Lillian Sheng

HORIZONTAL, MULTIMODAL MEMBERSHIP DESIGN

The focus is for firms to get things done quickly, and the attitude is whatever that takes. Communication takes place over the fragmented synchronous WeChat more than email or work messaging platforms like DingTalk or Feishu. Calendar invites are getting wider adoption, meeting agenda-less so. 

Decline of American company towns By the 1920s the need for company towns had declined significantly due to increased national affluence. Despite income inequalities and a relatively low standard of living conditions amongst factory laborers, the prosperity of the 1920s saw workers’ material well-being improve significantly.

Something similar is currently happening in the virtual world. Online scarcity is possible. Virtual land can be valuable if it provides exclusive access to a unique flow of economic opportunities — in the same way that a domain name can be valuable. As such, virtual land can indeed be scarce. But the fundamentals are tough to read, the number of... See more

The thing that I find most beautiful about technology generally is the possibility that we could use it to come up with a different way of seeing people, and a way to be more compassionate to one another, and we can use it to simulate what that might look like.

I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize that I was doing the technique he talks about automatically. It was called Catching the Big Fish or something, but the idea is, you close your eyes and let all the ideas go through your head. You don’t... See more

Jow's founding team doesn't come from the food/ retailer industry, but from the media world. Jow is an app that has impressive engagement metrics: it is not used just once a week to constitute a grocery basket, but every day: when you place your order, then when you're looking up for the recipe of the day to cook. And since 30% of users do their... See more

There were two schools of thought. One fraction is from friends who worked in internet companies or media and have lived in big cities for a while. They are used to catalogue-based e-commerce platforms like Taobao and JD.com. Their answers were in line with expectations: livestreaming encouraged impulse spending, time-limited count downs reduced... See more