1 day agoHow you can help the Amazon Rainforest–todayLast week, Brazil’s Congress shocked the world by suddenly fast-tracking and passing PL2903, the Marco Temporal bill. This bill paves the way for the unprecedented destruction of the Amazon Rainforest by stripping Brazil’s Indigenous people of their legal rights to the land. How does it work? If it becomes law…2 min read2 min read
Nov 25, 2022It is interesting to note the alliterative name of this phenomenon. Research shows that alliteration improves processing fluency for our brains, which results in a term featuring alliteration being perceived as truer than one without — see this for a nice overview of the processing fluency field. I believe that Quiet Quitting has become an important concept in the mind of the public because the processing fluency of its awesome new name has resulted in it being perceived as ‘the truth.’Quiet Quitting & Strategy1.3K37Roger MartinFascinating.Fascinating.1 min read1 min read
Oct 19, 2022Cat Playing Piano, in the style ofHere are 40 images I generated with Distropic, an interface to Stable Diffusion, a deep-learning, text-to-image AI. These are rather prosaic in the world of AI imagery these days, but I wanted to get a sense of what it was like to use these engines. …AI4 min readAI4 min read
Jul 12, 2022New Decade, New IdeasNext month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. As we gear up for the next decade, I’ve decided to hand over the CEO reins. Back in 2012, I wrote: Now that we’ve made sharing information virtually effortless, how do we increase depth of understanding, while also…Medium4 min readMedium4 min read
Feb 22, 2022…t in real effort to keep it online. After all, we don’t really buy domain names; we just rent them. And if you publish on somebody else’s domain, you’re at their mercy: Geocities, MySpace, Facebook, Medium, Twitter.02022–02–22711Jeremy KeithThis is true.This is true. But for the record, except for things removed by the author or in violation of rules, everything published on Medium since inception (10 years ago) is still accessible at its original URL (or it redirects if the author set up a custom domain or subdomain), same with…1 min read1 min read
Feb 15, 2022Reliability versus Validity in Strategy3403Roger MartinYes, the fundamental tension, not only in strategy, but in business and, perhaps, all endeavors.Yes, the fundamental tension, not only in strategy, but in business and, perhaps, all endeavors. Innovate or optimize.1 min read1 min read
Jan 27, 2022Hybrids are a sham concocted by an antiquated industry to deceive the market and regulators, and one backed up by governments that subsidize something that should never have qualified for any kind of support. Consumers buy them because they seem to address their concerns for the environment. In short, hybrids are the last, poisonous, gasp of an obsolete and profoundly harmful technology.It’s time to expose the sham of hybrids47922Enrique Dans🔅⚡️🚗🔅⚡️🚗1 min read1 min read
Jan 24, 2022Samsung has unveiled at CES its Eco Remote, a new, battery-less version of its TV remote control, powered by the energy it is able to capture from the WiFi networks around it (RF energy harvesting).Finally, a remote control that doesn’t run out of batteries2504Enrique DansThat's amazingThat's amazing1 min read1 min read
Jan 13, 2022The 7 Most Innovative Plant-Based Meat & Dairy Brands694Janay LaingThis all looks yummy.This all looks yummy.1 min read1 min read
Jan 13, 2022Ten Predictions: Knowledge Work in 2022561James JoaquinThat was puntasticThat was puntastic1 min read1 min read