For this past semester, Peter Thiel has been teaching a course — CS183 — to Stanford Computer Science students. Apparently 10x oversubscribed, Thiel took his students on a journey through his view of the world inviting guests like Marc Andreesen, Paul Graham and Max Levchin to also share their first-hand insights into building companies.

Experimenting with the new Readlists from Readability, and start with this list. Readlists is rather controversial because this particular service let you download all the content you listed as an ebook, but I like the easy to use interface to quickly “soft” bookmark – if you may – all the particular links I want to read, kinda like a to-do list for a web. Yeah, I know Instapaper, but why not try something new, right?

(via Blake Masters)

The good news is much more than you think. The marginal value of the last hour put into a business idea is usually much less than the first. The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40. The number of projects that are truly impossible unless you put in 80 or 120 hours per week are vanishingly small by comparison.

Just read this article. It’s by David Heinemeier Hansson, it’s great.