Interesting Things ☝️ #4 - Feb 19, 2021

The Two and a Half Weeks Late Edition™

📱Products

• Cord is a chrome extension that lets you comment and chat everywhere

• Stream is an API for building chat and feeds into your app

• Reflect.run is a visual automated regression testing tool for developers

• I Miss My Bar is a lovely audio experiment, especially in a socially distanced world

📚 Reading

• Keith Gill’s (aka Roaring Kitty aka DeepFuckingValue) statement to the House Financial Services committee is worth a read. A concise, personal, powerful statement about retail investing and the power of analysis and conviction.

• Alex Danco writing about reflexivity in the market madnes a few weeks ago

• @HipCityReg sharing an honest story about his journey to this point.

• WHAT YOUR DATA TEAM IS USING: THE ANALYTICS STACK is a great overview and explainer (even for technical people) on the data/analytics stack

🎙 Podcasts

• Josh Brown delivers a brief economic history of systemic racism. It’s mind-blowing, sickening and maddening. An absolute must-listen.

• Cathie Wood on We Study Billionaires

• Patrick O’Shaughnessy with Chamath

💡 Ideas

• A better email newsletter reader. Like Mailbrew + RSS reader.

• I’d like to pay for Twitter

🔥 Tweets

Flo Crivello @Altimor

@devonzuegel Obligatory

Jason Warner @jasoncwarner

IME, there’s two types of momentum in startups: public perception & internal Public is about adoption, growth, funding, entering the zeitgeist Internal is all about shipping and culture

Alex Cohen @anothercohen

One of the most important things in startups is having momentum and it’s really hard to get back once it’s lost

Barry Petchesky @barry

I will never miss a chance to bring up that there are photos of the surface of Venus, taken by the Russians in the two hours before the lander freaking melted

Doctor Historianess @historianess

A thread about electricity deregulation and infrastructure in Texas: 1/

Woody @realest8hodler

Some insights I wanted to share with you from Tony Deden's speech (in his own words) at the Observer's conference from late 2018. This is PURE GOLD, some incredible gems being dropped by Deden, as usual. It's especially relevant now more than ever. 1/