Gabriel Weinberg
Person on 4 sites
Gabriel Weinberg is an American entrepreneur who founded DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, in 2008.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Founded: DuckDuckGo (2008); earlier the Names Database social network (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: Traction (2015) and Super Thinking (2019), as co-author (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: MIT: physics (2001) and technology policy (2005) (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Bluesky: @yegg13.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
“Resolving the privacy paradox gabrielweinberg.com/p/resolving-... Revealed preference arguments often have hidden flaws”
- Newsletter: The Great Race (opens thegreatrace.substack.com)
- LinkedIn: in/yegg13 (opens www.linkedin.com)
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Bluesky: @yegg13.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Seeking out and applying mental models across a wide array of disciplines is powerful. (opens korrents.com)
“Around 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, which introduced me to how behavioral economics can be applied in business and investing. More profoundly, though, it opened…”
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A small set of mental models comes up again and again in everyday decisions, problem solving and truth seeking. (opens korrents.com)
“There is a much smaller set of concepts, however, that come up repeatedly in day-to-day decision making, problem solving, and truth seeking.”
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A mental model only helps if it is known well, practised, and applied in the right context at the right time. (opens korrents.com)
“I find mental models are useful to try to make sense of things and to help generate ideas. To actually be useful, however, you have to apply them in the right context at the right time. And for that to happen…”
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Seeking out and applying mental models across a wide array of disciplines is powerful. (opens korrents.com)
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9 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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HP Envy 13T-1000 (opens rcmnd.app)
“When not in my basement, I'm using my laptop, which is a HP Envy 13T-1000. Hmm… probably not going to be buying any more HP machines :).”
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PuTTY (opens rcmnd.app)
“I'm in PuTTY all the time. I like to develop remotely.”
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Android T-mobile G2 (opens rcmnd.app)
“For phone, I have a Android T-mobile G2, though its slowness is getting on my nerves lately.”
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HP Envy 13T-1000 (opens rcmnd.app)