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While I certainly still complained about school, I realize now that my upbringing developed a love for learning—not school—learning. We would spend a ton of time reading and I would leave the library with a towering stack of books, hoping they would last the two weeks until we would come back.

I’m guessing you’ve given or received a great token of appreciation, so you know how powerfully human they are. When you spend all day moving someone into their new home, and then they bake you your very favorite type of cookies, they aren’t saying “now we’re even,” they’re saying “I appreciate what you did for me.” These kinds of tokens are powerf... See more

The strategy tends to work well when the group of companies being brought together are similar enough that they can benefit from shared, scaled out fixed “infrastructure” across core business functions but are different enough (end customer demographics, positioning/brand, geography, etc.) that they don’t encroach too aggressively on one another.

Naval: "If Bitcoin can have value, if Ethereum can have value, then in theory, an NFT can have value as long as the smart contracts and the social contracts and the community enforcing it has value."

Snap: A text messaging app that adds expression, emotion, and nuance to each message through a background photo. Adding a photo allowed the same text to have a variety of meanings with a change to the background photo. This is a source material that took a normal boring text to a whole new level. Meanwhile, ephemerality was a constraint that unlock... See more