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A relationship, notably, is not an algorithm. It is a gestalt. Far be it from me to say that I’ve figured out what relationships really are or really mean, but I know there is an intangible force formed between the centres of people that sits beyond the limits of interpretation, that is larger than itself and both of you, that cannot be explained... See more

Part of the founding legend of Dropbox is that Drew Houston told people what he wanted to do, and everyone said ‘there are hundreds of these already’ and he replied ‘yes, but which one do you use?’ That’s what Zoom did - video calls are nothing new, but Zoom solved a lot of the small pieces of friction that made it fiddly to get into a call.

"Nonsense," you might say. "At the end of the day, you need to sell something; narratives are not enough." But aren't they? Another difference between the old world and ours is that we no longer sell things. In the past, the content was used to sell stuff: Executives from manufacturing companies got their TV channel buddies to produce Soap Operas... See more

We’ve almost forgotten that links are powerful, and that restraining links through artificial scarcity is an absurdly coercive behavior.

Square acquired Tidal music to tackle this problem with musicians, who currently get most of their revenue from merchandise and tours, not ad revenue.

Instead of enticing students to abandon the university system, why not build programs on top of it? I can imagine companies innovating with programs that fill nights, weekends or breaks in students academic lives.

the one thing that humans can do that AIs cannot do is meaning-making.

What is meaning-making? Vaughn’s chosen definition is that meaning-making is “any decision we make about the subjective value of a thing.”

Humans make meaning all the time — in business and in life. We:

1. Decide that something is good or bad. For instance: “diamonds are beautiful”

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