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It looks like social media is set to be the 8-Track of news media - an innovation not as convenient as advertised and ill-suited for the medium.

This isn’t a peace, but setting a pot on simmer. It’s also better than the alternative.

local stores rarely have the economies of scale required to treat customers like they are being processed out of a refugee camp.

We use confidence as a stand-in for competence. And that's a terrible habit.

America can keep this asymmetrical wheel spinning much longer than Tehran can. Practically, maybe not.

Uncertainty is uncomfortable for most people, but for people who rode to the top on a spreadsheet, the discomfort is neurotic.

Second-order thinking is uncomfortable. It forces you to confront tradeoffs your team would rather ignore, but the markets won’t.

From the Department of Unintended Consequences The possible endgames in Iran are starting to look like a Waffle House menu at 3am: Everything will probably give you heartburn, but booze and hunger make people optimistic. The administration is now using phrases like “degrade capability,” “strategic reset,” and “regional stabilization” for the same reason that CEOs do – use enough syllables and it’s less obvious that you’re pin-wheeling. The assumption is that if sufficient pre

Don't innovate for average, innovate for typical, and typical is a little weird.