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It’s better for authors to think persistently and write occasionally than the other way around.

And Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire because his company sells information to companies just a few seconds faster than they can get it anywhere else. The cost of the information creates scarcity and the scarcity creates value.

All physical technology follows a similar trend: over time, its size goes from big to medium, from medium to small, and from small to invisible

That doesn’t mean that business models can’t get better, though. They’re simply evolutionary. Banner ads used to be the only game in town for revenue. Then we started seeing the rise of native advertising. It fit more naturally into the experience. Fast forward, we’re now seeing this trend where the ad carries a semblance of brand validation.

Another big shift in the toy industry is the move to subscriptions. Lovevery offers educational toys for kids on a subscription model, with each toy designed for children of a specific age. Subscriptions are easy for consumable products and challenging for durables—to sell a toy subscription is to suggest that it’s a toy the child will get bored... See more

And then — especially in the business press — because it furthered the narrative that even the hugest of consumer goods companies, long stuck in codependent relationships with the hugest of retailers, would start trying to sell more of their products direct.