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2026 6

  1. The Best 25 Books I’ve Read Recently
  2. The End of The End of History
  3. How I Learned to Stop Worrying, Love AI, and Be a Bit Less Responsible
  4. Space Elephants Across the Universe: Why Nobody Knows What's Going On With AI
  5. How To Become Wildly Successful in Business
  6. A Frustrating Adventure Trying To Design A Logo With AI

2025 2

  1. Why is B2C User Acquisition Broken?
  2. Books That I Read in 2024

2024 3

  1. Is Population Density the Reason Americans Can’t Discuss Politics?
  2. Choosing to Have Kids During the End Times
  3. Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2023 and What They Taught Me

2023 2

  1. 2023 Reading Update
  2. 7 Things I Believe About the Future

2022 7

  1. The Top 10 Nonfiction Books I Read in 2022
  2. Q4 2022 Book Review
  3. Getting to Base Camp is Skill, Getting to the Summit is Luck
  4. The Best and Worst Books I've Read So Far in 2022
  5. I Watched 68 New Movies - Here are the 10 Best and Worst
  6. Homework Pass Syndrome
  7. Q4 Books and The 2016 Nonfiction Divide

2021 2

  1. Moving from SF to Austin: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Stuff George Writes
  2. Why I’m Not an Angel Investor — Stuff George Writes

2020 1

  1. Thinking About Buying a Home in the Bay Area? It’s Probably a Good Time to Buy — Stuff George Writes

2019 10

  1. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Income Inequality: Part 5 — Stuff George Writes
  2. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Income Inequality: Part 4 — Stuff George Writes
  3. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Income Inequality: Part 3 — Stuff George Writes
  4. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Income Inequality: Part 2 — Stuff George Writes
  5. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Income Inequality — Stuff George Writes
  6. 2019 Book Roundup — Stuff George Writes
  7. Q3 Book Review — Stuff George Writes
  8. The 10 Best Movies I've Seen This Year — Stuff George Writes
  9. 5 Books I Read on Paternity Leave — Stuff George Writes
  10. First Half of 2019 Goal Retro — Stuff George Writes

2018 6

  1. How One Check Box Lowered Conversions by 17% — Stuff George Writes
  2. 21 Empirical Findings About Human Happiness — Stuff George Writes
  3. IMDB Score Bias: It's Temporal — Stuff George Writes
  4. How to Overcome Your Fear of Hustling — Stuff George Writes
  5. The Manly Art of Making Guy Friends — Stuff George Writes
  6. Quit Your Job Now, Before It's Too Late — Stuff George Writes

2017 5

  1. This is Why You Don't Want Nice Things — Stuff George Writes
  2. Knowing How to Code Isn't Valuable — Stuff George Writes
  3. Know Thy Platform — Stuff George Writes
  4. You Can't Use Customer Discovery for B2C Products — Stuff George Writes
  5. How to Choose A Name For Your Startup — Stuff George Writes

2016 15

  1. I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences" — Stuff George Writes
  2. How Netflix Can Ruin Your App's Value Proposition — Stuff George Writes
  3. Increase Your Productivity by Getting Busier — Stuff George Writes
  4. Why You Should Refuse to Build a Company on Content — Stuff George Writes
  5. It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass Mobile App — Stuff George Writes
  6. It's Religion All the Way Down — Stuff George Writes
  7. Marketing is Just Sales Without Accountability — Stuff George Writes
  8. Sivers is Right: Customer Service is the New Marketing — Stuff George Writes
  9. Games: The Anti-MVP — Stuff George Writes
  10. Your Child's Name Won't Limit Their Digital Future — Stuff George Writes
  11. Save Time, Cash, and Carbon with Amazon Prime — Stuff George Writes
  12. Why You Shouldn't Follow Your Dreams — Stuff George Writes
  13. Magic Tricks — Stuff George Writes
  14. It's Sad to See Your Startup Turn into a Business — Stuff George Writes
  15. Why You Should Bootstrap Your First Company — Stuff George Writes

2015 10

  1. Your Startup Need an Intractable Design Problem — Stuff George Writes
  2. Minecraft Isn't Educational — Stuff George Writes
  3. Call Me When 3D Printing Becomes Practical — Stuff George Writes
  4. Effort and Reward: Correlation, Not Causation — Stuff George Writes
  5. Let's Partner Into Prosperity — Stuff George Writes
  6. Why You Can't Admit Personal Mistakes on the Internet — Stuff George Writes
  7. Hypothetical Number Inflation — Stuff George Writes
  8. Now You Are a Geek: Saying Goodbye to Wave — Stuff George Writes
  9. Are Titles Important at a Startup? — Stuff George Writes
  10. Startup Advice That Bears Repeating — Stuff George Writes