If your personal data makes it onto some public blockchain, it’s likely on many machines spread all over the world, with no singular entity able or willing to take the ‘controller’ liability bullet. That’s the ‘nobody’: there’s no ‘real or legal person’ the EU can nail to the wall for not deleting data or whatever else their precious GDPR... See more
This is not to say that you shouldn’t grow. In marketplaces, saturation of a market is critical, and the only way to do that is to grow. But if you think of growth as a means to increasing the average level of happiness per transaction (instead of the goal itself), it will focus you on quality growth over vanity growth.
Can you imagine if someone told Einstein, Okay, wrap up this relativity thing, we’re moving on to European history? Or said to Michelangelo, Time’s up for the ceiling, now go paint the walls. Yet versions of this snuffing out of creativity and boundary-stretching thought happen all the time in conventional schools.
- **Meta-coordination.** Slack is the best place for meta-levels of strategy and coordination that don’t have specific productivity apps. This is really a type of ‘else statement’, but one that could persist for a while in unstructured format.
After Ant got to scale, they leveraged their user base to bootstrap other initiatives like loans to small merchants, installment payment plans, consumer-friendly financial products, and wealth management services.
“As part of our strategy, we’re stepping further into the low- and no-alcohol category, which we believe is ripe for innovation as more drinkers globally look to moderate their consumption. We also believe it’s our responsibility to help reduce harmful drinking and support moderation,” wrote Molson Coors’ Chief Growth Officer Kandy Anand in its... See more