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To summarize: On many MOOC platforms, the dominant learning modality is passive content consumption; there’s no interaction or real community; and there’s no time constraint. All this amounts to a tiny percentage of learners who actually follow through.

Everything that feels soulful in life is inefficient. Standardized things are easier to scale, but non-standardized things are harder to destroy Standardizing is the enemy of soulfulness

“[Twitch] solves the original sin of the internet, which is having an advertising-based system…We decided to go with banner ads over paying each other online” – Andrew Chen

The purpose of this essay is to propose DIOs as a novel mechanism for climate change mitigation and expose it to scrutiny before designing a real-life pilot.

Primary Care 3.0 leapfrogs today’s old-fashioned primary care out of necessity and pressure placed on the industry to meet today’s consumers’ expectations. It also exists simply because it can. Technology like machine learning and mobile-first services exist in other industries and there are a few in healthcare who can’t stand sitting by idly and i... See more

Substack should take a page from Twitch's playbook by investing in helping writers build communities on-platform. Community features could include: