Caroline Humphrey, of Cambridge University, concludes in her definitive anthropological work on barter that “no example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests there has never been such a thing.”
Creating a product isn’t always an easy journey. Pioneered by the likes of Joel Gascoigne of Buffer and Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt, the idea of building in public leans into this authenticity, encouraging founders to share their journey—including the struggles along the way. Products constantly grow and evolve; building in public allows startups t... See more
(1) They have a Compounding Comment and Review Moat. When an account has lots of positive reviews and comments, it increases the ranking. And the higher the ranking, the more comments and reviews an account will get, and so on. So with each comment/review, the account increases its defensibility in a compounding fashion.
The major issue, we think, is that business models based on engagement have created a class of wildly successful media products that distort online discourse. It is increasingly difficult to participate in reasonable discussions on these platforms.
When outcomes suffer, there's more and more pressure to identify the problem. There's more and more pressure to identify that single thing causing the problem. Finger-pointing increases. Scrutiny increases. Trust decreases. Transparency decreases. People become more territorial and more defensive.
As outcomes suffer, the team loses confidence in the... See more
“When the story of my life is going to be told, the people who will literally have saved my life are going to be the people who helped me with my mental health.” – Peter Attia
Live content is rapidly becoming the most entertaining form of content today, yet discovery is a major bottleneck for creators and consumers — it’s nearly impossible for consumers to find what they want to watch, when they want to watch it. Content is now spread across a myriad of different platforms — from Facebook Live, Instagram Live and YouTube... See more