Great band recommendation, thank you! From a fellow Cretan
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"The product is the stock"
I think there is definitely room for a product like this, and maybe even some kind of max follower limit could also skew more to connection over influencers.
Without realizing it there is a "how would this search/page visit etc. look on a tracked profile" process running in my head that is greatly reduced by DDG+Brave. A chilling effect not just on speech, but on browsing behavior that we have to counteract.
1 was done on diabetics with groups eating more or less fruit, but no mention is made of what the rest of their diet was in relation to sugar/carbs. It mentions no impact to their weight or diabetes, but would their diabetes + weight have improved by cutting carbs, sugar & fruit?
The other study was n=17 so not very solid.
What's more interesting is research where fruit, sugar, and carbs are removed entirely or almost entirely (keto). T2 Diabetes is commonly reversed and weight loss adherence increases.
Fruits in terms of calories are essentially sugar, and despite the fiber, more than 1-2 a day will start to impact insulin, fat storage etc. negatively for most people. Especially fructose-heavy fruit.
Non-starchy vegetables are not nearly as sugar or calorie dense, can be eaten in much higher volume with little effect, and as such should be thought of much differently than fruit.
(non-avocado) Fruit falls more in the dessert/candy category IMO.
IMO anyone paying attention in the industry knows the answer is probably less ad spend, aka most inventory is overpriced...but then the incentives take over and the firehose stays on full blast. Publishers, agencies adtech/martech, are not incentivized to right-size ad spend at all, and even for advertisers orgs, the slightest bit of silo/politics incentivizes CMOs to spend & protect their budgets.
It is a select handful of orgs with serious CEO level buy in that are willing to honestly tackle this and spend less, more efficiently. That tends to be a competitive advantage in a sea of waste.
This easier path to consumption means the time/effort needed to own these things previously can be redeployed in a productive way.
http://www.raptitude.com/2010/08/how-to-make-life-agreeable/
>...It usually involved holding your breath and averting your eyes as you scoop out the food-slime and hurriedly direct it toward the garbage bin, bracing yourself throughout, as if you’re jumping into icy water.
It’s the same strategy a wide-eyed Fear Factor contestant uses as he chomps frantically on the June bug in his mouth — he doesn’t want to confront it, he wants to escape it.
That method didn’t work for me, it just made me more aware of how awful it was. As soon as I tackled one sink, I began dreading the next room.
I don’t remember when it clicked, but after not too many kitchens, I learned the secret:
Let it feel like whatever it feels like.
Just do it and let it have its way with you. Turn toward it, not away.
Whenever I came to a gunked-up drain, I just scooped it out without rushing. I reached into the drain with no more reluctance than I would have reaching into a cookie jar. I looked at the mess with a stoic curiosity, allowing the swollen noodles and bread-mush to rest freely in my fingers for the two or three unhurried seconds it took to transfer them to the garbage can.
As long as I wasn’t rushing or trying not to touch it, it was painless. It wasn’t worth trying to escape.
He recalls a story from his and Mr. Musk’s PayPal days, when Mr. Musk joined the engineering team’s poker game and bet everything on every hand, admitting only afterward that it was his first time playing poker. Then there was the time they were driving in Mr. Musk’s McLaren F1 car, “the fastest car in the world.” It hit an embankment, achieved liftoff, made a 360-degree horizontal turn, crashed and was destroyed.
“It was a miracle neither of us were hurt,” Mr. Thiel says. “I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, which is not advisable. Elon’s first comment was, ‘Wow, Peter, that was really intense.’ And then it was: ‘You know, I had read all these stories about people who made money and bought sports cars and crashed them. But I knew it would never happen to me, so I didn’t get any insurance.’ And then we hitchhiked the rest of the way to the meeting.”
There will continue to be waves of this as we see places like Nashville, NC cities, SLC, Charleston etc building up now.
This relocation is a form of spreading the wealth and based on geography the optimistic view is some of the benefit will go to areas we saw most left behind and divided this election (south, midwest).
In the long term that could be a boon to middle class outside megacities and more opportunity to escape the mega city bubbles/echo chambers
Organic is meaningful in context of info like this.
http://www.businessinsider.com/solarcity-tesla-deal-short-in...
For the first group, the creation function is phenomenal, interactive/engaging and not suffering the signal to noise problem.
For everyone else, they struggle with a)consumption only (that's me), b) bad signal to noise rate (follow too many), or low engagement/interactivity (not enough follow them).
So to truly make the platform work for you, it is a longer cultivation to become somewhat of an influencer. By definition this cannot be a mass market appeal in terms of all users fully realizing the platform's potential.
Instagram has a similar structure but has overcome these problems with simplifying the media/content type into pictures and limiting links. This makes the signal to noise ratio better, and allows for the creation function of non-influencers to go farther.
This is why I agree Twitter should embrace being smaller, and focus its efforts into helping the 2 user types in parallel, and also help users cross from being consumers to influencers more. They can take cues from YouTube in all of their creator programs and rev sharing to work on that part of it.
Rooftop owners that buy their systems outright are still im good shape, with a different payback period. Leases have been pushed bc theyre more lucrative for installers and homeowners have avoided the upfront cost of buying. Leases were a gateway financial model to expand rooftop solar but I think we'll see a shift to system ownership, which will reduce the impact of net metering. And it will be further reduced as storage tech ramps up.
The author nailed it when talking about "two of the most dominant, and most overrated, values of our times: newness and popularity" and the shift from a book to tv mentality. The newness/TV aspect is another way to look at FOMO...these things are exploiting deep fears about group status and exclusion.
I don't think this means the death of ideas, but they are secondary now and spread when tied to a story/hero's journey involving a strong persona. Ironically, the author has a great one in being imprisoned for his ideas then freed.