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In May, Facebook announced Facebook Shops, a tool to set up online stores on Facebook and Instagram. Shopify is one of the partners, allowing Shopify stores to upload their inventory to Facebook. However, assuming Facebook Shops is successful, this partnership benefits those stores and Facebook, not Shopify.

Blockchain-based contraptions have a lot to offer the world that other kinds of systems do not. On the other hand, Nathan is completely correct to emphasize that blockchainized should not be equated with financialized. There is plenty of room for blockchain-based systems that do not look like money, and indeed we need more of them.

Equally important was our practice of giving every full-time employee an interview every six months. At Stanford I’d been taught that employees never organize because of money: they organize because of un-listened-to grievances. We set up a program under which each employee (including some part-timers) was interviewed, not by the immediate superior... See more

Just as humans are incapable of generating random numbers, we struggle to consciously generate random ideas - to the point where actively trying to ‘think differently’ often seems to only further calcify existing patterns. Instead of attempting to brute-force creativity, the brain must be confronted with novel stimuli in order to reorganize its per

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Members of cohesive teams know one another’s strengths and weaknesses and don’t hesitate to point them out. They also know something about one another’s backgrounds, which helps them to understand why members think and act the way they do.

Fully remote school will continue to be unviable for many families. However, the appeal of certain elements (ie, project-based learning) may create new types of schools that maintain an out-of-home structure, but allow for the programmatic flexibility to which many learners have now been exposed. Historically, optionality in education has driven de... See more

The direct education experience is really, really hard to scale. Learning happens best on a local level with one-on-one instruction. Apprenticeships and tutors have earned a place in the system, but it’s a lot easier to scale technology than people.