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To that end, I’m exceedingly happy to report that we’ve just acquired People & Company, one of the leading authorities on community-building, to accelerate and celebrate writer success on Substack.
Hamish Mckenzie • Growing the pie for writers
To differentiate in what some consider a crowded market, the product behind JOKR is an end-to-end experience that takes control of every step of the ecommerce value chain. It combines speed, personalization, local assortment, and sustainability to provide an unparalleled customer experience and give back the one thing every consumer wants more of: ... See more
Turner Novak • JOKR and Personalized Instant Commerce
We optimize for proxy metrics, because we don’t have a more accurate way to measure goals. In education, we seem at best capable of measuring test scores, not actual aptitude. In media, we use time spent as a proxy for customer value.
Andrew Kortina • Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima
Show me how much money I just lost on gas with this failed transaction. Don't make me go to Etherscan to try to piece it all together; it can be rather confusing to discern on Etherscan with gas price, transaction fee, gas fee and gas usage, especially with EIP-1559.
Paul Stamatiou • Crypto design challenges
'Big internet platforms' send traffic to newspapers, which is worth money to them, but now they must also pay the newspaper companies for those links, or to use the snippets and extracts that the newspapers give them (yes, all those extracts are controlled by newspapers).
Benedict Evans • Paying for news — Benedict Evans
All cognitive endeavors require new associations to be made, or old ones to be reviewed. There are marked differences between individuals in the speed with which associations are formed. Speed in the formation of associations is the foundation of individual differences in intelligence. Only a sub-sample of associations is relevant in a given proble
... See moreHand Eysenck • Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences, Series Number 12)
Warehousing & Fulfillment — Amazon’s major fulfillment operation (known as FBA — Fulfilled by Amazon) recently ended for most e-commerce products besides medical and essential household items due to system stresses from COVID-19. Brands will need alternative solutions to satiate demand levels from consumers, especially amidst a spike in e-commerce ... See more
Grace Isford • Venture Investing in the Age of the Coronavirus
