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How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author
Listen now | The Lean Startup author on why most mission-driven companies are just mission-“hopeful,” why only 20% of founders remain CEO three years post-IPO, and the Delaware filing every founder should make
Barack Obama was a successful President
A repost, because I'm annoyed.
What’s new in biology: May 2026
A cure for congenital deafness, recreating snake venom, antibodies, a legend in cardiovascular medicine, and a successful hair loss treatment?
Do billionaires earn their money?
That's probably the wrong question.
AI's big messaging pivot
Some top AI leaders now say their technology will create jobs. Should we believe them?
The real lesson of Spirit’s bankruptcy
Plus pragmatism for conservatives, places I haven’t been, and what’s cooking in Ann Arbor
Could development economics be more useful?
What's really needed is humility.
Pocket Stack: Launching "trust entrepreneurship"
A new chapter and a giveaway!
We should pay more for the best teachers
A popular, compelling, correct idea
Why SaaS freemium playbooks don’t work in AI, and what to do instead
How to build an AI monetization strategy that actually works
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Cloud & Doing the Right Thing
How the cloud changes the way we build applications, and why engineers’ ethical choices matter more than ever. Excerpt from the book, ‘Designing Data-Intensive Applications’, 2nd edition
Don’t copy Donald Trump’s failed presidency
The Orange Man is bad at the job.
Want more Black representatives? Elect more Democrats.
I ran the numbers on redistricting after the Supreme Court's decision on the Voting Rights Act. The Black representation trade-off is mostly a myth.
🎙️ This week on How I AI: The internal AI tool that’s transforming how Stripe designs products
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
Unlocked Repost: Curing U.S. Health Care, Part I
America doesn’t have to be like this
PELE International Football Rankings ⚽
What happens when you blend 150+ years of soccer history with player market values into a brand-new model? Rankings, ratings and match projections for all 211 FIFA teams.
📊 PRO: This Week in Visuals
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Is an AI company buying up all the used books? (I don’t think so, not this time.) | #103
But no matter what, the Library of Alexandria is still burning.
Making Money off of Power and Grid
Level 4 - Turbo Autist
More articles we would like to commission
Write for Works in Progress.
Has Trump Implicated His Son Barron in NY Cryptocurrency Related Financial Crimes?
This could lead to a legal entanglement beyond the reach of the DOJ or Presidential Pardons.
We Could End Every Blue State’s Budget Deficit With One Policy. Even a Five-Year-Old Could Explain It.
If we can convince a five-year-old, we can convince our state and city representatives.
Why The New York Times Is Post-Liberal
A lawsuit opens a window into their vast program of race and sex discrimination.
Day Off
For real, probably
Q1 Markets in Review
Aswath Damodaran makes it make sense.
Become an AI Engineer | Enrollment Ends Soon
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in about a week.
What It Means to Be Asian American
Reflections for Asian American History Month
Is Europe in Economic Decline?
Interrogating the conventional wisdom that Europe is lagging America
Do Your Phone Calls and Emails Matter?
The Economy of Political Pressure
EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
🏆 Live Sports Steal the Show
Q1 events lifted revenue but exposed the rising rights bill
What is local government good for?
Episode 16 is about building data centers, school districts and redistribution
🧠 Community Wisdom: What to do when non-PMs start shipping directly to production, thoughts on Claude Code’s pricing A/B test, the use of gen AI in games, and more
Community Wisdom 185
Container Design Patterns for Distributed Systems
In this article, we’ll walk through the patterns that have crystallized over the past decade, organized by the scope of their coordination.
Learning in the Age of Algorithmic Video
Are children learning anything from TikTok and YouTube?
8 Big Lessons from My 46th Year of Life
Slow Is the New Fast—and 7 More Gifts from This Past Year
Trading Post May 7, 2026
A Quick One
The Pulse: Did capacity shortages turn Anthropic hostile to devs?
Also: Amazon finally allows engineers to use Claude Code and Codex, Meta forcefully assigns engineers to data labelling work ahead of layoffs, more small “AI-forward” teams, and more
Epstein Advised U.S. Treasury on Crypto During Obama’s Iran Sanctions Push
Treasury officials consulted with Jeffrey Epstein about using cryptocurrency during negotiations with Iran over nuclear deal, even as he made investments in blockchain technology.
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
72 Hours in New Orleans
I came. I saw. I ate beignets.
Trading Post Friday May 8, 2026
TGIF
When the AI Tutor Handles the Lecture
Dr. Doreen Mayrell on flipping college algebra so class time can focus on application, misconceptions, and math that feels connected to students’ lives.
The Super-Rich are Different from You and Me
They're pettier and more self-centered than most of us can imagine
Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
My 9 Rules of Criticism
Advice to wannabe reviewers
Divinely Orchestrated Opportunity
As a woman, when the man you love is going through immense hardship, understand that it is an initiatory portal, an alchemical descent, a transformational rite to his next becoming - a recalibration, a rearrangement, and a shedding of the facets of himself that no longer serve his trajectory, his ascension.