Lillian Sheng

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Despite its well-known effectiveness, tutoring’s modern incarnation almost universally concerns specific tests: in America the Advanced Placements (AP) tests, the SATs, and the GREs form the holy trinity of private tutoring. Meaning that contemporary tutoring, the most effective method of education, is overwhelmingly targeted at a small set of... See more

The immediate challenge was building liquidity as quickly as possible—in other words, overcoming the perennial “cold start problem” of jumpstarting a new marketplace. In the fall of 2021, many NFT collections took weeks to reach secondary marketplaces, and in the meantime, users had no way of telling if the listings they came across were reliable... See more

Trade-offs Since adopting RSS saves podcast listening apps an enormous amount of time and money by not forcing them to reinvent the way content flows through the podcasting ecosystem, it means the barriers to finding an audience for these apps is lower. As a result, many of these apps exist, and thus a tremendous amount of market fragmentation has... See more

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Another area of opportunity is social, and owning more community interaction around NFTs. Today, most NFT marketplaces focus on the transaction itself, while the initial stages of creating purchase intent or sparking inspiration happen on other platforms like Discord and Twitter. The user experience is clunky and disjointed: users have to check... See more

To do this exercise, first take a moment to reflect on what you might want your tombstone to say at the end of your life—maybe something like “was a loving parent” or “helped a lot of people”—and write it down.

The Pullman Strike was the first national strike in United States history.