10 Hours of Mesmerising Underwater Footage
I haven't owned a TV since 2011 but I'm seriously considering coming out of smug-minimalist hibernation and buying the biggest TV I can find just so I can play this…
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All-Time Best Articles for Indie Entrepreneurs
1,000 True Fans You Are Not Late Ramen Profitable Do Things That Don't Scale Make Your Own Things No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing The Product Spectrum This…
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How to fix the internet: write good stuff and be nice to people
Today’s internet is mean. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when everyone online became a jerk, but to me it seems that the tipping point occurred right when making money off…
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Best Entrepreneur Podcasts of 2019
I listen to hundreds of podcast episodes every year, possibly thousands. These are some of the episodes I found interesting enough to listen to more than once in 2019. Interestingly,…
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My 10X Productivity Stack
This one's about the lesser-known and esoteric apps and tools I use to make Hackerpreneur Magazine and Letterlist. And how they fit into my daily workflows, which should make them…
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Cory Doctorow on Big Tech – Decentralized Web Summit 2018
In this keynote address, author and advocate, Cory Doctorow, argues that Big Tech is a problem, but the problem isn't "Tech," it's "BIG." Giants get to bend policy to suit…
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How to Make Wealth
Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years,…
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The Execution Gap
In issue 11 of Hackerpreneur Magazine, I talked about the creativity spectrum and how it’s important to keep the balance in favour of creating, making, and producing. In other words,…
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1:59:40
Eliud Kipchoge just ran 1:59:40. It’s one of those once-in-a-generation feats that redefines what a human can do, but now that he’s opened up the adjacent possible, it’s just a…
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High Agency: The Unseen Superpower
Three decades ago, the internet brought the promise of democratising everything. It was to remove the gatekeepers and allow us all to create and share our work. The utopian vision…
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AbEXP | AIAIAI Headphones
An experimental and exploratory project, AbEXP is a new kind of adblock plugin. Download the Chrome extension and take over the ad banners on the world’s in-ternet pages, from The…
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Share your gifts
There's so much to love about this holiday video from Apple. Making stuff is hard enough, let alone being brave enough to share it with the world. But that's exactly…
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Work that matters. People who care.
This conversation with Chase Jarvis is Seth Godin's one-hour distillation of his book, This is Marketing. Focusing on an audience that's an inch wide and a mile deep is hard…
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How to Win
I especially like the section on Kegan's theory of adult development. I feel like I've been veering towards a sense of this idea but didn't have a sophisticated framework to model it.
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Daily Routines: Haruki Murakami
When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at 4:00 am and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for 10km or swim…
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The End of Ownership
People need to know more about the products they own. If you own something, if you purchase something free and clear then you should be able to fix it yourself.
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The Crazy Ones
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and…
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Humankind. A Dan Mace film.
Dan Mace got 100 film-makers to collaborate on a film about people. Here's 4 beautiful minutes of humanity.
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Michael Seibel – Building Product
Easy ideas get built much faster, therefore you should split hard items into easy ideas and tease out the easy and high-impact items to work on.
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Nike Principles
40 year old Nike internal memo by its first marketing head Rob Strasser titled “Principles”. Nike hasn't wavered from those principles.
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This is Water – David Foster Wallace
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the…
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Becoming a Millionaire
The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a…
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Obvious to you. Amazing to others
Everybody’s ideas seem obvious to them. But what’s obvious to you might be amazing to someone else.
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How The Economic Machine Works – Ray Dalio
An unconventional approach to economics that helped Ray Dalio anticipate (and side-step) the global financial crisis. When you understand that the economy is nothing more than the accumulation of all human transactions,…
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Technological Disobedience in Cuba
Working with the adjacent possible, used everyday objects become resources for the new. It's a kind of circular economy where everything has a second life, reincarnated into something useful.
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Breaking 2 – Nike
Full documentary - Breaking 2. Nike + National Geographic. A beautiful collision between human optimisation, sports science, nutrition, teamwork, dedication, focus, and storytelling.
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Twitter Wisdom
Since curating by Twitter stream to a tight group of 100 people, it's become a source of amazing learning. I put together this metathread of the very best threads that…
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100 or 1
One of the magical things that the internet has done for us is to reduce the fixed costs of starting a business so now they're close-to-zero. Everybody loves the way the…
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Despite
I've written before about the unhealthy defaults that we revert to when we don't take decisive action. There are default life-paths that you fall into (just like 90% of the population)…
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What if Imposter Syndrome was all a Big Lie?
Ever get that feeling when you’re about to do something important, like delivering a speech or starting a new job? It usually shows up as a sense that you’re not…
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The Third Industrial Revolution
The first industrial revolution was British. The steam printing press created a mass-communication device, followed by the telegraph. Coal brought about huge amounts of accessible energy to drive steam engines.…
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We’re Living in a Murmuration
The internet isn’t a connected organised mesh of interlinked nodes. It’s more fluid. An undulating, transient, chaos. A throbbing swarm of ideas that all happen at once.
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Charlie Munger’s Elementary Wisdom for Investment Management & Business
The following text is a transcription from a speech given by Charlie Munger at USC Business School, 1994. I'm going to play a minor trick on you today because the…
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David Hieatt’s Company Rules
1. If we can’t do the basics amazingly well, nothing else will matter. 2. Never try to be cool. Only try to be good. 3. Ne honest. People trust you…
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Bootstrapping Side Projects into Profitable Startups
Pieter Levels epitomises what it means to be a hackerpreneur. Insatiably curious, autodidact, polymath, maker, designer, coder, results-driven, signal > noise.
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The 6 second drum-loop behind NWA, the Prodigy & Bowie
Amen Brother is a 1969 funk track by The Winstons that nobody has really heard of. Except for a 6-second drum loop that wove a musical meme into the tapestry…
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How Elon Musk Spends His Time
A lot of people think I must spend a lot of time with media or on businessy things. But 80% of it is spent on engineering and design. - Elon…
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Clean Disruption of Energy & Transportation
Stanford University futurist Tony Seba spent the last decades studying technological disruptions. He argues that the Electric Vehicle, battery storage, and solar power, along with autonomous vehicles, are a perfect…
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Build Your Own Things
Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter…
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Press Pause Play (2012)
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent…
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Remix – Overhead The Albatross + Hans Zimmer
When I’m in heads-down production mode, this Hans Zimmer track from Inception is my goto hack to flip my brain into a flow state. I can easily listen to it…
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How to Find Your Mission
What do you believe? What do you stand for? Why do you do what you're doing?
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Everything is a Remix
We have the mistaken intuition that to be creative, you must be original... that innovation comes from some kind of genius. In reality, new things are born from existing ones, remixed,…
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Nothing is Original
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street…
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What are your Road Runner Rules?
When Chuck Jones, the Warner Brothers cartoonist created the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, he also also created these nine rules. You see, in the infinite cartoon universe, literally anything…
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