Unlike Instagram, there’s an unlimited number of contexts you can post in. Until now, posts have been limited to your public feed, your “finsta” — from “fake insta,” an account you use for your 2am kind of photos — or your Close Friend stories, none of which capture all the contexts of our day-to-day experiences.
The first thing to realise is that ML businesses just don’t have the same units economics of software businesses. ‘Sometimes, they look more like traditional service companies’.
Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It’s not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It means acting with choice - which means we can be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others. And while the idea of independence has national and political reverberations, autonomy appears to... See more
The thing people miss is that there are bad things that become bigger problems when you try to eliminate them. I think the most successful people recognize when a certain amount of acceptance beats purity.
The subscription model Soho House has been perfecting for a quarter of a century has suddenly become one of the hottest trends on Wall Street, due to the success of companies from Netflix to Dollar Shave Club.