“Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank.” There’s at least one data quality problem: Jean-Paul Sartre was not born in Colombia. | learn more
“The joke—that everything will eventually look like a crab—comes from an actual truth. The crab shape has evolved so many times that scientists had to come up with a special term for it: carcinization.” | learn more
“He’s grown his audience from 400 readers in March 2020 to over 125,000 as of June 2022, raised two funds off the hype of that audience and the quality of his words, and made at least 30 investments in startups […]
“If anything, it seems like crypto has made the ‘old’ centralized social networks, especially Twitter, more central than ever. How many influencers have used their followers to make an easy leap into crypto sales? How many important projects have used […]
“We replicated the findings of the original study, with 35% of participants reporting a false memory for getting lost in a mall as a child (compared to 25% in the original study). However, using a novel self-report measure, just 14% […]
Remember the white/gold/black/blue dress? “Thanks to years of research into photoreceptors in the retina and the neurons to which they connect, [neuroscientist Pascal Wallisch] thought he understood the roughly thirty steps in the chain of visual processing, but “all of […]
“Black-hat international sellers … hide behind shell businesses and fake names. if they get popped for writing fake reviews or selling a product that kills someone, they just show up next week under a new account.” | learn more
“The best in the category are redesigning the experience from the ground up to take advantage of the new digital medium, vs. just working to recreate in-person health care experiences online.” | learn more
This HBR article makes the point that simplistic thinking about customer journeys holds back product managers. Instead, the author introduces the customer journey matrix between effortless/effortful and predictable/unpredictable. | learn more
“How did this scarcity mindset become so pervasive? And how can we break out of this pernicious cycle and shift to a mindset of sufficiency and abundance?” | learn more