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No decision is made entirely rationally. Emotional disposition towards brand can give an advantage even when the product is out-featured or out-priced by competitors. Become more dependent on emotional ties.

Poparazzi seems to lack any of the hallmarks of anything lasting. There is nothing new to the mode, nothing that cannot be done elsewhere, nothing truly unique or interesting. Restricting what you can do in a social network works with the length of a video, but it doesn’t really work with photos. It’s just another app that will be gone in a few mon... See more

I think Odell frames both the question and the stakes correctly. Attention is contagious. What forms of it, as individuals and as a society, do we want to cultivate? What kinds of mediums would that cultivation require?

While they come with tradeoffs, it’s inevitable that more products will be built — or at least MVP’d — without writing code, including by programmers that can code.

I'd love to see a tool that allows teachers, trainers, and coaches to create information-rich, multi-event or recurring calendar cadences for clients. I picture a drum teacher, or diabetes coach, giving clients a structured GCal event to learn and practice a new skill or behavior. While the reminder would be useful, there are ways to make it more v... See more

Most "note-taking" or "knowledge management" software acts as a passive storage container. You create notes, shuffle them around into folders, add a few tags, and then they sit there. Waiting. Until you consciously remember to go looking for them.