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“I mean, I’ve been pitched, we’ve been pitched every version of that,” Green says, before offering a firm, “No.”

The synthesis and cross-pollination of ideas from diverse fields presents low-hanging fruit for both individuals and society. The investment of time and effort required to become a specialist quickly runs into a point of diminishing returns. By contrast, accumulating a ‘talent stack’ of dilettante-level knowledge or skills can unlock insights and o

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I do not believe this will come from a team of wealthy engineers at Twitter through their Bluesky initiative. New technological revolutions come from young teams with nothing to lose and a totally new perspective.

If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Twitter minus the graph and with the same clunky onboarding process seem destined for failure). The new For You feed gives us a partial taste of what that might look like, and it's not pretty.

by pulling millions of people into the potential audience for every post or tweet or photo, these companies force everyone to treat every conversation as a potential performance to millions of total strangers.

But conversations  should not  be performances, unless they are explicitly staged as such. Conversations should not be battleground

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Growth rate of followers month-over-month

-A services-oriented marketplace should focus on both driving spend per customer up in a given customer cohort and investing in supply differentiation and capabilities.

Dee Hock was given 90 days to launch the BankAmericard card (which became the Visa card), starting from scratch. He did. In that period, he signed up more than 100,000 customers.