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Phase 4: “Online education” won’t exist. It’ll just be “education.” We’ll see almost seamless integration between physical and digital worlds. To quote Mark Twain: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

Because it’s a hit-driven industry, toy companies that succeed can be immensely profitable for a while. The problem is that the difference between a cultural landmark and a fad is visible after a decade or so, while the decision of how much to order and how much to spend on marketing has to happen every year regardless. So toy companies with a hit... See more

“The schoolhouse I envision would be very different [from the conventional schools] in this regard. Because I would stress the connections and the continuity among concepts, there would be no brick walls between one “subject” and the next. Since learning would be self-paced and self-motivated, there would be no ticking clock telling students when... See more

Building a business model on data lock-in seems not only bad, but pointless now? Content is superabundant, so what are you locking in, exactly? There’s always more where that came from.

Are social graphs even a moat? Perhaps more than data, but TikTok proves you don’t need a dense social graph to serve up interesting content. What if you can

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Go back even further, and there are dozens of examples of Bezos codifying key ideas for maximum recall. For example, every year I was at Amazon had a theme (reminiscent of how David Foster Wallace imagined in  Infinite Jest  that in the future corporate sponsors could  buy the rights to name years ). These themes were concise and memorable ways to

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