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I suggest writing emails to your friends. Writing with an audience in mind makes the writing better, and writing to a friend means you won’t get hung up on how you sound. You’ll become closer, too, to whoever you share your thoughts with, and odds are you’ll draw the same thoughtfulness out of them. Your inbox will become less of a place for coupon

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When candidates ask what keeps me up at night, my answer is the fear that we lose the high-alpha execution of a startup and slow to the pace of a big company. 

Here’s what’s crazy: From an evolutionary perspective, we are hardwired to choose “lose 50% of net worth” over “be different”

If there’s one thing that I really want to get across here is that the book is only a success because people want to read it. As I said before, the majority of non-fiction writing is just way too long — I’ve read so many books where the author took an interesting idea, and made it tedious by repeating the same point over and over again, or by citin... See more

Right now, and for the foreseeable future, follower graphs on centralized social networks are a source of significant and enduring value. We see in every dimension of our society how efficiently that influence can be translated into financial, political and cultural gain. So to ask our question another way: Will there be a time when most users’ on-... See more

“The villain here is not necessarily the internet, or even the idea of social media,” she writes. “It is the invasive logic of  commercial  social media, and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction.” The business model of platforms like this — which rely on advertising and clicks and “en

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Given this, there will be enormous corporate demand for upskilling, not reskilling

“Equanimity boils down to this:

Everything is great and I am ok.

Everything sucks and I am ok.”

– Jerry Colonna