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Five factors play a key role in determining the take rate of marketplace:

Starling just in terms of how much two hours of sleep can change how you are?

Yeah! You like to think that you are this person, right? “I am me, and the way I move through the world is as me.” But I'm not this one person. I'm a very different me on five hours of sleep than on eight hours of sleep, to the point that it may as well be different peopl... See more

Technology will allow for micropayments and microtransactions based on consumption, instead of playing flat rates to the service providers.

Premium mediocrity, by his definition, is a fancy tile backsplash in an apartment’s tiny, nearly nonfunctional kitchen, or french fries doused in truffle oil, which contains no actual truffles. It’s Uber Pool, which makes the luxury of being chauffeured around town financially accessible, yet requires that you brush thighs with strangers sharing th... See more

At Index, we think of the creator phenomenon in three parts: (1) creation tools, (2) distribution, and (3) monetization. In other words: how creators make stuff, how creators reach an audience, and how creators get paid.

The paradigm in the education system is theory first, practice second. Perhaps the opposite should be true.