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“A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it”

We are in a metabolic health crisis. Nearly 9 out of 10 Americans live with poor metabolic health. That’s significant, as this can contribute to fatigue, brain fog, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. It also costs our healthcare system trillions.

Zillow has gone from a mostly automated world where an agent can pay the company without a single human getting involved, to one in which they now must manage an army of people who inspect, buy, repair, and sell homes.

Lovevery’s product positioning helps them target people other than parents with a low-risk gift. Since each toy is designated with an exact age range, the product line fits perfectly for birthday gifts—relatives don’t necessarily know what gift is appropriate for a two-year-old, so gifts that are vetted as perfect for that exact age feel safer.

Algorithmic management is already here, and it reduces transaction costs to the absolute minimum. I know this because I lead teams whose primary goal is to reduce this friction: we optimize steps in onboarding flows to allow people to start working faster, we add pay boosts to orders when we need to get them accepted quickly, we incentivize... See more

And yet: we were born to give up what we love. To respect the sanctity of autonomy is to make your choice and let other people make theirs. The only way for us to consolidate our fractured selves—to become whole—is by fully inhabiting our choices.