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For Twitter, however, arguably the most important event of 2009 was not these publicity bonanzas but the introduction of the retweet button. This tweak, originally intended to simplify the common practice of manually cutting and pasting the text of interesting tweets, ended up transforming Twitter. By eliminating the friction required to forward a ... See more

“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”

― Simone Weil

ZeroDown offers a similar rent-to-own service, but in very hot real-estate markets.

Owners of a creator’s social money will participate in the governance of that community. This is like polls on Patreon except creators have the ability to experiment with different voting structures (ie: one token one vote, in which those with the most skin in the game have the most voting power).

These data highlight the resilience of independent retail in a world where Amazon has grown its market share over time. Among the reasons for this: Independent retailers are nimble and provide a differentiated value proposition from vertical to vertical. The retail businesses most negatively impacted by the acceleration of e-commerce are midsize an... See more