Original Article: Users Join Threads in Droves Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Last night, by the time I called it quits and went to bed Threads, Meta’s new social network, had hit 2 million users in 2 hours. As I write this, Meta’s Adam Mosseri says the count has now surpassed 10 million in 7 hours, which exceeds Ma…

Original Article: Instagram’s Threads: all the updates on the new Twitter competitor Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- As Twitter continues to flail about under Elon Musk, all eyes are on the newly launched Instagram Threads as a potential replacement. Meta launched Threads on iOS, Android, and the web on July 5th — a …

Original Article: The Glorious Return of an Old-School Car Feature Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Metropolis Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens. Buttons are back! The 2024 Porsche Cayenne. The 2023 model had touchscreens on the steering wheel. Porsche You don’t see a lot of good news abo…

Original Article: EP 36 - Marc Andreessen and Steven Sinofsky on AI sentience, ethics, love, jobs , ChatGPT vs Sydney and more. Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- “Every kid is going to grow up now with a friend that's a bot.”The gang is back on this week’s episode of The Aarthi and Sriram Show! We have Marc Andreessen,…

Original Article: 3 Waves of Successful Generative Tech Startups Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Every 14 years there’s a tech revolution. Internet browsers in 1994. Smartphones in 2007-8. Then toward the end of 2022, we entered the Generative Tech revolution. It’s the fast-moving water after a pretty placid decade. …

Original Article: r/Upwork - Success on Upwork 6th month - 14K earned (Comprehensive) Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Quick back story. I am following up because a user reached out to me regarding the past posts. They originally wanted to ask me some questions but tbh I'm not religiously on here very much. I missed t…

Original Article: Should I go headless on Shopify / Shopify Plus? Pros & Cons of Headless Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Headless is no longer the new buzzword in eCommerce (and Shopify). It has been trending upwards for at least the past couple of years and isn’t going away. By this point you will no doubt have rea…

Original Article: I Don’t Believe in Sprints Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Sprints and backlogs and pointing tickets—the nigh-on universal method for making software today—is stupid. All this junk around the work makes software slower and more difficult to build. It’s form-filling monkey work and the only way we ca…

Original Article: How to Work Hard Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- June 2021 It might not seem there's much to learn about how to work hard. Anyone who's been to school knows what it entails, even if they chose not to do it. There are 12 year olds who work amazingly hard. And yet when I ask if I know more about worki…

Original Article: Dostoevsky's Pushkin Speech Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Dostoevsky's historic Pushkin Speech reprinted here FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY with the permission of its original publisher. Page numbers have been noted at the beginning of each section to correspond with those in the book it was taken…

Original Article: Plotinus Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Plotinus (204/5 – 270 C.E.), is generally regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism. He is one of the most influential philosophers in antiquity after Plato and Aristotle. The term ‘Neoplatonism’ is an invention of early 19th century European scholarship and in…

Original Article: Heresy Try to add your own article? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- April 2022 One of the most surprising things I've witnessed in my lifetime is the rebirth of the concept of heresy. In his excellent biography of Newton, Richard Westfall writes about the moment when he was elected a fellow of Trinity C…

Original Article: The iPhone 14 Pro Isn't as Big of an Upgrade as Apple Thinks Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- It's nice that you don't need to swipe down on the Notification Center to quickly access these live activities; like the name, it's just playful and fun. It's worth noting that not every app works with the D…

Original Article: What If Russia Uses Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine? Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Updated at 11:30 a.m. ET on June 21, 2022 The 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense operates a dozen central storage facilities for nuclear weapons. Known as “Object S” sites and scattered across the R…

Original Article: How the War in Ukraine Might End Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod ---- Hein Goemans grew up in Amsterdam in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, surrounded by stories and memories of the Second World War. His father was Jewish and had hidden “under the floorboards,” as he put it, during the Nazi occupation…

Original Article: When Will the Pandemic Truly Be ‘Over’? Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- It was a political stumble that turned into a policy two-step. In a 60 Minutes interview, US President Joe Biden declared the Covid pandemic over. Within 12 hours, public health officials, …

Original Article: How to figure out what to do with your life Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- I think it's possible to reliably identify what to do with your life. There's a super quick test for it. When doing the test myself, I realized something: I never want to start another …

Original Article: Writing Handbook by Julian Shapiro Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Why write nonfiction? This handbook helps you write nonfiction books and blogs for three reasons: 1. Gain leverage Keeping thoughts to yourself can be a disservice to the world. If you have some…

Original Article: Opinion | Queen Elizabeth Has Died. She Embodied the Myth of the Good Monarch. Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Serge Schmemann Sept. 8, 2022 Credit...“Equanimity 9”; Queen Elizabeth II by Chris Levine (artist), Rob Munday (holographer)/Jersey Heritage Trust 200…

Original Article: Foraging helped me discover a world of free fruits and veggies Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- As a child I made yearly sojourns to my grandparents' home in Oakland, Calif. Next door, in the middle of chest-high weeds, sat a lush grapefruit tree. The property w…

Original Article: The Enduring Wisdom of ‘Goodnight Moon’ Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- The Great Read It’s the first book many babies receive as a gift, and one of the few that parents will keep when their child is grown. Why does this 75-year-old story have such staying powe…

Original Article: Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part III - the nuclear navy Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- (Previously in this series: Part I, Part II) This week we conclude our look at nuclear power construction costs. The USS Nautilus So far we’ve looked s…

