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An ongoing shame in American newsrooms is that so much great journalism is buried in absolutely sadistic web design.

“If you start stripping out everything that is not unique to your company, you’re left with just a few people who make the unique parts of the company. And then add a few people who need to explain its unique benefits to the market. Imagine your 100 person company going to 6 people. Imagine your 1000 person company going to 20. How much faster... See more

Someone told me that all great meetings start and end with the same two sentences.The first sentence of the meeting should be:“The purpose of the meeting is _____.”The last sentence of the meeting should be:“The followup actions from the meeting are _____.”It’s obvious advice, but every day I’m amazed how many meetings I sit through that don’t... See more

Nilay Patel on the Ezra Klein podcast talking about whether AI will break the Internet:

Every social media platform right now is turning into a short form video home shopping network. Linkedin just added short form videos. Like, they're all headed towards the same place all the time because they all have the same pressures.

And what you see is those

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I used to confuse “rational rumination” with intuition. I used to think a lot—a lot—about other people and their motivations, the many problems of the world, and myself and what kind of person I want to be. I thought I was being productive by thinking through these things with the clinical seriousness of a chemist. The reality is that I was working... See more

Metcalfe’s law is wrong – the value of network effects does have a limit, it eventually gets to a point of supply that is difficult to navigate and has an increased number of ‘trolls’ and illegitimate users