The world is not getting enough sleep
Sleep quality, patterns, and duration may vary among countries, but one thing’s clear─people still aren’t getting enough sleep. While some people can function on a few hours, others find themselves reaching for that second cup of morning coffee instead of getting those extra Z’s.
^ADJ: A significant number of problems would be solved if people got more sleep - enough said!
Are Your Company’s Strengths Really Weaknesses?
Look at a map of the world drawn upside down. It’s a good way to challenge your assumptions about the way the world is — especially which continents and oceans are bigger and which are smaller. Looking at the business world upside down has a similar effect: It challenges your assumptions about company characteristics and what they mean for an organization.
Shopify and the return of the merchant class
Unlike Amazon, Shopify keeps out of the relationship between merchants and their customers. To the buyers, it is invisible. To the sellers, who flogged $41bn-worth of stuff on its platform last year, it can be indispensable ...
^ADJ: Shopify platform has been great for Hayley with Addison Clothing
The Effects of Sleep Extension on the Athletic Performance of Collegiate Basketball Players
Subjects maintained their habitual sleep-wake schedule for a 2–4 week baseline followed by a 5–7 week sleep extension period. Subjects obtained as much nocturnal sleep as possible during sleep extension with a minimum goal of 10 h in bed each night. Measures of athletic performance specific to basketball were recorded after every practice including a timed sprint and shooting accuracy ...
^ADJ: Follow’s on from prior article, interesting study and findings - quick take: get more sleep!
Inside The Ups And Downs Of The VC J-Curve
This week, The Information published the performance numbers of one of Silicon Valley’s most-watched venture capital firms: Andreessen Horowitz. The data was reportedly gleaned from an internal report written by one of the firm’s limited partners
A Taxonomy of Moats
Value is created through innovation, but how much of that value accrues to the innovator depends partly on how quickly their competitors imitate the innovation. Innovators must deter competition to get some of the value they created. These ways of deterring competition are called, in various contexts, barriers to entry, sustainable competitive advantages, or, colloquially, moats. There are many different moats but they have at their root only a few different principles. This post is an attempt at categorizing the best-known moats by those principles in order to evaluate them systematically in the context of starting a company.
^ADJ: Doesn’t matter that you are not a tech company, ‘moats’ that you establish are an important part of how you compete and where you compete - worth thinking about.