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To build this cross-platform discovery tool, startups need to invest in building 1) technically complex scraping and aggregation technologies and 2) a robust recommendations engine. Lastly, startups should consider embedding interactive and social features to generate network effects to further propel growth.

The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.

Sure, they have the watch, which measures your heart rate. But they’re leaving the majority of the possible device space to others, such as Peloton, WHOOP, and Eight Sleep. Apple doesn't want to go down the path of making health-related hardware devices. These have high fixed R&D and manufacturing costs to make them, and each device tends to only... See more

Kodak, after having literally invented the digital camera, failed to recognize that digital was quickly becoming the inevitable future of photography.

With remote work, increased mobility, and technology digital nomads are moving back to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle

Even with the best recommendation algorithm, only a fraction of your feed will be content that you truly enjoy. For example, the average ratio of hearts to views on TikTok is  roughly 5% .  People are just not that predictable. On YouTube, every time you select a video but then decide you don’t want to watch it, it’s an annoying process of

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I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.

To sit alone without any electric light is curiously... See more