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There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People slowed the spread of yellow fever; they sprayed

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"Watered-down feedback can be worse than no feedback at all because it’s deceptive and confusing to the recipient. But don’t beat them up or attempt to show your superiority. Doing so will defeat your purpose because when done properly, feedback is a dialogue, not a monologue."

My guess is that, though many customers will return to their pre-pandemic grocery shopping, a significant portion will continue with the online grocery habits they've developed during this time.

…Makes me wonder if the path to truly win the modern “productivity app” category is launching an underlying set of APIs for every aspect of project management + personal productivity with a wide and evolving set of products and interfaces (native ones and third-party creations) that users can switch between (and, in the process, endure a light “cle... See more

It’s more fun to believe in magic than to recognize how much of financialized capitalism is just scams and pyramid schemes.

In a give-to-get model, you have to create to be able to consume. Why is this good? The canonical 90/9/1 rule of big social says 90% of users lurk, 9% contribute a little, and 1% a lot. Give-to-get means every active user contributes. It’s a mechanic that encourages presence and participation—something core to ritual apps... BeReal makes you post b... See more

The new NYT strategy is centered around getting existing subscribers to use more of its products, including:

• Cooking, which has a library of 20k+ recipes, guides, and lessons


• Games, which has its flagship crossword puzzle, along with Spelling Bee, Tiles, and newly acquired Wordle


• Reviews, which offers access to thousands of Wirecutter product recomme

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Crypto companies that launch a token maintain two capitalization tables: equity and token cap tables. They are distinct but related.