1. Why California Burns: The Facts Behind the Flames

    José Luis Ricón
    The complexity of wildfires – causes, contributing factors, data – leaves a lot of room for snap judgments and no clear answers, so what can we do?
  2. Choosing Your North Star Metric

    Lenny Rachitsky
    How to decide the guiding metrics for every type of business, based on a survey of employees at over 40 of today's most successful growth-stage companies.
  3. A Practical Guide to NFT Memberships for Creators

    Peter Yang
    Benefits and challenges of NFT memberships as a monetization channel, how creators are using them in practice, and more.
  4. All about Network Effects

    Anu Hariharan
    What is a network effect? How do we untangle the nuances of ‘network effects’ with ‘marketplaces’ and ‘platforms’? What’s the difference between network effects, virality, supply-side economies of scale?
  5. The Power of Product Thinking

    Julie Zhuo
    Developing product thinking is not just for designers and PMs. Anyone in the business of building products or understanding trends can use this framework.
  6. How to Build a GPT-3 for Science

    Josh Nicholson
    A GPT-3-like AI model for science would accelerate innovation and improve reproducibility. Creating it will require us to unlock scientific publications.
  7. What We Learned Doing Fast Grants

    Patrick Collison, Tyler Cowen, and Patrick Hsu
    We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed the strength and weakness in current funding models.
  8. The Future of Search Is Boutique

    Sari Azout
    The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
  9. Building for the 99% Developers

    Jean Yang
    Effectively building and buying software means understanding that most developers work with legacy code, slow processes, and a mishmash of frameworks.
  10. Why Developers Are Building So Many Side Projects

    Ben Stokes
    From unleashing creativity to mitigating risk, Ben Stokes of Tiny Projects shares some of the main reasons why developers are building so many side projects.
  11. What the Merge Means for Ethereum

    Danny Ryan and Jeff Benson
    The Ethereum Foundation's Danny Ryan discusses how the Merge will increase security and explains how proof of stake impacts developers.