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The second disadvantage, implicit in what I’ve been saying, is that an elite education inculcates a false sense of self-worth. Getting to an elite college, being at an elite college, and going on from an elite college—all involve numerical rankings: SAT, GPA, GRE. You learn to think of yourself in terms of those numbers.
William Deresiewicz • The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
Screw the algorithm
The tendency of trying to win on social platforms is to follow the algorithm. There’s a reason that “surprised face” is a staple of every YouTube video. Everyone is running the same optimizations. That doesn’t mean not adapting to the medium. Recipe videos need a quick hook, an element of intrigue and good visuals, but what’s... See more
The crypto industry has a habit of stripping away the BS from things, in order to get right down to the essence of the matter. People who work for DOs are already home, so there’s no such thing as idle hands under work-hours. There aren’t any hours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. DO’s find creative and innovative ways to compensate for output rather than regular hours.
David Hoffman • The Future of Work on Bankless
Anita Elberse has amassed and presented data showing that digital distribution has actually made blockbusters a better business bet than ever.
Marina Krakovsky • What Everyone Got Wrong About ‘the Long Tail’
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Nirvana | Powering the Smartest Coverage Solutions
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The crypto ecosystem (or web3, or blockchain-based, or whatever you want to call it) is offering a new set of promises of how wonderful it will all be. Most of these promises will not be fulfilled, at least not fully or in the way we expect. But in trying to fulfill them, we will learn new things about what people can do online, and what types of b... See more
Dror Poleg • Don't show Me the Money
Many (if not most) successful Substacks are built on the back of pithy tweets. Substack offers minimal to no demand aggregation so creators with large Twitter followings funnel their followers to their email newsletter. Similarly, TikTok stars also point their viewers to their Youtube page because Youtube offers more robust monetization options.
Evan Armstrong • Top 12 Creator Platforms—Ranked
Apps and websites sprinkle intermittent variable rewards all over their products because it’s good for business.