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Successful innovators don’t ask customers and clients to do something different; they ask them to become someone different.  Facebook asked its users to become more open and sharing with their personal information, even if they might be less extroverted in real life. - Brad Feld, Foundry Group

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Beautiful song I discovered in 2019. Resonating today.

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In the early 1990s, about 70 percent of venture-backed exits were IPOs, and the rest were acquisitions. Nowadays, acquisitions make up about 90 percent of exits.

Results from an NVCA survey from 2020, as cited by Christopher Beam (via The Wrath at Khan - The Atlantic)

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58 percent of American founders hope to sell their company. Others will do so grudgingly

Results from an NVCA survey from 2020, as cited by Christopher Beam (via The Wrath at Khan - The Atlantic)

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Some tasks required children to give long verbal responses, in a culture where turn-taking and silences are more normal. Timed tests required children to answer as quickly as possible, failing to account for a culture in which people are motivated to work methodically and accurately. Other tasks required children to say the opposite of what they saw, going against a norm of not saying things that aren’t true.

Carolyn Y. Johnson recounting biases discovered in psychology experiments (via Studies on children’s cognitive skills reveal biases in research, scientists say - The Washington Post)

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Japanese children, culturally accustomed to waiting for food, were able to hold out for a food reward, but not for a present. American schoolchildren, on the other hand, used to waiting to unwrap gifts under a Christmas tree or at a birthday party, were able to wait for a gift, but not food.

Carolyn Y. Johnson recounting Yuko Munakata’s findings. Munakata is a developmental psychologist at the University of California at Davis and conducted a variation on the Marshmallow Test that showed that children’s ability to wait for a treat wasn’t like a muscle that was strong or weak, but changed markedly depending on the context. (via Studies on children’s cognitive skills reveal biases in research, scientists say - The Washington Post)

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Kamala Harris with her mother (Photo courtesy of Kamala Harris Campaign via My Lunch With Kamala’s Mom – Mother Jones)

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Fweedom!!!

Kamala Harris, as a toddler, as she recounts when her mother tried to soothe her at a protest in her book The Truths We Hold (via My Lunch With Kamala’s Mom – Mother Jones)

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My father just put me on a plane. There was not a soul I knew in the entire place. My family has done that with everybody—my sister, my brother, It was all normal.

Shyamala Gopalan on what happened after she graduated from college in Delhi in 1958 (at age 19). She headed to the University of California at Berkeley to earn her doctorate in nutrition and endocrinology. (via My Lunch With Kamala’s Mom – Mother Jones)

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I raised them in an African-American community, for a very special reason. It doesn’t make a damn bit of difference if your color comes from India or African Americans, because this country is racist based on color.”

Shyamala Gopalan (via My Lunch With Kamala’s Mom – Mother Jones)

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In order to survive, we often must act fast based on limited information. Here’s what it really takes to act fast: You’re right about that thing you want to do You can do that right thing That thing is near to you That thing is easy for you You’re able to actually finish that thing

Carly Rose Gillis (via Feel like you don’t have enough time? Redefine “enough” | by The Medium Newsletter | Aug, 2024 | The Medium Blog)

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Ouch.

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Clip announcing halt of Mt. Gox (via This Was My Gateway to Crypto — Part 1 - by Danver Chandler)

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Anaïs Nin (HT Andrei Atanasov)

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To anticipate the needs of users of the future, you need to imagine the future.

Daley Wilhelm, on why all designedrs should read sci-fi (link)

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When I ran for President four years ago, 42 percent of my supporters were not Democrats. One of them was asked by a Fox News anchor, "Why Yang?" "He does not seem to be judging me," she said.

Andrew Yang in his new op-ed for Newsweek

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Valve is one of the highest-earning video game companies (around $6.5 billion in annual revenue, up there with Electronic Arts). They’re the creators of Half-Life and Counter-Strike, plus Steam — the dominant platform developers use to distribute their own games. I’m not a gamer, but I was engrossed by this retro from Monica Harrington, the company’s former marketing lead. One fascinating detail: After spending a year and over $1 million building it, they scrapped the entire V1 of their first game because testers were meh about it; they regrouped and built something better, which took another year, and it went on to be a bestseller.

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