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Telling is only an investment if you know for sure that what you are telling is of value to the other person. That is why it is safest to tell only if you have been asked, rather than arrogantly deciding on your own to tell somebody something.
Edgar H Schein • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
ASU embraces a high acceptance rate, admitting 86 percent of applicants, compared to Harvard’s 5 percent. Far from “lowering their standards,” Crow and Dabars see this as a fulfillment of their mission to provide a quality, affordable education to more people. The high acceptance rate is a starting point for ASU, not a backwards reflection of their... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • The New American University
When we build software, it’s an opportunity to make people feel something. It doesn’t need to be anything major. I don’t think we’ll ever compete with desert sunrises. Just that we might make them smile, laugh, see or realize something they didn’t before.
Notes on Roadtrips
But what really blows my noodle is how rare AI skepticism still is in the media. One year ago, ChatGPT was opened to the public. The onslaught of overheated and careless rhetoric about our imminent ascent to a new plane of existence (or our imminent extermination) began then and has not slowed since. It’s inherent to the financial interests of... See more
Freddie deBoer • Where Are the AI Skepticism Stories?
despite the tech, “we’re still just living ordinary lives like we always have”
This differs from, for example Substack, which hosts Platformer (see disclosure). Substack allows writers to export both their email lists and their payment relationships, which are handled by Stripe. Anyone who leaves Substack can restart on another platform without having to ask their entire customer base to sign up again with a new credit card.... See more
Casey Newton • Conservative social networks keep making the same mistake
This is because we do not make objects to entice responses of strong affinity, like, “This is what I really want” or, “I must have this.” MUJI’s goal is to give customers a rational satisfaction, expressed not with, “This is what I really want” but with “This will do.” “This is what I really want” expresses both faint egoism and discord, while
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Well, one explanation I liked quite a bit was recently written by Wall Street Journal columnist Christopher Mims, who argued that social media isn’t dying, but changing into broadcast media. The majority of the content we see on a daily basis is now made or shared by a small professional class of users, known as the creator economy. Which is making... See more
Ryan Broderick • Selling your filter bubble back to you
And while Brandless made a big deal out of the concept of a “brand tax” — the idea that products from other brands cost more because they have middlemen or other distribution costs — we now know the real story is that direct to consumer e-commerce brands have their own high costs, from engineering talent to online marketing.