Original Article: Electric Vehicles Could Rescue the US Power Grid Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Last month, California finalized a rule that will ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, starting in 2035. Obviously, that’ll accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and encour…

Original Article: TikTok’s CEO Navigates the Limits of His Power Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Credit...Philip Fong/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Shou Zi Chew, TikTok’s chief executive, is balancing how to be an autonomous leader while juggling the demands of the app’s C…

Original Article: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Forces Face Mobilized Inmates and Drones Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Ukraine has been pushing a counteroffensive in the east and south, applying greater pressure to Russian forces, but there is no indication of any mass Russian wi…

Original Article: Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- When we begin “The U.S. and the Holocaust”—a six-and-a-half-hour, three-part documentary about America’s actions during one of history’s greatest atrocities, the …

Original Article: What's New: Has bootstrapping gotten harder? Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- (from the latest issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter) Is it time to reframe bootstrapping? Many founders pride themselves on being bootstrapped, but has bootstrapping become less fea…

Original Article: Can We Predict Which Viruses Will Spread from Animals to Humans? Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- The natural world is a reservoir of plagues. At any moment, untold numbers of viruses circulate among animals. Inevitably, some will cross the species barrier, infe…

Original Article: Engineer vs Entrepreneur Mindset Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- I write code since 2013 and started my entrepreneurship journey in 2017. That gave me plenty of time to observe a recurring pattern: Engineers love to get it right. Entrepreneurs love to get it do…

Original Article: Building in community Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Many of us know about building in public, but what about building in community? The lines between them are blurry, but I believe there is enough distinction worthy of exploration. A look at Building in Publi…

Original Article: Armageddon: The odds of nuclear war Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- The world's end I'm going to lay out a series of fascinating facts and let you decide whether the world is likely to end within, say, 100 years. The first thing to know is that the power of a n…

Original Article: Finding the Most Painful Problem in a Market - The Bootstrapped Founder Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Reading Time: 10 minutes When you’re looking at a niche market, you will find many people having a large number of problems. However, people will only pay mo…

Original Article: Apple Kills Passwords in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- For years, we’ve been promised the end of password-based logins. Now the reality of a passwordless future is taking a big leap forward, with the ability to ditch passwords being r…

Original Article: What do I think about network states? Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- 2022 Jul 13 See all posts What do I think about network states? On July 4, Balaji Srinivasan released the first version of his long-awaited new book describing his vision for "network states"…

Original Article: Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- How do you come up with fresh, transformative ideas? “Brainstorming” is hard—staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering whether someone could make a real-life “dark mode” whiteboard, t…

Original Article: The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- What makes a Product Manager great? The prolific Shreyas Doshi1 gives us the list of requirements in a tweet-storm: 1 I highly recommend following @Shreyas, despi…

Original Article: Find The Fast Moving Water Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Technology and markets are like a river. Some parts are running faster, some slower, and some are eddies sending you backward. Currents are created by the technology, market segment, language, distribut…

Original Article: Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 195 of the invasion Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Ukraine’s southern offensive has prompted Kherson separatists to “pause” a planned referendum on whether to become part of Russia. Russian state news agency Tass …

Original Article: Liz Truss to appoint cabinet of loyalists as she becomes UK’s next PM Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister on Tuesday and will immediately appoint a cabinet of loyalist MPs as her government begins a race against t…

Original Article: Can Democracy Include a World Beyond Humans? Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- There was once an orangutan named Ken Allen at the San Diego Zoo who was notorious for carrying out complex escape plans. He found every nut and bolt in his cage and unscrewed them; in…

Original Article: Why I hate the indie hackers community on Twitter Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- I hesitated a long time to write such a post. Being negative is not my taste of tea, and I don't like those who raise critics too easily. I hope it will raise some interesting deb…

Original Article: The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- I was recently interviewed by NPR’s Planet Money (podcast, transcript) regarding a particular form of credit card fraud. One comment which tragically ended on the cutting room floor: "the o…

Original Article: What's New: Is cold outreach obsolete in 2022? Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- (from the latest issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter) How many indie hackers have done cold outreach? Many people see cold outreach as being spammy at best, obsolete at worst. Can …

Original Article: Russia Halts Gas Flows to Europe via Key Route, Germany Sees 'No Cause for Alarm' Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Russia halted gas supplies via a key European supply route on Aug. 31 citing maintenance issues, in a move that some European countries see as reta…

Original Article: ‘I was just making money’: Netflix engineer leaves $450,000-a-year job out of boredom Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Lacking motivation, Michael Lin left his job as a senior software engineer at Netflix despite earning $450,000 a year and enjoying unlimited pa…

Original Article: No Easy Answers Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness; the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly – Woody Allen An…

Original Article: The purpose of the system Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- If I were to suggest that we do not have an energy crisis, you would no doubt wonder exactly what type of mushrooms I’d put in my risotto. Nevertheless, please bear with me for a moment while I explain. …

Original Article: ⭐️ Why the indie maker playbook is dead (or how I learned to spend money on ads) Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Revenue screenshots always do well on Twitter. But if you supplement your screenshot with a little comment that you achieved this while spending $0 …

Original Article: Memories of Flame: The crash of TWA flight 800 - Admiral Cloudberg - Medium Convert your long form article to podcast? Visit SendToPod Follow me on Twitter to find out more. ---- Note: this accident was previously featured in episode 26 of the plane crash series on March 3rd, 2018, prior to the series’ arrival on Medium. This arti…