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We're incentivizing a lot more of social status than we are utility. And I think there is deep, deep utility with Twitter - it's the fastest most influential way to get your thoughts to the world. There's nothing faster.

In uncertain times, people go looking for answers in unusual places. And in 2019, many U.S. consumers found their answers in the stars — or, more specifically, in a group of increasingly popular astrology apps offering horoscopes, fortunes, palm-reading and mobile access to psychics, among other things.

Some 32% of its survey participants last month indicated that “killing germs” was their most important product trait for a cleaning brand, up from 14% in a similar survey the company conducted in September 2018.

Traditional parents were in the business of handing to their children a settled way of life: values, habits, standards, practices, skills, sometimes a job. On this older picture, it was the role of the parent to give—“tradition” comes from tradere, “to hand over”—and the child to accept, obediently. If I were a traditional parent, I would be trying... See more

We’re going from crowdsourcing code to crowdsourcing content and products that people create on internet platforms to crowdsourcing the actual operations of these internet platforms directly from users

Yeti has become a cooler the way Dyson is a vacuum or Canada Goose is a warm coat.

In some respects, this is the holy grail of institutes of higher learning: earning more without actually accepting more (and losing their rarified luster). Over the past forty years, most universities seem to have solved this problem by radically increasing pricing — a move that both relies on and fortifies brand power.