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Top Articles

A roundup of the week's most popular articles and essays from Playtext.

1. Better Tools, Bigger Companies (48 min)

“The most successful tech companies built today will be bigger than any that have come before, for the simple reason that they have better tools to build with. My bet is that those tools have gotten good enough that they can mount serious attacks on the biggest sectors of the economy and reshape the physical world.”

2. How to Say No (8 min)

“Why you should say no more often. — You become successful by doing something really well. Once you’re successful, you get offers to do cool things, like go to fancy fun events, do new projects, and meet interesting people. But when you start spending your time on these other things, you don’t have as much time to do the thing that made you successful in the first place. That work suffers. And so your success fades.”

3. Where are the Builders? (12 min)

The brightest and most ambitious minds of our generation currently working on Games and Social Media. While there’s nothing wrong with having fun building inside of games, these are the very same skill sets that tech companies would pay six figures to have on their side.

4. Taking Risk (13 min)

“Young people who consider starting businesses are discouraged and the vast majority of our smart, technical graduates take “safe” jobs at prestigious employers. I am trying to figure out why that is.”

5. Beautiful Motivations (2 min)

“The primary reason I appreciate aesthetics so much is its power to motivate.”

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