Jimmy Cerone

frequently hear myself telling people that I just don’t have enough time to read deeply anymore—“the kids!”, “the startup!”—but if I picked up a book instead of reflexively opening Twitter every couple of hours, I’m sure I would have read my way through a library in the last 10 years.

There is research showing that when we introduce what are known as “emergency reserves,” basically “get out of jail free” cards, into the process of goal setting, we’re much more likely to stay the course and to reach those goals.

That is not a growth juggernaut. In fact, that sounds downright bad. Like, maybe you should shut the company down because it’s obviously not working. Or at least, there should be an existential struggle about whether to continue.

“What I’ve always felt,” Ezra said, “is we don’t try to top a previous album. Instead, we try to continue to reveal the whole. It’s like if you're showing someone around the United States, and you started out in Los Angeles—if the person has never seen the rest of America, they might say, ‘Ok, I get it, America is filled with palm trees, sunshine,

means that Meta is only allowed to show ads that are entirely un-targeted, or perhaps only targeted by country. Such ads, as most readers will understand, would be almost entirely worthless. For reference, the EU is about 10% of Meta’s ad revenue (‘Europe’ is larger, but is broader than the EU.

Yes, Apple created the iPhone and the App Store and, under current U.S. antitrust doctrine, almost certainly has the right to impose whatever taxes it wishes on third parties, including 30% on purchases and the first year of subscriptions, and completely cutting off developers from their customers. Antitrust law, though, while governed by Supreme

Two challenges: first, yes, this does make life harder for Slack etc, but, if we took this logic at face value then your word processor would not be allowed to include a spell checker and your spreadsheet could not do charts (in the 1980s both of these were separate purchases). What’s the coherent theory for how we choose the trade-off between