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About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way t... See more
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way t... See more
Adam Mastroianni • So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself
the mediocrity trap
The largest companies today are obsessed with generating content in a completely de-ritualized context. But content always exists in tension with form. Ritual is the form we have abandoned in our relentless quest for content.
Ted Gioia • 13 Observations on Ritual
On Information and
addictive scrolling and swiping can never achieve the sense of closure and boundedness we all crave.
Travel agencies are still a mega-spend category, approaching $100bn in the US in 2019.
Evan Frank • A Better Equation in Travel
Additional tactics that worked for at least one labor marketplace:
Lenny Rachitsky • Kickstarting supply in a labor marketplace
When a student asks Butler what the answer is to ending the suffering in the world, she replies, “...there’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers–at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future by Octavia E. Butler
reminds me of this quote: “If you think globally, you become filled with gloom. But if you take a little piece of this whole picture—my piece, our piece, this is what I can do here, I’m making a difference and they’re making a difference over there, and so are they, and so are they—gradually the pieces get filled in. And the world is a better place because of you.”
PayPal’s acquisition of Pinterest would create a formidable Content Fortress: by combining PayPal’s payments platform with Pinterest’s advertising infrastructure, it could allow advertisers to bring about purchases for their products directly in the Pinterest app, which would give Pinterest first-party access to the data emitted by those transactio... See more
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