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platforms have an opportunity to build an underlying social graph of unique data and then to self-cannibalize by letting other platforms draw on it: the real financial opportunity for every platform, in other words, is to become a protocol that others build on top of.

Relying on creatives or niche experts (e.g., wine or book editors) is not a novel concept, though I do think we’re leaning on them more heavily as an antidote to algorithmic recommendations, and I know they’re working harder to produce differentiated suggestions.

REKKI was born in the kitchen. Our founders ran restaurants for over 10 years, and it was tough. So in 2016 they started building a mobile app to make the lives of chefs easier. Today REKKI connects thousands of restaurants across the world with local suppliers.

A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.

People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching a... See more

Games are treated differently than video - Amazon’s video division is run by entertainment industry veterans, and they report directly to Jeff Bezos. Amazon’s game business reports to Andy Jassy, the CEO of AWS, and AWS doesn’t have much experience selling games

If you can focus hard on something for at least a few hours per day for several years, you will get good at it. The main obstacle to doing so is being a poorly-designed meat machine, beset by anxiety, doubt, frustration, depression, arrogance etc. So I've come to believe that managing those emotions is the main component of being good at

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