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Platforms create value by facilitating interactions between external producers and consumers. Because of this external orientation, they often shed even variable costs of production. The emphasis shifts from dictating processes to ...more
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“It’s well worth reading about Netflix on Glassdoor.com, a website that lets employees anonymously review their companies. Note how many times the “culture of fear” is mentioned.”
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“and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.”
Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Aristotle observed, pure logic won’t suffice on its own because some links in the chain are missing or uncertain. But he offered the advice that “we should also base our arguments upon probabilities as well as upon certainties,” 2 and this could still constitute an appeal to good reason, since “the true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.” 3”
Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

“How is it possible that our departmental silos are operating with agility, but our companies are hopelessly rigid and slow?”
Jeff Gothelf, Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

“something being “exceptionally rare” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s interesting, nor should we necessarily count it as strong evidence of anything. Exceptionally rare chances occur constantly, and the mere fact of their rarity may have absolutely no bearing on what conclusions we draw from having witnessed them.”
Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

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