Very worth looking at this in the context of <a href="https://www.newcomer.co/p/the-unauthorized-story-of-andreessen" rel="nofollow">https://www.newcomer.co/p/the-unauthorized-story-of-andreess...</a> (Summary: AH doesn't like how the media has become critical of tech, would like to present its own narratives by going direct)
If you're looking for more information on what this is about than the landing page provides, the "Pitch Us" page expands on their editorial vision: <a href="https://future.a16z.com/pitch-us/" rel="nofollow">https://future.a16z.com/pitch-us/</a>
Lists don't make great HN submissions because there's little to discuss other than the lowest common denominator of the items of the list items, and that's too generic. It's also too much indirection since HN is already a list of articles. It's better to post the most interesting specific item from the list.<p><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=denominator%20list%20by:dang" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...</a><p>Someone already had posted an article from this site (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27515120" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27515120</a>), so I put that in the second-chance pool instead (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/pool" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/pool</a>, explained at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308</a>), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
There are amazing posts but this one has a lot of confirmation bias: <a href="https://future.a16z.com/cohort-based-courses/" rel="nofollow">https://future.a16z.com/cohort-based-courses/</a><p>The article is promoting the idea of cohort-based courses written by Wes Kao (who is the co-founder of Maven, the first platform for cohort-based courses. She is also co-founder of the altMBA. )
The quality of content is incredible. I've read 3 blog posts so far and found this particularly relevant for Budibase:
<a href="https://future.a16z.com/north-star-metrics" rel="nofollow">https://future.a16z.com/north-star-metrics</a>
This would be cool if they added a prediction market on top of this. It doesn't necessarily need to be a market, but I would love to track falsifiable predictions that journalists make so I know which ones have a track record of being correct.
Headlines need statements. If you disagree, consider if I'd written: Headlines that assert a statement grab readers, you probably wouldn't care enough to still be reading.<p>Write the headline just as you think it with all its logic and reason, and then conjugate it into an assertion with a begged question.<p>Maybe they're going for a more quiet experience than clickbait, but since people read for sensation, and the more people that read something the more they will have in common, I'd say conjugate your headlines.<p>People Overlook Subtractive Changes.
<a href="https://future.a16z.com/the-untapped-potential-of-subtraction/" rel="nofollow">https://future.a16z.com/the-untapped-potential-of-subtractio...</a><p>Low Switching Costs are Driving DeFi.
<a href="https://future.a16z.com/cryptos-fourth-wave-defi-poised-for-breakthrough/" rel="nofollow">https://future.a16z.com/cryptos-fourth-wave-defi-poised-for-...</a><p>Nobody Knows Where Their Stuff Is.
<a href="https://future.a16z.com/beyond-the-meme-ever-given-supply-chains-and-the-physical-world/" rel="nofollow">https://future.a16z.com/beyond-the-meme-ever-given-supply-ch...</a><p>Bubbles Are Statistical Time Travel.
<a href="https://future.a16z.com/well-behaved-bubbles-history-innovation/" rel="nofollow">https://future.a16z.com/well-behaved-bubbles-history-innovat...</a><p>etc.
Future Publishing is a company. I thought for a moment they'd invested in Future Publishing and was wondering why. (They're in the magazine / print industry.)<p><a href="https://www.futureplc.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.futureplc.com</a><p>Edit: Any chance Future Plc won't like this name?<p>Edit 2: I could have sworn Future PLC owned "future.com", but maybe it has new owners (or renters)? Archive.org is down for a planned power outage, so I can't check right now.
So the contributors are paid in “exposure” or am I missing something?<p>I mostly enjoy A16Z and @pmarca in particular but they’re pretty hostile to contradictory ideas. Like if I pitch GDPR compliance for Substack I don’t think they’ll be super amused.<p>Still curious if this will rise to the quality of their podcast, which I find has a signal:pr:bs ratio of about 4:3:2, which is an excellent score for a corporate podcast!<p>[edit: not that exposure isn’t a valid currency here! For probably anyone who even knows who A16Z is.]
I hope they create a competitor to HN next. That would siphon away most of the people who create throwaway accounts here to complain about HN's 'liberal bias' and 'cancel culture'