Ray Dalio and Coronavirus, Tusla Remote & Culture of Experimentation

My Thoughts About the Coronavirus

  • The most important assets that you need to take good care of are you and your family. As with investing, I hope that you will imagine the worst-case scenario and protect yourself against it.

The Great Tulsa Remote Worker Experiment

  • The first class of hand-picked remote workers moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in exchange for $10,000 and a built-in community. The city might just be luring them to stay.

Building a Culture of Experimentation

  • Booking.com isn’t the only firm to discover the power of online experiments. Digital giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have found them to be a game changer when it comes to marketing and innovation.
  • The lesson is that it’s not so important whether any one experiment succeeds or fails; what matters is how decisions are adjudicated under uncertainty in an organization. They should not be based on faith or personal opinion alone. If they can be put to the test, they should be.

New AngelList data set sheds light on the signaling risks of seed-stage investments

  • Does having a top-10 investor in your seed round improve or hurt your chances of a follow-on round 18 months later, compared to seed rounds without such an investor?

Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

  • Today, less than 8% of global commerce happens online. Stripe is intent on growing that number.

Coronavirus: Nasa images show China pollution clear amid slowdown

  • Nasa scientists said the reduction in levels of nitrogen dioxide – a noxious gas emitted by motor vehicles and industrial facilities – was first apparent near the source of the outbreak in Wuhan city but then spread across the country.