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35. Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?

Ideally, the lending product would create: (1) A tech-enabled window into the creator’s business and (2) a repayment flow from the platform to the lender that mirrors the cash flows of the business. By building predictability into the unprecedented and de-risking the payback, a tech-enabled subscription platform may allow lenders to provide... See more

You must both make your UI desperately simple, and your monetization system respectful

"In thirty years’ time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed. —RICHARD BRANSON, FOUNDER OF VIRGIN GROUP*"

The problem for blogs was always search, audience capture, monetization, and the impulse to blather about nothing. I think the transition of essays out of blogs and into newsletters effectively solved these problems, since now the incentives incline more toward quality rather than quantity.

“I mean, I’ve been pitched, we’ve been pitched every version of that,” Green says, before offering a firm, “No.”

With decision exhaustion at record highs (Googling 'black dress' yields billions of results), the single biggest driver of shoppers buying or recommending a product is decision simplicity. This need for simplicity has been accelerated due to the pandemic, and as shelter-in-place orders are lifted, decluttered shopping experiences will resonate with... See more