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Video Games are Eating the World. Video games are worth more than the film industry already, and games are spawning thriving virtual economies.

While results of many past and present influencer marketing partnerships have been evaluated based on vanity metrics like follower counts, likes/comments, or general website traffic, in the future we’ll likely see a much stronger focus on data and metrics that paint a clear picture of ROI for each campaign. This will likely be aided by tools and... See more

Selflessness is overrated. We respectable types, although women especially, are raised to think a life well spent means helping others – and plenty of self-help gurus stand ready to affirm that kindness, generosity and volunteering are the route to happiness. There’s truth here, but it generally gets tangled up with deep-seated issues of guilt and... See more

The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.

By lowering the bar to content creation, what Web 2.0 actually achieved was the simplification of sharing. It became easier to distribute knowledge, rather than just discover it. The ability to push content to our friends and followers enabled upheavals in media and culture; blogs became reliable sources of news, celebrities found news ways to... See more

Five factors play a key role in determining the take rate of marketplace:

The goal of cognition was not to be right, but to make something interesting, provocative, and original,” he wrote. “When I played the game of right and wrong at school, I always lost. But when I built something evocative in the studio, adults would stare in wonder and admiration