Douwe Osinga's Blog

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Founder mode is wishful thinking

Another one of Paul Graham’s essays is making the rounds: founder mode . Paul’s writing is generally thoughtful and to the point, but I am n...

Friday, May 24, 2024

Taxes and Human Development in US States

As Franklin would have it, nothing in this life is certain but death and taxes . And when it comes to US states it is generally thought ther...

Sunday, April 14, 2024

YC Companies in a spreadsheet

I was looking around for a spreadsheet with all Y-Companies, but couldn’t find one, or at least nothing recent. The top Google Result is dep...

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Lies, statistics and the ultra rich

Every year during the gathering of the world leaders in Davos, Oxfam comes out with a report about how the rich are getting richer and the ...

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Automate Research with a Neptyne Spreadsheet and OpenAI

  While ChatGPT definitely has grabbed the headlines when it comes to the AI revolution, using LLMs to automate all kinds of tasks has yield...