Very seldom do we have the courage to place ourselves under the microscope for inspection

Keywords: culture, psychology

As humans we need to get better at our relationship with social media. It’s far too jejune to blame social media for how we behave. To do so would be to forfeit any free will & strip ourselves of agency. Instead of just having a singular spotlight on the responsibility of social media, why not rig up another spotlight and shine it on our own responsibility to be aware of how we behave & how it can be manipulated? No intelligent algorithm can work its magic without you taking first action, and continuing to take further action. Your attention can’t be monetised unless you wilfully give it up. We are the start point, but we are also the end point.
https://jamiedobbs.home.blog/2020/10/02/ive-watched-the-social-dilemma-now-what

The solution is the most powerful search engine on earth — Google

Keywords: articles , competition , cpg , european commission , government organizations , industries , logistics , regulation , retail , aggregation theory , business models , disruption theory , e commerce , modular versus integrated , owning customer relationship , platforms , amazon , google , shopify , walmart , woocommerce

Winning online is not about functionality, but about what app or website customers open of their own volition.
https://stratechery.com/2020/the-anti-amazon-alliance

Promoting + Mainstreaming Media Channels on “This Week in Startups” as a Customer Acquisition Platform for Advertising + Marketing Dummies

Everybody’s kind of getting scammed in that space and you probably shouldn’t be buying Google search.
Matthew Horiuchi (Director of User Acquisition @ Calm) [ @ ca. 30:35 ]

Note that this depiction is vastly oversimplistic (for example, Matthew himself notes that costs actually vary widely, they are not pinpointed as depicted here). Also, there are probably an infinite number of axes upon which to chart media channels (for example, if one such axis were to represent “rationality”, all of these would be at the “zero rationality” end of the scale — see also “Definition: How to Define “Retard Media”“).