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- In total, Amazon should have transacted $35 billion in GMV in 2007 -- roughly 1x its valuation. At the same valuation, Shopify today is transacting 74% more GMV than Amazon did in 2007. To be fair, Shopify converts far less of that GMV into gross profit dollars (1.4% vs. 9.7%), but it has shown the ability to grow its rake of GMV by offering additi... See more
from Drinking from the Firehose | Alex Taussig, Lightspeed | Substack by Alex Taussig
- After having done this many times, my opinion is that the root cause of this is generally that many people who have a superficial understanding of topic assume that the topic is as complex as their understanding of the topic instead of realizing that only knowing a bit about a topic means that they're missing an understanding of the full complexity... See more
from Cocktail party ideas by Dan Luu
- The desktop AND mobile operating systems that allowed for the former interaction paradigms to exist in unchecked Sandbox-App environments? Inhumane.
from The desktop metaphor must die by UX Collective
For 300,000 years, humans didn’t have computers. Then, in less than a century, we invented PCs, the web, smartphones, and generative AI. New discoveries facilitate newer discoveries, so technological progress is not linear but exponential.
from 40 Mind-Expanding Concepts by Gurwinder
- In my opinion, what’s caused all the supply chain bottlenecks is modern finance’s obsession with Return on Equity (ROE). To show great ROE, almost every CEO stripped their company of all but the bare minimum of assets. “Just-in-time” everything with no excess capacity, no strategic reserves, no cash on the balance sheet and minimal investment in R&... See more
from Interview: Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport by Noah Smith
The Biels know that booths offer the privacy and comfort that a freestanding table simply does not. Each table also gets its own (literal) spotlight, meaning that you can read the menu without pulling out your phone for help—something my mom was quick to point out.
from Welcome to Hillstone, America's Favorite Restaurant by Andrew Knowlton
- Curation involves bringing together and organising documentsIn one place (in “community space”):-Tagged -Prioritised -Structured in a useful way (by practice or activity, not by document type, project, date, author etc)-Maintained, with obsolete material removed
from Curation v Synthesis in Knowledge Management by Nick Milton
- The explosion of self-serve is driven by one main theme:
from Self-serve ads and the rise of DIY advertising by SparrowAdvisers
We need to Slow. The. Fuck. Down. And pay attention to what we’re actually designing.
from Design’s Lost Generation by Mike Monteiro