nicole

[4:04] If I have to do something, or if I have to work for something in the week, the first question I will ask myself is how likely am I to not want to do this task, and how much energy will this take. So, depending on these two factors, it will either go into any part of my day.

A game is something you play. A good toy is an object that is fun to play with, and fun is a pleasant surprise.

A uniquely Disney asset is their ability to amplify a franchise.

It’s cool to think about the things they intentionally did because they would fit well into that medium.

Microsoft is still capturing the majority of the value in productivity. Google is capturing almost zero right now in terms of the dollars being spent by enterprises and individuals on productivity. Amazon is just taking a tax on everybody else.

With intrinsic motivation, we do things because they are inherently interesting and satisfying. With extrinsic motivation, we do things to earn rewards and achieve external goals. That's the problem with rewards, they massively undermine intrinsic motivation. That's why gamification does not work, and when gamification does work, it is because the... See more

…this is one of the most classic examples ever of low-end disruption. You have the big thing that the enterprise people are buying with these companies that need every single last feature of Office, even though any given person only uses 5% of it. Most of them use the same 5%, but you need all those features because that's how you get the big... See more

It’s that they don’t have a structural advantage by gaining the position that they’re in to necessarily make that N+1 market any easier than the N market.