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-Our online social graphs are no longer dependent on our offline connections.

But the appeal of subscriptions often hinges not on a better deal but on an escape from having to make deals. For many direct-to-consumer subscriptions, the absence of active purchasing decisions is the entire point. They replace more active forms of brand loyalty with a passive form in which the subscribed user is loyal to the point of effectively... See more

one tangible example of that is when I was at Facebook I joined in the midst of Snapchat's ascendancy and there was a lot of feelings about how are we doing should we be worried and the way that we would have that conversation would be how many times per week do people share on Facebook... I think we should have been asking what we would ask at the

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It all became too much, too fast. To quote a dear friend of mine, human beings simply aren’t equipped with the necessary bandwidth to process the explosion of information that our world has normalized.

- The best predictor of a piece of writing’s quality is the writer

Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbirdand A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had. And that is herself, her

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Not only does a hiring approach stuck in the past lead to the extreme lack of diversity we see in so many companies today, it also fails to take into account the way candidates see their own career.