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Amazon's mission to the be the world's most customer-centric company is inherently a long-term strategy because it is a one with an infinite time scale and no asymptote to its slope.

Sari Azout: As the boundaries between life and work become more porous and businesses transform into webs of interrelationships between people, we are seeing old social technologies (like co-ops) being paired with modern technologies (like tokens) to align the incentives of collaborators in new, digitally native ways. For many people, the idea of a... See more

Many games are designed to put users into a state of flow where things are challenging, but not too difficult

But just as there are reasons why these design patterns won out, we shouldn't let survivor bias blind us to their inherent tradeoffs. The next wave of social startups should learn from the weaknesses of some of these choices of our current social incumbents

McLuhan once said, “We don’t know who discovered water, but we know it wasn’t a fish. A pervasive environment, a pervasive medium is always beyond perception.” The big point to McLuhan is this: the messages that these media of written language are sending to us go far beyond the actual content or subject matter of the thing that’s being written... See more