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“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. . . . To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation”—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”

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Beyond time-weighting, there was also the question of what specific metrics in our Discord server best represented a concrete value-add in the context of our community. We wanted to avoid purely one-dimensional measures of engagement, such as merely rewarding the chattiest people in our server without measuring the extent of their direct interactio... See more

So my belief and hope is: participation as the core interactive model will be the wedge that a new social experience uses to disrupt Facebook Inc. I look for this in new social startups, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the biggest threat to Facebook Inc will be something that started looking like a game.

Faced with opaque systems operated by wealthy global companies, it is hardly surprising that many assume the lack of transparency exists to serve the interests of technology elites and not users. In the long run, people are only going to feel comfortable with these algorithmic systems if they have more visibility into how they work and then have th... See more

“95% of people are affected by acne so it doesn't make sense to position it as an aberration. It is a great equalizer—you can see that high-profile public figures have acne. There is no expensive cure. Self acceptance is the #1 thing...You don’t have to arrive at this finish line that is clear skin.”

The above trends are a reality and we believe the wise move is to find ways to exploit these new trends and leverage them to build great businesses. History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers. Hulu is not burdened by that legacy.

There are good reasons to believe that online advertising inventory is steadily decreasing in value over time. Two forces drive this erosion of value: structural shifts in what people pay attention to, and a massive global economy of fraud in the programmatic advertising marketplace. These trends are hidden by the murkiness of online advertising,

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