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- It is hard to show your skill as a sailor when there is no wind.
from Good Strategy Bad Strategy Quotes by Richard P. Rumelt
- I believe that the solutions to the problems created by technology is not less technology, but better technology.
from Kevin Kelly on Why Technology Has a Will by Kevin Kelly
It reminds me of writing and how I wake up week after week and get stuck on the blank page again and again. How I always despair that I have no more good ideas and, even if I did, not enough eloquence to convey said ideas. But I love it still. I love how writing brings everything to the surface, how it generates and absorbs my attention. How it tap
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- Different people find different things magical, and Small Apps allow Magicians to focus on creating magical products tailored to small niches.
from Indistinguishable from Magic by Not Boring by Packy McCormick
- Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB) is 180 years old. No business survives that long (two world wars and a civil war, recessions and depressions, market booms and busts, multiple technological revolutions, good and bad management, you name it) without an amazing structural moat. That’s the power of data businesses.
from The Economics of Data Businesses by Abraham Thomas
- Ive said ‘I don’t get why ppl are buying on NFTs’ too often this wk. so I went on a knowledge bender re: digital ownership. what changed the game for me: the hype didn't happen overnight. attitudes toward digital commodities have been building for 2 decades. let's zoom out ↓
- Facebook's hands are tied 1—High ARPU coastal users have churned; TikTok is eating their lunch 2—They can't acquire because of antitrust scrutiny 3—They can't build because founders don't want to be there 4—IDFA killed their ability to target ads 5—The metaverse is 10yrs out RIP
- most people don't know what they want unless they see it in context
from Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
And I think that’s one of our enduring understandings of what ambition has to be something massive, something that rules your life and every decision you make, something that never stops burning, and crucially, something that somehow lands people in this mystical land of perfect contentment. If you’ve ever known someone whose primary attribute is a
... See morefrom What Happened To My Ambition? with Rainesford Stauffer | Crooked Media by Anne Helen Petersen