“…the path to profit is to manufacture attention more cheaply than what you get paid for it.” –Ev Williams A big part of our economy is centered around attention. Some would argue we are living in a de facto attention economy. That is now our scarce… Read More
Today is the 4 year anniversary of this daily blog. Sure, I’ve missed a few days over the years (my estimate is 4-5 days), but for the most part I have shown up here every day and written something. Sometimes that something is very short… Read More
I am reading about the Dashilar Platform this evening. I am sure that some of you are already familiar with what’s happening in this Beijing neighborhood since the platform was founded in 2011. But I am just turning my attention to it. The Dashilar Platform… Read More
I spent this morning drafting the third post in my BARED blog series. First one, here. Second one, here. If any of you would like to be featured next, or know of someone who you think should be featured next, please send me an email… Read More
This morning I came across the below graph in a Medium article by Eric Jaffe of Sidewalk Labs. It is taken from a research paper by Elisabeth Ruth Perlman called, Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America. What this… Read More
(Not my) yuppie life by Janet Kwan on 500px https://500px.com/embed.js Earlier this week I somehow stumbled on an old (2012) Medium story by Ev Williams, called, Formula for Entrepreneurial Success. (Ev is the cofounder of Medium, Twitter, and Blogger. He basically invented blogging.) His post includes… Read More
