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The bubble of low-performing schools in the US is starting to deflate: starting with for-profit schools, which show alarmingly low effect on income among students, like Corinthians Colleges in recent years.

Don’t Spend Too Much Time In The Boiler Room

Whenever stress, anxiety, or a down and uninspired mood linger past a day or two, John Mayer says he’s realized it’s typically due to “spending too much time in the boiler room,” as he refers to the inside of his head. “The inside of your head is a very subjective, highly interpretive, world,” Mayer... See more

The only way out from this rat race I can see is to re-create a safe space. When you are no longer consumed by the worry that is career sustenance and growth, at least a subset of folks might choose to work on what they think is important. Signalling will never fully die of course, but perhaps we can dampen it.

I suppose this is what I meant when I wrote what I did, sweet pea, about how it is we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives. We live and have experiences and leave people we love and get left by them. People we thought would be with us forever aren’t and people we didn’t know would come into our lives do. Our work here is to keep

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If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?

The speed and scope of transformation during this period means this fourth industrial revolution has brought about an unprecedented shift in how people relate to each other. The ongoing shift towards non-standard forms of employment that typifies this era is linked to reduced worker benefits and welfare protection, with significant socio-economic... See more

While some funds have traditionally offered a variety of services under the same umbrella, we will likely see much more granular pricing of services being offered via service DAOs, and likely at far better unit economics than funds that offer a bundled set of services under their ‘platform’.

In the early days, before the team can set up templates and best practice guides, there’s a cold start problem — when someone signs up, it can be hard to understand how the product works, so it's easy to lose customers in that first mile.

Encouraging an existing behavior requires less convincing than discouraging an existing behavior.