Year: 2021

I don’t think I ever read so many unnecessary new industry definitions in a single paper before.

“36% of US adults said they “regularly” access Facebook to get news. This is a significantly larger percentage than almost any other social media platform, with the exception of YouTube, which is used regularly for news by 23% of US adults”

https://t.co/Va6hhsEp4u https://t.co/2C148lLr7F

@rationalpsyche I know…

You Can Now Easily Download All CIA UFO Documents to Date https://t.co/LAnwA13zIY

@joevaccaro Very interesting recommendation, thank you for sharing it. Would you recommend this book in place of Misbehaving (if you read it)?

the “Institutional Imperative”—the tendency for companies to engage in activity for its own sake and to copy their peers instead of trying to stay ahead of them.

From “The Snowball” (Alice Schroeder) https://t.co/h2cfWgOh9N

The room for growth is still enormous. https://t.co/jqz3WcdHpi

Yesterday I was talking to a 60yo refusing to buy on Amazon. She’d rather break COVID lockdown rules and trust a random merchant (breaking rules, too) than trust online shopping systems.

This is in London in 2021, not a remote village far from a major urban center in early 2000.

“Then at dinner, Bill Gates Sr. posed the question to the table: What factor did people feel was the most important in getting to where they’d gotten in life? And I said, ‘Focus.’ And Bill said the same thing.”

From “The Snowball” (Alice Schroeder)

What is the book that changed your life? (not novels or religious texts)

Asked on Jan 12, 2021