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Public “likes,” reactions, or retweets of others’ are “published works” of ours, too. They’re just other atoms in our public library of content. All of this content, intertwined with our identity, is viewable by an audience. And others’ perceptions of this content is considered, ultimately influencing us. The more we publish, the more opportunities
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Two Chinese streamers sold 18 billion RMB (about $3B) worth of goods in a half-day livestream yesterday.
🤯🤯🤯
That's almost as much as Twitter's annual revenue ($3.72B).
nametwitter.comWhat we realized with this company in particular is that it’s machine learning, so its main sustenance is data. Unless it has data, it will not work. It can’t exist in a vacuum, it’s not like Instagram where filters work from day one, regardless of the number of users. Our filters this time only work when you have hundreds of thousands of people
... See moreBen Thompson • An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact
nothing ruins a good story like numbers
Around 300BC, one of the most ambitious projects of all time was undertaken in the Greek-Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Ptolemies wanted to create the intellectual capital of the world, and so they established the famous LIbrary of Alexandria. This was not the first library, but what made it interesting was their extremely ambitious goal. They... See more
Dmitri Brereton (dkb) • To Organize The World's Information
1/6 Why corporations die but cities don't
When "Little Boy" was dropped in 1945, Hiroshima had population of ~350K. The bomb killed ~70k people and destroyed ~70% of buildings.
Yet, today Hiroshima has ~1.2 mn population with $40k GDP per capita.
Why are cities... See more
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