Find yourself and your organization on the curve.
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Each one of us possesses a certain amount of wisdom. And today, we can share it frictionlessly, on various channels, and without limit. Overall…
The market, advertisers, and Congress likely won’t challenge Facebook. Some other things might.
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The question of whether this round of scandal would do immediate, direct damage to Facebook seemed settled soon after the Senate adjourned its Tuesday…
Musk on space and taxes, Satya Nadella on TikTok, Marc Benioff on the workplace, and more.
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After so many months of isolation, there was Elon Musk. The brilliant, mercurial technology founder helped kick off the tech industry’s unofficial exit from…
Let’s not kid ourselves; working our bodies to the bone is destroying us.
It’s the first full week of fall. The air is crisp and, after a long-awaited summer, we’re supposed to be feeling refreshed. But in the U.S. right now, people are absolutely fried. Four million people have quit their jobs for four months running, and labor shortages continue even as federal…
Facebook can survive its scandals, but Apple’s anti-tracking initiative is doing meaningful damage to its business.
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Facebook this week dispatched its high-level executives to ask customers to hang in there. They weren’t, of course, visiting to discuss the Wall Street…
Facebook is the most vulnerable of all Big Tech companies. What does it take to survive?
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Of the many sentences the Wall Street Journal published about Facebook this week, one stood out: “The fear was that eventually users might stop…
Epic got some of what it was hoping for — but not all of it
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When Epic Games sued Apple in August 2020 over iPhone maker’s 30% cut of in-app payments, it did so with a splashy media blitz…
Instead of ‘subscription fatigue,’ we’re probably seeing the opposite.
When journalists flocked to independent newsletters last year, it seemed like the rush to the inbox would hit an inevitable limit. Readers would tire of signing up and paying for email, industry experts said, and the movement would fizzle.
Well, in the year since, the opposite has happened. As more…
Rather than take our jobs, AI will help us get better.
When I tell people artificial intelligence made me a better writer, they almost always give me a weird look.
“How could AI help you?” they ask. They assume AI technology is still far off, not with us today. And even if AI tech is decent now, there’s no way it…
This thing is for real. The incentives are right. And the community is the key.
About a year ago, I decided to take a leap and go independent. I had just released Always Day One and was eager to expand on ideas in the book and continue reporting and writing wherever my curiosity took me. Looking back, I had no clue where this all would…
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