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https://invertedpassion.com/your-competitors-are-just-like-you-smart-and-hard-working/
Your competitors are just like you: smart and hard-working - Inverted Passion
Entrepreneurs have to be confident in their abilities, otherwise, they’d never take the risk of starting a business. However, this confidence can backfire if...
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https://invertedpassion.com/consumers-want-stuff-for-free-companies-want-to-pay/
Consumers want stuff for free, companies want to pay - Inverted Passion
Mark Zuckerberg famously said that there’s no point in monetizing a consumer product unless you have a billion users. Consumers are habituated to getting...
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https://invertedpassion.com/games-are-problems-people-pay-to-solve/
Games are problems people pay to solve - Inverted Passion
Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense....
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https://invertedpassion.com/notes-from-the-book-hooked/
Notes from the book "Hooked" - Inverted Passion
I re-read the book Hooked by Nir Eyal and these are my notes. 1/ The key question that the book answers is: how to make habit-forming products. And its answer...
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https://invertedpassion.com/stop-assuming-that-your-customers-want-things-that-you-want/
Stop assuming that your customers want things that you want - Inverted Passion
Mind projection fallacy happens when we assume that most other people are like us. It’s an error to assume that they have similar desires and fears towards...
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https://invertedpassion.com/reliably-detecting-humans-on-the-internet/
Reliably detecting humans on the Internet - Inverted Passion
1/ There’s ONE big unsolved problem for anyone who’s interested: detecting humans on the Internet. It has potential to unlock billions of dollars of value....
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https://invertedpassion.com/twitter-threads/
Twitter Threads - Inverted Passion
I tweet on a lot of topics. This page is an archive of all my twitter threads organized in one place. Here are the major categories: Ask me anything...
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https://invertedpassion.com/are-we-headed-towards-a-stable-dystopia/
Are we headed towards a stable dystopia? - Inverted Passion
I’ve been thinking about how AI is going to shape up society and one particular scenario seems like a high-probability outcome to me. Here’s how it could play...
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https://invertedpassion.com/how-money-works/
How money works - Inverted Passion
(a massive, 100-part essay) I recently finished this excellent short book titled What Has Government Done To Our Money. It’s available on the Internet for free...
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https://invertedpassion.com/review-of-life/
Review of Life - Inverted Passion
There’s a new multiplayer game out in the market. It’s called Life. I’m half way through it, so thought of reviewing my experience of it so far. I’ll try...
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https://invertedpassion.com/endowment-effect-in-business/
Endowment effect in business - Inverted Passion
We value things we own much more than the things we don’t own. It’s called the endowment effect. This goes well with our intuition that other people don’t...
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https://invertedpassion.com/think-from-first-principles-before-you-google-or-ask-chatgpt/
Think from first principles before you Google (or ask ChatGPT) - Inverted Passion
Like most technologies, search engines are both good and bad at the same time. They’re good because they open up vast resources of information. Today, our...
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https://invertedpassion.com/engineers-make-terrible-leaders/
Good engineers make terrible leaders - Inverted Passion
Yuval Noah Harari in his highly celebrated book Sapiens says that human values are shared myths and that there is no objective basis in humanism. I agree with...
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https://invertedpassion.com/a-primer-on-dopamine/
A primer on dopamine - Inverted Passion
1/ I recently made notes on the book “Hooked” but wasn’t satisfied by the depth of explanation in it. 2/ I wanted to get down into neuroscience of...
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https://invertedpassion.com/wealth-is-not-money-its-the-things-we-use-money-for/
Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for - Inverted Passion
As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing. However, it’s essential to understand that money is not...
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https://invertedpassion.com/notes-from-the-book-the-mind-is-flat/
Notes from the book "The Mind is Flat" - Inverted Passion
I finished reading the book “The Mind is Flat” by Nick Chater and here are my notes. 1/ The core idea of the book is that our thoughts are not reflections of a...
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https://invertedpassion.com/inefficiency-machine-learning-algorithms/
On the inefficiency of machine learning algorithms - Inverted Passion
Let’s imagine Artificial Intelligence, but in reverse. In such a world, humans are equivalent of machine learning algorithms (like deep learning) and some...
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https://invertedpassion.com/your-teams-culture-is-defined-by-your-behavior-not-your-words/
Your team's culture is defined by your behavior, not your words - Inverted Passion
Imagine you’re the founder of a startup project (it could be a company, a non-profit, a religion, or even a country). You have a weird habit: you like to come...
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https://invertedpassion.com/the-two-views-of-rationality/
The two views of rationality - Inverted Passion
This essay is part of the series in which I talk about my learnings and insights building a habit coaching app (Nintee) in 2024. It didn’t ultimately work out...
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https://invertedpassion.com/your-business-is-worth-all-future-profits-it-is-expected-to-generate/
Your business is worth all future profits it is expected to generate - Inverted Passion
It’s easy to get bewildered by the billion-dollar valuations of startups that are operating under heavy losses. If you’ve ever wondered why would anyone pay...
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https://invertedpassion.com/making-peace-with-the-ambiguity-of-progress/
Making peace with the ambiguity of progress - Inverted Passion
Is there an arrow of progress in our universe? Or do things change without any particular direction as a goal, like a dust particle engaged in a Brownian...
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