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It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting messages. We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the meaning of a message is carried in the message. But it is not. This is only an illusion. Meaning is derived from context and prior knowledge. Meaning is the ... See more

(Personal opinion) You'd be very surprised by this announcement if you modeled Robinhood as a discount brokerage. You'd be less surprised if you modeled it as a gaming company. I think the second is, broadly, the correct mental model for Robinhood.

The ability for writers to give status and privileges to loyal fans (e.g., sub-only badges and comment moderation).

As it happens, Ant and Alibaba were critical to spreading the gospel of the QR code. With low credit-card adoption in China, Ma saw an opportunity to leverage the comparatively common mobile phone as a means of transaction. Today, QR code scanning accounts for the majority of digital payments in the country.

I’m guessing you’ve given or received a great token of appreciation, so you know how powerfully human they are. When you spend all day moving someone into their new home, and then they bake you your very favorite type of cookies, they aren’t saying “now we’re even,” they’re saying “I appreciate what you did for me.” These kinds of tokens are powerf... See more