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[10:49] I've made it a rule to force myself to do activities that are fun, either by myself or with other people, every single week.
Elizabeth Filips • How I Consistently Study with a Full Time Job: My Scheduling Formula
During his days of doing growth consultancy to startups, he found a benchmarked predictive way to measure product market fit. You simply ask your users, “How would you feel if you could no longer use the product?” and you let them answer either, “I would be very disappointed,” “I would be somewhat disappointed,” or “I would be not disappointed.”... See more
Ben Gilbert • Superhuman | Acquired Podcast
[1:18] The 3 Part Split
Elizabeth Filips • How I Consistently Study with a Full Time Job: My Scheduling Formula
Didi does something that I suspect even Travis and Uber, as Machiavellian as they are in the US, couldn’t even imagine and see it coming. Didi starts investing in all of Uber’s rivals around the world including Lyft in the US and Ola in India and Grab Taxi in Southeast Asia, and they announced that they’re going to literally, it's like the allies... See more
Ben Gilbert • The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store | Acquired Podcast
How I Consistently Study with a Full Time Job: My Scheduling Formula
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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.
Ben Gilbert • Writely (Google Docs) | Acquired Podcast
It’s cool to think about the things they intentionally did because they would fit well into that medium.
Ben Gilbert • Pixar | Acquired Podcast
Conversational affordances often require saying something at least a little bit intimate about yourself, so even the faintest fear of rejection on either side can prevent conversations from taking off.