Business

There Is No Average Customer

Take Rates: How Marketplaces Make Money

Hipcamp and the Benefits of Exclusive Supply

Why cultural sameness is a matter of social design

What Legos Can Teach Us About Corporate Strategy

Imitation as a business strategy

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Nature Loves Redundancy, Most Businesses Don’t

Restaurant Economics, Tech Debt and the Dangers of DoorDash

Strategy isn’t new! When life on the earth began, it started with single-cell organisms. These organisms required some of the resources on earth to sustain their life, and it was available in abundance. Over time, as different varieties of complex life forms evolved, the food chain got set up. These organisms created their unique strategy to find food, shelter, and sustain themselves.

The most influential man you’ve (probably) never heard of

Create a manifesto that declares why you exist, your purpose, and why people should care about your organization’s partnerships.

In highly complex systems, accidents are a feature, not a bug.

Cognitive biases, heuristics and fallacies are all systematic ways the brain can fail, causing all sorts of unwanted issues. Here’s 160 of them, so you can consider ways to improve your research and design work.

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Welcome to 100 Lessons. I’m Chris Harry (you can find me on Twitter @TheChrisHarry). Here we explore the lessons learned from the greatest thinkers. Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad. Gumroad exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience.