Sublime

On the weekend I ordered an Uber and realised that what used to be the standard ride is now more expensive than a cab, and the new standard ride is slower and smaller than a cab.

I then went home and tried to log into Netflix but couldn’t do so because my kids were watching it in another room, and my plan no longer supports multiple sign ins, even a... See more

Consumer and enterprise are increasingly blurring together.

Two really tangible take-aways: 1) they don’t care so much about individual viral articles as they care about creating direct, habitual readership, 2) long discounted trial periods work well to move people from ‘interested’ to ‘loyal’.”

- After consulting with Tiago, whose course David particularly enjoyed, and hours of filming with a Hollywood film crew, David has a final product: A scalable writing course that utilizes pre-recorded video content and a helpful social community of writers (the latter being what separates Write of Passage from other online courses)

Coinbase, the exchange that serviced the greatest number of US customers, appeared willing to take more regulatory risk. It listed roughly five hundred coins, including some that the SEC pretty clearly viewed as securities, and its CEO, Brian Armstrong, took to Twitter to criticize the regulators for “sketchy behavior.” Coinbase itself had no excha

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In their willingness to court the wrath of US financial regulators, the crypto exchanges fell into one of at least four categories. A small group of tiny US exchanges listed only bitcoin and ether, the two oldest coins, blessed by the SEC as commodities and openly regulated by the CFTC. (A bit oddly, the older the coin, the more people thought of i

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But Bloomberg’s a tough device to dislodge. It retains prime real estate on its users’ desks and it’s a social network and it’s a luxury good. In combination, these features have lent it immunity to Christensen’s disruption theory. Slack may be an easier challenge.