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The Kindle: Reinventing the Book - Commoncog Case Library
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reading, watching & listening to
How Amazon created the Kindle
- aggregation (distribution 2.0)
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
The state of online learning:
1) YouTube will eat the low-end of the market.
2) People will pay 5-15x more for live courses.
3) The three biggest competitive advantages are the personality of a creator, the warmth of the community, and the quality of the student experience.
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Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
In the Web2 world, market infrastructure and market governance were bundled by platforms. Amazon, Ebay, Upwork, Uber, and other such marketplaces bundle both market infrastructure (in the case of Amazon, even physical infrastructure through FBA and Amazon Logistics) and market governance.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Unbundling the unbundlers - The end of winner-takes-all
We usually rely on a mix of spatial memory and well-written labels to find what we need in this kind of interface. But that only goes so far. At some point, we have to find ways to help users navigate apps outside of graphical menu bars, mystery icons in toolbars, and tabbed settings panels.
Maggie Appleton • Command K Bars
- How would you describe the candidate to someone who doesn’t know them?
- What is the context in which you know the candidate?
- How many people have you worked with in a similar context? How would you compare the candidate to those other people?
- If this person’s name comes up in your inbox, DMs, or they’re calling you, what do you feel? What do you expect
Yancey Strickler • Notes on hiring
reference checks are a great idea when hiring and this is a great set of questions.