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Audience buying is cloaked in opacity – the major platforms are deeply invested in making sure no one truly understands how attention is priced. That means a media company buying audience on Facebook or Google will always be at an informational disadvantage – exposing them to a new kind of arbitrage, one executed by the platform’s own algorithms an... See more

Bias in media: On the other hand, this also means that if you fear that your app is biased towards a political cause you disagree with or is unfairly editing or even censoring some voices you support, switch your app!

James Clear:  Intensity makes a good story. Consistency makes progress.

* (Negative) Working Capital Dynamics: The company holds goods on consignment. Once sold, it waits 14 days before paying out to make sure it’s not returned. The payout is putting the money into someone’s ThredUp account; typically they let it sit there and let the balance build. About 15-30% of this is eventually spent on Threadup.

From the memex to the web to wikis to org-mode to Project Xanadu to attempts to make a map of every thought a person thinks: the augmentation of memory has been an extremely generative vision for computing.

Schools have relied on tools like Moodle and Blackboard for online educational community engagement, but some combination of the tools and the methods of use remain embarrassingly under-powered, forced, and lacking anything that could truly be described as organic engagement. Asking students to write a 500-word post on Moodle is not creating engage... See more

Lasting consumer apps are extremely hard to sustain because they’re inevitably built for such a wide swath of people that marketing, attracting and sticking with any particular demographic is difficult, let alone almost every single one.