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This is the Aggregator’s advantage: particularly when it comes to media, whether it be print, video, or audio, suppliers are often motivated to simply reach the most people and make a living doing so. It is a fundamentally short-term outlook that is entirely understandable and defensible. That, though, leaves the Aggregator with an arbitrage advant... See more

For innovators, understanding the job is to understand what consumers care most about in that moment of trying to make progress.

A happy brain is a supple and flexible brain, he believes; depression, anxiety, obsession, and the cravings of addiction are how it feels to have a brain that has become excessively rigid or fixed in its pathways and linkages—a brain with more order than is good for it. On the spectrum he lays out (in his entropic brain article) ranging from excess... See more

Ezra: When you buy an NBA topshot what do you own? Anil Dash says you are buying a link to the art, not the art. You are often buying an artwork that links to a server that may disappear.