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Instagram: Of the 1bn accounts on Instagram, ~500K have over 100k followers and are considered active influencers (source)

When Steve Jobs set goals, he kept them shockingly simple and didn't include any metrics or benchmarks. Are specific, measurable goals a waste of time?

-Operational support: functions like finance, legal, and HR that help people do their jobs

That is the thing you notice about second-mountain people. There’s been a motivational shift. Their desires have been transformed. If you wanted to generalize a bit, you could say there are six layers of desire: Material pleasure. Having nice food, a nice car, a nice house. Ego pleasure. Becoming well-known or rich and successful. Winning victories... See more

In a recent interview on the Acquired podcast, Ben Thompson (author of Stratechery) shared this same finding from his personal experience:

“ The problem with a word-of-mouth business and exponential growth is people run out of people to talk to.  That’s the limiting factor. There’s a little bit of exponential with every new subscriber, because they

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It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a song... See more