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Hot forms of media, McLuhan says, are generally low in audience participation. They provide people with a lot of information and data. He describes them as mechanical and uniform. It’s very one-way. One party is giving the information; the audience is receiving the information. And that’s pretty much it. Examples of this would be things like books,... See more
Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
better products lead to happy customers, lead to more cash flow, to better products, to more customers and so on, with all parties enjoying and benefitting from a growing ecosystem of win-win relationships. It’s hard to do and takes patience, and a certain orientation and discipline but, when it works, it is a beautiful (and very profitable) model.
Short-term vs Long-term - The I.G.Y. Foundation
Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London, who wrote a paper on Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans where he hypothesizes: " ... there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative... See more
Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
Despite strong technology players like Stripe, Square, PayPal, and Robinhood, traditional banks are still dominant.
Seth Rosenberg • First Principles of Investing in FinTech
No effort at creating group value can be successful without some form of governance. People are basically good, when they are in circumstances that reward goodness while restraining impulses to defect.
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Clair's business model creates a rare four-way win. It's unusual to come across a company with a model as elegant as Clair's. It offers on-demand pay at no cost to either the worker or their company. Better still, the HR platforms that Clair partners with and that distribute the solution generate revenue. Workers, companies, platforms, and Clair... See more
The Generalist (US) • Clair: Rewiring How America Gets Paid
The key is to take five minutes at the end of staff meetings and ask the question, “What do we need to communicate to our people?” After a few minutes of discussion, it will become apparent which issues need clarification and which are appropriate to communicate. Not only does this brief discussion avoid confusion among the executives themselves,... See more