , Brittany Reynoso , Noah Kim , Tim Stumbaugh Discussions-To: Discourse thread Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Created: 02-Oct-2025 Python-Version: 3.15 Post-History: 03-Oct-2025 Table of Contents This PEP introduces syntax for...

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Break the Fast With Me and Sue Heilbronner in Longmont on 10/2

I’m not aware if there has ever been a book launch associated with a Yom Kippur Break Fast, but we are going to have...

Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In

December 2014American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US. Anti-immigration people say...

VMScape and why Xen dodged it

It’s been less than two weeks since the security team at ETH Zürich published their research...

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Pricing AI agents: What does ‘value-based pricing’ really mean for AI?

As builders, we obsess over the AI experience – how smart it is, how fast it replies, how many conversations it resolves. But none...

Founding AI Engineer at Diligent

👋 About us At Diligent, we are on a mission to help fintechs and banks automate and enhance due diligence operations with AI agents. Leading...

Venture Deals Summer Course 2025 Enrollment Is Open

Registration for the Venture Deals Summer 2025 online, self-guided, free course by Techstars and Kauffman Fellows starts today.It’s based on the book Venture Deals: Be...

Simplify Investing With Stock Recommendations App

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How to Write Usefully

February 2020What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That's what a lot of us were taught essays should be. But I think...

Imperfect is perfect, with Mark Zuckerberg

REID HOFFMAN: Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook as an undergraduate student at Harvard. But to understand the origins of his success, I’d suggest...

Response Time: Vol. 45

You satisfy your customers, but can you satisfy our curiosity? With Mitchell Rodio, Customer Experience Manager at Whop. Please tell us a little bit about your...

Back in Boulder – Feld Thoughts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VAAs a proud early Gen Xer, I was in ninth grade when Back in Black came out. It was my favorite song for...

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Coronavirus and Credibility

April 2020I recently saw a video of TV journalists and politicians confidently saying that the coronavirus would be no worse than the flu. What struck me...

Response Time: Vol. 44 – The Intercom Blog

You satisfy your customers, but can you satisfy our curiosity? With Stephanie Smith, Manager, Customer Success at Collage. Please tell us a little bit about your...