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Overall, it is a soft peacetime culture where nothing is worth fighting for. The people who are inclined to fight on behalf of customers or new ideas or creativity soon learn the downside of doing so. By definition, there is a disincentive to go above and beyond
Praveen Seshadri • The Maze Is in the Mouse
Information dissemination has advanced faster than information verification.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Optimizing Your Inputs
Meanwhile, Duolingo has ~70% gross margins, with app store fees being the main cost. Note that while content isn’t included in gross margins, it is likely <10% of revenue based on the employee mix Duolingo has highlighted.
Tanay Jaipuria • Duolingo and Consumer Subscription Businesses
So the question is, "What is the healthy version of this world?" And the healthy version of the world is one where you have marketplaces for virtual goods of all kinds, whether NFTs, in-game skins, membership tokens in communities, whatever. You have these concepts that you have in FX, like best execution and minimizing brokerage fees being put int... See more
Sam Englebardt • Investing in Immersive Worlds
It took less than 30 days for Amazon and other top marketplace retailers to punish its media partners. With historic levels of organic demand, there is a diminished need for media-driven traffic.
PM • ON NEW MUTUALISM AND MEDIA
Behind the Failure of Leap Transit’s Gentrified Buses in San Francisco (Published 2015)
New York Timesnytimes.com
Sometimes it's useful to have these stats spelled out: a full 47 percent of mothers find parenting to be tiring pretty much constantly. (Also lol at 16% of fathers who never find parenting stressful or tiring). A third of moms find parenting stressful all or most of the time, compared to a fourth of dads.
Anne Helen Petersen • The Anxious Style of American Parenting
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. -Edward Abbey
There’s a lot to love about metrics driven systems: they’re fairly meritocratic, they reward intelligence and hard work, they align (at least in some way) the incentives of producers and consumers, and they accelerate really quickly once they start working.
But, using this framework to understand the systemic failure at the root of a lot of wide sca
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