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- This isn’t your average temporary channel shift. The “window” is the one big moat protecting theatre revenues. By eroding the “window” even for a bounded period studios will get to test success of movie releases on streaming platforms and use that to negotiate post-lockdown. Though theatres won’t go away, their negotiating power certainly will.
from Covid-19: Big shifts in the entertainment industry by Sangeet Paul Choudary
- Jeff Bezos has a wonderful quote about this: “Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. When you do something that you genuinely believe in, that you have conviction about, for a long period of time, well-meaning people may criticize that effort. To sustain yourself over this time, you can’t look for accolades, and you can’t r... See more
from Check your Pulse #49 by Sari Azout
- Scarcity was often at the root of human “savage” behavior
from Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future by David Perell
- There’s an increasing number of tools that automate workflows to give people more leverage. Their value is in time freed up for building, creativity and strategy. They help us maximize our human strengths as human-software collaboration should. They integrate with 100s or 1000s of tools to cover maximum surface area in our day-to-day workflows.
from The rise of superpower tech by Vedika Jain
- In the market of ideas and technology, the top performers are at least 10x more valuable than the average performers—making hiring of utmost importance
from Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent by Tyler Cowen
- "If one cannot increase the supply of a resource, one must increase its yield. And effectiveness is the one tool to make the resources of ability and knowledge yield more and better results."
from The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) by Peter Drucker
- Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried.
from On Meaningless Careers by Jack Raines
- I have a suspicion that most adults (75%+) could pick any skill—excluding sports—and work their way into the top 10% in the world simply by working exclusively on it every day for two years. But almost nobody displays that degree of focus, so we will never know.