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To say it outright, even the most talented person in the world won’t do well here if they don’t have an interest in helping other people grow and succeed. The question you will be held most accountable for isn’t “how have you gotten better” it's “how did you make someone else better?” Better yet, how have you made the collective, the team, better?

Uber is the quintessential example of a marketplace with low transaction complexity and asymmetry. Matching demand and supply is simply a function of availability and pickup time — commissions are the obvious fit here. On the other hand, marketplaces like Classpass and Scoutbee avoid commissions entirely.

That the best new products ultimately take us back to the way things once were, but with more scale and efficiency.

We’re in a chasm between stories that used to function and new stories which haven’t yet gathered enough coherence to function effectively. We can respect the stories of the past, but we also realise that they often aren’t actually helping us to navigate the reality we are living in anymore. Oftentimes we’ve surpassed the level of knowledge and und... See more

Facebook Live lets viewers tip streamers with ⭐stars, a small step from our free supply of ❤️ hearts. Twitch viewers can tip and buy digital goods with 💠 Bits, a nostalgic reference to old school graphics in 🕹️games for its core users. Reddit Coins can be used to purchase and gift digital goods to RPAN streamers which increasing airtime allotted ... See more

I also try to pay close attention to my media diet. I find it’s much easier to control the inputs vs how you process those inputs. I studiously avoid corporate media and other secondary sources and get almost all my news from primary sources: one-on-one conversations, Twitter and Substack, video interviews, financial reports, technical papers, prim... See more

What if the YouTube of the future created a Direct Messaging system to allow creators and fans to communicate with each other and one another?