If you grew up without the Internet, sharing your location might seem weird. Using an app that looks like a Warhol painting might seem weird. But if you grow up never knowing a time before YouTube, you might find yourself with different preferences.
This Ecosystem of Rivals strategy is ultimately about replicating the capabilities/data that Microsoft has in their platform with linked individual tools.
Jiro dreams of sushi. Reminds me of “the mundanity of excellence”
While Roblox has often been lauded for its efforts, protecting its young users has been a constantly evolving battle. The company reviews game content, offers parental controls and has chat filters that block profanity and information that can be used to identify people. Even so, explicit material slips through the cracks. There have been games... See more
Gaining experience takes time, effort, and often comes at the price of making painful mistakes. You don’t want to let those lessons go. You want them to mean something, to help you from making the same painful mistakes again. To help others from making the same mistakes you made. So it will always be the case that those with the most experience –... See more
Society is good at training talent but terrible at cultivating genius. Talented people are good at hitting targets others can’t hit, but geniuses find targets others can’t see. They are opposite modes of excellence. Talent is predictable, genius is unpredictable.