Nine Signs Your Startup Is Going to Fail; Planning Your Annual Family Summit; SNL Performers Cracking Themselves Up; and +++ [link blog]
How to Plan An Annual Family Summit [Bethany Crystal/Hard Mode First] — Bethany and I were grabbing wine one evening in NYC over the December holidays when she mentioned this was underway (Family Summit 2024). Before I could even complete the sentence “And are you blogg….,” she said yes, there was a post underway detailing how she and her husband run this process for themselves. And here it is — “Simple strategies for setting goals and Priorities with Your Partner for the year ahead”
The Evolution of Perception Markets: Schelling Point Companies, Reality Ratios, & Narrative Receptacles [Michael Dempsey/Compound] — I only understand about 50% of what Dempsey writes about, but that’s enough to earn a spot here. This essay hits for me. Basically it asks what happens when the reality distortion field of technology isn’t about convincing consumers to believe, but investors. And how enough durable investor belief (in the form of high P/E ratios, ongoing new capital) can make the future come true. I’ll give you a quote from the end that stood out for me
A consistent theme I’ve observed over the past few years has been human’s increasingly aggressive speculative nature and our inability to parse signal from noise. These concepts permeate into so many different branches of our lives.
Back to Text: How AI Might Reverse Web Design [Tomasz Tunguz/Theory] — What does the web look like when it’s optimized for AI Agents instead of people and web crawlers? Tomasz’ posts are always brief, but I think this is a good starting point for the question.
9 Signs a Startup Isn’t Going to Make It [Jason Lemkin/SaaStr] — I throw up a little in my mouth every time I read this post because there’s a lot of truth here in terms of startup warning signs. For example, Sign #1: A Founder’s Understanding of Their Market Doesn’t Get Deeper Over Time.
Losing It On Live TV [Jason Zinoman/NYTimes] — In honor of the SNL50 show coming up this sunday, here’s a fun article about when their performers start cracking up on camera, something which show creator Lorne Michaels supposedly hates, but the audience generally loves.
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Originally published at https://hunterwalk.com on February 14, 2025.
