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I’ve tended to think of social networks as being built by people assembling a graph of people bottoms up, but perhaps I’ve been too narrow-minded. TikTok might not qualify by that definition, but it feels social, with FYP as village matchmaker.

The chart broke down why most Americans die earlier than they should. It turns out that the leading cause of premature death isn’t poor health care, difficult social circumstances, bad genes, or environmental toxins. Instead, an estimated 40 percent of premature deaths are the result of personal behaviors we can change. I’m talking about daily,... See more

The current state of podcast advertising is a situation not so different from the early web:

And it takes less effort to treat someone as part of a team if you bump into them regularly. Zoom meetings and phone calls are better than nothing, but there’s something to be said for random serendipity. There are interactions that are a) valuable, b) not worth interrupting someone over, but c) worth talking about if an interruption happens at... See more

My first company @twitch sold for a billion dollars. My second one lost $75 million in 36 months. People love talking about success, but today I'm going to talk about failure. It's time to be honest about Atrium:

Of the world’s five most-valuable education startups, four are tutoring businesses

All the good that comes out of games—every single way that games can make us happier in our everyday lives and help us change the world—stems from their ability to organize us around a voluntary obstacle.