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Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.

The means of distribution changed. It is very easy to generate revenue when you’re the only player in town. That changed with the internet and newspapers took a very long time to fundamentally change.

Bloomberg is an example of the classic Web 2.0 business maxim “come for the tool, stay for the network.” But the inverse trajectory, from which this essay takes its name, is now just equally viable: “come for the network, pay for the tool.” Just as built-in social networks are a moat for information products, customized tooling is a moat for social... See more

It’s 2020, nobody believes in one job for life anymore, or even one area of interest. People want to leverage what they already know in order to gain access to jobs where they’ll learn and try new things. For many of the world’s best talent: non-linear is the new black and finding a way to combine passion and paid work with lifelong learning are fa... See more

However, when it comes to the current internet we have, the city where we live digitally, I can’t feel any message of ambition. Yes, Amazon told me, “You should buy more stuff,” Facebook told me, “You should talk to your friends,” Netflix told me, “You should have more entertainment.” But the Internet itself has no strong message, but a lot of nois... See more

No matter how many options there are, it is human nature to always narrow things down to two polar, yet inextricably linked choices.