College isn’t insurance—It’s a nightclub. If colleges were normal businesses, with the entire world clamoring to get in, they’d increase enrollment. If they’re offering a great product, more people should benefit from it. But not universities. Because it's not about learning, it's about status.

Unfortunately, advertising has been ingrained into the internet as the basic model for so long and to such an extent that it’s hard to envision online life without the systematic manipulation of attention and all its evils. So we’re bound to wind up here, at the bitter end of “content.” Which is a good excuse to withdraw deeper into books, movies,

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Small groups are the new social networks. The next counter-cycle to the giant island of Facebook and Twitter will be an archipelago of different groups, one for each niche and community.

In an interview with Business Wire in November 2011, Buffett said, “If you understand chapters 8 and 20 of The Intelligent Investor (Benjamin Graham, 1949) and chapter 12 of The General Theory (John Maynard Keynes, 1936), you don’t need to read anything else and you can turn off your TV.”2 This advice from Buffett references two classics from the f... See more

My anecdotal evidence generally seems to support the idea that group sizes will usually plateau at a number lower than 150 participants. This comes from 20 years of doing facilitation both on and offline, running several software companies, and running various forums at America Online. In particular, many online communities provide good evidence fo... See more

The project is currently securing partnerships with a number of undisclosed high-profile artists, and plans to let fans begin backing music productions in October. After building and validating a product around music ownership, the team plans to expand their approach to other royalty-generating assets––both digital (TV licensing, YouTube content cr... See more

Knovigator is a social knowledge base that uses infinite-threading and crypto microtransactions to curate and create valuable content. You can use it as a personal tool for thought to wield knowledge and manage your information flows. You can create streams and invite others to them to participate in asynchronous conversations with your team or com... See more

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- Technology is shifting market power away from publications and towards writers**