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In 2012, Zynga’s stock plummeted. While there were several reasons (games are a hit-driven business, talent left due to IPO payouts, etc.) one of the main ones is that Facebook games were down. Investors didn’t like that Facebook was so dependent on another company for it’s revenue, so Facebook adjusted their strategy to diminish the power of Zynga... See more

The Power of a Positive No describes how to say No when it is vital to stand up and protect your core interests and values. It is not just about how to say No, however, but about how to do so in a respectful and constructive manner that can potentially lead to agreement. As its subtitle indicates, it is about how to say No and still get to Yes.

So: why is advertising good? I mean, isn't it annoying when sites show you ads instead of whatever it is you want to read? The question is, what is the alternative? I see two main funding models:

$1.6 trillion of student loan debt in the US in 2019

Sari Azout: As the boundaries between life and work become more porous and businesses transform into webs of interrelationships between people, we are seeing old social technologies (like co-ops) being paired with modern technologies (like tokens) to align the incentives of collaborators in new, digitally native ways. For many people, the idea of a... See more

I’d summarize why this is all happening with two sentences—one academic version and one human-being version. Academic: System-level optimization will generally result in individual suffering. Human: Sometimes stuff that is good for a bunch of people will be bad for the one.