My prediction... Selling knowledge will be the biggest business trend in 2021. And it won’t be in tech circles. It will explode in "mainstream" professions like mental health, fitness, interior design, tennis coaches, etc. Here’s why I think that...

My thoughts on Amazon Halo because we all need another big tech co that listens to us 24/7 and collects naked images of us. Thread 👇🏼

Roku was started at Netflix, but spun out as a new company just before launch in 2008. It now has a market cap of $22B. Was this a mistake? I explore this question in today's @ScreenshotEssay: Roku, Netflix, and the Relationship Between Hardware and Content

1/ The golden era of DNVB is over. The times of inefficient growth enabled by first movers advantage & low ad-costs are over. Rising ad-costs will require brands to focus on operational excellence to maintain strong LTV:CAC ratios to sustain growth.

It'd be neat if there was a way for employees at different startups to be able to swap a small % of their equity with each other. It would help each de-risk a little and build a small portfolio of startups they believe in.

Prince Harry’s “Spare” was ghostwritten by J.R. Moehringer, who is the world’s best-paid ghostwriter. He reportedly got paid $1m for “Spare” and also ghost-wrote two other bangers: Andre Agassi’s “Open” and Phil Knight’s “Show Dog”.

“Thanks to the invention of spreadsheets, we’re going to throw so many bookkeepers out of work!” “Actually, thanks to spreadsheets we’re going to see the growth of a new cohort of annoying people know as ‘fleece vest bros.’”

There are many years of research on the kinds of work that decentralized communities (Wikipedia, etc) do more effectively than centralized ones, and a big issue rn is that many DAOs simply aren't doing that kind of work: - highly modular - fairly objective measures of success

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