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       title: January 28th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-01-28, 07:53:36 -08:00

     

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       link: https://observablehq.com/@jsomers/we-need-more-tiny-knowledge-projects-heres-one

     

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       [We need more tiny knowledge projects](https://observablehq.com/@jsomers/we-need-more-tiny-knowledge-projects-heres-one)

     

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       > “I used to think of “knowledge projects” as involving a big mission, a big community, and a complex piece of software: the stuff of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, or Genius (where I worked for several years). But the web is just as good for collaborations in the small.”

     

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       title: January 28th, 2024

     

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       link: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/content-dispersion/

     

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       This article [“The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop”](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/content-dispersion/) feels like the reverse of what we would have seen 10 years ago, complaining about designs that don’t work on mobile.

     

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       The article states that 55% of web traffic comes from mobile. I bet if we measured “human time spent reading content” that mobile would be even higher. 

     

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       This fits into my [[death of the professional desktop operating system]] theme.  I think we should consider desktop design to be a luxury, for art and experiences.

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       link: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-dma-changes/

     

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       The Open Web Advocacy group has posted a statement on how Apple is complying with the DMA [“Apple’s plan to allow browser competition dubbed unworkable”](https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-dma-changes/)

     

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       [[Steven Sinofsky]] writes about Apple and the DMA in [“Building Under Regulation”](https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/215-building-under-regulation):

     

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       > As I read the over 60 pages of the DMA when it was passed…my heart sank over the complexity of a regulation so poorly constructed yet so clearly aimed at specific (American) companies and products.

     

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       Creating a pitch deck is part of the startup fundraising process. 

     

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       Every stage of investment and industry has different norms, but there are a lot of standard expectations and basics. 

     

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       I’ll focus on sharing resources around early stage fundraising for your pre-seed or seed rounds, for what you think is a [[Venture Sized Business]].

     

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       ## Slide Design

     

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       [LinkedIn post by Stephen Carroll](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevecarroll76_the-best-advice-i-ever-got-about-building-activity-7157053966973878272-VMED)

     

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       > The best advice I ever got about building pitch decks is stupidly simple:

     

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       ![](/assets/pitchdeck/pitchdeckcoach.jpeg)

     

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       ![](/assets/pitchdeck/11-pitch-types.jpeg)

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       Virtualization for MacOS and iOS that uses Apple’s hypervisor framework. 

     

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