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This is a 3,000 year old piece of art.
Tom Scott • I hit 3,000-year-old art with a hammer
Facebook has integrated, through Instagram, content and distribution within one single company, within one single app or constellation of apps.
David Rosenthal • Instagram | Acquired Podcast
[11:24] ...this will be physically blocked into my calendar ... it's not like this ... terrible thing that dictates my life and just schedules all my work things, it's kind of my life on a screen in a positive way, because I can organize it and put in whatever I want.
Elizabeth Filips • How I Consistently Study with a Full Time Job: My Scheduling Formula
And there’s a belief at Uber that kind of technology will make a difference and they can move kind of learnings around the world. But it’s just not clear to me. Like the continued strength of Lyft in a lot of US cities I think is indicative of like maybe as long as you pick somebody up within 3 minutes, maybe nothing else matters. Ola in India,... See more
Ben Gilbert • The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store | Acquired Podcast
[12:13] Not only are we easily distracted by mundane thoughts, but we also routinely forget small but important things when we don't externalize them.[12:24] So it's quite important to take all our things that we want to do and things that we are planning to do, and kind of write them down... I like just pulling up my calendar and finding a slot... See more
Elizabeth Filips • How I Consistently Study with a Full Time Job: My Scheduling Formula
[2:11] I keep in mind that I'm going to have less energy throughout the day and things are going to get more and more tempting throughout the day, so it's going to be much harder for me to resist things as the day progresses. Keeping these two things in mind, every single day of my week from a macro standpoint gets divided into three main parts.
Elizabeth Filips • How I Consistently Study with a Full Time Job: My Scheduling Formula
This is the Uffington White Horse and it is somewhere around 3,000 years old. It was carved into this hill in Oxfordshire before the British isles had written history, so we have no idea who made it, or why. And until humanity invented aircraft millennia later, no one could even really see it properly.
Tom Scott • I hit 3,000-year-old art with a hammer
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.