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But from the perspective of Alibaba and JD, the motivation is broader. Instant delivery is increasingly becoming the way consumers interact with local commerce. If you control the app people open whenever they need something quickly, you control an important part of daily life. That position brings data, merchant relationships, and habit formation
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statistical comparisons may be made strictly in terms of the interior variation in the data,
Stephen M. Stigler • The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
Letting the other person feel that the idea is his or hers not only works in business and politics, it works in family life as well.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Concentrate When you meet someone with the same name as you, do you remember their name? Yes, because you are interested in that name, you always hear it, and your attention is at a peak.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
- Rules vs. patterns
Another way to think of essences versus sequences, especially when it comes to intellectual and creative tasks, is as a shift from the search for rules to a search for patterns .
In a pre-AI world, you needed to define the rules of the game you were playing—to think from first principles and apply them to your circumstances. In a
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Self-discipline We all love to win but how many people love to train?
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
Wheat farming historically had a more seasonal rhythm with periods of relative quiet. Wheat is typically sown in the fall or spring and then mainly just left to grow with the rain. Aside from episodic weeding or guarding the fields, there was less continuous labor until harvest time. Harvest itself was a crunch period requiring many hands with
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we follow the “do something” principle, failure feels unimportant.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
Thus, the McNamara fallacy, as it came to be known, refers to our tendency to focus on the most quantifiable measures, even if doing so leads us from our actual goals. Put simply, we try to measure what we value, but end up valuing what we measure.
And what we measure is rarely what we mean to value. As Skinner showed, the goals of games — points,
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