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Musk had shown with solid consistency that he was not afraid to not pay his debts, office rent, or employee severance package. He has also been quite consistent at driving Twitter business in the ground. From pushing away advertisers by breaking all forms of moderation, to more recently killing the
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There's an organizational chart from the sixties that has been floating around for a long time. It describes how Disney was thinking about its business more than fifty years ago, and it's striking. Where you might see a consulted mess, it's anything but. The
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A quick announcement about Innovation Copilots' next chapter!
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In 1978, Dr. James Austin published an odd book called Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty. The book was all about making scientific sense of... luck. This is a specially interesting endeavor for startups or corporations as luck is probably the essential asset for anyone in the
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A more personal article for the end of July on China and its changes, the end of an era for me, and maybe some geopolitical and business considerations if you want to read too much in this story ; )
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There's a concept that is starting to take hold as a central narrative for how the web will evolve very rapidly: AI has started an irreversible transformation of the web as we knew it, and before we even realize it, 99% of the content produced and shared will
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ChatGPT is getting sued by a first small batch of artists and writers on the way it was trained by scrapping the internet for content, including very much copyrighted ones. As reported by The Verge, The first to sue is the comedian Sarah Silverman and two horror/pop fiction writers
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Meta (Facebook) has officially launched Threads, its Twitter competitor. And it's a straightforward Twitter clone, which is probably the best thing to do if you want to siphon out angry Twitter users in the shortest period efficiently. The interface seems quite decent and unobtrusive, while simply using your
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The summer seems to be installed, and even if most of us are not kicking off work pressure our feet in the sand, sipping margaritas, I thought it would be nice to update a list of book recommendations. The twist this year, though? I haven't read all of
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My last social bastion of interesting (and polite) social exchange on an internet platform might be going away. I'm referring to LinkedIn announcing testing new options for 'content creators' and ways to monetize the platform for them. You have to remember that LinkedIn does monetize its
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Fiat has just announced they will stop producing grey cars. In a literal way. The move is quite interesting as it can be read in two ways simultaneously: Differentiation is everything. Getting bold and renouncing to product what is probably a good half of the demand from your customer in