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In our case, the markets we refer to are online communities such as Reddit, Hacker News, and Twitter. Each of these communities has an upvote mechanism, which can be interpreted as an indication that the user believes the website is undervalued. They are willing to bid up the price by spending their upvote on it.

- revelation (finding the good stuff)

"“Experiencing” is one of the worst clutterers. Even your dentist will ask if you are experiencing any pain. If he had his own kid in the chair he would say, “Does it hurt?”"

On the other side of creative aliveness, there is flatness. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, about what happens when our worlds go flat. The dynamism we lose, the emotional urges we suppress, the original impulses we become too afraid to nurture.

On the running path recently, a song came on. It was by Eminem. His music is not my choice for ... See more

Last week, I had a coffee with a publishing exec who told me he doesn’t mind the ads I run because they fit and they’re (often) written similarly to the content. The more human the ad, the better it performs. To me, that’s a form of personalization, even if there’s no proprietary “decisioning engine” crunching first-party data.