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Today, I can barely tell anyone apart. Many of the Substacks I follow use these big, figurative words that don’t really make sense in an attempt to go viral, which on this platform means getting subscribers and notes and comments. It’s like there’s this internet language that “works” for engagement (literal language, but also sense of style, and a... See more
Emily Sundberg • The Machine in the Garden. - By Emily Sundberg - Feed Me
everyone is boring
WE MAKE UNCONSCIOUS TRADE-OFFS This is one of the paradoxes of being human: that our beliefs serve such different purposes all at once. Invariably, we end up making trade-offs. We trade off between judgment and belonging. If you live in a tight-knit community, it might be easier to fit in if you use soldier mindset to fight off any doubts you have... See more
Julia Galef • The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy.
But in the quiet moments between tasks, I felt something missing. Not the missing of empty inboxes or completed lists. The missing of wonder. Of discovery. Of the slow, sacred act of paying attention.
So I
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Amazon is at a crossroads and like the brands who depend heavily on Instagram or Facebook.com, the rule of online retail is multichannel diversification. The product manufacturers and brands who keep up an even-handed approach to acquisition will not be impaired when one channel determines their fates for them.
Web Smith • AMAZON PULLS THE RUG
Why is this market so big? Training better managers is likely the highest ROI decision a company can make: a well-known Gallup study found that managers accounted for 70% of the variance in employee engagement.
Alberto Arenaza • Rethinking management training 👔 Transcend Newsletter #30
I predict we will have agreed upon metrics and models to reason about amplification and recommendation algorithms similar to how we talk of GDP and productivity growth to talk of the “health” of a country.1
Sriram Krishnan • Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 2
Putting yourself in the mind of someone who is coming to Slack for the first time — especially a real someone, who is being made to try this thing by their boss, who is already a bit hangry because they didn’t have time for breakfast, and who is anxious about finishing off a project before they take off for the long weekend — putting yourself in... See more
Stewart Butterfield • We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
first mile mindset
Gaming as a business model: includes direct content licenses with game developers, blanket licenses with user-generated content (UGC) platforms, Exclusive partnership deals with UGC platforms, Live, in-game events, In-game digital goods and microtransactions, Performances and syncs at competitive esports events
Cherie Hu • 15 ways to incorporate gaming into your music strategy
A recurring theme as technology has changed celebrity is that content output goes up and production value goes down. The production value of a Kardashian social media post is orders of magnitude lower than the production value of an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.