sari

You can do more than you think. We are tied down by invisible orthodoxy. The laws of physics are the only limit

A classic example, though I don't know if this still persists, is how Pinterest skewed heavily towards female users at launch, losing lots of potential male users in the process. This was a function of building their feed off of each user's social graph. Men would see a flood of pins from the females in their network as women were some of the... See more

By sharing your writing: “You’re putting signals out into the world that you earnestly think are accurate, but at the same time, you’re humbled by the fact that the actual wisdom of your readers is more intelligent than you are, but you become more intelligent as a result of their feedback” – David Perell

Much of the tech industry’s sleep innovation is aimed at helping people get regular sleep, but it has a lot of metrics attached to it as well.

All these things used to be separated into public media (like visual or print communications made by a small group of professionals) and personal media (like letters and phone calls made by ordinary citizens). Now those two modes have fused.

how can we combine top down critical narratives and curation in what we think is an important art movement together with access to emerging artists and opportunities in a way that there is real investment value, precisely because they're undiscovered. And so our thinking there is to really try to create the MoMA for generative art by pairing some... See more

“There is much more talent to tap into than ever before, but in most parts of the world, we are screwing it up”

This may just be a nicer way of phrasing Zuckerberg’s clown car comment. Twitter happened upon a once-in-a-generation shift: the Internet was changing everything about the flow of information. Twitter stumbled into such a massive opportunity that it couldn’t evolve quickly enough to ride the wave.