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“I always had this sense —and still do —that reach is absolutely underrated; not necessarily the celebrity kind of reach, but more about influence —access to people who are thinking on your wavelength because it’s getting easier and easier to take that audience and build a business around it.”

If beneficial routine care dropped during the past few months of the pandemic lockdown, so perhaps did its malignant counterpart, unnecessary care. If so, this has implications for how we should reopen our health care system. Doctors and hospitals will want to ramp up care to make up for lost revenue. But this will not serve our patients’ needs.

The 2010s ended up being the decade in which freelancing became mainstream. What I mean by that is freelancing used to be something you would do in between jobs, but this is no longer the case. People choose freelancing as a career path.

Lilian's bear case:

As mail became an enterprise utility, more and more of its collaborative function was corrupted, as signalled above. It could not be a trusted medium with functions like cc and bc in common use. There were other problems. Email was fundamentally a broadcast mechanism. Control lay in the hands of the sender. And there was no real cost to sending. Un... See more