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In this analogy, LLMs become better than humans at writing. But it’s still widely understood that learning to write is good for you (maybe writing is “the best way to think”) so people send their kids to writing camp and humble-brag about writing in their free time. But in the end, most writing was done for the mundane purpose of  making text exist

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Independent research confirms that large CPG grew 1.1% from 2013-17, while upstart brands grew almost 4x faster in the same time period. The contraction has caused these firms to jettison shrinking legacy brands like Lipton, Chiclets, and more. They are recycling that cash to buy smaller companies (e.g. RxBar to NYSE:K for $600m) to replace the... See more

What’s the difference between future investors and potential hires thinking a company is distracted and unfocused versus inevitable and defining? It’s in the coherence of the company’s logic for each sequencing of steps and how legible that narrative is made to them.

So I think it’s really important to to just stop whenever we face problems in the digital economy and reconnect them to the rest of the economy and to history and say, okay, where else are these problems arising? So I think a lot of these problems start to become a lot simpler the moment we realise that the internet didn’t invent them.

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On the other hand, the idea of increased productivity is a harder sell in the home. Generally speaking, consumers prefer subscriptions when there’s a clear cost savings for the “all-you-can-eat buffet” vs. a la carte purchases.