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Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.

That presents a paradox for business schools, which trade on their exclusivity. Some programs are trying to entice applicants by extending deadlines into the summer, removing barriers to entry like the GRE and the GMAT tests, and lowering application costs. In doing so, however, they risk eroding the prestige that makes their degrees so valuable.... See more

-Cashflows and incentive structures: If early subscribers benefit from the future growth of the media business, where does that money come from? The answer is that it comes from your future cashflow, either in the form of extended subscriptions for the early adopter (as in the example above) or via access being sold on secondary markets (if that... See more

The ability to build your own audience on your own terms is killing gatekeepers everywhere