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As leaders become immersed in their products, they become more focused on the users they have and less on those they don’t.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them. Groups do not need to be dominated by exceptionally intelligent people in order to be smart. Even if most of the people within a group are not especially well-informed or rational, it can still reach a collectively wise decision... See more

Barstool Sports started in 2003 by Dave Portnoy. The idea was to create a media publication that catered to people interested in gambling. Barstool found an audience, albeit, niche. It's initial success boiled down to one reason: Dave Portnoy. People loved Dave and Barstool's fans became known as "Stoolies".

But what if, all this time, providing professional content isn’t the only job we’ve been hiring media to do?

Financialization, as Nathan points out in his conclusion, has benefits in that it attracts a large amount of motivation and energy into building and participating in systems that would not otherwise exist. Furthermore, preventing financialization is very difficult and high cost, and works best when done sparingly, where it is needed most. However, ... See more

The clothing basics site Organics Basics is experimenting with a Low Impact Website. It doesn't load unnecessary images, limits light emitted by the screen, minimizes power consumption, etc. Startup idea: service that enables this concept. h/t @purrmin https://lowimpact.organicbasics.com