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In the West different companies own different graphs. In China it's very different.

It's been hard, sure, but in a good way rather than a dumb way. What I wrote a year ago has only become more true:

When I’m writing this blog, I feel like that scene in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where Harrison Ford sticks the Staff of Ra into an underground map at the right time of day and a beam of light shines through the ruby

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Slot machines leverage this psychological weakness to incredible effect. The unpredictability of payout makes it harder to stop. Social media does the same. Posting to Twitter might yield a big social payoff, in the form of likes, retweets, and replies. Or it might yield no reward at all. Never knowing the outcome makes it harder to stop pulling t

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Put another way, what’s the most powerful force on earth? In the 1800s, God. In the 1900s, the US military. And by the mid-2000s, encryption.

As Wikipedia approaches 20, there’s been a small proliferation of articles celebrating the site as “a bastion of the Good Internet” and “the last best place on the internet.”

Surprised there aren’t more Strava for X. 1. Single-player tool with multiplayer social feed 2. The more you use the app, the more likely you are to do the atomic behavior. 3. Doing more of the atomic behavior is actually good for you. Potential examples learning, cooking…

It’s just a matter of time.