The Opportunity and Risks for Consumer Startups in a Social Distancing World—A Framework for…

As you surface from an hour inadvertently frittered away on Facebook, you’d be forgiven for assuming that the damage, in terms of wasted time, was limited to that single misspent hour. But you’d be wrong. Because the attention economy is designed to prioritize whatever’s most compelling—instead of whatever’s most true, or most useful—it systematica... See more

This is the world in which every app can become a TikTok. I think that’s scary. TikTok uses a lot of clever behavioral signals like how long have you stayed watching a video and AI to quickly create a map of your preferences and then serve you up very, very compelling videos. I challenge anyone to go on TikTok for 10 minutes and not stay on for an ... See more